Each year, 25-30 new Open Source projects related to the Cloud Native ecosystem are accepted to the CNCF Sandbox. In January 2025, there were 13 additions, with four of them donated by Red Hat.
Here's the list of these newly added CNCF projects:
- Podman Container Tools (security-focused Docker alternative), bootc (in-place operating system updates), composefs (reliable and flexible disk images);
- k0s (a minimal Kubernetes distribution) and KubeFleet (multi-cluster application management);
- SpinKube (WebAssembly framework for Kubernetes) and container2wasm (containers-to-WebAssembly converter);
- Podman Desktop (a GUI for containers management, a free Docker Desktop alternative);
- Runme Notebooks for DevOps (actionable documentation for IT operations);
- SlimFaas (fast and simple Function-as-a-Service);
- Tokenetes (a Kubernetes-focused implementation of IETF OAuth Transaction Tokens);
- CloudNativePG (a Kubernetes operator for managing PostgreSQL databases);
- Drasi (a data processing platform).
If you're interested in learning more about these projects: why they were created, how they work, and which features they have — read this overview written by a CNCF Ambassador for the Palark tech blog.
