Developers Across Europe Descend on The Hague for 2019 Cloud Foundry Europe Summit
Foundation and members launch upgrades to developer productivity, including adoption of Project Eirini across certified providers
Sep 11, 2019, 03:00 ET
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to open source projects helping build the future of cloud applications, opened its 2019 European Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague, The Netherlands today.
In addition to announcements from the Foundation, member companies in the ecosystem including Altoros, anynines, Aqua Security, Continuous Delivery Alliance, evoila, Pivotal, Stark & Wayne, and Swisscom had news to share. The Summit, which takes place today and tomorrow, is supported by Diamond sponsor Pivotal and Platinum sponsor VMware.
"Cloud Foundry is committed to ensuring developers can focus on what matters to them: building applications and writing code. Summit puts developers front and center to share their stories with our European community," said Abby Kearns, executive director, Cloud Foundry Foundation. "Nearly 40 percent of our users report that application development takes less than one day with Cloud Foundry. Developers from across Europe are here to meet with and learn from their peers to maximize their productivity."
Widespread adoption of Cloud Foundry continues to increase, with broad deployment within user organizations nearly doubling from 24 percent in 2017 to 45 percent in 2019, according to new findings in the 2019 Cloud Foundry User Survey. Download the report here.
The Foundation also revealed that Project Eirini, announced at the 2018 Europe Summit, is already being supported by all Certified Providers of Cloud Foundry less than one year after its launch, with multiple technical previews in the market. This momentum, underscored by findings from the Cloud Foundry User Survey, further indicates that Cloud Foundry is the de facto developer experience for Kubernetes users in the enterprise.
The Foundation also announced updates to key Cloud Foundry projects, including Stratos and Project Quarks. Project Stratos, the open source user interface for the Cloud Foundry community led by the team at SUSE, has officially graduated from an incubating project to a core Cloud Foundry project. The Project Quarks team has announced the project is entering beta and will be available for early trials by Cloud Foundry users.
Finally, the Cloud Foundry Foundation recently announced the rollout of its updated Cloud Foundry Certified Developer exam. Version 2.0 of the exam is now generally available and can be completed online. The new exam content reflects the latest features of the Cloud Foundry platform and is tailored to the developers who use and build on Cloud Foundry every day.
News from Certified Providers includes:
Ecosystem news includes:
- announced the public release of new runtime protection capabilities for securing Pivotal Application Service (PAS) applications in runtime. In addition to integrating into the PCF pipeline to scan Droplets for vulnerabilities, malware, and sensitive data, Aqua Security for PCF can now detect and block unapproved changes to running application workloads and even control application activity based on customized policies. Aqua Security for PCF also provides granular visibility of application network connections to apply firewall rules that whitelist authorized connections, and gives users the ability to leverage detailed audit trails of access activity, scan coverage, application activity, and system events. Aqua Security for PCF is the first solution in the market to offer a truly comprehensive security platform for PAS applications, providing full lifecycle protection from development to production.
- evoila announced it is expanding its portfolio as a consulting company with advanced credential management, leading to better safety and higher quality. evoila will also present its services around training, consulting, and managed service for Pivotal and open source Cloud Foundry, as well as Kubernetes.
Enterprise developers, architects, engineers, and executives from around the world are attending The Hague Summit and are learning about Cloud Foundry from those who build and use it every day. They join other developers, end users, and CIOs to gain first-hand access to Cloud Foundry roadmaps, training, and tutorials, and to see how others are using Cloud Foundry to support continuous innovation and application portability.
On Thursday, Cloud Foundry Foundation will host its , which will feature a diverse lineup of speakers and panelists discussing the ethics of technology, from regulation to privacy to accessibility, and the gendered nature of workplace feedback. This event is sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Find the full schedule here: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event_subpages/cfeu2019-schedule/.
Cloud Foundry is an open source technology backed by the largest technology companies in the world, including Dell EMC, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Pivotal, SAP, and SUSE, and is being used by leaders in manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services. Only Cloud Foundry delivers the velocity needed to continuously deliver apps at the speed of business. Cloud Foundry's container-based architecture runs apps in any language on your choice of cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, VMware vSphere, and more. With a robust services ecosystem and simple integration with existing technologies, Cloud Foundry is the modern standard for mission critical apps for global organizations.
About Cloud Foundry Foundation
The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent non-profit open source organization formed to sustain the development, promotion, and adoption of Cloud Foundry as the industry standard for delivering the best developer experiences to companies of all sizes. The Foundation projects include Cloud Foundry Application Runtime, Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, BOSH, Open Service Broker API, Eirini, CF Containerization, Abacus, CF-Local, CredHub, ServiceFabrik, Stratos, and more. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications, and is used by more than half the Fortune 500, representing nearly $15 trillion in combined revenue. Cloud Foundry is hosted by The Linux Foundation and is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github: https://github.com/cloudfoundry. To learn more, visit: http://www.cloudfoundry.org.
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