{"id":15942,"date":"2015-07-16T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230301"},"modified":"2015-07-16T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:06:34","slug":"google-joins-openstack-to-build-bridges-between-public-and-private-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-joins-openstack-to-build-bridges-between-public-and-private-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Google joins OpenStack to build bridges between public and private clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

Google has joined the OpenStack Foundation, a big sign of support for the open source software organisation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Google has officially signed up to sponsor the OpenStack Foundation, the first of the big three \u2013 Google, Microsoft and AWS \u2013 to formally throw its weight behind the open source cloud orchestration software. Analysts believe the move will improve support for Linux containers across public and private cloud environments.<\/p>\n

Google has already set to work integrating Kubernetes with OpenStack with pure-play OpenStack software vendor Mirantis, a move the company said would help bolster its hybrid cloud capabilities.<\/p>\n

While the company has had some engineers partnering with the Foundation on Magnum and Murano, container-focused toolsets baked into the open source platform, Google said it plans to significantly bolster the engineering resource it devotes to getting Linux containers \u2013 and particularly its open source scheduling and deployment platform Kubernetes \u2013 integrated with OpenStack.<\/p>\n

The formal sign of support from such a big incumbent in the cloud space is a big win for OpenStack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited about becoming active participants in the OpenStack community,\u201d said Craig McLuckie, product manager at Google. \u201cWe look forward to sharing what we\u2019ve learned and hearing how OpenStack users are thinking about containers and other technologies to support cloud-native apps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation said: \u201cOpenStack is a platform that frees users to run proven technologies like VMs as well as new technologies like containers. With Google committing unequaled container and container management engineering expertise to our community, the deployment of containers via proven orchestration engines like Kubernetes will accelerate rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Google has a long history of open sourcing some of the tools it uses to stand up its own cloud and digital services like search it hasn\u2019t always participated with many open source forums per se.<\/p>\n

In a sense Kubernetes marked a departure from its previous trajectory, and as Ovum\u2019s lead software analyst Laurent Lachal explained to BCN, it seems to be focusing on containers as a means of building a bridge between private and public clouds.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle knows that it needs to play nice with cloud platforms like OpenStack and VMware, two platforms that are primarily private cloud-centric, if it wants to get workloads onto its public cloud,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoining OpenStack is exactly that \u2013 a means to building a bridge between private and public clouds, and supporting containers within the context of OpenStack may be both a means of doing that and generating consensus around how best to support containers in OpenStack, something that could also work in its favour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s also a big need for that kind of consensus. Currently, everyone wants to join the containers initiatives in the open source project but there isn\u2019t much backing for one particular way of delivering the container-related features users need,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has officially signed up to sponsor the OpenStack Foundation, the first of the big three – Google, Microsoft and AWS – to formally throw its weight behind the open source cloud orchestration software. Analysts believe the move will improve support for Linux containers across public and private cloud environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2999,344,1872,2036,2595,1976,337,67,2037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craig-mcluckie","category-google","category-kubernetes","category-laurent-lachal","category-mark-collier","category-news-analysis","category-open-source","category-openstack","category-ovum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15943,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}