A detailed overview of 13 projects that joined the CNCF Sandbox in January 2025, the largest single-month intake to date. The batch includes four Red Hat donations (Podman Container Tools, Podman Desktop, bootc, composefs), two Microsoft contributions (KubeFleet, Drasi), and notable projects like k0s (minimal Kubernetes distribution), SpinKube (WebAssembly on Kubernetes), container2wasm (container-to-Wasm converter), Runme Notebooks for DevOps, SlimFaas (FaaS on Kubernetes), Tokenetes (transaction tokens for microservices), and CloudNativePG (PostgreSQL operator for Kubernetes). Each project is described with its origin, language, GitHub stats, and key features. Go dominates as the implementation language, though Rust, C#, C, and TypeScript also appear. Both CloudNativePG and k0s have already submitted requests to move to the Incubating maturity level.
