CNCF project velocity 2025 report

Key takeaways from the latest CNCF project velocity report:
1. Kubernetes continues to lead with the largest contributor base.
2. Backstage has more than doubled its contributions since 2024.
3. OpenTelemetry saw a 39% rise in commits and 35% rise in a contributor base.

Top 10 CNCF projects by their velocity in 2025:

1. Kubernetes
2. Cilium
3. OpenTelemetry
4. Prometheus
5. Argo
6. Meshery
7. Envoy
8. Backstage
9. Keycloak
10. Kubeflow

This GitHub repo has all the data, and here's our post on a previous velocity report published in July 2025.

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