Developers taking advantage of the tie-up will not have to change how they code. They will just have more direct access to frameworks from both companies.
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.
Sylabs’ platform uses the Linux-based Singularity container platform, which its CEO developed in late 2015. It was initially designed for use in high-performance computing and scientific use cases.
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 only way to make the best of our 5G investments is to look to all of the things under the umbrella of virtualization," said C Spire's Craig Sparks.
"When you move to virtualization and are doing in software what you do in hardware today, the robustness of what that network will do is a paradigm shift," said
The OpenStack community is "focused on the needs of users," thus it "naturally includes many Kubernetes-focused updates," explained OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce.
T-Mobile has more than 100 people on its Cloud Foundry engineering team overseeing more than 39,000 containers, supporting more than 3,000 mission-critical applications, and 700 million daily transactions.
“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 initiative targets interoperability and data exchange between Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, SAP’s C/4HANA and S/4HANA platforms, and Adobe’s Experience Cloud.
The Kubernetes community does not view security as something tied to specific updates and instead is “something to be continually evaluated and improved.”
The vendor has attempted to downplay concerns but admitted the investigation could result in "criminal or civil penalties, including the possibility of monetary fines."