SHANGHAI, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon +
CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 -- The Cloud
Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates
open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today
announced that Ant Financial has joined the Foundation as a Gold
Member.
Founded in 2014, Ant Financial, together with its partners, now
serves over one billion users worldwide through its dedication to
using technology to provide inclusive financial services. In
joining as a Gold Member, the company will boost CNCF's roster
of Chinese companies that are eager to foster the adoption of cloud
native technology and innovation, along with Ant Financial's
related company Alibaba, which is also a CNCF member.
"Ant Financial is a good example of the surge of interest in and
adoption around cloud native technologies that we've seen in
China, with its commitment to
running Kubernetes at massive scale, creating financial solutions
that are used by millions across Asia," said Dan
Kohn, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation. "We're thrilled to have the company join CNCF, bringing
its open source expertise to our global cloud native
community."
Ant Financial is committed to contributing and opening its
technology to financial institutions and partners across the globe,
especially for use in cloud native architectures with technologies
like Kubernetes, service mesh, serverless, containers and more.
Ant Financial has contributed to CNCF projects, including
Kubernetes, and has organized several meetups in China that cover Kubernetes, cloud native, and
service mesh. The company has also contributed to Kubernetes-based
projects, like KubeFlow, and developed and open sourced several of
its own projects including Scalable Open Financial Architecture
(SOFA) and SOFAMesh, and Node Operators for Kubernetes.
"Last year, open source celebrated its 20th anniversary. For its
next ten years, the newest and most crucial application of open
source may lie in transforming financial services technologies to
make them more accessible to people around the world," said Hu Xi,
Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Ant Financial. "We at Ant
Financial, and our open source SOFAStack, are excited to be a part
of this shared technology ecosystem and we hope it will bring more
equal opportunities to organizations around the world."
Ant Financial is joining other CNCF members this week at KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China in Shanghai, where experts from Ant Financial and
their colleagues from Alibaba, Baidu, eBay, Google, JD.com,
Microsoft and many more are presenting on today's most pressing
cloud native topics.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Blog
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About CNCF End User Supporters
- Join the CNCF conversation on Slack
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to
deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its
own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to
optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing
Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of cloud native
software stacks, including Kubernetes and Prometheus. CNCF serves
as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the
industry's top developers, end users and vendors – including the
world's largest public cloud and enterprise software companies as
well as dozens of innovative startups. CNCF is part of The Linux
Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about
CNCF, please visit www.cncf.io.
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