As we close the chapter on 2025, we cant to take a moment to sincerely thank our adopters, contributors, sponsors, partners, and community members. Your continued trust, engagement, and energy are what drive Microcks’ growth year after year.

2025 has been a transformational year for Microcks. It drove massive adoption growth, fostered deeper ecosystem collaborations, strengthened community ownership, and facilitated global expansion. It also reinforced our belief in open source, better-together principles and cloud native collaboration.

Let’s look back at some of the highlights before we step confidently into 2026.

🚀 Microcks in Numbers

2025 clearly exceeded our expectations and our KPIs across almost every dimension:

Microcks is no longer just growing; it’s scaling globally.

• 📦 2.5+ million container image downloads in 2025, compared to 850k total downloads in 2024. That’s more than 3× growth year over year.
• 🔗 3,300+ LinkedIn followers, with +700 new followers in 2025, showing steady and organic growth.
• ⭐ 1,800 GitHub stars on the main repository (+300 in 2025). While this is solid progress, we believe there’s much more potential here, and we welcome ideas from the community to help amplify this metric.
• 🏢 34 public adopters in total. We’re especially grateful to the 13 organizations that joined the public adopters list in 2025. Public references are critical for open source sustainability, and we warmly invite private adopters to help the project and the community by adding themselves 🙏 here.
• 🌍 Global expansion continues, with new users across all regions. Microcks documentation traffic insights from Scarf.sh and Google Analytics confirm strong worldwide adoption growth throughout the year.

🙌 Community Contributions

Open source lives and thrives through its people, and 2025 proved once again how strong the Microcks community is!

❤️ The Heart of Microcks

A huge thank you to Harshvardhan Parmar from the Yosemite Crew, who became a Code Owner (Domain Maintainer) for the Microcks CLI.

This recognition highlights his outstanding contributions, technical leadership, and ongoing impact on the project 👏

Harshvardhan joins Sébastien Degodez (AXA France), Code Owner of the Testcontainers .NET library since 2024, and leads the Microsoft Aspire integrations.

This growing maintainer base, backed by dedicated individuals and organizations, is a cornerstone of the project’s long-term sustainability.

📊 Contributor Growth in 2025

Behind the numbers lies what matters most to us: a strong, collaborative, and invested community. Microcks continues to grow thanks to a diverse group of contributors who not only use the project but also actively help shape it.

What we are particularly grateful for is that many of our contributors are also adopters of Microcks. These individuals and organizations rely on Microcks in real-world, business contexts, and they clearly understand a fundamental open source principle:

If you like and depend on a project, you should invest in it.

This mindset is incredibly powerful. It means improvements are driven by real needs, feedback is grounded in practice, and the project evolves in ways that directly benefit the broader community. As maintainers, we couldn’t agree more with this approach, and we deeply appreciate and support the organizations that choose to contribute back.

In 2025, this collaboration translated into:

• 167 active contributors
  What it represents: unique individuals contributing code, reviews, issues, documentation, and ideas throughout the year.
  Why it matters: this reflects a vibrant, healthy, and engaged community where innovation is shared and collective.

• 35 active organizations
  What it represents: contributors affiliated with a wide range of companies and institutions.
  Why it matters: this diversity strengthens the project’s resilience, reduces dependency on any single entity, and ensures long-term sustainability.

👉 For more informations and metrics: Microcks, a CNCF project, LFX Insights and CLOMonitor.

These numbers are more than metrics; they are proof of shared ownership, mutual trust, and a community that believes in building Microcks together. We are deeply grateful to every contributor and organization for their ongoing commitment and collaboration.

🌟 Ecosystem Collaborations

2025 was a year of deep and meaningful ecosystem collaborations, reinforcing our belief that integration beats isolation 👍 Better Together 🤝

Dapr

A fantastic collaboration with the Dapr community, including:

• CNCF blog post: “Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr” and Live demo and discussion during a Dapr Community Call.

Score

Great collaboration with Mathieu Benoit, maintainer of the Score project, exploring how our projects are better together with more planned for 2026 (talk at KubeCon EU 2026).

AsyncAPI Generator

Microcks now provides acceptance testing infrastructure for the AsyncAPI Generator:

• Generated clients are tested against Microcks mocks at PR level
• Initially, for WebSockets, with Kafka support coming next

This is a powerful example of Microcks enabling confidence in API tooling ecosystems.

Observability & OpenTelemetry 🔭

In 2025, we integrated OpenTelemetry directly into the Microcks engine, enabling:

• Live Traces and Improved observability for API testing workflows 👉 https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.13.0-release/

These partnerships demonstrate how Microcks enhances local development and testing experiences in cloud-native architectures, and how CNCF projects can join forces to deliver greater value to end users.

Traefik Labs

Traefik Labs introduced a Sandbox-as-a-Service offer, powered by Microcks and our new Kubernetes Operator. What a great demonstration of a fully GitOps-driven workflow.

APIquality

APIquality now uses Microcks as a backend service in their offering, along with professional training: https://apiquality.io/apimocking-microcks/

These provide strong validation of Microcks’ role in production-grade cloud native environments.

🎤 Communication & Knowledge Sharing

Microcks continued to gain visibility through talks, meetups, conferences, and community events, thanks to our amazing contributors and advocates.

Highlights include:

• Spring I/O: “Simplifying cloud-native app testing across environments” by Mauricio Salatino from Diagrid & Laurent Broudoux.
• KubeCon NA Atlanta: “Simplifying Cloud Native App Testing Across Environments” presenting how Dapr ✚ Microcks enhance developer experience by Laurent Broudoux & Artur Ciocanu) from Adobe.
• Devoxx Belgium: two talks, see the recording of the session “Smart API sandboxes: why? what? how?”.
• Cloud Native Pune Meetup: Thanks to Pratik Mahalle for his talk “From Chaos to Confidence: How Microcks Brings Order to Modern API Testing”.

And many more talks at: Cloud Nord 🇫🇷, Amadeus Engineering Days, AXA 🇫🇷 meetups… and more!

👉 Follow us on LinkedIn to catch recordings and announcements.

💡 Looking Ahead: 2026

Open source is not the easiest path, but it is the one we deeply believe in, and as we enter 2026, our goals are clear:

• Continue growing the contributor and adopter base
• Strengthen ecosystem integrations
• Improve observability, scalability, and developer experience
• Continuing discussions started at KubeCon NA 2025 Maintainer Summit
• And, give back to the cloud native community

🌱 A Major Milestone Ahead

One of the important objectives for 2026 is our application to move Microcks from CNCF Sandbox to Incubation. We started this work more than a year ago, and we’re looking forward to reviews and collaboration with the CNCF TOC.

This step would be a huge milestone for the project, and we’ll keep you posted every step of the way. See all details on this GitHub issue: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1552 👀

👥 Join Our Community Meetings

Don’t forget to join our two monthly community meetings, designed to accommodate multiple time zones and open to everyone.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Here’s to a healthy, innovative, and impactful 2026 🥂

Let’s keep building the future of API mocking and testing together.