CNCF Landscape
The CNCF Landscape is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's catalog of projects and products in the cloud native ecosystem. It maps the technology space across categories like orchestration, observability, networking, storage, and security, helping teams discover and compare options.
itCloud native tools and technologies | OpenSkills.info
Intro
CNCF Landscape
The CNCF Landscape is a categorized map of cloud native projects and products. It helps you explore a large ecosystem by problem area.
The landscape is not a required-tool checklist. It is also not proof that two entries work together. Use it to find candidates, then verify each candidate against your requirements and its official documentation.
Why the landscape exists
Cloud native systems involve many concerns. Teams package applications, schedule workloads, connect services, store data, observe behavior, enforce policy, and automate delivery. Each concern has many possible tools.
The landscape gives those tools a shared structure. Its categories and subcategories provide starting points for research. Its entry details can link you to project websites, repositories, and other metadata.
CNCF describes the landscape as a map of cloud native technologies. CNCF projects form one well-traveled route through that map, but the landscape also contains products and projects outside CNCF.
Read the map in layers
Start with four layers:
Continue the course
This section is part of the paid course.
See pricing to subscribe, or log in if you already have access.
Where this skill leads
Relevant careers
See how this topic contributes to broader role-level skill maps.
Sources
- https://github.com/cncf/landscape
Supports
- Landscape purpose as a categorized map of cloud native projects and products
- CNCF projects as one route through the broader landscape
- Listing rules and placement in one best-fit category
- Interactive filtering and sorting with project and organization metadata
- Daily generation from maintained data
- External GitHub and Crunchbase data sources and correction paths
- https://landscape.cncf.io/
Supports
- Interactive category, search, filter, and entry-detail exploration
- Current landscape presentation as of the verification date
- https://www.cncf.io/about/who-we-are/
Supports
- CNCF as part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation
- CNCF support for an open source vendor-neutral project ecosystem
- CNCF cloud native definition and example system qualities
- https://contribute.cncf.io/projects/lifecycle/
Supports
- Separate CNCF project lifecycle and evaluation process
- Sandbox, Incubation, Graduation, and Archived stage definitions
- Lifecycle stages as maturity and governance evidence
- Technical Oversight Committee role in level transitions
- https://contribute.cncf.io/community/governance/
Supports
- CNCF governance principles
- Technical Advisory Groups aligned with technical domains or common needs
- Vendor neutrality and community-driven governance
- https://contribute.cncf.io/projects/best-practices/community/vendor-neutrality/
Supports
- Vendor-neutral expectations for CNCF project communication and hosting
- Architectural decision and governance considerations
- Need for balanced project direction across organizations
- https://github.com/cncf/landscape/blob/master/landscape.yml
Supports
- Structured representation of landscape categories, subcategories, entries, statuses, and metadata