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   name: Ewan Harris
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+  name: Jakub Hertyk
+  url: https://github.com/curfew-marathon
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+title: OpenFGA Accepted into CNCF Incubation 🎉
+description: OpenFGA has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubation stage
+slug: incubation-announcement
+date: 2025-11-18
+authors: [aaguiar, jakub]
+tags: [announcement]
+image: https://openfga.dev/img/og-rich-embed.png
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+# OpenFGA Accepted into CNCF Incubation 🎉
+
+OpenFGA has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubation stage. This milestone reflects years of community work and real world adoption.
+
+- CNCF announcement: [OpenFGA becomes a CNCF Incubating Project](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/11/11/openfga-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/)
+- TOC tracker: [Issue #1949](https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1949)
+
+## Why This Matters
+
+Incubation is a signal that a project is healthy, vendor neutral, and ready for broad adoption. It places OpenFGA on the same maturity path as OpenTelemetry, Keycloak, Artifact Hub and Backstage.
+
+Learn more about [CNCF project stages](https://www.cncf.io/projects/).
+
+## How We Got Here
+
+- Community and learning. Two years of public community meetings, talks, and guides. Join us in [CNCF Slack](https://openfga.dev/docs/community) and find recordings on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@OpenFGA).
+- Adopter validation through public adopter interviews.
+- Grafana Labs joined the maintainer team.
+
+## The Journey So Far
+
+- More than 600 people have contributed PRs across the OpenFGA org
+- 4,500 stars across OpenFGA repositories
+- Breakout sessions and a kiosk at five KubeCon editions
+- Monthly community meetings running consistently for over 2 years
+- Production adopters include Canonical, Docker, Grafana Labs, Read AI, Agicap, Headspace, Zuplo, and Sourcegraph along with others
+
+## What We Heard from Adopters
+
+ReBAC flexibility for real sharing models, documentation that shortens time to production, responsive maintainers, and an active CNCF Slack community. Adopters also asked for continued progress on idempotent batch writes, DSL ergonomics, public benchmarks, more published adopter stories, and broader maintainer diversity.
+
+## Thank You
+
+A lot of people contributed to OpenFGA's success:
+
+- Massimiliano Gori believed in OpenFGA early and led integration across Canonical.
+- Pauline Jamin spearheaded adoption at Agicap and presented the solution at KubeCon Europe 2024.
+- Andrew Powers led Read AI implementation supporting collaboration and RAG for enterprise search.
+- Joao Guerreiro led the implementation at Grafana and presented their journey at KubeCon Europe 2025.
+- Dan Cech from Grafana contributed the SQLite adapter and serves as a maintainer.
+- Nathan Totten led Zuplo integration, implementing authorization at the edge for the API gateway.
+- Gurleen Sethi led the implementation of organization and team management at Docker, Inc.
+- Siddhant Khare was the first independent contributor to OpenFGA.
+- Maurice Ackel donated the OpenFGA Terraform Provider.
+- Martin Bessozzi and Yann from Agicap.
+- Agicap, Grafana Labs, Docker, Inc., Zuplo, and Read AI graciously agreed to be interviewed by CNCF as part of due diligence.
+
+On the CNCF side:
+
+- Chris Aniszczyk helped guide the project donation and acceptance.
+- Eddie Knight, Evan Anderson, Marina Moore, and Justin Cappos from CNCF TAG Security supported the self-assessment and helped strengthen our posture for due diligence.
+- Karena Angell and Faseela K helped us navigate the due diligence process and carried much of the heavy lift to make it happen.
+
+## What's Next
+
+Reaching Incubation is the beginning of a new chapter. We will deepen collaboration with the community on performance, consistency options, docs, and governance as we work toward Graduation.
+
+## Get Involved
+
+- Star the repo and follow development: [github.com/openfga/openfga](https://github.com/openfga/openfga)
+- Join the conversation in CNCF Slack via our [community page](https://openfga.dev/community)
+- Try OpenFGA locally and explore the [docs](https://openfga.dev)
+- Track the [roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/openfga/projects/1)