--- title: What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud... description: CNCF's 2025 project velocity data shows Kubernetes maintaining its leadership with the largest contributor base while evolving for AI workloads. Backstage... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-native-s-future-igoylrevq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future | daily.dev og:description: CNCF's 2025 project velocity data shows Kubernetes maintaining its leadership with the largest contributor base while evolving for AI workloads. Backstage... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-native-s-future-igoylrevq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iGOyLrEVQ.png og:image:alt: What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future 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. # What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future **[CNCF](https://daily.dev/sources/cncf)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CNCF's 2025 project velocity data shows Kubernetes maintaining its leadership with the largest contributor base while evolving for AI workloads. Backstage doubled its contributions, becoming the leading open source internal developer platform. OpenTelemetry saw 39% growth in commits and 35% contributor increase, now the second-largest CNCF project. The data reveals growing intersection between cloud native infrastructure and AI workloads, with projects like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, and Crossplane increasingly supporting training and inference systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How AI is changing open source](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-is-changing-open-source-zruowwd5n) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Exploring Cloud Native projects in CNCF Sandbox. Part 6: 9 arrivals of Spring 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/exploring-cloud-native-projects-in-cncf-sandbox-part-6-9-arrivals-of-spring-2025-nh46kjj0k) · Palark Blog · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#cloud-native](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud-native), [#opentelemetry](https://daily.dev/tags/opentelemetry), [#cncf](https://daily.dev/tags/cncf) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-native-s-future-igoylrevq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-native-s-future-igoylrevq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-native-s-future-igoylrevq"},"datePublished":"2026-02-09T18:22:13.015Z","dateModified":"2026-02-09T18:22:31.295Z","description":"CNCF's 2025 project velocity data shows Kubernetes maintaining its leadership with the largest contributor base while evolving for AI workloads. 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