If you've come across OpenChoreo, you've probably seen our logo. It is a small stilt structure standing above two wavy blue lines. It looks simple. Maybe a bit weird at first. That's kind of the point.

People sometimes ask what it means, so I figured it was time to write the story down...

We're very excited to announce that OpenChoreo has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox.

Before anything else, we want to give a huge shoutout to everyone who has been part of this journey. To our contributors, early adopters, and community members who filed issues, asked hard questions, and pushed the project forward. This milestone belongs to you. A sincere thank you to the CNCF team for their guidance and for giving us the space to present and discuss OpenChoreo with the broader community.

But we didn't want to stop there. Alongside the CNCF acceptance, we're also shipping OpenChoreo 1.0, our first production-ready release.

Two milestones, one moment, and a community that made both possible.

Hello everyone. I wanted to share a quick update on OpenChoreo at KubeCon EU 2026, which is just two weeks away. I'm thrilled to tell you that OpenChoreo will be there for the first time as a CNCF Sandbox project. If you're heading to Amsterdam, we'd love to meet you.

Here are some opportunities for you to connect with us in Amsterdam.

This blog post introduces OpenChoreo’s approach to creating declarative, strongly typed, developer-friendly abstractions for Kubernetes using CEL-based ComponentTypes and Traits, with first-class Environments and release concepts that enable declarative multi-environment, multi-cluster deployments.

Hey everyone. It’s been a while since our first blog post, so I wanted to share a quick update on where OpenChoreo is going, what we’ve been improving recently, and what you can expect next.

We’ve been actively developing OpenChoreo over the last few months, and we’re aiming for a 1.0 release in Q1 2026. Until then, the project is evolving fast, and we don’t recommend running it in production just yet. But if you’re curious, this is a great time to try it out, see how the model feels, and help us shape it with your feedback.

Welcome to the OpenChoreo Blog, your new home for updates, ideas, and stories from the OpenChoreo open-source community! We’re just getting started, and we’re thrilled to share this journey with you.

On this blog, we plan to post release updates, upcoming features, community adoption stories, and the occasional off-topic stuff (you’ve been warned).