VMware Open Source Blog

KubeCon EU took Copenhagen by storm last week, and VMware was on-hand to display many of our open source projects and hold a week-long series of open source office hours that attracted many KubeCon attendees. Of particular note, VMware Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel delivered a keynote address and sat down for an in-depth interview with Read more...

As the founder of OpenFaaS and a freshly minted member of VMware’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC), Alex Ellis was the perfect candidate to discuss all things serverless and open source at this year’s Cisco DevNet Create 2018. This two-day, hands-on developer conference, now in its second year and held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain Read more...

Today, Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source projects next to the Linux kernel, with over 130 commits each week—and that’s just to the main repository. It was recently announced that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted for Kubernetes to become CNCF’s first project to graduate: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/06/kubernetes-first-cncf-project-graduate/ One can compare Kubernetes to the Read more...

By Rostislav M. Georgiev, open source engineer, VMware Containers and their use in modern day high-performance cloud-native applications have generated a lot of hype in the past few years. Yet they came to the scene relatively late, especially when compared to virtual machines (VMs). Their appearance in the cloud was so impactful and so natural, that Read more...

VMware is happy to welcome Alex Ellis to the VMware Open Source Technology Center (OSTC). Alex, the creator and lead of the OpenFaaS project, joins VMware’s growing team of open source experts to continue his defining work in Functions as a Service (FaaS). Alex’s résumé contains much more than just his technical contributions to OpenFaaS. He’s Read more...