Uber announced today at the 2018 Uber Open Summit that it was joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, making a firm commitment to using and contributing to open-source tools. Uber CTO Thuan Pham sees the Linux Foundation as a place for companies like his to nurture and develop open-source projects. “Open source technology […]
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Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF’s latest “graduated” project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) may not be a household name, but it houses some important open source projects including Kubernetes, the fast-growing container orchestration tool. Today, CNCF announced that the Prometheus monitoring and alerting tool had joined Kubernetes as the second “graduated” project in the organization’s history. The announcement was made at PromCon, the […]
View More Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF’s latest “graduated” projectFour years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long way
On June 6th, 2014 Kubernetes 1.0 was released. At the time, nobody could have predicted that 4 years later that the project would become a de facto standard for container orchestration or that the biggest tech companies in the world would be backing it. That would come later. If you think back to June 2014, […]
View More Four years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long wayHelm moves out of Kubernetes’ shadow to become stand-alone project
Helm is an open source project that enables developers to create packages of containerized apps to make installation much simpler. Up until now, it was a sub-project of Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool, but as of today it is a stand-alone project. Both Kubernetes and Helm are projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing […]
View More Helm moves out of Kubernetes’ shadow to become stand-alone projectAs Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, came out of Google several years ago and has gained traction amazingly fast. With each step in its growth, it has created opportunities for companies to develop businesses on top of the open source project. The beauty of open source is that when it works, you build a […]
View More As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wakeKubernetes stands at an important inflection point
Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the enterprise world. Kubernetes, which came out of Google just a few years ago, has gained acceptance and popularity astonishingly rapidly — and […]
View More Kubernetes stands at an important inflection pointAs Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017, it created a vibrant ecosystem
For a technology that the average person has probably never heard of, Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017 with a particular group of IT pros who are working with container technology. Kubernetes is the orchestration engine that underlies how …
View More As Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017, it created a vibrant ecosystemSalesforce is latest big tech vendor to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Salesforce announced today that it was joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source organization that manages Kubernetes, the popular open source container orchestration tool. It is the latest in a long line of big name c…
View More Salesforce is latest big tech vendor to join the Cloud Native Computing FoundationCoreOS Tectonic 1.8 makes it easy to plug external services into Kubernetes
CoreOS announced Tectonic 1.8, its latest update of the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool. It features a new open services catalog that enables DevOps personnel to plug in external services into Kubernetes with ease. As Rob Szumski,…
View More CoreOS Tectonic 1.8 makes it easy to plug external services into KubernetesThe CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standard
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that 36 members have agreed to a set of certification standards for Kubernetes, the immensely popular open source container orchestration tool. This should make it easy for users to mov…
View More The CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standardIBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data center
As companies search for ways to modernize their technology stacks, they struggle with managing the legacy software (and hardware) inside their own data centers. IBM introduced a new private cloud product today that is supposed to ease the transit…
View More IBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data centerIBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data center
As companies search for ways to modernize their technology stacks, they struggle with managing the legacy software (and hardware) inside their own data centers. IBM introduced a new private cloud product today that is supposed to ease the transit…
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