We decided to talk about the projects (Kata Containers, Zuul, FATE and CommunityBridge) that have recently joined two large funds, and in what direction they are developing.
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How is the OpenStack Foundation doing?
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) was founded in 2012 to development of the open cloud platform OpenStack. And the organization quickly "overgrown" with its community. Today in the OpenStack Foundation more than 500 participants. Among them are telecoms, cloud providers, hardware manufacturers and even a domain name registrar.
For a long time, the OpenStack Foundation has been developing their project of the same name. But at the beginning of the year . Organization projects related to machine learning, CI/CD, edge computing and containerization.
In this regard, several new projects have joined the fund.
What kind of projects. At the Open Infrastructure Summit in May, OSF representatives about the first "newbies" - they ΠΈ .
The first project deals with the development of secure virtual machines, the performance of which is comparable to the performance of Kubernetes and Docker containers. VMs are loaded at a speed not exceeding 100 ms, so they will find application in the cloud for deploying computing resources on the fly. By the way, several large IaaS providers are already involved in the development of Kata.
The second project, Zuul, is a CI/CD system. It conducts parallel testing of modifications in the code and prevents potential failures.
Fund prospects. The OpenStack Foundation says that by changing the direction of development, they will be able to strengthen the community with talented developers. However, not everyone thinks so - at the May conference, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth (Mark Shuttleworth) expanding the fund's portfolio is a "mistake". In his opinion, the OpenStack Foundation uses resources inefficiently, which will eventually affect the quality of their main product - the OpenStack cloud platform. Whether this will be the case remains to be seen in the future.
What does the Linux Foundation do?
Π€ΠΎΠ½Π΄ promotion and standardization of Linux, as well as the development of the open source software ecosystem as a whole. The fund's portfolio is regularly updated with new projects - some of them appeared just this week.
What kind of projects. June 25th part of the Linux Foundation FATE framework. It was transferred to open source by the Chinese bank WeBank and Tencent. The purpose of the new solution is companies with the development of secure artificial intelligence systems that meet the requirements of the GDPR. It includes tools for implementing deep learning methods, and "β(in this case, an already trained model is used, adapted to solve other problems). Project source code .
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Also at the beginning of the year, the Linux Foundation communitybridge platform. It acts as a kind of bridge between developers and investors who are ready to sponsor open projects. The platform should help attract new developers to open source.
Despite this, it has already been criticized. Industry Experts that the Linux Foundation will provide only minimal financial services, and issues such as contracting and licensing are left out. Perhaps in the future the functionality of CommunityBridge will be expanded.
Fund prospects. Late last year, the Linux Foundation established two new foundations to ΠΈ . The organization plans to continue developing the open source software ecosystem.
For example, Linux Foundation and Facebook open a new fund dedicated to the osquery project. Osquery is an operating system monitoring framework used by social network developers, as well as Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber. The tool allows you to optimize the process of getting data about running processes, loaded kernel modules and network connections.
It can be expected that in the near future the Linux Foundation will once again expand its portfolio. Perhaps they are in for the fate of the successful Cloud Native Computing Foundation, from which Kubernetes and CoreDNS emerged. Or maybe they will follow in the footsteps of the Tizen fund, whose prospects remain unclear due to operating system of the same name.
Both foundations, the OpenStack Foundation and the Linux Foundation, are actively developing their own projects. We will continue to follow the most interesting of their "acquisitions". We will talk about some of them in the following articles.
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Source: habr.com