[Kubernetes] ended up becoming a massive phenomenon among software developers, with tens of thousands of code contributions from programmers across the planet, and users at companies like Ticketmaster, Spotify, Pizza Hut, Lyft, the New York Times, eBay, and even “Pokémon Go” developer Niantic. In fact, it’s used by at least 54% of the Fortune 500.
According to analyst Gartner, the market has chosen Kubernetes as the de facto container orchestration technology, and at the recent KubeCon conference in Shanghai, several businesses joined the user community for Kubernetes.
We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes. Dan updated us on the growth KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the state of Cloud Native and where innovation is happening, serverless being on the rise, and Kubernetes dominating the enterprise.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is now hosting an open source distributed transactional key-value database optimized for stateful applications running in a container.
The world of IT is changing at breakneck speed, and much of it is down to just one technology – application containers, and Kubernetes in particular. Designed for cloud computing, this approach has given birth to an entire software ecosystem under the banner of ‘cloud native,’ including projects like Prometheus, Fluentd, rkt, Linkerd and many others. But what exactly is cloud native? And is it going to automate data center jobs out of existence?
Kubernetes, the open source container management platform has become the anchor for cloud-native technologies. Since the time it was handed over to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the project has received unprecedented interest from the industry. There is not a single public cloud environment that doesn’t offer a managed Kubernetes service.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) bi-annual survey released during this week’s Open Source Summit in Vancouver also reaffirms the steady enterprise transition to growing suite of indigenous cloud tools ranging from serverless technology to application container orchestrators.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which oversees various open source projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus, on Wednesday saidGoogle has begun shifting the ownership of Kubernetes cloud resources – the Google Cloud Platform accounts – to members of the CNCF community.
Google, which created the Kubernetes open source software project for automating management of large numbers of applications running in containers, is officially handing off the project to an industry organization called the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
While it started as a Google project, Kubernetes is now one of the world’s most popular open source projects. The CNCF last year, to help shepherd the growth of the project, created a set of certification standards for Kubernetes, getting major CNCF members such as Microsoft, Oracle, Google and IBM to agree to them.