Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s mid-year report drops. Kubernetes commands 3,500+ authors. OpenTelemetry rockets to 1,884 contributors, snagging second in PR velocity. Backstage climbs to 649. Argo (860) and Flux (156) lock GitOps in place. Kubeflow breaks into the top 30 with 302.
Trend to watch: Internal developer platforms like Backstage push teams into platform engineering as a core practice.
