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TheCNCF Cloud Native Glossary Project is hosted athttps://glossary.cncf.io/ and is intended to be used as a reference for common terms when talking about cloud native applications. You canview and download the PDF version here.

You are welcome to use this code for your own glossary project. Here areinstructions for creating your own glossary.

If you'd like to help with the glossary we'd love to have your contributions! Please seeHow to Contribute.

The Cloud Native Glossary was initiated by the CNCF Marketing Committee(Business Value Subcommittee) and includes contributions fromCatherine Paganini,Chris Aniszczyk,Daniel Jones,Jason Morgan,Katelin Ramer,Mike Foster,and many more contributors.For a complete contributor list, please refer tothis GitHub page.

The Glossary is maintained bySeokho Son,Noah Ispas,Jihoon Seo,Nate W.,andJorge Castro.

Catherine Paganini,andJason Morganare Emeritus Maintainers, and we are deeply gratefulfor their invaluable contributions over the years.

All code contributions are under the Apache 2.0 license. Documentation is distributed under CC BY 4.0.

To improve the Cloud Native Glossary site itself, install a local copy with these instructions. Note you must havenpm andHugo installed.

git clone https://github.com/cncf/glossary.gitnpm install

You can then run the site usingnpm run serve (select "[Hugo]"). To have the site run locally with a functioning local search, runnpm run serve:with-pagefind.