Red Hat, Inc., a global provider of open source solutions, has announced OpenShift Commons, a new open source community initiative to collaborate and deepen engagement with OpenShift, Red Hat’s open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, and the open source technologies that OpenShift is built upon.
OpenShift Commons extends beyond companies with active OpenShift deployments and embraces other open source technology communities, organizations and ecosystem partners from a variety of disciplines that intersect with PaaS, all committed to the open source model and PaaS innovation.
Red Hat launches OpenShift Commons with active participation from users, contributors, operators, customers, partners, and service providers from more than 30 global organizations, including Amadeus, AppDirect, Cisco, Dell, Docker, Getup Cloud and Shippable.
OpenShift by Red Hat incorporates several best-of-breed open source technologies, including OpenShift Origin, Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic, and more. OpenShift Commons uniquely brings together these communities and is designed to facilitate sharing of knowledge, feedback and insights into best practices across the OpenShift ecosystem and enable collaboration on the dependencies that can best advance open source PaaS.
OpenShift Commons operates under a shared goal to move conversations beyond code contribution and explore best practices, use cases, and patterns that work in today’s continuous delivery and agile software environments. For companies not yet deploying OpenShift, OpenShift Commons can help connect them to large scale delivery experts in the context of other common open source projects, including Docker, Kubernetes and Project Atomic. There is no Contributor License Agreement, code contribution requirement or fees to join, just a commitment to collaborate on the new PaaS stack.
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, says, “The OpenShift user and partner ecosystems are incredibly vibrant, as are the open source technology communities that serve as the foundation for OpenShift and the rest of Red Hat’s product line. What we heard from customers, partners, and these communities is that they wanted a truly open community where all of these groups can intersect and help drive the future of PaaS innovation, and Red Hat is proud to facilitate development of a community to foster this broad industry collaboration.”
Ken Owens, chief technical officer, Cisco Cloud Services, explained, “Enterprise CIOs consistently rank DevOps enablement as one of their highest priorities. With OpenShift Commons, Red Hat has remained true to their open source heritage and proven that OpenShift enables open source application lifecycle management in a powerful self-service DevOps enablement platform. OpenShift aligns with the Cisco Intercloud vision of application-centric enablement and portability across public and private clouds. We’re pleased to contribute to the OpenShift Commons as it enables Cisco to collaborate directly with the entire OpenShift ecosystem.”
Matt Baker, executive director of Enterprise Strategy, Dell, said, “As a long-time open source contributor and participant, we at Dell are keenly aware of the interdependencies of today’s complex open source cloud initiatives. Our joint work with Red Hat on projects like OpenShift, Docker, Project Atomic, Kubernetes, and OpenStack stems from the importance we place on open collaboration to ensure our customers succeed with advanced open cloud technologies. OpenShift Commons is ushering in a new era of open cross-ecosystem collaboration, and Dell continues to support the peer-to-peer network, connecting these diverse projects to customers, ISVs, service providers and cloud hosts.”
