Top Open-Source Projects at CNCF and Linux Foundation

According to the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), here are the top 10 projects at the CNCF and Linux Foundation last year based on the number of commits, authors, and comments/pull requests.

CNCF

1 Kubernetes

2 OpenTelemetry

3. Argo

4. Backstage

5 gRPC

6 Prometheus

7 Envoy

8 Cilium 9 Istio 10. Dapr

Linux Foundation

1 Linux

2 Kubernetes

3. OpenTelemetry

4. Argo

5 Hyperledger

6 Zephyr

7 Node js

8 Backstage

9 Jenkins

10. gRPC t h e f a t e o f t h e p r o j e c t , L i n s t e r explained. When they open-sourced the project, they made the source code accessible to the user, but the licenses can still be very restrictive.

“It sounds that the code is readable, but the limitations on how the code can be used are significant And those are also not recognized OSI licenses, so they’re not really open-source licenses in source available,” Linster said

They can change the license and can decide which features go in It’s only their decision how much these features cost, what the new license for those features is, Linster added

Luckily, most areas of open source have plenty of alternatives to choose from by now

“There are a number of companies commercializing open-source databases so if you use one, then you pay for what is called open core, so there are proprietary additional features and you might get locked in,” Perez said “But, at the same time, you can see in the OSS report that there are another 20 o p e n - s o u r c e d a t a t e c h n o l o g i e s o u t there. It’s no longer, ‘I need a database and Oracle is the enterprise database.’ Now there are so many options.” z