Please welcome back, John Gossman.
>> Wow, that was a great session.
I hope you're all enjoying the show so far.
Now earlier this month in California, we announced that
Microsoft is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
In my keynote, I talked about how ecosystem's such
an important part of our approach,
to open source in the cloud.
So now I'd like to introduce you to a special guest,
to talk a little more about the role,
community governments has in open source.
Abbey Kearns
is the executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and
she has agreed to answer us a few questions remotely.
Abbey, welcome to OpenDev.
>> Thank you, I'm so excited to be here.
>> You lead the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
Can you tell us a little bit
more about the Foundry's charter?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
So the Cloud Foundry Foundation is chartered, with holding and
maintaining the IP for Cloud Foundry.
But more than that, and I'd say the most important piece,
is fostering a sustainable ecosystem and
community around Cloud Foundry.
So keeping that community engaged, and
ensuring the continuity of Cloud Foundry for a very long time.
>> What does this mean for the enterprise?
What role does the foundation play, for
customers looking at the cloud for their open source workloads?
>> Well, for developers today, what we found in our research,
is that developers get excited, when they are able to
participate in open source projects within their work.
And as many of these companies are transforming and
becoming very software centric, there's an opportunity there for
the companies and organizations, to participate as never before,
in the up stream project and direction of technology.
While also allowing their development teams,
to participate more and be more active,
in open source projects and open source communities.
There's a tremendous amount of collaboration and
innovation that can occur, when all of these companies lean in,
to participate in open source.
>> We're excited to be part of the Cloud Foundry Foundation,
last year Microsoft also joined the Linux Foundation.
Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between
these multiple foundations and communities, and their role for
the governance of Open Source?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
So, small-known fact is, Cloud Foundry Foundation
is a collaborative project underneath the Linux Foundation.
So we spend quite a bit of time working and
collaborating with the Linux Foundation, but also with
the other projects that reside underneath the Linux foundation.
Projects like Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
the Open Container Initiative, or the Node.js Foundation.
We work closely with these other projects, sharing ideas and
best practices, but
also continuing to collaborate across our communities.
>> Now in addition to Cloud Foundry, there are some other
projects that are a part of the foundation.
Can you tell us a little bit about the Service Broker work?
>> Absolutely, so last year we undertook an effort
to look at the Cloud Foundry Service Broker API, which is how
services are attached and bound to applications on the platform,
and looked at opening that up to other projects and communities.
That project and that conversation,
turned into what is now known as the Open Service Broker API, and
that extends the Cloud Foundry Service Broker
across other projects and communities, like Kubernetes.
So we worked closely with the Kubernetes community, as well as
CNCF, to continue to invest in that and build that out.
So started small with Google and Pivotal, and grew into IBM and
Fujitsu and Red Hat and many others,
that really contributed to make that an amazing technology, and
continue to innovate on that to this very day.
Thanks for that explanation Abbey.
>> Finally can you tell us what the ecosystems reception is of
cloud benders like Microsoft joining this governments forum.
>> Well I am super excited about Microsoft joining
the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
I think Microsoft has been a participant in the community for
some time.
Establishing and building the CPI for Cloud Foundry on Azure,
and continues to be an active part of our community.
So I'm really enthusiastic to have Microsoft participating
in the Cloud Foundry Foundation,
and I think there's tremendous amount of potential, as we think
about users that are running their application workloads,
on Cloud Foundry and looking to public clouds.
There's an opportunity to run on Azure,
on top of Cloud Foundry, and I think there is an opportunity to
continue to grow and build out with the Service Broker work,
the work with Bosch, as well as extensibility into Azure.
>> Thank you for so much for talking to us Abby.
>> Thank you. Have a great time.
>> Okay, and with that, now back to the show.
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