Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) December 2025 (Year End Edition)
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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!
- ✍️ Please take the Maintainer Survey
- 🚲 Upcoming project opportunity deadline (TODAY!)
- 🎥 Maintainer Summit recordings available
- 🚀 New contribute.cncf.io launched
- 📄 Call for Kubernetes AI Conformance applications and reference architectures
- 🧑🎓 CNCF LFX 2026 Term 1 call for proposals open soon
- 🔑 Google Summer of Code 2026 opportunities
- 🤖 GitHub Copilot guidance
- 🕵️ Kusari Inspector free for projects
- 🐳 Docker Hardened Images free for projects
- 📈 Telemetry collection and privacy guidelines
- 🙏 Please take the Maintainer Survey
- 🎉 Thank you for an amazing year