The Cloud Native Network Function WG (CNF WG) operates under the aegis of CNCF. The focus of the CNF WG is to define the process around evaluating the cloud nativeness of networking applications, aka CNFs. We collaborate with the CNF Test Suite project who work on the mechanics of the conformance tests.

The primary goal for this group is to provide a set of cloud native + Kubenative best practices for network applications which are listed in:

• Best Practices for CNF Developers

The CNF WG Charter further outlines the scope of our group activities as well as intended deliverables.

The CNF Test Suite will support testing a set of these best practices to allow developers and network operators to evaluate how well a network application follows cloud native principles and best practices. Proposals which have been adopted by the CNF WG are listed in the CNF Best Practice Proposal folder.

• Service Provider Co-Chair: Tom Kivlin, @tomkivlin
• CNF Developer Co-Chair: Victor Morales, @electrocucaracha
• Kubernetes Co-Chair: Taylor Carpenter, @taylor

• Weekly on Mondays at 8:00am Pacific Standard Time / 16:00 UTC
  • Here's a link to a public Google calendar that you can subscribe to
• Join zoom meeting here
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• Agenda and notes are available
• Recordings of previous meetings: CNF WG Playlist on YouTube

• TBA

• LFN Developer & Testing Forum's LFN/CNCF CNF initiatives merge
• LF Cloud Native Networking Program Alignment Workshop 2023
• Cloud Native Telco Day - KubeCon NA 2023
• Cloud Native Telco Day - KubeCon EU 2023
• Telco Community Gathering - KubeCon EU 2023
• Cloud Native Telco Day NA 2022
• Intro & Deep Dive to the CNF WG at KubeCon NA 2021
• CNF WG: K8s Best Practices for Telco Apps at KubeCon EU 2021
• Cloud Native Network Functions (CNF) Working Group Kick-off at KubeCon NA 2020

• Slack channel: #cnf-wg in CNCF workspace
• Mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cnf-wg