CLOUDEVENTS-SPEC

CNCF cross-cloud events spec.

Definition

CloudEvents 1.0 (published 2019) covers Core (data model), Bindings (HTTP, AMQP, Kafka, NATS, MQTT, WebSockets, JSON), Extensions (sequence, partition, correlation-id, traceparent). Adopted by GitHub Webhooks, Knative Eventing, IBM EventStreams. CNCF Sandbox to Incubation 2021. Critical for multi-cloud event-driven pipelines.

Origin

CloudEvents CNCF Sandbox project 2018 ; v1.0 published October 2019 ; Incubation Project 2021.

Example in context

An AWS lambda receives a CloudEvents 1.0 JSON event ; an Azure Function consumes the same format ; cross-cloud portability ensured.

Related terms

• Webhooks — upper pattern.