Google hands over Kubernetes management and promises to fund $9 million

Google Cloud announced yesterday that it is handing over control of Kubernetes’ cloud resources to the CNCF community, which will then be responsible for project operations and management. Google also promised to provide value in three years of about $ 9 million credit for the Google Cloud Platform migration project funding to pay for the development and dissemination of relevant and Kubernetes infrastructure costs, including running continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI / CD) Pipeline and provide container image download repository, necessary bandwidth and storage capacity.

Kubernetes is Google 2014 founded and open container layout tool, and contribute to the newly established CNCF in 2015. With rapid development and adoption, Kubernetes became the first project to graduate from CNCF in March of this year. As of July, Kubernetes has reached 134 million container image downloads on Google Cloud.

For Google’s transition and funding, CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn stated:

“Google’s significant financial donation to the Kubernetes community will help ensure that the project’s constant pace of innovation and broad adoption continue unabated. We’re thrilled to see Google Cloud transfer management of the Kubernetes testing and infrastructure projects into contributors’ hands—making the project not just open source, but openly managed, by an open community.”