To be accepted in the sandbox, a project must have at least two TOC sponsors. A two-thirds supermajority of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is required for a project to be Incubating or Graduated. The CNCF has detailed criteria for each maturity level (included below for readers’ convenience). CNCF created the concept of maturity levels-Sandbox, Incubating, or Graduated-which correspond to the Innovators, Early Adopters, and Early Majority tiers on the diagram below. In addition to building a community around cloud-native applications generally, CNCF also helps projects set up structured governance around their cloud-native applications. One is the Open Containers Initiative (OCI), which is a lightweight, open governance structure (or project), 'formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtime.' The other is the CNCF, 'an open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native computing universal and sustainable.' The good news is that there are several organizations that oversee and connect these dots together. Just as NodeJS’s creation sparked the explosion of endless JavaScript tools, the popularity of container technology started the exponential growth of cloud-native applications. I mean, just look at that! And this is just a start. Welcome to the communityĬloud-Native Computing Foundation applications.

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