The article is shared from Huawei Cloud Community "CNCF's first cloud-native multi-cloud container orchestration project Karmada has officially been promoted to incubation]", author: Cloud Container Big future.
Recently, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to approve Karmada as an official incubation project. Karmada is a cloud computing open source technology donated by Huawei Cloud and is the industry's first multi-cloud, multi-cluster container orchestration project. The official promotion to the CNCF incubation level also means that Karmada's technology ecosystem has been widely recognized by the global industry and has entered a new stage of maturity in the field of distributed cloud native technology.
As CNCF's first cross-cloud and cross-cluster container orchestration engine, Karmada was jointly launched by eight companies including Huawei Cloud, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Xiaohongshu, and China FAW. The project was officially open sourced in April 2021, and joined CNCF in September 2021 to become a sandbox project. Karmada’s contributors come from all over the world, covering more than 60 organizations in 22 countries and regions around the world, including Huawei, DaoCloud, Zhejiang University, Didi, Tencent, Xiaohongshu, Sina, Intel, IBM, Red Hat, Comcast and other companies . So far, the project has received more than 3,600 stars on GitHub, an open source software project hosting platform.
Huawei Cloud CTO Zhang Yuxin said that Huawei Cloud has long been committed to the construction of cloud native technology, industry and ecosystem. Karmada originates from the community and Huawei Cloud's deep accumulation in the field of multi-cloud management, providing enterprises with a smooth evolution solution from a single cluster to a distributed cloud architecture. "As one of the initiators and major contributors of the Karmada project, Huawei Cloud will continue to work with CNCF and the community to unleash ubiquitous cloud native value."
“Karmada has received widespread attention and support since it was open source, and has helped more and more end users efficiently manage Kubernetes clusters and distributed applications in multi-cloud environments.”Karmada Community founder and maintainer Wang Zefeng said, "We are very happy that Karmada has reached CNCF incubation status and will continue to work on developing it into a more complete international community."
Nikhita Raghunath, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) said that Karmada fills the gaps in scheduling and orchestration in Kubernetes multi-cloud and multi-cluster environments and can provide distributed organizations with better good performance and lower costs. "Since joining the CNCF Sandbox, the project team has worked tirelessly to add new features and functionality to integrate into the broader cloud native ecosystem. We look forward to seeing the project's continued growth."
At present, the project has been implemented in more than 20 enterprises and units, including Huawei Cloud, Xingye Digital Finance, China Mobile Cloud, China Unicom, Ctrip, vivo, Hurricane Engine, VIPKID, Youzan, NetEase, Kuaishou, and Zhijiang Laboratory. Open source innovation promotes the development of the cloud native industry, and the global ecosystem of projects develops rapidly. Karmada's innovative advantages have also been highly recognized by corporate users.
"Karmada enables us to provide Zendesk's internal engineering teams with a multi-cluster architecture while maintaining a single point of access for authentication, configuration delivery and service management."Zendesk Compute Team Engineering Manager Adam Minasian said, "We are excited to continue working with the Karmada project as it enters the CNCF incubation phase."
"Karmada provides convenient infrastructure for enterprises to implement multi-cloud strategies. It is based on a neutral and vendor-neutral design, allowing users to flexibly access and switch to multi-cloud and hybrid clouds at minimal cost; at the same time, it provides Customers benefit from cross-cluster orchestration of microservices, cross-cluster elastic scaling, multi-cloud access, disaster recovery and other scenarios."Yan Kai, co-founder and chief architect of DaoCloudDaoCloud co-founder and chief architect a> means.
Based on the consideration of sustainable supply and the need for rapid business expansion, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud have become Ctrip Group’s technology choice. "Karmada, with its standard K8s API compatibility, separation of concerns principle, and active community, helps us build a hybrid multi-cloud control plane, reducing architecture migration costs and management complexity of heterogeneous environments." Le Honghui, Director of Ctrip Group’s Container and Hybrid Cloud Team said that Ctrip’s fault isolation architecture and multi-cluster HPA implemented by Karmada also helped the company successfully cope with the strong growth of the tourism industry. recovery.
"Karmada simplifies the delivery and management of clusters and applications in multi-cluster environments, enabling resource coordination across clusters to enhance application availability and resiliency. It ensures stable, efficient, and controllable application deployment and updates."Shopee expert engineer Li He said.
"Karmada, as an open source multi-cloud container orchestration platform, provides flexible and reliable cross-platform, cross-region, and cross-cloud resource management for cloud-native middleware, and provides the cornerstone for high availability of middleware in the same city and across computer rooms. ." NetEase senior development engineer Meng Xiangyong said.
Currently, the Karmada community has updated a total of 67 versions. After being promoted to the CNCF incubation project, the project has further planned community development roadmaps and is actively adding new functions and features, such as multi-cluster security, large-scale scenario applications, multi-cluster observability, multi-cluster application distribution, ecological integration development, etc.
As the only founding member and platinum member of CNCF Asia, Huawei Cloud has ranked first in Asia for many years in terms of CNCF contribution, code contribution to the Kubernetes community, and Istio community. It has contributed the industry's first cloud-native edge computing project KubeEdge to CNCF. A number of heavyweight cloud native open source projects such as Volcano, a cloud native batch computing power project, and continue to open source innovative projects such as Kurator, Kappital, and Kuasar, and develop together with the global cloud native community. As the industry's first distributed cloud-native service, Huawei Cloud UCS builds a new application computing power supply model based on the Karmada project, covering central Regions, dedicated Regions, edge clouds, customer data centers, and third-party cloud scenarios, providing ubiquitous computing power. Cloud native capabilities provide cloud native services with a consistent experience across clouds and regions.
Karmada has officially been promoted to the CNCF incubation project, further demonstrating Huawei Cloud's continued practice and embrace of open source, the concept of co-creating advanced technologies with global developers, and continuing to help the development of the open source innovation ecosystem on the cloud. In the future, Karmada will continue to explore technological innovation in the field of cloud native multi-cloud and multi-cluster, integrating multi-cloud solutions based on Karmada into the broader cloud native technology ecosystem.
Karmada官网：Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration | karmada
Point location:https://github.com/karmada-io/karmada
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