Cloud Foundry
Foundation, home to open source projects simplifying the developer
experience, today announced that KubeCF
has become an incubating project under the Foundation and has released version
1.0.
KubeCF is an open source distribution of Cloud
Foundry Application Runtime (CFAR) designed to run on top of Kubernetes.
The distribution works with the cf-operator from Project
Quarks to deploy and manage releases built from cf-deployment, and can be
configured to use Kubernetes as the underlying container scheduler using the
work of Project
Eirini.
“We are very happy to have the KubeCF project in incubation with the Cloud Foundry
Foundation and pleased with the support and feedback we received from the
Runtime PMC and Cloud Foundry Kubernetes SIG,” said Thomas Di Giacomo,
president of Engineering and Innovation at SUSE. “Now under community
governance, the KubeCF project can be more readily advanced by the broad
community of Cloud Foundry contributors, ensuring that this important
technology evolves in ways most useful to all.”
KubeCF was contributed to the Foundation by SUSE, which has already productised
and commercialised it. Following conversations among SAP, IBM, and SUSE at
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2017, the first upstream “Containerizing Cloud
Foundry” initiative was started. This resulted in the creation of Eirini for
scheduling user apps on Kubernetes, and Quarks to deploy and manage BOSH
releases on Kubernetes.
“Following the drafting of the initiative, we noticed one key component was
missing; distribution of CFAR for Kubernetes,” said Chip Childers, CTO of Cloud
Foundry Foundation. “With KubeCF, we are able to fill the gap by building a
repository that brings all of the components of CFAR together into a
distribution. We are thrilled to have KubeCF join as an incubation project and
to continue a productive relationship in the future.”
Open source users who want Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes now can now get that
from KubeCF. It provides the full CFAR experience, passes acceptance tests, and
will soon be backing at least two certified commercial releases. Get started
with KubeCF here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/kubecf/releases
