It’s been a little over a year and a half since I started to help build the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) from scratch. One of our original goals was to build a modern open source foundation focused on a new form of cloud computing called “cloud native” (essentially think of microservices that run in containers that are orchestrated) and to get all the major cloud providers at the table to adopt this form of computing.
Last week, we were happy to welcome AWS to CNCF as a member and that now brings us to having the top five cloud providers in the world at the table committing to adopting and promoting cloud native computing:
#AWS is excited to join @CloudNativeFdn as Platinum member, @adrianco will be on the Board https://t.co/jfDiG7FCZ4 https://t.co/aIAFfBAUz1 pic.twitter.com/VScD751VP1
— AWS Open Source (@AWSOpen) August 9, 2017
First off, it’s always great to see an original vision of when we started CNCF come into reality, you can read more from Adrian Cockcroft why they decided to join CNCF and support cloud native computing.
Second, I think it’s great to see a company like Amazon expanding its open source efforts as they where one of the last large companies without a formal open source program. They recently started an official open source program office @AWSOpen under the leadership of Adrian Cockroft and Zaheda Borat and it’s been great to have them participate in the TODO Group too!
Anyways, always great to see large and impactful companies increase their commitment to open source. Now it’s interesting to think what large companies out there don’t have an official open source program or strategy (I’ll leave this as an exercise to the reader).