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VSHN is Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) member

24. Oct 2018

VSHN is Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) member

We are happy to announce that we are now an official member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Who is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)?

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was founded in 2015 to promote containers. It was announced with Kubernetes 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the foundation by Google as a seed technology. Founding members included Google, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware. In order to establish qualified representatives of the technologies governed by the CNCF, a program was announced at the inaugural CloudNativeDay in Toronto in August, 2016. Serial entrepreneur Dan Kohn, who also helped launch CII, is the project’s current executive director. (source: Wikipedia)
CNCF is an open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native computing universal and sustainable. Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. Cloud native technologies enable software developers to build great products faster.
CNCF is part of the Linux Foundation.

What does CNCF do?

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters a community around a constellation of high-quality projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture.
CNCF serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub, including Kubernetes, fostering collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors.
Please also have a look at our blog post “What is a Kubernetes distribution”.

What does Cloud Native mean?

Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.
These techniques enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation seeks to drive adoption of this paradigm by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open source, vendor-neutral projects. We democratize state-of-the-art patterns to make these innovations accessible for everyone.

Explanation of CNCF regarding the meaning of Cloud Native on Github.

VSHN Cloud Native Computing Meetups in Zurich

Among other things, VSHN supports the CNCF by organizing the Cloud Native Computing Meetups in Zurich. The dates for the next Meetups and other events can be found here.

VSHN sponsors KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona

Additionally, we support the CNCF through sponsoring the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona.

Save 20% on the ticket price

You also want to go to the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona? As a CNCF member we can offer you a 20% discount on the official ticket price – simply contact us via the contact form below and we will send you a discount code.

Markus Speth

Markus is VSHN's CEO and one of the General Managers.

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