On June 11, the 2023 Open Atom Global Open Source Summit officially kicked off. With the theme of "Open Source Empowerment, Inclusive Future", this summit set up an opening ceremony and summit forum, more than 20 sub-forums, and an exhibition of open source achievements and key projects. In the main forum of the summit, Sun Wenlong, chairman of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, and various units jointly proposed to launch the Cloud Native Working Committee.
Initiative to launch a cloud native working committee
The Cloud Native Working Committee will explore the innovation of cloud native technology by building an open source and open cloud native technology ecosystem, promote the development of cloud native technology in China, and empower the digital transformation of thousands of industries.
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Gather the backbone of research, industry, education and government, explore and incubate more outstanding projects in the direction of cloud native, and provide more effective support for promoting the progress and innovation of the cloud native industry chain.
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Leading by excellent cloud-native projects, promote the wide application of cloud-native technologies in all walks of life, promote the accelerated development of digital transformation, and bring more value to the industry and society.
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Committed to building an internationally influential open source project governance organization, striving to contribute more Chinese power to the development of the global cloud-native ecosystem, and promoting the global popularization and application of cloud-native technologies.
Open source is fundamental to basic software. Cloud + open source will jointly become the root of the digital world. Alibaba Cloud believes that the basic software of the digital world should be based on open source, which needs to be jointly built and shared by the entire industry. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud not only actively embraces open source, but also takes the initiative to give back and lead open source.
Two open source projects, ACK Distro and Cloud Native Application Scaffolding, have reached donation intentions
At this summit, Alibaba Cloud not only participated in the initiative to launch the Cloud Native Working Committee, but also reached a donation intention with the Foundation on two open source projects, ACK Distro and Cloud Native Application Scaffolding.
ACK Distro is a Kubernetes release version launched in a heterogeneous IaaS environment to better meet the needs of customers deploying Kubernetes clusters in data centers, so that enterprises can enjoy the same security and reliability as Alibaba Cloud Container Service ACK on their own infrastructure. enterprise-level capabilities. Its core components have experienced large-scale production and application of tens of thousands of external customers. It has industry-leading security and reliability, supports multiple chip architectures and heterogeneous hardware environments, and ensures that ACK Distro can run on diverse infrastructures. And fully tap the potential of these infrastructures, and have the advantages of safety and reliability, agility and ease of use, consistent experience, and diverse compatibility.
Through ACK Distro, enterprises can enjoy the same safe and reliable enterprise-level Kubernetes clusters as Alibaba Cloud Container Service ACK on their own infrastructure before deciding to migrate their business to the public cloud, and through Alibaba Cloud Distributed Container Cloud The platform ACK One experiences unified cloud-native capabilities. Enterprises with certain technical capabilities can also directly use ACK Distro's agile and easy-to-use cluster automation management and application packaging delivery tools to independently create cloud-native application clusters.
Cloud native application scaffolding is based on the Spring Initializr project, supports multiple engineering architectures, provides code sample fragments, richer components, and a more open ecosystem. It is committed to providing developers with a simpler and more efficient project construction experience in the current cloud-native era.
Cloud native application scaffolding is built based on Spring's open source intializr project. Compared with start.spring.io scaffolding, cloud-native application scaffolding can not only help users manage dependencies, but more importantly, help users generate tests or code snippets that can be used directly, allowing users to test after creating a project. After completion, the project can be developed based on the sample code. Therefore, building a project based on cloud-native application scaffolding only needs to be completed: creating a new project and running tests, which greatly improves the efficiency of new projects.
Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native continues to contribute to open source
At present, Alibaba Cloud's open source mainly covers the four major areas of cloud native, operating system, big data & AI, and database. It is the initiator of representative open source projects such as Apache Dubbo, Apache RocketMQ, KubeVela, and Flink, and is also the founder of Linux, MySQL, Redis, and JVM. Core contributors and maintainers of well-known open source projects such as , Kubernetes, Containerd, and Envoy. In the field of cloud native, Alibaba Cloud has been continuously investing in open source construction, promoting technology inclusiveness, and accelerating industry development.
In terms of distributed application architecture, Alibaba Cloud has open sourced a complete distributed framework and components to help developers solve the implementation problems of distributed applications.
For example, Higress, a cloud-native gateway, is open-sourced at the traffic entry level, which efficiently solves the performance, security, and stability problems of the gateway. At the service cluster level, Apache Dubbo and Spring Cloud Alibaba have been widely used to solve the gap between services and services, respectively. , intercommunication between services and cloud products; Apache RocketMQ meets high-frequency requirements such as asynchronous notification of distributed application architecture, decoupling between systems, peak shaving and valley filling, cache synchronization and real-time computing; distributed transaction provided by Seata Ability to solve the pain points of poor performance, insufficient data consistency, or high intrusion in the industry; Nacos, as a registration configuration solution with a high market share, is very likely to be used as a control surface in the future to help users improve the management and control experience of microservices; The open source of Serverless Devs provides developers with another development paradigm for building distributed applications.
Governance is not only the continuation of the architecture, but also the evolution direction of the next-generation application middleware technology. Distributed application governance solves the problem of using and managing distributed applications well. Sentinel, an open source component for current limiting and downgrading, solves the stability risk caused by external traffic. It uses traffic as an entry point to protect the stability of services from multiple dimensions such as traffic control, circuit breaker degradation, and system load protection. Originated from the set of high-availability core technologies that Ali has accumulated in full-link stress testing, online traffic control, and fault drills, ChaosBlade improves system availability by establishing a fault drill mechanism; AppActive provides a unified specification for multi-active And technology implementation, together with Sentinel and ChaosBlade, constitute a high-availability troika; OpenSergo solves the problem of microservice governance under different languages and communication protocols.
Under distributed applications are containers and resources. Container scheduling and distributed applications constitute a complete cloud-native open source technology stack.
OpenYurt , a cloud-native open source project for edge computing , uses a non-intrusive way to extend Kubernetes, bringing a lot of innovations in cloud-side collaboration, device management, lightweight, cloud-side network, etc.; distributed dataset orchestration and acceleration engine Fluid focus on how to continue Optimize the efficiency of heterogeneous resources and efficiently run AI and other heterogeneous workloads; KubeVela is committed to building an application management platform for multi-cloud and multi-cluster scenarios, supporting users to extend cloud-native applications to distributed clouds, unified management and Operate and maintain distributed cloud resources to solve the technical challenges brought about by hybrid cloud and distributed cloud; in addition, OpenKuise , an open source project focusing on cloud-native application automation, aims to solve the problems of large-scale operation and maintenance of applications on Kubernetes and large-scale website construction The cloud-native hybrid system Koordinator opens up hybrid and scheduling capabilities to promote the inclusiveness of hybrid technology.
Standards and open source accelerate cloud native, and also promote the full implementation of cloud native. Through a large amount of investment in open source, Alibaba Cloud has established more technical standards to help tens of millions of developers use more advanced cloud-native technologies, establish a very good connection between the community ecology and the cloud, and facilitate the collaborative development of enterprises and the cloud.