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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to endusers.cncf.io]]></title>
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        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cloud native runs on the organizations that use it. For every project in the CNCF]]></summary>
        <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Cloud native runs on the organizations that use it. For every project in the CNCF
landscape there are teams running it in production — debugging it at 3 AM, scaling it
past what anyone thought reasonable, and quietly figuring out the patterns the rest of
us end up adopting. This site is for them.</p>
<p><strong>endusers.cncf.io</strong> is the new home of the <a href="https://www.cncf.io/enduser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">CNCF End User
Community</a>: the practitioners, architects, and
organizations adopting cloud native technologies to build things that matter.</p>
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<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="what-lives-here">What lives here<a href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/blog/welcome-to-endusers-cncf-io#what-lives-here" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to What lives here" title="Direct link to What lives here" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<ul>
<li class=""><strong><a class="" href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/architectures/">Reference Architectures</a></strong> — real architectures from real
organizations, reviewed through the <a href="https://github.com/cncf/tab/blob/main/process/reference-architectures.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">End User TAB's submission
process</a> and
imported directly from the <a href="https://github.com/cncf/architecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">CNCF architecture
repository</a>. Not whiteboard idealizations — the
teams, trade-offs, and lessons behind production systems at organizations like Adobe,
CERN, and Swisscom.</li>
<li class=""><strong><a class="" href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/community/">Community</a></strong> — the <a href="https://github.com/cncf/tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">End User Technical Advisory Board
(TAB)</a>, industry-focused End User Groups, meeting
schedules, and every channel where end users compare notes.</li>
<li class=""><strong><a class="" href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/awards">End User Awards</a></strong> — the organizations CNCF has recognized for running
cloud native at its best, from Bloomberg in 2018 to SNCF in 2026.</li>
<li class=""><strong><a class="" href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/metrics/">Metrics</a></strong> — a transparent snapshot of ecosystem and end-user activity,
generated from authoritative public sources. If we can't source a number, we leave it
out.</li>
<li class=""><strong><a class="" href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/events/">Events</a></strong> — where the community gathers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon,
including the End User Summit and End User Reception.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="who-this-is-for">Who this is for<a href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/blog/welcome-to-endusers-cncf-io#who-this-is-for" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Who this is for" title="Direct link to Who this is for" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<p>If you operate cloud native systems in production — whether you're evaluating your
first CNCF project or running a thousand clusters — this site is built for you. You
don't need to be a CNCF member organization to learn from the architectures, join the
Slack conversations, or show up at community meetings.</p>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="how-to-get-involved">How to get involved<a href="https://castrojo.github.io/endusers/blog/welcome-to-endusers-cncf-io#how-to-get-involved" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to How to get involved" title="Direct link to How to get involved" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<ul>
<li class="">Join the <code>#enduser</code> channel in <a href="https://slack.cncf.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">CNCF Slack</a></li>
<li class="">Subscribe to the <a href="https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-enduser" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">End User mailing list</a></li>
<li class="">Attend the <a href="https://github.com/cncf/tab#meetings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">TAB public meeting</a>, held the third
Monday of every month</li>
<li class="">Share your architecture through the <a href="https://github.com/cncf/tab/blob/main/process/reference-architectures.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">reference architecture submission
process</a></li>
<li class="">Bring your organization into the <a href="https://www.cncf.io/enduser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">End User Community</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The best thing about the cloud native community has always been how freely it shares
what it learns. This site exists to make that sharing easier. Welcome.</p>]]></content>
        <author>
            <name>Jorge O. Castro</name>
            <email>jorge.castro@gmail.com</email>
            <uri>https://github.com/castrojo</uri>
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