Linux Foundation Open Source Partner Program
Partner Program Introduction
LFOSPP helps companies deliver their solutions to the largest distributive software development organization in the world. LF works with all Partners to delight Developers with an industry leading tool stack. Partners receive enhanced visibility in our large and diverse developer community to grow brand visibility, receive outstanding product feedback, and grow customers.
LFOSPP works with our Communities to identify both committed partner offerings and emerging tools to build out a comprehensive Tool stack. In turn, Partners receive actionable product feedback, access to diverse development communities, and real world case studies.
Benefits to developers & projects:
LF Developers and projects receive access to best of breed tools and services to deliver outstanding developer experiences. With engaged Partners, Developers can access best practices and help to implement and improve Partners’ offerings for their communities.
Benefits to partners:
Partners receive enhanced visibility in our large and diverse developer community to grow brand visibility, receive outstanding product feedback, and grow customers. Furthermore, select partners benefit from LF case studies and logo licensing.
Join the Partner Program
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Explore Our Partners
Partner name
DNSimple
What problem LF had that the partner solves
- The Linux Foundation has a very small IT team responsible for all domain management — including registration, renewal, DNS, and some basic services, like email forwarding and http(s) redirects. Most people responsible for requesting changes to these services were not on the IT team. They would submit change-request tickets, some of which were urgent. A lot of The Linux Foundation’s challenges revolved around these support tickets and how to alleviate pressure from the IT staff.
- They needed a domain registrar with a robust API that supported numerous TLDs, email forwards, and HTTP(S) redirects. DNSimple checked [all the boxes](https://dnsimple.com/dns-hosting).
How partner solution implemented
- With over 1500 domains to manage, the Linux Foundation needed a registrar with a robust API. They wanted to be able to automate registration and management of their domains. After looking at a number of other registrars, they found none of them fulfilled all their requirements. Some had APIs that were missing functionality. Others didn’t support specific TLDs.
- The implementation process was very smooth, thanks to DNSimple responsive support and [comprehensive documentation](https://developer.dnsimple.com).
- Up to date, clear and accurate DNSimple’s API documentation and their excellent support helped to implement the solution they needed.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2
Link to partner
- https://dnsimple.com
- https://dnsimple.com/dns-hosting
- Link to the case study for Linux Foundation
Sourcegraph accelerates how software gets built, helping developers search, understand, and write code in complex codebases with AI.
Partner name
Sourcegraph
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Sourcegraph uses AI to help developers search, understand, and write code in complex codebases. LF projects can onboard new contributors faster and use agents to automate repetitive, soul-crushing tasks so open source contributors can do what they do best - create and innovate.
How partner solution implemented
Projects can download plugins for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio (experimental), and Eclipse (experimental). They can also use Sourcegraph's AI web chat to interact with any LF and associated projects with any modern browser.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
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Ternary is the world’s first multi-cloud financial intelligence platform, with best-in-class visibility, powering real-time decision-making with the scale to enable the world’s largest enterprises.
Partner name
Ternary
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Ternary’s advanced SaaS platform manages over $7B in cloud spending across multiple cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud. Purpose-built for FinOps, Ternary provides a single pane of glass, offering insights across multiple cloud providers and ISVs to better manage cloud spending across critical areas.
How partner solution implemented
Ternary helps LF manage cloud spend across multiple cloud service providers including AWS and GCP. With "Managed Service Provider" style access controls enables LF to share Ternary across their open source projects without oversharing information.
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Partner name
Element
What problem LF had that the partner solves
The Linux Foundation (LF), arenowned hub for open-source innovation, faced a significant communication challenge when working with itscustomers. Around 40 IT professionals provide an extensive catalog of services to companies with open-source initiatives, focusing mainly on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
As an open source project, LF could use Slack internally for free but that arrangement didn’t cover its customers’ usage of Slack. It meant that LF was unable to benefit from real time communication with itscustomers.
Seeking an open source based alternative, and ideally one that would protect all parties data sovereignty, LF embarked on a Proof of Concept (POC) using Matrix, which showed promise. However, they faced challenges scaling it beyond the initial three groups involved in the POC. LF lacked the resources and service model to support widespread adoption. Mike Dolan, Senior VP, was a key advocate for this transition. The open-source projects LF served ranged from just three users to massive communities with up to 30,000 members, often under long-term contracts. Projects continuously onboarded new members each month, making scalability essential. Additionally, LF required Single Sign-On (Auth0) integration and an Admin console. Element proposed a model where LF would purchase Element licenses, and LF would bill their clients based on the services selected from their catalog, included in project contracts.
How partner solution implemented
Element's Solution
Element is a secure communication and collaboration platform that ensures trust by putting its users in complete control. It combines the best parts of email, collaboration and messaging with the open Matrix protocol to deliver secure real time communication.
Being decentralized, Element gives people and organizations complete ownership and control of their data. It also ensures network resilience, which is ideal for mission-critical environments.
Element is led by the same team that created the Matrix open standard, and is equally committed to open source. Element is used by loads of open source communities including several Linux distributions and desktop environments (Fedora, Debian, Archlinux, GNOME and KDE), the Ansible community, the W3C, or The Document Foundation (LibreOffice).
Leveraging the open-source Matrix protocol, Element enabled LF to create a secure, customizable, and scalable communication ecosystem.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
For more on Element's seamless communication and collaboration, visit the onboarding guide:Element Onboarding Guide.
Link to partner
Partner name
Equinix
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Equinix provides compute, storage, and network resources to create infrastructure for CNCF projects.
How partner solution implemented
Equinix partners with CNCF projects via the Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL) project on Github. Working directly with project maintainers, Equinix provides the necessary compute, storage, and network resources for their project.
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Partner name
Fastly
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Opensourceprojectinfrastructureoftengrowsupinanunplannedway.TakeKubernetesforexample.Injust10years,theproject’susageexploded,becomingthesecondmostwidely-usedopensourceprojectintheworld,buttheirinfrastructuredidn’tkeeppace:
https://dev.to/fastly/this-is-your-sign-to-update-your-kubernetes-download-workflow-5hf2
Whendevelopersarebuildingtoservetheworld—orevenafast,safe,andengagingexperienceforfarfewer—theyturntoFastly’sinstantplatform.That’swhytheLinuxkernel,Jenkins,jQuery/OpenJS,andKubernetes/CNCFhaveusedFastlyforyears.Withnetworking,computing,andsecurityfeatureslikeinstantcachepurging,imageoptimization,ratelimiting,botmitigationandunlimitedcustomizabilityusingVCLandWebAssembly,Fastlymakessureinternetservicesstayupnomatterwhat,andfast.
How partner solution implemented
https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward/#apply-for-the-fast-forward-program
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Partner name
Fossa
What problem LF had that the partner solves
FOSSA is helping more than 100 Linux Foundation projects manage their open source risk and protect their code against license violations, vulnerabilities, and supply chain threats. We’re proud to be used with some of LF’s largest projects, including Kubernetes and Prometheus.
How partner solution implemented
Projects embed the FOSSA CLI in their CI pipeline, giving every CI build hardened, enterprise-grade protection and audit-grade dependency reporting with a single command. Projects choose FOSSA because it is built for developers, with a powerful CLI, and has been a consistent supporter and adopter of standards, like SPDX for SBOMs.
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Partner name
Gitpod
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Moving to the cloud has made centralized and automated continuous integration (CI) and deployment (CD) standard in software development. However, many developers still use inconsistent, static development environments, wasting daily hours on inefficient tools that limit creativity, collaboration, and flow. Cloud development environments (CDEs) are on-demand development environments, pre-configured with all tools, libraries, and dependencies needed to build and deploy modern applications. They'll help you spend less time reviewing pull-requests or onboarding contributors and more time building great things.
How partner solution implemented
Gitpod Cloud is a cloud development environment hosted and managed by Gitpod. It is now available to Linux Foundation project maintainers with credits of 2,500 per maintainer, per month.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
Pleaseapply for credits here. Make sure to check the "Linux Foundation" box. You will then be directed to follow theseonboarding steps.
Link to partner
Honeycomb is an observability solution that provides complimentary usage of its platform for LF and CNCF projects.
Partner name
Honeycomb
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Many projects that the Linux Foundation supports require a deep understanding of their performance. Insights are required at every step of the software development lifecycle: development, testing, deployment, and post-deploy. Honeycomb, an observability platform built for OpenTelemetry, provides LF projects with complimentary accounts to allow for lightning-fast debugging and deep insights on performance.
How partner solution implemented
Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects are able to useOpenTelemetry to send telemetry (traces, metrics, and logs) for analysis, alerting, and SLOs. Please refer to ourdocumentation for configuration information, or refer to ourintegrations directory to connect Kubernetes, GitHub, and other platforms to Honeycomb.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
Sign up for free and emailopensource@honeycomb.iowith your team name.
Link to partner
Partner name
Kubecost
What problem LF had that the partner solves
The Linux Foundation benefits from infrastructure credits donated by cloud providers and wants to prolong the life of those donated credits. Kubecost monitors the Linux Foundation Kubernetes infrastructure, to ensure that donated credits are used as efficiently as possible.
How partner solution implemented
Any team looking to take control of their Kubernetes spend can get started for free by either deploying Kubecost as aHelm Chart, or signing up forKubecost Cloud. Users can get started in minutes and quickly benefit from granular and accurate cost visibility.
Link for onboarding to your LF project
Join ourSlack community or email us atsupport@kubecost.com.
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Partner name
Scarf
What problem LF had that the partner solves
Scarf helps LF and its projects understand their software is used and adopted. LF projects can run more effectively if they can operate in a data-driven manner. Historically, LF and its projects for the most part haven’t had real usage analytics and don’t know who their users are. Getting that information in a way that respects end-user privacy & security is a significant undertaking, Scarf makes this simple, out of the box.
How partner solution implemented
Projects can instrument their artifact downloads, code, web properties, documentation and other content, with Scarf. A common use case is distributing your project’s containers through Scarf, and embedding Scarf on project documentation, for a comprehensive analytics for of onboarding and usage.
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The Latest in Partnerships
Robert Reeves, VP of Strategic Partnerships, will present at CNCF Member Summit atKubeCon North America to update attendees on the Linux Foundation Open Source Partner Program. Select Partners will attend to meet with Members and describe the value Partners provide Linux Foundation projects and foundations.