Google Transfers Kubernetes Operational Control to CNCF

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Google is adjusting operational ties with the Kubernetes project that will further the container orchestration platform’s ability to mature in the open source ecosystem under the watch of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The announcement was made this morning at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Tim Hockin, principal software engineer at Google Cloud and co-lead of the Kubernetes project, said the company has begun the process of moving the day-to-day operations for Kubernetes to CNCF. This includes operational tasks for the development of Kubernetes such as testing and builds and maintenance and operations for the distribution of Kubernetes. Kubernetes was the first pet project taken under the wing of CNCF when it formed in mid-2015. The container orchestration platform was donated by Google to CNCF, having emerged from Google’s Borg project. It has since been hosted on and will continue to be hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).