REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA – Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure
company, today announced it has tripled its investment in the cloud
native community with an expanded commitment to the Cloud Native
Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL).
Innovators from throughout the CNCF community can now access up to
USD$1 Million of powerful on-demand
infrastructure resources per year across Equinix's global
footprint.
The CIL was established in 2017 by Packet (acquired by Equinix
in March 2020) with an initial
monthly commitment of free bare metal infrastructure for open
source and community projects. Since its founding, the Lab has
provided short- and long-term resources to dozens of well-known
open source community projects, including Longhorn, CoreDNS,
Fluentd, Linkerd, Prometheus and Falco. The CIL has also been used
extensively for scale testing and performance work by Red Hat
(Deploying 2048 Openshift Nodes) and Vitess (Continuous
Performance Testing), and is where the CNF Testbed and
the CNCF.ci projects live.
The growth of the cloud native community has resulted in
increased demand for the CIL. With a focus on building ecosystems
and providing interconnected digital infrastructure, Equinix Metal
provides a uniquely neutral, open environment for cloud
native development. Equinix Metal does not impose multitenancy,
virtualization or an overlay network by default, enabling users to
bring the tooling of their choice and to accurately develop for
hybrid and edge environments.
CIL participants can leverage all Equinix Metal features,
including both x86 (Intel and AMD) and Arm (Ampere)
infrastructure.
To apply for access to free resources on the CNCF CIL, visit
the GitHub page.
Highlights/Key Facts:
- With Equinix Metal, digital leaders have the option to deploy
the physical infrastructure of their choice at software speed
across Equinix's trusted platform. Together with other digital
infrastructure building blocks in the Equinix portfolio, customers
now have a broad range of physical and virtual deployment
alternatives to place infrastructure wherever they need it and
connect to everything they need to succeed.
- Equinix Metal features native integration with Equinix Fabric™,
the first real-time interconnection technology built especially for
digital infrastructure, enabling low-latency access to thousands of
networks, enterprises and clouds on Platform
Equinix®.
- Equinix Metal is available today in Equinix International
Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across four
global metros (Amsterdam, New
York, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.), and is expected to be
available in 14 global metros by early 2021.
- The CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL) provides free
access to state-of-the-art computing resources for open source
developers working to advance cloud native computing.
- The on-demand infrastructure resource is contributed and
managed by Equinix Metal as part of Equinix's commitment to cloud
native and open source communities.
- CIL currently offers access to both x86 and ARMv8 bare metal
servers for software builds, continuous integration, scale testing
and demonstrations.
- CIL also allows developers to continuously test and build out
their infrastructure with the automation and consistency of the
public cloud without needing to use virtualization. It can be
leveraged to curate server configurations for different use cases,
test new protocols without layers of complexity, and integrate with
leading cloud and developer tools. Carrier-grade features like the
ability to announce dedicated IP space, BGP/Anycast and native IPv6
support are also included.
Quotes:
- Darren Shepherd, CTO &
Co-founder, Rancher
"CNCF Infrastructure has made it
possible for the Longhorn community to collaborate on the entire CI
and release process, ensuring continued quality in the
project."
- William Morgan, CEO &
Co-founder, Buoyant
"Linkerd is the world's fastest,
lightest service mesh. Accomplishing that difficult goal is only
possible thanks to the CNCF CIL, which allows us to run rigorous
and extensive benchmarks on modern hardware with Equinix Metal with
the confidence that our results are always consistent and reliable.
We applaud Equinix's commitment to fostering the CNCF open source
community with this crucial resource."
- Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
"We are grateful to
the Equinix Metal team for their support and dedication to the
cloud native community, for continuing Packet's commitment to the
Lab after its acquisition, and now tripling the resources available
to the community. The CIL is where some of the most exciting
innovation for cloud native lives and breathes, advancing what's
possible with open source and cloud native
infrastructure."
- Zachary Smith, Managing
Director, Bare Metal, Equinix
"Everyone is invited to
apply and join other digital leaders in advancing open source and
hybrid cloud innovation on the CNCF CIL. We believe that open
source innovation on specialized, software-defined bare metal
infrastructure is the key to unlocking the potential of hybrid and
multicloud architectures. Our investment in the CNCF's CIL
demonstrates our commitment to the cloud native and open source
communities at large. We hope you join us."
Additional Resources
- CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab [CNCF CIL website]
- CNCF Community Infrastructure Cluster [CNCF CIL github]
- Equinix Metal [website]
- Equinix Metal: Bare Metal and More! [blog]
- Equinix Unveils Fully Automated and Interconnected Bare Metal
Service [press release]
- Equinix Completes Acquisition of Bare Metal Leader Packet
[press release]
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital
infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a
trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the
foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix
enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners
and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix,
they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services,
deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX data centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix products and solutions, including Equinix Metal;
unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of
companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure
to receive significant revenues from customers in recently built
out or acquired data centers; a failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT; and other risks
described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent Equinix
quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, copies of which are available upon request from
Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
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