Ten years into CNCF’s journey, one thing hasn’t changed: we still rely on real signals—open source contributions, real-world deployments…

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CNCF's 2025 project velocity data shows Kubernetes maintaining its leadership with the largest contributor base while evolving for AI workloads. Backstage doubled its contributions, becoming the leading open source internal developer platform. OpenTelemetry saw 39% growth in commits and 35% contributor increase, now the second-largest CNCF project. The data reveals growing intersection between cloud native infrastructure and AI workloads, with projects like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, and Crossplane increasingly supporting training and inference systems.

What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future