Category Archives: Chip Childers

SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

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SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project. About a year ago, SUSE also contributed the KubeCF project to the foundation, which itself allows the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime — the core of […] Continue reading SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation→

Cloud Foundry gets an updated CLI to make life easier for enterprise developers

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The Cloud Foundry Foundation, the nonprofit behind the popular open-source enterprise platform-as-a-service project, is holding its developer conference today. What’s usually a bi-annual community gathering (traditionally one in Europe and one in North America) is now a virtual event, but there’s still plenty of news from the Summit, both from the organization itself and from […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry gets an updated CLI to make life easier for enterprise developers→

Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere

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The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), the home of the Cloud Foundry open-source developer platform, today announced that its executive director Abby Kearns is stepping down from her role to pursue an executive role elsewhere. If you’ve followed the development of the CFF for a while, it won’t come as a surprise that its current CTO, […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere→

With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry double down on developer experience

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More than fifty percent of the Fortune 500 companies are now using the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service project — either directly or through vendors like Pivotal — to build, test and deploy their applications. Like so many other projects, including the likes of OpenStack, Cloud Foundry went through a bit of a transition in recent […] Continue reading With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry double down on developer experience→

Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?

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Once considered the most boring of topics, enterprise software is now getting infused with such energy that it is arguably the hottest space in tech. Continue reading Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?→

Software development analytics platform Sourced launches an enterprise edition

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Sourced, or source{d}, as the company styles its name, provides developers and IT departments with deeper analytics into their software development lifecycle. It analyzes codebases, offers data about which APIs are being used and provides general information about developer productivity and other metrics. Today, Sourced is officially launching its Enterprise Edition, which gives IT departments […] Continue reading Software development analytics platform Sourced launches an enterprise edition→

Cloud Foundry ❤ Kubernetes

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Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service project that more than half of the Fortune 500 companies use to help them build, test and deploy their applications, launched well before Kubernetes existed. Because of this, the team ended up building Diego, its own container management service. Unsurprisingly, given the popularity of Kubernetes, which has become somewhat […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry ❤ Kubernetes→