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title: KCCN EU 2023 - Analyst Roundtable

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# KCCN EU 2023 - Analyst Roundtable

## Trends since Detroit
* increasing our focus on project sustainment and maintenance  
* increasing communications and awareness on project
* project activity and growth
* continued focus on project security, fuzzing, audits, etc.
* eBPF is becoming more popular, more uses being explored as understanding is unlocked
* WASM is popping up in more places
* platform engineering is emerging
* Project health and archival
* App delivery is increasing with security close behind
* Emerging areas
    * continuous optimization and tools

## Projects & Activities since Detroit

### Projects
#### Annual Reviews
* Karmada
* k3s
* inclavere
* Metal3-io
* Keylime

#### Moving levels
* New to Sandbox:
    * Merbridge
    * DevSpace
    * Capsule
    * zot
    * Paralus
    * Carina
    * ko
    * Open Policy Registry (OPCR) (renamed to Open Policy Containers)
    * werf
    * Kubescape - renamed (may be in process, can't find data)
    * Clusternet
    * Inspektor Gadget
* OpenKruise Incubating
* KubeVela Incubating
* KeyCloak Incubating
* Flux Graduated
* Argo Graduated
* Projects currently under active proposals for moving levels
    * Strimzi - Incubation (status update needed)
    * Kubeflow - Incubation (In review)
    * Flatcar - Incubation (status update needed)
    * ArtifactHub - Incubation (status update needed)
    * gRPC - Graduation (status update needed)
    * CRI-O - Graduation (In adjudication)
    * KEDA - Graduation (In review)
    * Cilium - Graduation (Public Comment Scheduled)
    * Falco - Graduation (status update needed)
    * Istio - Graduation (In Review)

### Activities
* Streamline sandbox applications
* New Environmental Sustainability TAG is growing, new lead
* containerd Fuzzing audit
* Helm Fuzzing audit
* [Platforms for Cloud Native Computing Paper](https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/blob/main/platforms-whitepaper/latest/index.md) 
* Redirect of k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io in March, Image freeze on April 3rd
* Contributor Growth WG out of Contributor Strategy
* Code of Conduct Working Group