CNCF End User Community

The CNCF end user community is a vendor-neutral group using cloud native technologies to build their products and services.

These experienced practitioners help power CNCF’s end user-driven open source ecosystem, steering production experience and accelerating cloud native project growth.

End users are organizations that use cloud native technologies internally and do not sell any cloud native services externally.

The CNCF End User community excludes vendors, consultancies, training partners,and telcos at this time.

Online community channels

• cncf/enduser private GitHub repository
• End user mailing list
• #enduser Slack channel in the CNCF Workspace

If your organization is already a member of the End User Community, you can request additional access via the CNCF Member Desk or email enduser-support@cncf.io.

Community Events

CTO Summit

The CTO Summit is an exclusive event to hear from key decision makers and leaders within the cloud native and open source world with the goal of sharing best practices, use cases, and future planning for furthering CNCF’s mission of making cloud native ubiquitous.

If you would like to participate in the CTO Summit, please reach out to enduser-support@cncf.io for more information.

End User Groups

• Developer Experience User Group (link coming soon!)
• Financial User Group
• Research User Group
• Transportation User Group

Case Studies

The CNCF produces and lists case studies for our end users and projects.

If you're interested in contributing a case study, please reference our CNCF End User Stories Guidelines.

Join the End User Community

Get more information or request to join

The CNCF End User Community enables you to:

Solve technical issues

• Collaborate with your peers in End User groups. End User groups connect end users with similar organizations, in order to overcome common challenges, learn from each other, and share best practices.

• Voice your thoughts and needs to projects, the Technical Oversight Committee and the CNCF through regular online forums.

• Receive tickets to attend CNCF's premiere event, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

• Meet other end users in person during the end user reception at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, or other CNCF events.

Grow your engineering organization

• Increase brand visibility through in our End User case study program, panels and blogs to elevate your organization’s use of CNCF projects with the community.

• Participate in the CNCF End User Recruiting Booth at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to recruit the best and brightest in the cloud native ecosystem.

Align your business strategy with cloud native

• Work with other organizations in the TODO Group to build an open source culture and open source program office within your organization.

• Educate leadership and legal teams in open source via Linux Foundation leadership and community events.