Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs) are individuals who are passionate about Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology and projects, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about the framework and community.
Successful ambassadors are people such as bloggers, influencers, evangelists who are already engaged with a CNCF project in some way including contributing to forums, online groups, community events, etc.
The Cloud Native Ambassador program exists to empower community members with tools and resources needed to:
- Promote cloud native projects and technology
- Educate a local community on the CNCF mission
- Contribute to CNCF projects
- Affiliated with a CNCF member OR is a contributor to a CNCF project.
- Already engaged with the project in some way whether that’s as a contributor, blogger, speaker, etc.
- Willing to either speak at community events OR write technical content such as blog posts.
- Host a cloud native community meetup. See http://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/ for areas already covered. If you interested in starting a new meetup group you should have a look our best practices.
With the goal of Cloud Native technologies promotion around the globe, we are offering the following benefits for our Ambassadors:
- Up to $150/month reimbursement for expenses, related to meetups organizing (exceptions are applicable and reviewed on per request basis).
- Discounts to CNCF conferences.
- Waived CNCF CKA/CKAD Exam Fees: https://www.cncf.io/certification/expert/
- One-time gift certificate to purchase swag from CNCF Store for the local meetup group.
- Support with finding speakers for the meetups and local events.
- Speaking opportunities at Cloud Native industry events (with the optional travel expenses reimbursement).
- Blogging opportunities (including CNCF blog, Kubernetes blog, and other industry-leading editions).
- Social media promotion support.
CNCF Ambassador program follows the CNCF Code of Conduct.
We review hundreds of applications each month, but can only accept a few new CNCF Ambassadors from the pool of highly-qualified individuals. We are currently prioritizing Ambassadors who organize Meetups around CNCF technologies in regions not already represented.
No, once you formally apply you are part of the pool of applicants that get reviewed on a monthly basis.
No. If your application is deferred, we will send out a note the first time your application is reviewed. After that, we will only follow up if your application is accepted.