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  • Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate Program

    Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate Program

    The Linux Foundation this week made an addition to its professional certificate program that trains IT professionals on the fundamentals of best DevOps practices.

    Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux Foundation, said the goal is to increase the number of IT professionals that have been exposed to DevOps fundamentals at a time when demand for DevOps expertise is surging. A survey published by The Linux Foundation finds 65% of organizations are currently looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills.

    The Introduction to DevOps: Practices and Tools program combines three existing online training courses into a more structured program. Those existing courses are Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering; Introduction to Jenkins and Introduction to Serverless on Kubernetes. Each course will continue to be available to audit at no cost.

    However, the $547 certificate fee provides unlimited access to the courses for one year, including all content and labs, as well as a verifiable certificate upon completion of all three courses.

    Longer-term, Seepersad said The Linux Foundation hopes to work with vendors that offer more advanced DevOps certifications. Ideally, recipients of a Linux Foundation certificate would receive some credit toward achieving other DevOps certifications or digital badges, he noted.

    Seepersad said DevOps training for IT professionals is now as much about staying relevant as it is about potentially commanding a higher salary. As IT organizations accelerate digital business transformation initiatives in response to the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a renewed sense of DevOps urgency, he noted.

    Regardless of experience levels, human resources professionals have always preferred job candidates who have attained professional certificates. The Linux Foundation survey found more than half of hiring managers (52%) said they are more likely to hire someone with a certification.

    IT professionals who have demonstrated DevOps experience can, of course, still land jobs, but the job interviews they get tend to be the result of personal contacts. Obviously, professional certificates don’t guarantee a job will be offered but they do tend increase the number of interviews extended. Naturally, there is, of course, no guarantee that anyone who can pass a certificate exam is going to ultimately have a successful career. Nevertheless, every DevOps journey needs to start with the fundamentals.

    In the meantime, there are plenty of IT professionals that previously worked in vertical industry segments that were hit especially hard by the COVID 19 pandemic. As many of those IT professionals look to migrate to vertical industry segments that are more vibrant, the need for a DevOps certificate becomes more apparent as competition for open positions during the worst economic slumps of modern times intensifies.

    The most important thing to remember is the certificate itself is only the first step toward achieving the hands-on DevOps experience that really matters.

  • Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software

    Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software

    A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software.

    Conducted by Tidelift, a provider of commercial support and maintenance for open source projects, the survey finds 44% of respondents reporting their organizations are now more likely to use more open source. The survey also finds 42% of organizations have cut their application development budgets this year, with only 10% seeing an increase.

    More than two-thirds said saving time and money is the top reason to use more open source for application development during the downturn (68%) while increasing efficiency of application development and maintenance was cited by almost half of respondents (48%).

    However, reliance on open source software comes at a cost. The top two open source challenges cited are making good decisions about which components and versions to employ and making good decisions about when to upgrade components and frameworks, at 62% each. The third top challenge is identifying security vulnerabilities (49%).

    Only a small fraction (18%) of organizations are extremely confident that their open source components are secure, up-to-date and well-maintained, and slightly fewer (17%) have a formal process for managing open source.

    Tidelift CEO Donald Fischer said the current downturn is not all that much from previous economic slumps that lead to many organizations adopting an “open source first” approach to software. The challenge is many of those organizations don’t always appreciate the total cost of employing open source software. With each new open source project that gets added to the enterprise IT portfolio, the need to rely on external support services becomes more pressing, he said.

    One thing that has changed over the years is more end user organizations are contributing to open source projects, with 83% of respondents reporting their organization contributes to open source projects. Almost half (49%) of organizations now have policies governing employee contributions to open source.

    While many organizations initially view open source software as a way to reduce costs the days when the open source community was primarily focused on providing free alternatives to commercial operating systems and databases are long over. Innovations today are most often driven by open source consortiums such as the Linux Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation and the Open Infrastructure Foundation, formerly known as the OpenStack Foundation. The rate at which software can be developed by teams of contributors working on an open source project makes it difficult for an IT vendor working on a single project to keep pace.

    There will, of course, always be some form of commercial software consumed by enterprise IT organizations. However, the percentage of open source software continues to rise with each passing year. The latest economic downturn is only accelerating a trend that was occurring long before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. The challenge now is finding the best way to manage all that open source software at a time when IT environments are also becoming more complex.

  • Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills

    Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills

    The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%).

    Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux Foundation, said the 2020 Open Source Jobs Report shows that as more workloads shift to the cloud in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of organizations looking to embrace best DevOps practices is increasing substantially. The report finds 70% of respondents are more likely to hire an IT professional with cloud computing skills.

    Based on a survey of 175 hiring managers and 900 IT professionals with open source expertise, the report also finds that despite the economic downturn brought on by the pandemic, 37% of hiring managers say they will be looking to hire more skilled IT professionals in the next six months.

    The report also finds 93% of survey respondents report difficulty finding open source talent. An overwhelming 81% of hiring managers said recruiting open source talent is a priority for 2020, with 56% looking to recruit IT professionals with open source skills in the next six months. Nearly two-thirds (63%) said their organizations have begun to support open source projects with code or other resources for the explicit purpose of recruiting individuals with open source software skills.

    More than half of hiring managers (52%) said they are more likely to hire someone with a certification, while 80% of survey respondents reported providing online training courses for employees to learn open source software. Nearly three-quarters of organizations (74%) are now offering to pay for employee certifications, according to the survey results.

    An equal percentage of hiring managers also identified Linux as the most in-demand skill they seek in new hires, while 63% also said they are looking for IT architects who can build solutions based on open source software.

    Seepersad said given the difficulty attracting talent many organizations are focusing more on training their existing staff rather than trying to recruit talent in an open market where demand for open source expertise remains high.

    The talent pool is more global as more organizations become accustomed to working with staff who are now largely working from home, which, coupled with current economic realities, is limiting how much organizations are willing to pay for IT talent. More organizations are also keen to make sure there is a cultural fit with their organization when hiring, he added.

    In general, it’s clear more IT organizations will need to focus on growing their own farm teams with open source DevOps skills rather than hoping to lure away superstars from other organizations. Rather than simply trying to fill open positions, organizations need to think more in terms of acquiring and managing talent in the same way a general manager manages a sports franchise.

  • Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community

    Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community

    Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While on its face OUC is about trademarks and usage guidelines, but make no mistake: This is about Google (and perhaps others) disagreeing with the management and direction of The Linux Foundation/Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

    Hand-in-hand with the OUC, Google also announced it was making changes in the board composition of the Istio project. A new formula based on code contributed by companies, as well as community seats selected by the community of other contributors, would determine who governs the project.

    Together, this represents a clear bifurcation of managing the code of a project and the trademarks/IP of the project. This is not a new concept in open source, but in recent years has been seldom used. In probably the most famous example of this setup, Linus Torvalds controls a company that still owns the Linux mark, which the Linux Foundation manages it for him. It is separate from the Linux project itself, though.

    The concept of the code being open and free while the project owners retaining the IP and trademarks was very much the norm in open source years ago. However, it led to many companies’ reluctance to contribute code to projects for which they had no say in the governance or usage of the marks. One of the benefits of the foundations such as CNCF, Cloud Foundry, Eclipse and others was that under their model, everyone had access to the same code base and mark usage rules. What you did on top of that was up to you. Ironically, this is the same argument we are hearing now regarding the changes to the Istio governing board and the OUC.

    Perusing the Twittersphere on this subject turns up a few other issues that may be at play here:

    • The CNCF and the Linux Foundation, by implication, may be a victim of its own success. The amount of money they have generated and their “marketing” profile seems to have turned some people off.
    • The CNCF/Linux Foundation model of allowing major corporate contributors to, in essence, buy board seats and having just a minority of “at large” seats open to the community favors the big, rich vendors over the rest of the pack.
    • New leadership at Google and Google Cloud are having second thoughts about turning over the fruits of their work to foundations that they eventually lose control over. Recent former Oracle management is being rumored behind this, though that is not confirmed. In this scenario, second doubts about Kubernetes and other Google-donated projects that are now out in the market without a Google edge are causing them to rethink their approach.
    • Companies that rely on these open source projects and historically are decent corporate members, such as IBM, have been caught in the open here as evidenced by their reaction to the Istio affair.

    What I do know is that the loser in all of this will be the community. Open source works best when there are stability and predictability over its future and governance. The broader the base of management and ownership of a project, the more willing corporate contributors are to participate and contribute. I would hate to see us return to the maze of the Cathedral and the Bazaar. I sincerely hope we are not seeing the end of the golden age of open source software.

  • The Linux Foundation Adds Free Jenkins Training Course

    The Linux Foundation Adds Free Jenkins Training Course

    The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), today launched a free introductory course to the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of what it plans will become a series of free and paid online DevOps tools courses.

    Clyde Seepersad, general manager of training at the Linux Foundation, said that while the foundation already provides access to some higher-level conceptual DevOps courses, the launch of the CDF last year provides a knowledge base from which the Linux Foundation can now provide online courses specific to DevOps tools. The CDF is an arm of The Linux Foundation.

    The Linux Foundation will also provide courses on Spinnaker, a CD platform, and other DevOps tools that, along with Jenkins, are now being developed under the auspices of the CDF, he added.

    In general, Seepersad said demand for DevOps expertise is increasing as organizations more aggressively embrace digital business transformation initiatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, IT teams are adopting a wider range of cloud-native technologies to build more flexible and resilient applications. DevOps platforms such as Jenkins make it possible for IT teams to build those applications faster.

    The challenge many organizations underestimate is the extent of changes to their internal IT culture required to make that transition, Seepersad said—too many organizations still put tools into the hands of developers without really thinking through the workflow issues between developers and IT operations teams.

    The most important thing for any organization to do, he said, is to make sure there is an open DevOps dialogue versus tiptoeing around issues that will tend to increase resistance only further.

    Ultimately, free training should help expand the overall size of the DevOps community at a time when many IT professionals are trying to increase their skills. DevOps professionals not only command higher salaries, but they are also less likely to be laid off. DevOps teams oversee the development and deployment of applications and can also programmatically manage levels of infrastructure that IT administrators relying on traditional graphical user interface (GUI) tools can’t match. That’s a critical issue when many IT organizations these days are trying to do a lot more with even less.

    There’s nothing quite like an economic crisis to focus everyone’s mind. The biggest DevOps challenge any organization typically faces is overcoming inertia. Too many IT professionals have relatively narrow skillsets that conspire to increase the total size of the IT organization. In addition to relying on increased levels of automation to reduce costs, IT leaders want to be able to scale IT environments without having to increase headcount.

    It may take a little while longer for the transition to DevOps to fully play out. However, it’s now more of a question of existential survival rather than if or even to what degree to embrace DevOps. Organizations that don’t embrace DevOps processes to ruthlessly automate the management of IT now might very well never get another chance.

  • Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies

    Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies

    The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it has been approved to become an official submitter to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

    ISO and IEC previously came together to create a unified process for submitting proposals to establish technology standards. The JDF was created to provide a consistent corporate and legal framework for launching open source projects being advanced under the auspices of The Linux Foundation.

    Mike Dolan, vice president of strategic programs at the Linux Foundation, said now that the JDF has been recognized as an official submitter by ISO and IEC, it can represent open source projects that also want to establish a formal international standard. The first open source project to be submitted by the JDF is OpenChain, which provides a specification for achieving compliance using open source software within the context of a software supply chain.

    Historically, there’s been a significant amount of tension between open source projects and standards bodies. Standards have often been defined by vendors as part of an effort to promote the adoption of a technology by promising customers a level of interoperability to avoid vendor lock-in. However, many of those standards have been so loosely defined that it wasn’t really feasible for customers to switch vendors without incurring significant cost.

    The open source community has pursued a different approach to standards. Whichever project gains the most support from developers becomes a de facto standard. That approach has benefited organizations because adherence to a defined set of application programming interfaces (APIs) makes it comparatively simple to replace one distribution of a project such as Linux or Kubernetes with another. With endorsement by organizations such as ISO and IEC, many more of those de facto standards may become actual standards. That’s significant because there are still many organizations such as government agencies that are required to acquire technologies that comply with an official standard.

    To create an official international standard the JDF committed to a process for developing specifications that are neutral to all contributors. The specification must be developed with sufficient industry participation to ensure the resulting work is representative of industrywide consensus, and the specification must be formed in accordance with standard Publicly Available Specification (PAS) editing standards so that each specification is easily understood.

    It’s too early to say how this commitment on the part of the JDF will be received among the open source community. Many of them have long given up considering some standards bodies to be relevant. However, as the divide between the open source community and standards bodies continues to narrow, the impact an open source project might have on the state of IT could become a lot more profound.

  • LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward

    LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward

    A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications.

    The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF Edge already had in place. That combined initiative will now be known as the State of the Edge project within the larger umbrella of LF Edge projects.

    State of the Edge was launched by Vapor IO, Arm, Rafay Systems, Packet by Equinix and Edge Gravity by Ericsson to provide free research reports. Arpit Joshipura, general manager for networking, edge and Internet of Things (IoT) for The Linux Foundation, said that mission will continue as part of a larger effort to advance open software-defined networking software.

    The goal is to define stacks of software and implementation blueprints that will make it simpler for both telecommunications carriers and enterprise IT organizations to implement open source networking software both at the edge and in the cloud, said Joshipura.

    That’s critical because as IoT continues to evolve it’s apparent that IT and operations technology (OT) teams will converge, he added, noting the challenge is enabling organizations to achieve that goal around using a suite of programmable open source platforms that are truly interoperable with one another.

    Existing LF Edge projects include Akraino Edge Stack, an edge computing platform; Baetyl, a cloud-based management platform; EdgeX Foundry; a framework for sharing data between devices; Fledge, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for common administrative tasks; Home Edge, a platform for deploying consumer applications; and Project EVE, a virtualization engine.

    Interest in building and deploying applications at the network edge is on the rise in anticipation of 5G wireless networking services becoming widely available. Most of the organizations building those applications will be relying on best DevOps practices to achieve that goal. Less clear for now is the degree to which traditional network operations will be rolled up into those DevOps practices. The more programmable the networking environment becomes the more control each developer theoretically can have over the network services being accessed by their applications. However, network bandwidth is often a finite resource; there most likely will need to be some governing mechanism that determines how much network bandwidth any one application would be allowed to access at any given time.

    Of course, the open source community is not the only entity eyeing the rise of edge computing. Providers of commercial networking platforms ranging from Cisco Systems to VMware are all focused on enabling edge computing applications. Historically, open source platforms such as OpenStack have been embraced by carriers. However, within enterprise IT environments open source networking platforms have not gained much traction. The open source community will need to galvanize around a set of platforms and blueprints for edge computing platforms quickly. Otherwise, many organizations will most likely turn once again to commercial networking platforms to provide services to edge computing applications.

    — Mike Vizard

  • The Linux Foundation Throws Weight Behind Secure Microkernel

    The Linux Foundation Throws Weight Behind Secure Microkernel

    The Linux Foundation announced today it will host the seL4 Foundation, the nonprofit organization established by Data61, an arm of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia that has been developing the seL4 microkernel operating system.

    Gernot Heiser, who will serve as chair of the new foundation, said the seL4 is unique in that it is mathematically proven to be secure, which provides a robust foundation on which a new generation of embedded systems can be built to drive, for example, internet of things (IoT) applications.

    Founding members of the seL4 Foundation include Data61, University of New South Wales in Sydney, HENSOLDT Cyber GmbH, Ghost Locomotion Inc., Cog Systems Inc. and DornerWorks Ltd.

    The hosting of the seL4 Foundation is sure to add more fuel to an increasingly fierce debate over the future of operating systems. Advocates of microkernels contend operating systems in terms of functions and size should be kept to an absolute minimum to both ensure security and maximize flexibility.

    Rather than loading functions into the operating system, most functions should be accessed in user space above the operating system. That approach allows organizations to take advantage of a modular architecture to swap capabilities out as they best see fit.

    However, supporters of traditional operating systems such as Linux and Windows contend organizations are better served by operating systems that run the same functions consistently. Linus Torvalds, who oversees the development of the core Linux operating system, has been especially critical of microkernel-based approaches to building operating systems.

    Between those two extremes have emerged containers, which package many of the functions once handled by the operating system into a container alongside application code to make it easier to run containers on multiple variants of operating systems. That shift has subsequently led to increased reliance on lighter-weight operating systems that only provide the basic functions required to run a container.

    Microkernel-based operating systems in time most will likely lend themselves better to many emerging use cases, especially on various emerging edge computing platforms where security is a paramount concern. The smaller the operating system, the less attack surface there is to defend. One of the issues that organizations of all sizes contend with today is the stack of software that needs to be defended is a lot larger than they may absolutely require.

    Of course, it remains to be seen how much momentum The Linux Foundation can generate for the seL4 project, which currently is supported only by a relatively small number of organizations. The degree to which organizations may back seL4 or some other similar initiative may come down to the degree to which they have grown tired of ceding control over what goes into an operating system to either Microsoft or the oligarchy that currently dominates the development of Linux. Regardless of where any organization falls on that spectrum, the one thing that is clear is given the scope of all the other open source projects supported by The Linux Foundation, it’s probable a lot more organizations are about to become a lot more involved in that debate whether they want to or not.

    — Mike Vizard

  • The Linux Foundation Announces New Open Hardware Technologies and Collaboration

    OpenPOWER to become Linux Foundation project to advance development of data-driven architectures required for hybrid cloud environments and increasingly intensive workloads.

    San Diego, CA – August 21, 2019 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will become a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, operating within The Linux Foundation’s open governance principles. The project includes IBM’s open POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and contributed Source Design Implementations required to support data-driven hardware for intensive workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI).

    OpenPOWER is the open steward for the Power Architecture and has the support of 350 members, including IBM, Google, Inspur Power Systems, Yadro, Hitachi, Wistron, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Red Hat.

    The governance model within the Linux Foundation gives software developers assurance of compatibility while developing AI and hybrid cloud native applications that take advantage of POWER’s rich feature set and open compute hardware and software ecosystems.

    As the demand rises for more and more compute-intensive workloads like AI and in-memory analytics, commodity systems vendors have struggled to improve performance with the looming predictions of the end of Moore’s Law. Central processing units (CPUs) may no longer handle the rising demands alone, and data-centric systems are built to maximize the flow of data between CPUs and attached devices for specialized workloads. By hosting OpenPOWER at The Linux Foundation, a cross-project, cross-community collaboration, it will accelerate development of hardware and software to support data-centric systems, by making it available to a growing global audience.

    “The OpenPOWER community has been doing critical work to support the increasing demands of enterprises that are using big data for AI and machine learning workloads. The move to bring these efforts together with the worldwide ecosystem of open source developers across projects at The Linux Foundation will unleash a new level of innovation by giving developers everywhere more access to the tools and technologies that will define the next generation of POWER architecture,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

    “IBM believes that open collaboration through groups like Linux Foundation is key to delivering value for our clients,” said IBM’s OpenPOWER General Manager Ken King. “With our recent Red Hat acquisition and today’s announcement, IBM becomes the only commercially-available processor vendor and POWER becomes the only architecture that can boast of a completely open system stack, from the foundation of the hardware through the software stack.”

    “The OpenPOWER Foundation was created in 2013 to promote open standards and specifications of systems designed around the IBM POWER architecture,” said Hugh Blemings, executive director, OpenPOWER Foundation. “Since then, hundreds of companies from around the world have contributed to the framework and collaborated with each other to build technology for the benefit of their customers. Collaborating with The Linux Foundation marks the next step in opening up the community further.”

    To find more information on the OpenPOWER Foundation or get involved in the project, please visit The Linux Foundation blog, OpenPOWER blog or IBM blog.

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    About the Linux Foundation

    The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

    — Veronica Haggar

  • The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation

    The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation

    The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.

    The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit conference, includes Jenkins, the open source CI/CD system, and Jenkins X, an open source CI/CD solution on Kubernetes. Both were developed by CloudBees. Netflix and Google, meanwhile, are contributing Spinnaker, an open source multi-cloud CD solution, and Google is also adding Tekton, an open source project and specification for creating CI/CD components.

    Additional projects are expected to join CDF once a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is formally named.

    Founding members of the CDF include Alauda, Alibaba, Anchore, Armory, Autodesk, Capital One, CircleCI, CloudBees, DeployHub, GitLab, Google, Huawei, JFrog, Netflix, Puppet, Red Hat, SAP and Snyk.

    Chris Aniszczyk, vice president of developer relations for The Linux Foundation, said that while a lot of progress has been made over the years regarding adoption of CI, the challenges associated with mastering CD have proven more vexing. To address that issue, the CDF will evangelize CI/CD and DevOps methodologies, define and document best practices, provide guidelines and create training materials to better enable organizations to implement CI/CD best practices.

    Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for Google Cloud, said making it possible for organizations to reuse DevOps pipelines is a high priority. Building pipelines is a significant challenge for most DevOps teams; as such, they need to be able to reuse those pipelines across as many CI/CD platforms as possible.

    Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins and CTO at CloudBees, noted the creation of interoperability standards between CI/CD platforms will go a long way toward achieving that goal.

    It’s not clear yet just how widely the CDF will be supported by the entire DevOps community. While CloudBees provides one of the most widely employed CI/CD platforms, other offerings have started gaining traction, especially among enterprise IT organizations that tend to not have a lot of internal DevOps expertise.

    On the plus side, the CDF should help spur adoption of DevOps best practices even further. Adoption of DevOps processes within most enterprise organizations tends to be uneven at best. One team may be employing DevOps extensively, while the rest of the organization continues to rely on less agile legacy processes.

    The CDF also should play a significant role in enabling organizations to embrace microservices-based applications built using containers. While Jenkins is the most widely relied-on CI/CD platform today, it is built on what is now considered in many quarters to be a legacy Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platform. In contrast, Jenkins X Background an open source CI/CD platform for building and deploying modern cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. The Linux Foundation also plays host the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which oversees the development of Kubernetes.

    It still may take years for IT organizations to fully make the transition to DevOps and cloud-native applications. But in the months ahead, it’s clear the CDF intends to function as a force multiplier in enabling organizations to achieve that goal.

    — Mike Vizard