Five Years of Cloud Foundry Foundation

Silver membership in the Cloud Foundry Foundation has been a great benefit to Altoros, helping dozens of enterprises adopt Cloud Foundry as their cloud-native platform of choice. The partnership with the Cloud Foundry Foundation has given us a tremendous opportunity to educate customers on the benefits of open source cloud-native technologies, to impact the global adoption of Cloud Foundry, and to collaborate with other member companies to deliver value and innovation to users, operators, and other service providers of Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry is one of the open source projects that are essential to how we create and operate technology at Comcast. Participating in global communities of open source developers gives us the flexibility and agility we need to accelerate our own pace of innovation. And we believe that it’s essential to not just use open source software, but also to contribute back, both by providing code to existing projects like Cloud Foundry, and by making our own software available under open source licenses.

Dell Technologies was created to provide broad and complete infrastructure to the IT world. An extremely important part of that infrastructure is the experience it delivers to the software developer ecosystem. Our long-term investment and the investment of other major companies and the broader community to support Cloud Foundry and the Foundation has resulted in large enterprises and telecom companies around the world having a robust, modern and effective platform to build, deploy, run and manage modern code powering everything from healthcare to government outcomes. We should all be proud of the maturity of the Foundation and community and the fact that we are one of very few open source projects to become a mainstream technology.

Cloud Foundry and the community built around it has allowed me to grow a business that exploits my technical skills, whilst also giving a greater sense of purpose -- eliminating the infuriating waste that I experienced at so many organizations that were obsessed with technical details and not productivity. In growing this business I have in turn been able to employ folks from a wide variety of backgrounds, and bring them into a community safe in the knowledge that they will be treated with respect, regardless of who they are or where they have come from. The existence of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and its many members has allowed Cloud Foundry to be adopted with confidence by more organisations than if it had been the product of a single vendor. We've seen this first-hand with a number of customers.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary is a testament to the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s core mission: democratizing enterprise-grade software and making it accessible to developers through open source. I was fortunate to witness Cloud Foundry's birth at VMware, built it while at VMware, and look forward to supporting CFF as it expands interoperability with other open source projects including Kubernetes, Istio and KNative.

As a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, it is great to see how far Cloud Foundry and the Cloud Foundry Foundation have come over the past five years. Based on this evolution, Cloud Foundry as an integral part of SAP Cloud Platform has become the standard platform to build and run cloud-native business applications within SAP and for our customers and partners. I’m looking forward to seeing how the community continues to collaborate in bringing the Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes open source ecosystems together.

Over the past five years, the Cloud Foundry Foundation has steadfastly delivered on its mission to provide a high productivity experience for cloud native application developers, and to grow and expand that experience while adapting to an ever changing technology landscape. Embracing Kubernetes as a new container management layer is one excellent example of how the Foundation – working with and through its community of many diverse contributors, partners, and users – addresses the evolving needs of today’s developers. That particular example is especially important to SUSE and to our customers, and we are grateful to the Foundation for the work they’ve done to help bring these technologies together.

The engagement with the CF community has been crucial for Swisscom to understand the dynamics of new architectural principles and helped accelerate our journey using and selling Cloud Foundry. In that process we have developed and contributed multiple projects to the community, specifically around service provider requirements. Being part of the CFF and its community is not only about technology. Topics like diversity and inclusivity are values that Swisscom shares and promotes. The Foundation has played an important role in discussing the importance of these topics, as well as helped to give guidance on how companies can implement measures to grow the participation of everybody.

Cloud Foundry is bringing key benefits to its user base in terms of time-to-market, quality-of-service and cost control. The simple yet powerful user experience of Cloud Foundry has been delighting Orange application development and operation teams since their adoption in 2013. CF helps application teams focus on providing business value rather than technical plumbing. Orange is grateful to the Cloud Foundry contributors and to the overall Cloud Foundry community for sharing this awesome technology as open source and is proud to have been a Silver member of the Foundation since 2017.

Cloud Foundry is bringing key benefits to its user base in terms of time-to-market, quality-of-service and cost control. The simple yet powerful user experience of Cloud Foundry has been delighting Orange application development and operation teams since their adoption in 2013. CF helps application teams focus on providing business value rather than technical plumbing. Orange is grateful to the Cloud Foundry contributors and to the overall Cloud Foundry community for sharing this awesome technology as open source and is proud to have been a Silver member of the Foundation since 2017.

During my time working with Cloud Foundry as an engineer, lead for a PMC, and lead for the community advisory board, I’ve consistently experienced one thing and that is having a dedicated foundation for Cloud Foundry was a support system I could always depend on. I've always been two steps -- and most of the time one step -- away from someone willing to help. The Cloud Foundry Foundation has always acted fairly to all members, and being responsive and inclusive is a trait they carry in all they do.

Cloud Foundry is the first open source community I’ve actively been involved in, and over the last three years it has given me the opportunity to collaborate with many kind, inclusive and intelligent people who I may otherwise never have met. We often say in tech that the only constant is change, and whilst that may be true for the products we’re building, it is not true for the people in this community who continually and enthusiastically represent the values it stands for. As the technology landscape continues to evolve, I’m excited to be a part of this community as it adapts and goes from strength to strength.