Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with Dan Kohn

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was formed to create a vendor-neutral home for Kubernetes. Now with over 30 projects, we kick off 2019 by talking to Dan Kohn, 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
• Security notices:
  • Dashboard custom certificates
  • API server proxying

Links from the interview

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • Dan Kohn
• Linux Foundation
  • Jim Zemlin
  • Other projects: Lets Encrypt, Hyperledger, Node.js Foundation
  • Fellows: Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman
  • CNCF members and Governing Board
• Getting people on board with Open Source
  • Crossing the Chasm (a book by Geoffrey A. Moore)
  • Why Software Is Eating The World (an article by Marc Andreessen)
• CNCF projects
  • Project list
  • Interactive landscape and trail map
  • Licenses
    • Why Dan (& the CNCF) Recommnds Apache 2.0
    • "Shared source": Redis and the Commons Clause; MongoDB and the Server Side Public Licence
  • What would Dan like to see in the CNCF?
    • Istio and Knative
  • Technical Oversight Committee Principles say it's OK for overlapping projects
• Certification
  • For people: Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer; curriculum
  • For distributions: Software Conformance
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
  • China
    • Based on the End User Conference in 2017
    • Co-hosted with the Open Source Summit in 2019
  • US
    • 27 co-located events
• Dan Kohn on Twitter