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End User Community

The CNCF End User Community connects organizations running cloud native technologies in production. Find the people, groups, meetings, and practical resources that help end users learn from one another and shape CNCF priorities.

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End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB)​

The CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board represents end users within the CNCF community. The TAB helps surface end-user needs, improve visibility into CNCF project adoption, advise on technical direction, and review reference architectures.

TAB members​

Ricardo Rocha

TAB Chair

CERN

Joseph Sandoval

TAB Vice Chair

adobe

Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer @nytimes

Alolita Sharma

OpenTelemetry

Ben Somogyi

Lockheed Martin

Chad Beaudin

Boeing

Katie Gamanji

Kenta Tada

Toyota

Michael Amundson

CVS Health

MIchael Bowen

BlackRock

Xu Wang

antgroup ( @alipay ) @kata-containers @hyperhq

TAB responsibilities​

  • Facilitate communication between end users and CNCF governing bodies.
  • Advise the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) on technical directions and challenges in the cloud native ecosystem.
  • Improve visibility into end-user adoption of CNCF projects.
  • Provide feedback on project usability, reliability, and performance.
  • Review and approve reference architectures.
  • Advise on End User Radar tools and techniques.
  • Provide oversight for End User Groups and Special Interest Groups.

See the TAB membership and charter, open issues, and discussions.

Community meeting and communication channels​

End User Groups​

End User Groups are focused communities for organizations with shared operational, regulatory, or industry concerns. Each group page links to its charter, meeting details, and participation channels.

Financial Services User Group

Security, regulatory, compliance, and cloud native practices for financial services.

Biweekly Tuesdays11:00 AM US/Eastern
GitHubMailing list

Research User Group

Research computing using cloud native technologies, including workloads, resources, and best practices.

1st & 3rd Wednesdays
GitHub

Public Sector User Group

Cloud native computing in public-sector environments, from compliance to operational patterns.

Biweekly Wednesdays2:00 PM US/Eastern
GitHubCommunity page

Telecom User Group

Telecom-focused cloud native collaboration and resources.

GitHub

Transportation User Group

Transportation-focused end-user collaboration.

GitHub

Cartografos Working Group

Helps adopters navigate the CNCF landscape through the Cloud Native Maturity Model and reference guides.

GitHubMaturity Model

Reference architectures​

The TAB-led Reference Architecture Submission Process describes how to submit a real-world architecture for peer and TAB review. Browse the architecture catalog.

Submissions can begin with a GitHub issue using the reference architecture template, or with the pull request template when the material is ready.

End User Technology Radar​

The CNCF Technology Radar captures end-user technology adoption data. The repository includes the radar data and the CNCF Radar application.

Contribution ladder​

You do not need to be a maintainer to contribute to the End User Community. Start small and move up as your time and interest allow.

  1. Listen and connect — Join #enduser on CNCF Slack and subscribe to the End User mailing list.
  2. Show up — Attend the public TAB meeting or an End User Group call.
  3. Share what you know — Answer questions, recommend a resource, or point peers to a case study from your experience.
  4. Contribute a reference architecture — Document a real-world design through the reference architecture submission process.
  5. Help shape direction — Join an End User Group or the End User TAB to advise on priorities and represent end-user needs.

Projects born at end user organizations​

Production becomes open source

Projects born at end-user organizations

Some of the most widely adopted CNCF projects started as internal tools built to solve real production problems. The End User Community helps teams share those breakthroughs with the ecosystem.

EnvoyBorn at LyftOriginally built at Lyft before becoming a CNCF project.Visit project JaegerBorn at UberOpen sourced by Uber to make distributed tracing practical.Visit project BackstageBorn at SpotifyCreated at Spotify to help teams build and operate software catalogs.Visit project VitessBorn at YouTubeFirst developed at YouTube to scale MySQL for production workloads.Visit project ArgoBorn at IntuitDonated to CNCF by Intuit after growing from an internal tool.Visit project

Running something your peers would benefit from? Talk to the End User TAB about sharing projects and architectures.

End User Awards​

CNCF recognizes outstanding end user organizations with the Top End User Award. See the Awards page for every winner since 2018 and how to nominate an organization.

CNCF End User Support Staff​

Your membership in the CNCF funds full time staff to help coordinate community efforts. This includes access to community experts with hundreds of years of collective OSS experience, as well as world class marketing and event support.

Jorge O. Castro

Developer Relations

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Joanna Lee

VP of Strategic Programs and Legal

CNCF / The Linux Foundation

Bob Killen

Senior Technical Program Manager

cncf

Taylor Waggoner

Program Manager

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Wendi West

Event Manager

CNCF