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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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Enterprise Networking Planet: "CNCF adds CoreDNS as seventh hosted project" March 4, 2017
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted the CoreDNS networking project into its project roster. CoreDNS had been trying to become a hosted CNCF project since at least October 2016, though it’s first attempt was not successful.

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The New Stack: "CNCF to host CoreDNS, boosting its cloud-native portfolio with service discovery" March 4, 2017
In the second signing just this week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundationofficially announced Thursday morning it is assuming stewardship of CoreDNS, a project born just a year ago from an idea to gut the insides of a web...

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ServerWatch: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Google gRPC project" March 2, 2017
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which itself is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, is expanding its roster of supported projects today with the addition of the gRPC project.

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TechCrunch: "Google contributes its gRPC framework to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 2, 2017
Google today announced that it is donating gRPC, its high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF is already the open-source home of the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration tool and...