DevOps · CNCF Landscape category

Orchestration & Management

12 CNCF project briefs in this category, newest first: Remote Procedure Call, Service Proxy, Coordination & Service Discovery, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Scheduling & Orchestration.

Remote Procedure Call 2

Sandbox16 Oct 2026Connect RPC: gRPC-Compatible APIs That Also Work in the Browser and with curlA family of libraries that turns Protobuf schemas into type-safe HTTP APIs, speaking the gRPC, gRPC-Web and simpler Connect protocols from one handler.
Incubating9 Oct 2026gRPC: A High-Performance RPC Framework for Service-to-Service CallsA contract-first remote procedure call framework built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, used for internal service traffic, streaming and generated clients in many languages.

Service Proxy 2

Incubating16 Oct 2026Contour: An Envoy-Based Ingress Controller with Multi-Team DelegationA Kubernetes ingress controller that acts as a control plane for Envoy, with the HTTPProxy API for delegated, multi-team routing alongside Ingress and Gateway API support.
Graduated8 Oct 2026Envoy: A High-Performance Edge and Service ProxyA programmable L4 and L7 proxy configured through dynamic APIs, and the data plane behind Istio, Emissary-Ingress, Envoy Gateway and many other cloud native networking projects.

Coordination & Service Discovery 2

Graduated16 Oct 2026etcd: The Distributed Key-Value Store Behind KubernetesA strongly consistent, Raft-based key-value store with watch and lease primitives, used as the control plane database of Kubernetes and as a coordination service for distributed systems.
Graduated8 Oct 2026CoreDNS: A Pluggable DNS Server for Service DiscoveryA DNS server built from a chain of plugins, and the default cluster DNS in Kubernetes, where it resolves Service and Pod names so workloads can find each other.

API Gateway 2

Sandbox15 Oct 2026Kgateway: A Kubernetes-Native API Gateway Built on Envoy and the Gateway APIA control plane that turns Kubernetes Gateway API resources into Envoy configuration for ingress, routing and API traffic management, donated by Solo.io from the Gloo Gateway project.
Incubating8 Oct 2026Emissary-Ingress: A Kubernetes-Native API Gateway on EnvoyAn open-source API gateway and ingress controller, formerly Ambassador, that turns Kubernetes resources into Envoy configuration for routing, authentication and rate limiting at the edge.

Service Mesh 2

Graduated15 Oct 2026Linkerd: A Lightweight Service Mesh with Zero-Config mTLSA Rust-based service mesh that adds mutual TLS, retries, load balancing and golden-metric observability to Kubernetes services without changing application code.
Graduated7 Oct 2026Istio: A Service Mesh for Security, Traffic and TelemetryAdds mutual TLS, fine-grained traffic control and uniform telemetry to service-to-service communication on Kubernetes, without changing application code.

Scheduling & Orchestration 2

Graduated15 Oct 2026KEDA: Event-Driven Autoscaling for Kubernetes WorkloadsScales Kubernetes workloads from zero to many replicas based on events such as queue depth, stream lag or database metrics, rather than CPU and memory alone.
Graduated7 Oct 2026Kubernetes: The Control Plane for Containerised InfrastructureThe container orchestrator that schedules, scales, heals and connects workloads across a cluster through a declarative API, and the foundation of the cloud native ecosystem.