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CNCF

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Definition

Cloud Native Computing Foundation - organization that promotes cloud-native technologies and open source projects. Like a governing body that sets standards for modern cloud applications.

Real-World Example

Kubernetes, Prometheus, and many other popular cloud tools are CNCF projects with community governance.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

CNCF is a vendor-neutral foundation (part of the Linux Foundation), not a cloud service. AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI offer managed services that run CNCF projects (for example, managed Kubernetes) and contribute to CNCF communities, but there is no direct one-to-one service equivalent.

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