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Choosing from it is where platform teams get stuck. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The CNCF landscape has 230+ tools. Choosing from it is where platform teams get stuck. **[Giant Swarm](https://daily.dev/sources/giantswarm)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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