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A specification for describing event data in a common way

Why CloudEvents?


Events are everywhere, yet event publishers tend to describe events differently.


Consistency

The lack of a common way of describing events means developers have to write new event handling logic for each event source.

Accessibility

No common event format means no common libraries, tooling, and infrastructure for delivering event data across environments. CloudEvents provides SDKs for Go, JavaScript, Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, PowerShell, Rust, and Python that can be used to build event routers, tracing systems, and other tools.

Portability

The portability and productivity we can achieve from event data is hindered overall.

What is CloudEvents?


CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common way. CloudEvents seeks to dramatically simplify event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond!

The CloudEvents working group has received a large amount of industry interest, ranging from major cloud providers to popular SaaS companies. The specification is now under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Contribute to the CloudEvents project


CloudEvents is organized via the CNCF's Serverless Working Group and everyone is encouraged to join us. If you're interested in contributing, please collaborate with us in the CloudEvents Github org, join our weekly call every Thursday at 9AM PT via Zoom, check the meeting notes, and review our Governance model to familiarize yourself with our process.

CloudEvents has Graduated!


On January 25, 2024 CloudEvents was approved as a ‘Graduated’ project in the CNCF. Thank you to everyone who helped build the CloudEvents project (specifications and SDKs) into what it is today. We couldn't have done it without each and every one of you!

CloudEvents 1.0.2 release


On February 5, 2022 the CloudEvents project released v1.0.2 of its specifications. Aside from minor clarifications to the specifications, there were a few noteworthy additions made to the set of deliverables:

  • a new Powershell SDK was introduced
  • batching support was added to the Protobuf format
  • work was started to translate the specifications to Chinese

See the release notes for more details. Additionally, the ‘specs’ github repository was reorganized to accommodate the newer specifications that are under development. Note that this release is compatible with the existing CloudEvents v1.0 specification.

CloudEvents 1.0.1 release


On Decemeber 10, 2020 the CloudEvents project released v1.0.1 of its specifications. This release addresses several clarifications to the v1.0 specification, as well as adding some new features such as a WebSocket protocol binding. Please see the release note for the complete list of changes. Note that this release is compatible with the existing CloudEvents v1.0 specification.

CloudEvents 1.0 release


On October 24, 2019 the CloudEvents project had two significant achievements. First, the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee approved the project as an “incubator” project (thus graduating it from the CNCF “sandbox”). Second, the CloudEvents specification released version 1.0!

This is the first major release of the specification and represents two years’ worth of hard work by a truly great team of people from across the entire serverless community. We've had just about every major cloud provider participate, several “end user” companies as well as many individual participants all working diligently on producing a specification that will hopefully continue to see increased adoption now that this milestone has been reached.

Aside from the core CloudEvents specification, there's also the Primer and protocol and format specifications, all of which can be found in the GitHub repo. Additionally, there are many SDKsGo, JavaScript, Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, PowerShell, Rust, and Python—to help people produce and consume CloudEvents.

The CNCF Serverless Working Group will be deciding what to focus on next (e.g. additional CloudEvents related activities, or perhaps address some other interoperability pain-point the community is experiencing). So, if you're interested please join the regular weekly calls. Additionally, there is the work being done on the workflow specification.

Thanks and congratulations to everyone who has participated in the CloudEvents project!

CloudEvents Adopters



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Adobe I/O Events

Adobe I/O Events embrace event-driven architecture to streamline workflows, improve marketing performance, and more, by allowing developers to programmatically respond to user behavior, resulting in near real-time customer experiences that are targeted, effective and personalized

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Alibaba Cloud EventBridge

A serverless event bus that receives CloudEvents compliant events from cloud services, SaaS/custom apps, and routes to various targets

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Argo Events

Argo Events is a CloudEvents compliant event-driven workflow automation framework for Kubernetes

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Awakari

Subscription-based instant messaging. Broadcast to everyone. Receive only what is relevant. Uses CloudEvents for both publishing and receiving

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Azure Event Grid

Event Grid natively supports events in the JSON implementation of CloudEvents v1.0 and the HTTP protocol binding

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Choria

All Life Cycle and Autonomous Agent events emitted by the Choria orchestration system are CloudEvents compliant

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commercetools

All services of the commercetools platform can emit CloudEvents compliant events

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Debezium

Debezium, a distributed open-source change data capture platform, can emit change data events in the CloudEvents format

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Direktiv

Direktiv, a serverless workflow engine, which can take in CloudEvents to trigger workflows

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European Commission

A CloudEvents validation service

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Falco

Falco is a threat detection engine for Kubernetes that can emit CloudEvents for security policy violations at runtime

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Flyte

Flyte is a cloud-native workflow orchestration platform built on top of Kubernetes. An LF AI & Data Foundation graduated project, Flyte provides an abstraction layer for guaranteed scalability and reproducibility of data and machine learning workflows. Progress of workflows and tasks is delimited by a series of events that Flyte can emit using CloudEvents

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Golioth

Golioth is an IoT device management platform that uses CloudEvents for handling events coming from IoT-specific protocol gateways to internal services. Golioth also publishes IoT data “Output Streams” as CloudEvents

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Google Cloud Eventarc

Eventarc is a managed infrastructure that allows you to build event-driven architectures with loosely coupled services that react to state changes

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Harbor

Harbor is an open source registry and CNCF Graduated project that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted

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IBM Cloud Code Engine

Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform designed to run container images, batch jobs, or source code. Code Engine allows you to build event driven workloads that react to CloudEvents

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Keptn

Keptn builds upon CloudEvents for continuous delivery and automated operations and has its specification based on CloudEvents

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Knative Eventing

All event data produced and consumed by Knative Eventing services is CloudEvents compliant

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Kogito

All events emitted and consumed by Kogito business automation applications are CloudEvents compliant

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Kubewatch

A Kubernetes watcher that publishes notification to available collaboration hubs/notification channels

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OpenFaaS

CloudEvent events are one of the many available triggers for OpenFaaS functions

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Oracle Cloud

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service implements CloudEvents

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SAP

Many SAP applications publish events complying to the CloudEvents specification. A list of events can be found here. Furthermore, SAP Event Mesh supports CloudEvents

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Serverless.com Event Gateway

All event data that functions receive from the Event Gateway is CloudEvents compliant

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Serverless Workflow

All event definitions in the Serverless Workflow JSON/YAML model are CloudEvents compliant

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Tekton Pipelines

Tekton is a cloud native framework for creating CI/CD systems that can emit CloudEvents as pipelines and tasks execute

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Tencent Cloud EventBridge

EventBridge is a secure, stable, and efficient serverless event management platform that supports Tencent Cloud services, custom applications, and SaaS applications are connected in a standardized and centralized manner

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TriggerMesh

TriggerMesh makes use of CloudEvents in all its event sources and targets to build application flows

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VMware Event Broker Appliance

VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) publishes CloudEvents for changes in a vSphere cluster

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Voxie

Voxie is a conversational messaging platform using SMS to help businesses engage 1:1 with their customers at scale

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wasmCloud

wasmCloud, a cloud native WebAssembly host runtime (CNCF), uses CloudEvents for all event publication and monitoring on its control interface

Resources


Videos

TitleSpeakersEvent
CNCF CloudEvents Project: A Step Towards Serverless InteropDoug Davis, IBMKubeCon China 2019
Intro: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEventsScott Nichols, Google and Klaus Deissner, SAPKubeCon Europe 2019
Deep Dive: CNCF Serverless WG/CloudEventsClemens Vasters, Microsoft and Vlad Ionescu, IndependentKubeCon Europe 2019
Intro: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEventsDoug Davis, IBM & Cathy Zhang, HuaweiKubeCon North America 2018
The Serverless and Event-Driven FutureAusten Collins, ServerlessKubeCon Europe 2018