The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Interview)

Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and outs of Dan’s role to the foundation, how they make money to sustain things, membership, the support they give to open source projects, the home they’ve given to Kubernetes, Prometheus and many other projects that have become the de facto projects to build cloud native applications on.

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Featuring:

• Dan Kohn – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

We’ll be at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon so if you’re going to be there make sure you’re on the lookout for a Changelog tee and say hi.

• The Future of RethinkDB (on Hacker News) with commentary from Dan
• The Linux Foundation
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Hosted Projects
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Membership
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Members
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - End Users
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (“CNCF”) Charter
• Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
• Kubernetes Training
• edX - Introduction to Kubernetes
• The Changelog #215: Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative with David A. Wheeler
• The Changelog #250: The Backstory of Kubernetes with Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha
• Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go - shared on Hacker News by dankohn1

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