Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with Dan Kohn
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/) was formed to create a vendor-neutral home for Kubernetes. Now with over 30 projects, we kick off 2019 by talking to Dan Kohn (https://www.dankohn.com/) , Executive Director of the CNCF, and hearing his views on projects, licenses and conferences.
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News of the week
• Platform9’s KubeCon survey (https://platform9.com/blog/enterprise-kubernetes-5-insights-from-kubecon-2018/)
• Security notices:
• Dashboard custom certificates (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/kubernetes-security-announce/0K5Yjy8wMjs/yuZWq-eqAwAJ)
• API server proxying (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-security-announce/tyd-MVR-tY4/tyREP9-qAwAJ)
Links from the interview
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/)
• Dan Kohn (https://www.dankohn.com/)
• Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/)
• Jim Zemlin (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership/)
• Other projects: Lets Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) , Hyperledger (https://www.hyperledger.org/) , Node.js Foundation (https://foundation.nodejs.org/)
• Fellows: Linus Torvalds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds) and Greg Kroah-Hartman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman)
• CNCF members (https://www.cncf.io/about/members/) and Governing Board (https://www.cncf.io/people/governing-board/)
• Getting people on board with Open Source
• Crossing the Chasm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm) (a book by Geoffrey A. Moore)
• Why Software Is Eating The World (https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/) (an article by Marc Andreessen)
• CNCF projects
• Project list (https://www.cncf.io/projects/)
• Interactive landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io/) and trail map (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/trailmap/master/CNCF_TrailMap_latest.png)
• Licenses
• Why Dan (& the CNCF) Recommnds Apache 2.0 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2/)
• “Shared source”: Redis and the Commons Clause (https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-licensing-war-commons-clause/) ; MongoDB and the Server Side Public Licence (https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-now-released-under-the-server-side-public-license)
• What would Dan like to see in the CNCF?
• Istio (https://istio.io/) and Knative (https://knative.dev)
• Technical Oversight Committee Principles (https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/PRINCIPLES.md) say it’s OK for overlapping projects
• Certification
• For people: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (https://www.cncf.io/certification/cka/) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (https://www.cncf.io/certification/ckad/) ; curriculum (https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/)
• For distributions: Software Conformance (https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/)
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
• China
• Based on the End User Conference in 2017 (http://keuc.k8smeetup.com/)
• Co-hosted with the Open Source Summit in 2019 (https://www.lfasiallc.com/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-china-2019/)
• US
• 27 co-located events (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/co-located-events/)
• Dan Kohn (https://twitter.com/dankohn1) on Twitter
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