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Nigel Poulton
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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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Community and governance

Most cloud native technologies, including Kubernetes, are open source. This gives them access to large and passionate communities that develop and support them. However, strong governance is required to provide direction and order.

To address this requirement, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was founded in 2015. It defines three maturity stages projects have to pass through on their journey to “graduation”. The stages are.

  1. Sandbox
  2. Incubating
  3. Graduated

This three-step process helps projects mature and eventually graduate as production-grade projects that can thrive and bring value to the community. Kubernetes was the first CNCF project and graduated in 2018. Since then, more than 15 other projects have graduated, and more than 100 are either in the sandbox or incubating stages.

Projects have to prove their maturity to the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) if they want to progress through the stages. Each stage has...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835080399

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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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