The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, created to promote and develop technologies like Kubernetes and core components of the container ecosystem spawned by Docker, welcomed Amazon Web Services into its fold this week.Amazon comes on board as a top-level ("platinum") member.
According to Amazon'snbsp;Adrian Cockcroft, now a member of the CNCF's governing board, containers are the big reason Amazon's getting involved -- at least, initially.Amazon already has a major investment in container tech.
Itsnbsp;ECSnbsp;service provides managed containers that run via machine images deployed on clusters of EC2 instances.
Its older Elastic Beanstalk service can deploy and manage Docker containers, although they're scaled and managed via Amazon's own internal stack, not the CNCF's Kubernetes.
And users can always manually deploy Docker Enterprise Edition, a container-centric Linux such as CoreOS, or a Kubernetes cluster on EC2.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
According to Amazon'snbsp;Adrian Cockcroft, now a member of the CNCF's governing board, containers are the big reason Amazon's getting involved -- at least, initially.Amazon already has a major investment in container tech.
Itsnbsp;ECSnbsp;service provides managed containers that run via machine images deployed on clusters of EC2 instances.
Its older Elastic Beanstalk service can deploy and manage Docker containers, although they're scaled and managed via Amazon's own internal stack, not the CNCF's Kubernetes.
And users can always manually deploy Docker Enterprise Edition, a container-centric Linux such as CoreOS, or a Kubernetes cluster on EC2.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here