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CIO: "Docker and Core OS plan to donate their container technologies to CNCF" March 21, 2017
Last year in December, Docker open sourced docker runtime and released it as ‘containerd’ and started shopping for an independent party to oversee and manage the project. They have found a home, and as expected, it’s...

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Container Journal: "CNCF to weigh two container projects" March 18, 2017
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) appears to be suffering an embarrassment of container technology riches. Docker Inc., after pledging to give up control of the lower level run-time Docker functions as promised, is proposing the...

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SDxCentral: "CoreOS donates its rkt container technology to CNCF" March 17, 2017
At the same time that Docker offered to donate its containerd technology to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), CoreOS did the same with its competing rkt. Containerd (pronounced “container dee”) and rkt (say “rocket”) are...

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ServerWatch: "Docker donating containerD to Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
In December 2016, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, announced a re-focused containerd (Con-tay-ner-D) initiative, spinning out the core container runtime from the Docker Engine community project. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear where containerd...

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SD Times: "Docker announces intent to donate containerd to the CNCF" March 16, 2017
Late last year Docker announced it was releasing its core container runtime as a standalone open-source project with the intent to donate the project to a foundation. Today, the company is making good on that promise...

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SiliconANGLE: "Docker open-sources its container core to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
Fulfilling a promise made last December, Docker Inc. on Wednesday donated containerd, a core piece of the Docker runtime engine, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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SDxCentral: "Docker donates containerd to Cloud Native Computing Foundation" March 16, 2017
Docker, Inc. plans to donate its containerd open source project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Containerd is the core container runtime functionality – the bare-bones software – needed to create a Docker container. In...

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Enterprise Networking Planet: "CNCF adds CoreDNS as seventh hosted project" March 4, 2017
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted the CoreDNS networking project into its project roster. CoreDNS had been trying to become a hosted CNCF project since at least October 2016, though it’s first attempt was...

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The New Stack: "CNCF to host CoreDNS, boosting its cloud-native portfolio with service discovery" March 4, 2017
In the second signing just this week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundationofficially announced Thursday morning it is assuming stewardship of CoreDNS, a project born just a year ago from an idea to gut the insides of...