The OpenShift 4 and RHEL 8 launches come as the company is about to be gobbled up by IBM

Also, The Rook cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes hit its 1.0 release, and a Kublr survey found that attendees at container-focused events really like containers.

The company has simplified its service offerings in an attempt to lower cost and attract more customers looking to jump into the open source game.

The carrier is looking to the OSF's Kata container project to solve multi-tenancy concerns with Kubernetes running in Airship.

The Model Designer for Mirantis Cloud Platform is basically a web site that includes drop-down menu options to simplify the application deployment process.

The latest release comes on the heels of a new security breach of the Docker database.

The distributed compute node capabilities allow users to run OpenStack in as little as one node at an edge location.

As the foundation broadens its base it is focusing on collaboration without boundaries as a way to solve open infrastructure problems faster and more efficiently.

AT&T, one of the primary contributors to Airship, has been using the project in its production network since December and says it will play a core role in its

VMware also unveiled a beta program of the next Enterprise PKS iteration that will include support for the latest Kubernetes 1.14 release.

The k3OS uses the same declarative syntax as other Kubernetes resources. This allows a user to install and upgrade the k3s platform and the k3OS at the same time.

The startup, founded by former AppDynamics founder and CEO, differentiates itself by adding a layer of AI and machine learning to its continuous delivery as-a-service platform.

Karbon is an on-premises Kubernetes platform that combines storage, networking, observability, and monitoring into Nutanix’s cloud native platform.

Priyanka Sharma, director of technical evangelism at the company, said that the expansion of Kubernetes across the ecosystem has had a profound impact on how organizations deal with DevOps.

The group is named for the Australian Logrunner, a bird that is “uniquely adapted” to forage and search, such as the group will help forage for innovation and troubleshooting

A recent Rightscale enterprise survey had GKE as the seventh most used container tool by those enterprises surveyed.

Klusterkit can work with frameworks like Cluster API and kubeadm to help enterprises use Kubernetes to run their legacy applications.

Plus, Google's Anthos launch draws new Kubernetes-focused storage updates, and Knative turns 0.5.

The OpenStack community is 'focused on the needs of users'

The latest version of Sysdig’s platform consolidates its Monitor and Secure products to better serve the needs of DevSecOps and DevOps teams.

Anthos, which is based on Kubernetes and fully managed by Google, runs on premises and supports multiple clouds including AWS and Azure.

“In less than a year, here is a new PaaS with really cool features and nearly matching what we have with Cloud Foundry,” said IBM's Michael Maximilien.

The OpenDaylight project recently released its tenth iteration, adding support for optical transport networking, WAN connectivity and routing, and cloud and edge deployments.

The Project Eirini work also calls into question the future of Cloud Foundry's Diego container management platform.