Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)¶

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an organization established to oversee the ecosystem of cloud-native computing.^[400-devops__06-Kubernetes__k8s-ithelp__Day2__README.md]

Formation¶

The CNCF was formed through a collaboration between Google and the [[Linux Foundation]].^[400-devops__06-Kubernetes__k8s-ithelp__Day2__README.md] Its formation was announced alongside the release of Kubernetes v1.0 on July 21, 2015.^[400-devops__06-Kubernetes__k8s-ithelp__Day2__README.md]

Mission¶

The foundation's mission is to foster the adoption of [[Cloud native computing|cloud-native]] computing and to maintain the necessary services, support, and tools for these platforms^[400-devops__06-Kubernetes__k8s-ithelp__Day2__README.md]. It manages the ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes, a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services^[400-devops__06-Kubernetes__k8s-ithelp__Day2__README.md].

Sources¶

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