CNCF Ambassadors
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
Requirements for becoming an official Cloud Native Ambassador are:
- 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.
Ambassador Benefits
With the goal of Cloud Native technologies promotion around the globe, we are offering the following benefits for our Ambassadors:
- Up to $250/month reimbursement for expenses, related to meetups organizing.
- 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.
Are you interested in becoming an official Cloud Native Ambassador?
Code of Conduct
CNCF Ambassador program follows the CNCF Code of Conduct.