Jeffrey Sica

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.

New services since the last Maintainer Summit at KubeCon London​

GitHub Copilot​

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.

Docker Sponsored Open Source Program​

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/Linode​

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.

LFX Insights​

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!

LFX Project Control Center​

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​

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.

contribute.cncf.io​

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.

Reminder about other services available to you​

• The contribute.cncf.io resource page is up to date with everything that's available to projects and maintainers.
• Service Desk is where you can make a variety of requests, ask questions, and connect with CNCF staff.
• Please make sure all of your maintainers are up to date on maintainers.cncf.io. This is how we validate Maintainer Summit registrations, send invites to Service Desk, and make sure projects are up to speed on upcoming event opportunities.

Other news​

• Submit your cloud native AI reference architectures!
• Stay tuned for guidance on binary signing for Apple and Microsoft desktop applications! The Linux Foundation is launching an organization-wide program soon.

Please fill out the survey so we can serve you better​

• Yes, another reminder 🙂. 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.

See you at Maintainer Summit and have a great rest of your KubeCon NA in Atlanta!

🗣️LFX Insights Beta Dashboard Feedback​

We’re happy to announce that over 95% of CNCF projects are now onboarded to the LFX Insights v3 Beta!

Insights provides your project with more visibility into its community dynamics, particularly around contributors, organizations, issues, and pull request metrics. There are known issues with the data as it’s currently being loaded and analyzed, so dashboards aren’t yet fully accurate. The docs describe the current state of the Beta.

However, the LFX team would still like to connect with early adopters to get your feedback on how valuable the current types of reports are and what new or alternative dashboard views you’d like to see.

🗃️ Where to Find Project Resources​

contribute.cncf.io now has a resources section! This section is designed to list and categorize all the services the CNCF Projects team provides your project. This includes technical services, organizational help, marketing, program management, legal, and more.

Bookmark this page as it is now the central hub for CNCF Maintainers to find information! And feel free to open a Service Desk request in case there is something else you’d like to see us offer.

Jorge’s Tip o’ the Month​

Greetings maintainers! Each month I will strive to share some of the tips and tricks from our conversations together. We’ll keep them quick and easy!

Put contribute.cncf.io and other important information in your Slack channel’s toolbar! This helps maintain best practice over time and is a great reference, especially for new contributors.

I recommend mapping the resources similarly to your project’s README.md so that they present a consistent set of information between both landing pages. Calendars, roadmaps, YouTube videos, and anything else important. When was the last time you checked those resource links in your README? It might be time for a spring cleaning and set of updates. Invest in those onboarding ramps! Don’t forget to use the topic for CFP deadlines, it’s a handy way to keep a “community post it” at the top of the channel.

📋TechDocs Open Office Hours​

TechDocs Q&A

The CNCF tech writers crew hosts a Q&A on the fourth Wednesday of every month. If you have questions about your project’s documentation and how we might improve it, drop by!

Google Season of Docs

Congratulations to Natalie Arellano and the Cloud Native Buildpacks team on getting accepted to this year's Google Season of Docs! 📚🎉

💡Mentorship​

EXTENDED: CNCF LFX Mentorship Term 2 call for project proposals We’re extending the window for Term 2 project ideas. You’ve now have until May 8th to propose a project for this summer. As a bonus, this gives you time to see if your GSoC projects were accepted or not—any declined GSoC project can be proposed as an LFX project verbatim this term (just copy and paste it over!)

CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024!​

CloudNativeSecurityCon is a two-day event designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing of cloud native security projects and how to best use these to address security challenges and opportunities. Join us in Seattle, WA on June 26-27 2024!

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the Final Frontier​

There will be some maintainer-focused activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon; be sure to check them out. Set course with your schedule. Below are a few suggested sessions:

Tuesday, 19 March

Announcing Project Lightning Talks! This year, we’re doing an entire day of lightning talks specifically around CNCF Projects. These can be found under the Project Opportunities tag on the schedule!

Wednesday, 20 March

18:00 - 20:00 - Poster Session: Serve CAKES for Your Developers: Introducing the Cloud Native CAKES Stack for Zero Trust! - Lin Sun, solo.io & Davanum Srinivas, Amazon Web Services

Thursday, 21 March

9:05 - 9:15 -Keynote: 🇫🇷 Hip, Hip, Beret! No Cap, Just Cloud Native Facts - Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation 15:25 - 16:00 - Why is This so HARD? Conveying the Business Value of Open Source - Bob Killen, Google 16:30 - 17:05 - Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments - Tim Hockin, Google & Davanum Srinivas, Amazon Web Services 18:30 - 20:00 - CLBO: ClashLoopBackOff

Friday, 22 March

10:05 - 10:15 - Keynote: Cloud Native in its Next Decade - Davanum Srinivas, Principal Engineer, AWS & Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, solo.io 14:00 - 14:35 - It's Not Just About SBOMs: Perspectives on Cloud Native Supply Chain Security - Michael Lieberman, Kusari; Dana Wang, OpenSSF | The Linux Foundation; Marina Moore, New York University; John Kjell, TestifySec; Arnaud Le Hors, IBM

🎉 Promoting KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to Your Communities​

We can’t wait for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe- it will be here next week! Spread the word to your fellow cloud native enthusiasts and professionals. We’re pleased to include this attendee marketing kit with a few social media posts and graphics to amp up community enthusiasm. Feel free to post to any of your social channels, and thank you for your support! Project Pavilion Resources

The Project Pavilion has been revamped! We have a new layout, quick access to caffeine, and the building’s most luxurious, comfortable break area. And it’s all for you! Here’s some important information:

Jorge Castro will be doing multiple daily walkthroughs of the Pavilion. This is so attendees can link up with a group of people and do a “tour” of the pavilion, similar to a zoo walkthrough. Have a coworker or boss who is at their first KubeCon? Let Jorge know, and he can do a walkthrough with them and give them a “lay of the land.” We hope to increase foot traffic into the Pavilion with each tour, so be ready when the tour drops by your booth!

Staff Access - The CNCF staff will be working out of the Pavilion. This is a great time to sync your project up with CNCF project services. The team is happy to discuss: Getting the most out of LFX Insights with your project Conformance Programs Training Programs Mentorship Programs Technical Writing Getting set up on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Anything related to your booth at KubeCon … and anything else on your mind, our job is to make KubeCon work for you!

Project Resources Website​

In collaboration with TAG-Contributor-Strategy, the CNCF is adding project/maintainer-specific content under https://contribute.cncf.io/resources/. This will contain helpful resources for maintainers and projects such as how-to guides, policies, and information around services the CNCF offers for projects.

Over the coming months, the goal is to provide a central point for projects to come and search for information and hopefully unblock themselves with common tasks or questions. If, as a maintainer, you find a repeated task that you do, PRs are welcome! Let’s build out a helpful collective together and uplevel all projects!

Project Compute Resources (Reminder)​

It’s only been a few weeks since the last newsletter, but this is a reminder that we have new policies around project compute usage and new providers/options available to projects. Please see the last newsletter for details and information, and contact projects@cncf.io with any questions.

GitHub Copilot Availability​

We have a lot of awesome partners on our open source journey, and GitHub is one of them.

After a community member asked about enabling Copilot support (Thanks, Deepthi Sigireddi from Vitess!), we looked into it! As a pre-KubeCon EU treat, we have enabled it for all CNCF GitHub orgs under the CNCF GitHub Enterprise account. Tentatively, we have the following limits in place: Sandbox projects: 10 seats Incubating projects: 30 seats Graduated projects: 50 seats

This limit is subject to change as we watch adoption. We’ll let you know if that needs to happen.

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