Slack gives back to K8s and CNCF community
Slack is giving back to the Kubernetes and CNCF communities with free access as part of their not for profit program. We are also thrilled that they have extended their not for profit program to include 501(c)(6) organizations...
March 1, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
Prometheus user profile: How DigitalOcean uses Prometheus
DigitalOcean – a CNCF member and devoted Prometheus user – is approaching one million registered users with more than 40,000 active teams. With workloads becoming more complex, it is focused on delivering the tools and performance that are required...
February 28, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
Prometheus user profile: Dynamically helping Weaveworks accelerate cloud native application development
Sometimes two things go so well together you wonder how you ever saw them separately, like peanut butter and chocolate coming together to make Reese’s cups. The combination of Kubernetes and Prometheus invokes the same feeling for Weaveworks, the makers...
February 24, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
The New Stack: "CNCF rescues the Orphaned RethinkDB database from Copyleft Oblivion"
An open source database left orphaned after a company bankruptcy has found a new lease on life thanks to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF has purchased the source code and copyright to the RethinkDBNoSQL database,...
February 8, 2017
ADT Mag: "After corporate failure, open source RethinkDB lives on under The Linux Foundation"
When his company that backed the open source NoSQL RethinkDB project failed commercially last October, co-founder Slava Akhmechet said: “We’re brainstorming together how to transition RethinkDB to a self-sustaining open source project … if there is a way...
February 7, 2017
SD Times: "CNCF saves RethinkDB by purchasing code and contributing it to the Linux Foundation"
CNCF paid US$25,000 to purchase the RethinkDB copyright and the assets, and then it relicensed the software under the Apache License 2.0, which is considered one of the most popular permissive software licenses, allowing anyone to use the...
February 6, 2017
TechCrunch: "The Cloud Native Compute Foundation acquires RethinkDB’s source code"
Here’s some unusual news: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that it has acquired the RethinkDB copyright and assets, including its code, and contributed it to The Linux Foundation. RethinkDB, which had raised about $12.2 million...
February 6, 2017
InfoWorld: "RethinkDB finds a new home at the Linux Foundation"
RethinkDB may have failed as a business, but it’s getting new life as part of the Linux Foundation. As announced today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has purchased the RethinkDB intellectual property assets for $25,000, which it...
February 6, 2017
Enterprise Apps Today: "Linux Foundation takes ownership of RethinkDB code"
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on Feb. 6 that it paid $25,000 to acquire all of the RethinkDB code, copyrights and assets. The CNCF then re-licensed all the code under the Apache Software License version two, which...
February 6, 2017
OStatic: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosts Linkerd open source project"
When The Linux Foundation announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, its members already represented some of the most powerful technology and open source leaders around.
January 24, 2017