Following the recent overview of newly added CNCF projects in 2025, the next batch of Open Source tools for Cloud Native needs include:
- KitOps for packaging AI/ML models into all-in-one bundles and deploying them.
- OpenTofu, a Terraform fork created by the community.
- kagent, a framework for building and running AI agents in Kubernetes.
- Cadence, a code platform for building distributed software that is durable, highly available, and scalable.
- Hyperlight, a lightweight virtual machine manager to spawn micro virtual machines instantly.
- interLink, an abstraction layer to offload specific workloads from Kubernetes Pods to other systems, such as Slurm and HTCondor.
- urunc, an OCI-compatible runtime for running unikernels.
- kgateway, a Kubernetes gateway based on Envoy and Kubernetes Gateway API.
- Cozystack for building your own fully-featured cloud platform with managed services on top of Kubernetes and well-known K8s operators.
Interested in learning more about all of them? Read why they emerged, how they are designed, and what features they offer today on Palark tech blog.
