DevOps · CNCF Landscape category

App Definition and Development

9 CNCF project briefs in this category, newest first: Streaming & Messaging, Database, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Definition & Image Build.

Streaming & Messaging 2

Incubating14 Oct 2026Strimzi: Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, with CloudEvents for Portable EventsAn operator that deploys and manages Apache Kafka clusters, topics, users and connectors as Kubernetes resources; covered here with CloudEvents, the graduated CNCF standard for describing event data.
Incubating7 Oct 2026NATS: A Lightweight Messaging and Streaming FabricA single small server that provides publish-subscribe messaging, request-reply, persistent streams and key-value storage for services, edge devices and event-driven systems.

Database 2

Sandbox14 Oct 2026CloudNativePG: Kubernetes-Native High Availability for PostgreSQLA Kubernetes operator that runs PostgreSQL clusters with automated failover, rolling updates, backups to object storage and point-in-time recovery, without external HA tools.
Graduated6 Oct 2026Vitess: Horizontal Scaling for MySQLA database clustering system that shards MySQL horizontally behind a single MySQL-compatible endpoint, built at YouTube and run at Slack, GitHub and Shopify.

Continuous Integration & Delivery 3

Graduated14 Oct 2026Flux: Continuous and Progressive Delivery Through GitOpsA set of Kubernetes controllers that keep clusters in sync with Git repositories, OCI artifacts and Helm charts, reconciling drift continuously and automating image updates.
Incubating13 Oct 2026Tekton: Kubernetes-Native Building Blocks for CI/CDA framework of Kubernetes custom resources for defining and running CI/CD pipelines as containers, with triggers, a dashboard and signed supply chain attestations.
Graduated6 Oct 2026Argo: GitOps Delivery and Workflows Native to KubernetesA family of Kubernetes-native tools (Argo CD, Rollouts, Workflows and Events) for GitOps continuous delivery, progressive rollouts and pipeline orchestration.

Application Definition & Image Build 2

Graduated13 Oct 2026Buildpacks: Container Images from Source Without a DockerfileTurns application source code into OCI images through a standard, layered, rebasable build process, with SBOMs and no Dockerfile to maintain.
Graduated6 Oct 2026Helm: The Package Manager for KubernetesPackages Kubernetes manifests into versioned, configurable charts, and installs, upgrades and rolls them back as tracked releases.