Cloud Native Computing Foundation planning 'Global South' outreach for Kubernetes

It's not all sunshine and roses at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Linux Foundation offshoot responsible for supporting cloud native open source projects such as Kubernetes, but it's pretty close, according to executive director Dan Kohn. Speaking with Computerworld UK this week during the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in Edinburgh, he gave a potted history of the three-year-old CNCF, and the tremendous growth that it has seen during that time, particularly around Kubernetes adoption, and why China has proved such a success story. The vendor-neutral organisation had just 28 members when it began, and with the three-year anniversary looming this December, it is now up to 322 members. We had 500 people at our event three years ago and we're on track now to sell out over 7,500 in Seattle," Kohn says. "We had zero projects, and Kubernetes was the first one - we are now up to 18 graduated and incubating projects, and another nine in the sandbox.