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The article reports on the CNCF's latest State of Cloud Native Development report, which counts about 21.2 million cloud-native developers, roughly 41% of all developers. It finds that around 75% of cloud-native developers use AI to ship code, compared with about half of other developers, and that AI is a core part of workflow for nearly two-thirds of AI-using developers.
Executive director Jonathan Bryce attributes this appetite to cloud-native developers wanting an edge and chances to work on cutting-edge tools. He also points to a growing developer pool and an expanding set of production-ready cloud-native tools.
The piece walks through the CNCF's staged project process of sandbox, incubation, and graduation, noting that only a handful of its roughly 250 projects fully graduate. It lists newly admitted and graduating projects, and Bryce urges organizations to learn open source technologies to gain leverage. The full interview also covers the Kubernetes AI Conformance program.
Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.