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DevOps · CNCF Landscape category

Provisioning

4 CNCF project briefs in this category, newest first: Key Management, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Security & Compliance.

Key Management 1

Graduated11 Oct 2026SPIRE: Workload Identity and Key Issuance with SPIFFEThe reference implementation of the SPIFFE standard, which attests workloads and issues them short-lived X.509 and JWT identities so services can authenticate each other without shared secrets.

Automation & Configuration 1

Sandbox11 Oct 2026OpenTofu: Open-Source Infrastructure as CodeA community-governed, Terraform-compatible tool that provisions cloud and platform infrastructure from declarative HCL, with client-side state encryption and ephemeral values.

Container Registry 1

Graduated10 Oct 2026Harbor: An Enterprise-Grade Container and Artifact RegistryA self-hosted registry for container images and OCI artifacts with role-based access control, vulnerability scanning, image signing, replication and proxy caching.

Security & Compliance 1

Graduated10 Oct 2026cert-manager: Automated X.509 Certificates for KubernetesA Kubernetes controller that requests, issues and renews TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt, Vault, private CAs and cloud services, and stores them as Secrets that workloads and gateways can use.