Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We look forward to seeing many of you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan next month!
CNCF staff will be at the various maintainer-focused activities on July 29-30.
Please take a moment to complete the 2H 2026 Maintainer Survey. Your feedback is essential for us to serve you better in the second half of the year.
Welcome to the May 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We didn't send out an edition in April due to the volume of other staff messages sent to the maintainer mailing lists.
We look forward to seeing many of you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India next month!
CNCF staff will be at the various maintainer-focused activities on June 18-19.
Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter. We hope you’re excited for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam in a few days!
CNCF staff will be at the Maintainer Summit and the Project Pavilion throughout the week. Please find us if you have any questions about support for your projects.
Welcome to the February 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We hope you’re excited for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe and plan to attend the Maintainer Summit!
You can learn more about the event and other worldwide KubeCon + CloudNativeCon opportunities in this month’s newsletter.
Planning a major update, new feature, or milestone to align with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (March 23–26)? The CNCF PR team can help amplify your news.
Announcements will be:
Welcome to the January 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
In 2025 we saw continued project growth, with the TOC accepting an additional six projects to close out the year. The speed at which projects join the CNCF and advance through levels has improved thanks to better processes, and we've expanded the variety of services available to maintainers through new partnerships with providers. We are committed to serving our 2,000+ maintainers and 300,000+ contributors even better in 2026.
Please take a moment to complete the 2H 2025 Maintainer Survey. Your feedback is vital for us to serve you better this year. The survey will close on January 30th, so please respond as soon as you can!
Welcome to the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) December 2025 (Year End Edition).
It's been an amazing 2025 with record project growth, improvements in the speed that projects join the CNCF and move levels, and the breadth of new services we've made available to maintainers.
We look forward to helping your projects make an even greater impact in 2026.
And please take the 2H 2025 Maintainer Survey when you have a chance. It will help us serve you better in the coming year.
Thank you, we hope you enjoy the end of year downtime and we wish you the best in the new year!
CFPs and the Project Opportunities Interest Form for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 are closing soon! CFP for Maintainer Track, Contribfest, and Project Lightning Talks closes on Sunday, 14 December, and the Kiosk + PR Interest Form closes on Wednesday, 17 December, both at 23:59 local time.
Planning to speak at the Maintainer Summit? Be sure to submit your CFP by Sunday, 14 December at 23:59 local time.
Please visit the Project Opportunities page to learn more about the benefits, deadlines, how to sign up, and more.
Kindly note that due to high demand, space is limited and there is a high possibility that not all projects will be able to participate as we are not able to accept all requests.
Greetings maintainers! We have some exciting updates about resources newly available to you and your projects.
And please make sure to take the maintainer survey! This is your chance to tell us how we're doing, gauge your understanding of the benefits of hosting a project at the CNCF, and influence our priorities in 2026.
Help us help you: maintainers-survey.cncf.io
We are excited to announce an expanded partnership with GitHub to provide free Copilot Enterprise licenses to CNCF project maintainers. This benefit is part of a limited pilot program and will be rolling out in the coming weeks. Eligibility will be validated against the list at maintainers.cncf.io, so please ensure your project's information is up to date.
Through the Docker Sponsored Open Source Program, project maintainers gain access to upgraded registry, security, and support services. These include unlimited Docker Hub image pulls, sponsored OSS status, Docker Scout for vulnerability analysis, automated image builds, usage metrics, and streamlined support. Request access via the Service Desk.
Akamai pledged $700K in cloud credits to the CNCF for project use. Projects can now request access to onboard Linode. This platform provides another alternative to Equinix which is due to sunset later this year. Oracle Cloud credits also continue to be available, particularly for AI workloads on ARM and bare metal deployments. Request access to either service via the Service Desk.
The latest version of Insights was launched at Open Source Summit in June. You can get deeper context on the health of your project by analyzing its velocity, contributor dependency, and organizational reliance. You can also add a badge to your repos, embed charts in your READMEs and presentations. If you see any data issues (such as new repos not onboarded or other missing data, you can open up issues on the Insights GitHub repo. Check it out!
The CNCF has moved its community calendar to PCC which now enables maintainers to publish and update their own entries on the CNCF community calendar. This eliminates a project and staff bottleneck as entries were previously handled as Service Desk tickets. PCC also recently added an often-requested feature: the automatic upload of project meetings to the project's designated YouTube channel. Projects have control over any video changes before publication.
ask.cncf.io is an AI assistant built with Dosu designed to answer questions about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem, including projects, governance, events, and contributor information. This is not a general LLM chatbot. It only contains information from official repositories and documentation across the CNCF. Give it a try and come back often to see how it improves over time.
We've relaunched the contribute.cncf.io site 🎉. This site serves as the primary place for maintainers to learn about what benefits they have as a CNCF project and helps expand our funnel of new maintainers for your projects. You can also submit pull requests to improve content.
Help us help you: maintainers-survey.cncf.io
See you at Maintainer Summit and have a great rest of your KubeCon NA in Atlanta!
Greeting maintainers! We have a few things that need your attention in order to get us in the mindset for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. The first is taking the time to recognize our peers for their outstanding work in 2025. The second item is making sure our swag is as awesome as you are. Third, submit your Maintainer Summit CFP talks!
Deadline Summary
Contributor Awards 2025
In previous years, the Kubernetes community recognized contributors who have gone above and beyond with the annual Kubernetes Contributor Awards. With the creation of a Maintainer Summit, we want to expand this to all graduated projects! All graduated projects will now be able to nominate contributors to receive a physical award, usually in the form of a square canvas print. Projects may only submit for awards once per calendar year. That means if a project submits for Maintainer Summit EU 2026, they cannot submit again for NA 2026.
Nominations
Graduated projects will be nominating individuals for the awards. Projects must submit nominations by August 15th! This is a way to highlight individuals who have had a major impact on your project and exemplify the values of our communities.
Please nominate contributors doing outstanding work in your projects by filling out this form. The deadline for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA (Atlanta) is August 15th!
KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit T-Shirt Design
It’s time to flex that creative muscle! For this Maintainer Summit we want to solicit designs for our attendee t-shirts! Anyone eligible to attend the maintainer summit can submit art ideas, and the designs will be chosen by this summit’s program chairs.
Design submissions should follow these guidelines:
The deadline to submit is August 8th, and the winner will be chosen and informed August 12th.
Submit your awesome T-Shirt designs by filling out this form.
KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit CFP
This one is pretty self explanatory. The CFP closes EOD Monday, July 21st. If you haven’t submitted a talk, and want to, now’s the time to panic and pull something together!
Thank you!