Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Lori Larusso & Gerald Venzl
Lori Larusso, Gerald Venzl
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Project Lightning Talk
In a KubeCon EU lightning talk, Lori Larusso and Gerald Venzl presented "Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape," offering attendees a concise yet comprehensive tour of the vast and often overwhelming Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem. The talk served as a practical guide to navigating the **CNCF Landscape**, an interactive map showcasing hundreds of projects, and critically, how to assess the health and maturity of these projects using tools like **CLOMonitor**. The speakers underscored the importance of understanding project lifecycle, leveraging community resources, and the tangible benefits of active participation in the cloud-native space.
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This lightning talk, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape," by Lori Larusso and Gerald Venzl, is a highly practical and impactful session for anyone navigating the sprawling cloud-native ecosystem. It provides a methodical approach to evaluating open-source projects using the CNCF Landscape and, more importantly, the CLOMonitor tool. For security professionals, this offers invaluable, actionable intelligence for supply chain risk assessment and informed project adoption, moving beyond superficial metrics to detailed health indicators. The speakers' deep expertise shines through…