 Airship is a collection of loosely coupled but interoperable open-source tools that declaratively automates cloud provisioning. Airship makes operating open infrastructure simple, repeatable and resilient. A collaboration of more than 20 companies, the project is well on its way to delivering its next major version, Airship 2.0. The primary motivation for 2.0 is the continued evolution of the control plane. And by aligning with maturing CNCF projects, we are making it more capable, secure, resilient and simpler to operate. Airship 1.0 created purpose-built services for lifecycle management because many of the required capabilities didn't exist in any open-source projects. The primary CNCF project, Kubernetes, has introduced a new community-adopted framework for managing services as native objects. Airship 2.0 is moving its purpose-built service logic into these native objects that will live in Kubernetes. Airship 2.0 will also introduce a new intelligent client and user interface that will interact with these native objects. The Sevolve control plane will further reduce the impact of upgrades, improve the operator experience and align with the overall CNCF direction. Airship 1.0 also had to create supporting software packages for capabilities that didn't exist yet in any upstream project. CNCF is also catching up in this area with a portfolio of projects that aligns closely with airships, requirements and roadmap. This will help expand the use cases and operational capabilities as well as features supported in the next generation of Airship. Another benefit of Airship 2.0's smaller runtime footprint is that it is uniquely positioned to manage network functions at the edge. This is possible because only the state of the control plane is stored natively in Kubernetes, whereas the service objects run when needed. In addition to private cloud, Airship 2.0 is positioned to manage network functions at more deployment targets, such as third-party clouds. This is possible because Airship 2.0 is integrating with the CNCF project cluster API, which already supports infrastructure use cases from bare metal to third-party cloud. Airship 2.0 is a single tool capable of managing network functions in private or third-party clouds. By continuing to introduce and leverage CNCF and other Kubernetes-focused projects, we will ensure that Airship evolves with them to deliver the best-in-class lifecycle management framework for network function infrastructure and complex system deployments.