In 2019, KEDA embarked on a mission to make application autoscaling on Kubernetes dead-simple. Our aim was to make sure that every Kubernetes platform can use it to scale applications without having to worry about the underlying autoscaling infrastructure. As part of that mission, we wanted to build a vendor-neutral project that is open to everyone and nicely integrates with other tools. Because of that, the KEDA maintainers decided that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was a natural fit and got accepted as a sandbox project in 2020.