Top 15 CNCF projects with most commits last year

Hey! These are the top 15 CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects ranked by the amount of “commits” in the past year (Jan 2022 to Jan 2023). It was the metric the CNCF chose to identify the speed of evolution of its projects.

In open-source and collaborative projects, a “commit” is an operation performed by a contributor/developer that commits code changes to a shared repository. These changes are performed on files that are part of the source code.

The Kubernetes project continues to account for the highest amount of overall contributions and “commits”. In the last year, some of the companies that most participated in this project, in order of amount of contributions, were: Google, Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware, IBM, Suse, Amazon, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, and Apple.

Analyzing the projects just below Kubernetes and which had more than 10,000 “commits” in the last year, it is interesting to observe the position of KubeVirt, a project identified as “incubating” within the CNCF maturity classification.

It confirms the need to provide developers with an environment that combines applications based on virtual servers and applications based on containers, working side by side. It allows for both lifecycle management and migration of application architectures (monolithics to microservices) in a unified and scalable manner.

Citing two market solutions that deliver an integrated K8s/VMs environment, we have the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG).

The positioning of the OpenTelemetry project with the second highest number of “commits” demonstrates the great need to adopt a unified framework for “multi-environments” and “multi-cloud” observability for SRE teams.

The positioning of the Backstage project, an open platform for building developer portals, shows the strong movement around the Developer Experience (DevX – Developer eXperience).

For more information about Backstage and the context of DevX, follow a post I wrote on the subject:

Developer Experience (DevX), Developer Platform, and the Backstage framework

I hope this information was helpful!

Source:

https://github.com/cncf/velocity