The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept Meshery as a CNCF incubating project. Meshery is an open source, cloud native management plane for designing, visualizing and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure across clouds, created by Lee Calcote and the team at Layer5 in 2019 and accepted as a sandbox project on June 22, 2021. CNCF says Meshery has become the fifth highest-velocity project in the foundation, with a 350 percent increase in code commits over the year from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 2026 and the general availability of Meshery v1.0, and it now reports more than 7,000 contributors and 1,000 contributing organizations, a 36.6 percent year-over-year rise in active contributors, almost 15,000 GitHub stars and an LFX Insights software value of 393 million dollars. TOC sponsor Karena Angell credited the project’s extensible model-based architecture, and the roadmap covers multi-cluster and fleet management with Kubernetes RBAC integration, a Meshery MCP Server for AI-assisted read-only access to registry and cluster state, distributed performance testing, and a more governed registry and workflow engine.
Meshery becomes a CNCF Incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept Meshery as a CNCF incubating project. Meshery is an open source, cloud native management plane for designing, visualizing and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure across clouds, created by Lee Calcote and the team at Layer5 in 2019 and accepted as a sandbox project on June 22, 2021. CNCF says Meshery has become the fifth highest-velocity project in the foundation, with a 350 percent increase in code commits over the year from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 2026 and the general availability of Meshery v1.0, and it now reports more than 7,000 contributors and 1,000 contributing organizations, a 36.6 percent year-over-year rise in active contributors, almost 15,000 GitHub stars and an LFX Insights software value of 393 million dollars. TOC sponsor Karena Angell credited the project's extensible model-based architecture, and the roadmap covers multi-cluster and fleet management with Kubernetes RBAC integration, a Meshery MCP Server for AI-assisted read-only access to registry and cluster state, distributed performance testing, and a more governed registry and workflow engine.
Source: CNCF