SD Times: "Kubernetes graduates from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
March 6, 2018
The9 (CNCF) has announced that Kubernetes has moved from incubation to graduate. For this to happen, projects have to demonstrate a thriving adoption, documentation, structured governance process, and a commitment to community success and inclusivity. .
GeekWire: "Graduation day: Kubernetes hits key milestone as CNCF lays out a cloud-native road map"
March 6, 2018
Kubernetes allows companies that have placed big bets on the operational efficiency of containers to manage all those containers at scale, and the cloud tech industry fell over itself to support Kubernetes in 2017. There are a few...
SDxCentral: "Vodafone finds containers drastically more efficient than VMs"
March 2, 2018
Telecommunications giant Vodafone Group has seen some significant efficiency gains by going smaller in terms of its cloud application management. Fran Heeran, head of network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) at Vodafone, said the...
Computer Business Review: "Top 5 open source projects for 2018"
February 22, 2018
Kubernetes is an open source system designed for the automation of deployment, the management of containerised applications. With the seed sewn by Google, the system is now under the watchful eye of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
Enterprise Tech: "cloud-native group promotes rules for serverless computing"
February 14, 2018
A white paper on serverless technology released this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), seeks to establish some ground rules for the nascent market. “Serverless is the natural evolution of cloud-native computing,” said Chris Aniszczyk, the...
ZDNet: "Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!"
February 14, 2018
CNCF created the WG to “explore the intersection of cloud native and serverless technology.” The first output of the group was a summary of serverless computing projects. These include Apache OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure...
SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
February 13, 2018
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted its second cloud-based storage project, Vitess, just a week after voting in its first storage project Rook. The second storage project – and CNCF’s 16th hosted project – is a database...
The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
February 9, 2018
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
Harvard Business Review: "How cloud computing is changing management"
February 9, 2018
By Quentin Hardy Google now runs about 2 billion containers a week on its in-house version of Kubernetes. Open source Kubernetes is managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which counts among its members Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM,...
InformationWeek: "10 things you need to know about Kubernetes"
February 6, 2018
Several different analysts and tech journalists have proclaimed that 2017 was the year of Kubernetes. But if you’re not involved in the day-to-day management of cloud workloads, you can be forgiven for not understanding what the fuss is...