Mid-Year Update On 2022 CNCF, Linux Foundation, And Open Source Velocity

Consistently looking into CNCF and Linux Foundation project’s velocity and the 30 top open source projects give us a very good indication of trends that are resonating with developers and end users. As a result, we can get insight into platforms that will likely be successful.

We use bubble charts to show three axes of data: commits, authors, and comments/pull requests, and plot on a log-log chart to show the data across large scales.

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The bubble’s area is proportional to the number of authors
The y-axis is the total number of pull requests and issues
The x-axis is the number of commits

Here are the main takeaways I see from these charts:

Kubernetes continues to mature and have the largest contributor base
OpenTelemetry continues to grow its contributor base and has become the second highest velocity project in the CNCF ecosystem
Backstage a year ago barely made this list and continues to grow, solving an important pain point around cloud native developer experience
GitOps continues to be an important technique in the cloud native ecosystem where projects like Argo and Flux continue to cultivate large communities

CNCF projects – Last 12 months (interactive map)

Linux Foundation Projects – Last 12 months (interactive map)

Top 30 open source projects – Last 12 months (interactive map)

You can find all the current and past reports on GitHub, as well as a list and charts on the Google sheets below:

All of the scripts used to generate this data are at https://github.com/cncf/velocity (under an Apache 2.0 license). If you see any errors, please open an issue there.

Past blog posts about project velocity:

By Chris Aniszczyk
Source: CNCF Blog