OpenShift collaboration initiative launches with participation from
more than 30 technology industry leaders
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced OpenShift Commons, a new open source
community initiative to collaborate and deepen engagement with
OpenShift, Red Hat's open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering,
and the open source technologies that OpenShift is built upon. OpenShift
Commons extends beyond companies with active OpenShift deployments and
embraces other open source technology communities, organizations and
ecosystem partners from a variety of disciplines that intersect with
PaaS, all committed to the open source model and PaaS innovation.
Red Hat launches OpenShift Commons with active participation from users,
contributors, operators, customers, partners, and service providers from
more than 30 global organizations, including Amadeus, AppDirect, Cisco,
Dell, Docker, Getup Cloud and Shippable.
OpenShift by Red Hat incorporates several best-of-breed open source
technologies, including OpenShift Origin, Docker, Kubernetes, Project
Atomic, and more. OpenShift Commons uniquely brings together these
communities and is designed to facilitate sharing of knowledge, feedback
and insights into best practices across the OpenShift ecosystem and
enable collaboration on the dependencies that can best advance open
source PaaS.
OpenShift Commons operates under a shared goal to move conversations
beyond code contribution and explore best practices, use cases, and
patterns that work in today's continuous delivery and agile software
environments. For companies not yet deploying OpenShift, OpenShift
Commons can help connect them to large scale delivery experts in the
context of other common open source projects, including Docker,
Kubernetes and Project Atomic. There is no Contributor License
Agreement, code contribution requirement or fees to join, just a
commitment to collaborate on the new PaaS stack.
OpenShift Commons offers several ways for participants to collaborate,
including:
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Special Interest Groups on various areas of PaaS innovation,
such as containers, OpenShift 3, and PaaS operations.
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Commons Briefings led by participant organizations and
OpenShift team members on a wide range of topics, including DevOps
best practices, containerization, PaaS operations, container
networking and storage, OpenShift on OpenStack, and big data.
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Commons mailing lists on several topics, encouraging
participants to join the conversation.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"The OpenShift user and partner ecosystems are incredibly vibrant, as
are the open source technology communities that serve as the foundation
for OpenShift and the rest of Red Hat's product line. What we heard from
customers, partners, and these communities is that they wanted a truly
open community where all of these groups can intersect and help drive
the future of PaaS innovation, and Red Hat is proud to facilitate
development of a community to foster this broad industry collaboration."
Larry Carvalho, PaaS research manager, IDC
"OpenShift already provides robust choices for developers exploring
enterprise and community PaaS. OpenShift Commons is a distinctive way of
building a strong and open network of users, partners and open source
community members that will help Red Hat add to OpenShift's maturity and
drive future PaaS innovation while supporting customer adoption."
Dietmar Fauser, vice president, Architecture, Quality & Governance,
Amadeus
"As part of the project Amadeus Cloud Services, we are collaborating
with Red Hat to build a solution to manage data-center resources as a
single compute unit, of which OpenShift is a critical component. By
participating in the OpenShift Commons, we are able to easily and
proactively communicate with the community, to jointly build a powerful
solution that can benefit all users. With both the openness of the
virtual meetings and code on GitHub, we are able to commit resources to
areas in which we have expertise, while liaising with other participants
to prioritize the common goal - a stable, secure and fully open-source
solution."
Daniel Saks, co-CEO, AppDirect
"Our cloud service commerce platform enables the distribution of cloud
services through the OpenShift marketplace and we have seen first hand
the demand for PaaS. Our collaboration with Red Hat has provided an
opportunity to respond to the market need and support Red Hat's vision
of driving high value for its OpenShift partners, developer community
and open source technology. Red Hat's OpenShift Commons initiative is a
testament to this vision and we are excited to provide our technology
and API expertise to help drive open source adoption, engagement,
integration and distribution."
Ken Owens, chief technical officer, Cisco Cloud Services
"Enterprise CIOs consistently rank DevOps enablement as one of their
highest priorities. With OpenShift Commons, Red Hat has remained true to
their open source heritage and proven that OpenShift enables open source
application lifecycle management in a powerful self-service DevOps
enablement platform. OpenShift aligns with the Cisco Intercloud vision
of application-centric enablement and portability across public and
private clouds. We're pleased to contribute to the OpenShift Commons as
it enables Cisco to collaborate directly with the entire OpenShift
ecosystem."
Matt Baker, executive director of Enterprise Strategy, Dell
"As a long-time open source contributor and participant, we at Dell are
keenly aware of the interdependencies of today's complex open source
cloud initiatives. Our joint work with Red Hat on projects like
OpenShift, Docker, Project Atomic, Kubernetes, and OpenStack stems from
the importance we place on open collaboration to ensure our customers
succeed with advanced open cloud technologies. OpenShift Commons is
ushering in a new era of open cross-ecosystem collaboration, and Dell
continues to support the peer-to-peer network, connecting these diverse
projects to customers, ISVs, service providers and cloud hosts."
Diego Goebel, CEO, Getup Cloud
"OpenShift is critical to our business and the OpenShift Commons has
given us a great opportunity to connect directly with other OpenShift
ecosystem participants. Getup has been involved with OpenShift for more
than two years, built a company with this open source project and having
the opportunity to collaborate and work with them has been a great
experience. We believe OpenShift Commons is a great opportunity to work
with other OpenShift members, a channel to get feedback and share
knowledge and experiences about the market developments and new
releases."
Avi Cavale, CEO and co-founder, Shippable
"As the first PaaS offering to embrace Docker natively, we expect Red
Hat's forthcoming OpenShift 3 Platform-as-a-Service release to interest
enterprises in 2015 for three reasons. Not only is OpenShift the easiest
path yet for enterprises to take advantage of container technology
inside their datacenters, but with their OpenShift Commons initiative,
they are providing the entire ecosystem around OpenShift with an open
peer-to-peer network to exchange and collaborate on all aspects of this
latest release. We're pleased to be active participants in the OpenShift
Commons and encourage others to join."
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