Introduction

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the home of the most prominent open source projects used today, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Linkerd and more. These projects fuel today’s cloud native architectures and software release pipelines. With its immense growth, it has become difficult to keep tabs on the hundreds of new and evolving projects and specifications, the different working groups and technical advisory groups, the different community forums and events, and to see where it’s all heading.

I invited Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF, to join me on this episode, to help us understand the CNCF landscape and evolution. We will also discuss the trends in observability and in the open source realm in general. Chris also has some interesting predictions to share. 

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects.

The episode was live-streamed on 15 March 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/live/lMUFGmNploc

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Show Notes:

• Day in a life of CNCF CTO
• open source sustainability
• how to navigate the CNCF landscape
• how to get started with cloud native
• is Kubernetes spreading too broad to lose focus?
• OpenTelemetry project journey report sneak peak
• open observability stack convergence
• OpenFeature feature flagging OSS
• CNCF investing in more regional activity
• CNCF investing in security
• relicensing and OSS citizenship issues
• CNCF project health dashboard
• KubeCon sneak peak

Resources:

• https://landscape.cncf.io/guide

• https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/PRINCIPLES.md#no-kingmakers--one-size-does-not-fit-all

• https://projecthealth.cncf.io 

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-native-predictions-2023-chris-aniszczyk/?trackingId=QHkYlzDhTniN3sgLSRCOtQ%3D%3D

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