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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was first developed by CoreOS (now owned by Red Hat, which in turn will soon be […] Continue reading The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable→

Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure

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Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover the […] Continue reading Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure→

Upbound grabs $9 M Series A to automate multi-cloud management

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Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, does a great job of managing a single cluster, but Upbound, a new Seattle-based startup wants to extend this ability to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environment. It’s a growing requirement as companies deploy ever-larger numbers of clusters and choose a multi-vendor approach to cloud infrastructure services. […] Continue reading Upbound grabs $9 M Series A to automate multi-cloud management→

The CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standard

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 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… Continue reading The CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standard→

Microsoft’s new Azure Container Instances make using containers fast and easy

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 Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them. Today it’s Microsoft’s turn to launch a new container service for its Azure cloud computing platform: Azure Container Instances (ACI). The company also announced that it is joining the Cloud Native… Read More Continue reading Microsoft’s new Azure Container Instances make using containers fast and easy→

Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project

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shipping containers, boxes The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source group that’s also the home of the popular Kubernetes container management system, today announced that it has added Linkerd as its fifth hosted project. Linkerd (pronounced linker-DEE), which was incubated at Buoyant, follows in the footsteps of other CNCF projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing and Fluentd. The… Read More Continue reading Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project→