Fluid is an open source Kubernetes-native Distributed Dataset Orchestrator and Accelerator for data-intesive applications, such as big data and AI applications. It is hosted by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](https://cncf.io)(CNCF) as a sandbox project.
# Fluid
# Fluid
English | [简体中文](./README-zh_CN.md)
English | [简体中文](./README-zh_CN.md)
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|April. 27th, 2021. Fluid accpeted by **CNCF**! Fluid project was [accepted as an official CNCF Sandbox Project](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/5822) by CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) with a majority vote after the review process. New beginning for Fluid! .|
|Mar. 16th, 2021. Fluid v0.5.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various new features, such as on-the-fly dataset scale out/in, metadata backup, support Fuse global mode and so on. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
|Mar. 16th, 2021. Fluid v0.5.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various new features, such as on-the-fly dataset scale out/in, metadata backup, support Fuse global mode and so on. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
|Nov. 6th, 2020. Fluid v0.4.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various features and bugfix, such as Prefetch Dataset automatically before using it. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
|Nov. 6th, 2020. Fluid v0.4.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various features and bugfix, such as Prefetch Dataset automatically before using it. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
|Oct. 1st, 2020. Fluid v0.3.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various features and bugfix, such as Data Access Acceleration For Persistent Volume and Hostpath mode in K8s. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
|Oct. 1st, 2020. Fluid v0.3.0 is **RELEASED**! It provides various features and bugfix, such as Data Access Acceleration For Persistent Volume and Hostpath mode in K8s. Please check the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details.|
## What is Fluid?
Fluid is an open source Kubernetes-native Distributed Dataset Orchestrator and Accelerator for data-intesive applications, such as big data and AI applications.