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ServerWatch: "Containerd and rkt Now Official CNCF Projects" March 30, 2017
Dan Kohn, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), kicked off the Kubecon CloudNative EU event here today with a pair of official announcements. As expected, and reported by ServerWatch a week ago, the Docker containerd...

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InfoQ: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) adds Linkerd, gRPC, and CoreDNS to growing portfolio" March 26, 2017
Since the beginning of 2017 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an open source foundation dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native services, has added three new projects to their portfolio for hosting and stewardship, including: linkerd,...

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CIO: "Docker and Core OS plan to donate their container technologies to CNCF" March 21, 2017
Last year in December, Docker open sourced docker runtime and released it as ‘containerd’ and started shopping for an independent party to oversee and manage the project. They have found a home, and as expected, it’s none other...

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Container Journal: "CNCF to weigh two container projects" March 18, 2017
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) appears to be suffering an embarrassment of container technology riches. Docker Inc., after pledging to give up control of the lower level run-time Docker functions as promised, is proposing the CNCF will...

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SDxCentral: "CoreOS donates its rkt container technology to CNCF" March 17, 2017
At the same time that Docker offered to donate its containerd technology to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), CoreOS did the same with its competing rkt. Containerd (pronounced “container dee”) and rkt (say “rocket”) are both container...

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ServerWatch: "Docker donating containerD to Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
In December 2016, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, announced a re-focused containerd (Con-tay-ner-D) initiative, spinning out the core container runtime from the Docker Engine community project. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear where containerd would land,...

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SD Times: "Docker announces intent to donate containerd to the CNCF" March 16, 2017
Late last year Docker announced it was releasing its core container runtime as a standalone open-source project with the intent to donate the project to a foundation. Today, the company is making good on that promise with the...

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SiliconANGLE: "Docker open-sources its container core to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
Fulfilling a promise made last December, Docker Inc. on Wednesday donated containerd, a core piece of the Docker runtime engine, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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SDxCentral: "Docker donates containerd to Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
Docker, Inc. plans to donate its containerd open source project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Containerd is the core container runtime functionality – the bare-bones software – needed to create a Docker container. In December Docker...

eWeek: "Seven projects now hosted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
eWeek: "Seven projects now hosted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 10, 2017
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