The CNCF ecosystem has grown to 230+ projects, but abundance without a decision framework creates evaluation paralysis for platform teams. The real cost isn't the tools themselves — it's the 6–12 months teams spend evaluating combinations before writing a single line of production code. Undifferentiated infrastructure work disguises itself as due diligence. Curation means making defensible choices about tool combinations tested under production-like conditions, not just picking popular items from a list. The post argues that the CNCF landscape is a parts bin, and the hard work is knowing which parts to combine and how to keep that combination healthy over time.
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The landscape is the parts binThe community has noticed tooChoice requires a decision framework to be usefulThe honest trade-off281 Impressions