{"id":16066,"date":"2015-07-20T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230731"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:53:53","slug":"centurylink-open-sources-more-cloud-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/centurylink-open-sources-more-cloud-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"CenturyLink open sources more cloud tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_220672\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/opensource.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-220672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/opensource-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CenturyLink has open sourced a batch of cloud tools\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CenturyLink has open sourced a batch of cloud tools<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CenturyLink has open sourced a number of tools aimed at improving provisioning for Chef on VMware infrastructure as well as Docker deployment, orchestration and monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Among the projects open sourced by the company include a Chef provisioning driver for vSphere, Lorry.io \u2013 a tool for creating, composing and validating Docker images, and imagelayers.io \u2013 a tool that helps improve Docker image visualisation in order to help give developers more visibility into their workloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe embrace of open-source technologies within the enterprise continues to rise, and we are proud to be huge open-source advocates and contributors at CenturyLink,&#8221; said Jared Wray, senior vice president of platforms at CenturyLink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it&#8217;s critical to be active in the open-source community, building flexible and feature-rich tools that enable new possibilities for developers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While CenturyLink\u2019s cloud platform is proprietary and developed in house Wray has repeatedly said open source technologies form an essential part of the cloud ecosystem \u2013 Wray himself was a big contributor to Cloud Foundry, the open source PaaS tool, when developing Iron Foundry.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also previously open sourced other tools, too. Last summer it punted a Docker management platform it calls Panamax into the open source world, a platform is designed to ease the development and deployment of any application sitting within a Docker environment. It has also open sourced a number of\u00a0tools designed to help developers assess the total cost of ownership of multiple cloud platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CenturyLink has open sourced a number of tools aimed at improving provisioning for Chef on VMware infrastructure as well as Docker deployment, orchestration and monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2016,1472,1871,3022,1976,337,207,692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centurylink","category-chef","category-docker","category-jared-wray","category-news-analysis","category-open-source","category-vmware","category-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066","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=16066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16067,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}