OpenStack vs. Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes: What Fits Where | Linux Today

OpenStack vs. Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes: What Fits Where

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 12, 2018

Open-source cloud application infrastructure can be a confusing landscape to navigate with projects, including OpenStack, CloudFoundry and Kubernetes.  While there are some points of overlap, each technology has its own merits and use-cases.

Among the vendors that uses and contributes to OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes is SUSE, which also has commercial products for all three technologies as well. In a video interview with eWEEK, Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO at SUSE explains how the three open-source technologies intersect at his company.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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