Huawei Becomes the First Asian Member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee
Apr 28, 2018
On April 17, 2018, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the world's top open source community, officially announced Huawei and Google are elected into the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). Huawei is the first Asian company to be admitted into the CNCF TOC. CNCF is a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation and the top open source community in cloud technology. It has gained admiration from mainstream technological giants. Huawei's technical capabilities and contributions to the open source community are prized by TOC. Last year, Huawei entered the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and this year, CNCF TOC, further participating in the highest technical committees of the cloud native domain.
TOC Determines the Technical Trend of CNCF
Promoted by Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, and Red Hat, CNCF was established at the end of 2015. With just more than two years of development, CNCF has already become the top open source community in the cloud computing field. As of now, the community has 16 famous open source cloud computing projects, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, gRPC, Containerd, and Linkerd, attracting more than 21,000 code contributors and 62,000 participants for offline activities. CNCF has more than 170 members, including western companies such as AWS, Azure, Docker, Google, Qualcomm, IBM, Intel, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Salesforce, and mainstream cloud computing players in China, such as Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and JD.com.
The community adopts a two-level decision-making mechanism consisting of TOC and project organizations. TOC defines and maintains the technical vision for the foundation and manages all project lifecycles, including creation, completion, collaboration, and termination. It accepts both requirements and feedback from the end user committee and passes them on to the relative project teams. TOC also provides universal interfaces based on code standardizing, and project teams implement common TOC practices. Each CNCF project has a technical decision-making organization focusing on code development, release period, and functions. This is similar with the Kubernetes Steering Committee that determines specific version policies and technical realization. In this way, the TOC oversees CNCF projects and provides overall technical guidance for each from the perspective of the technical stack. Each project team makes technical decisions in accordance to the actual situation and guidance given by TOC. This mechanism juggles both the technical trend and project autonomy.
Since Huawei joined the CNCF in 2015, it has used the Kubernetes technology to encapsulate over 800 IT applications in containers. Additionally, Huawei has participated in and made great contributions to CNCF projects. Huawei has provided the community with quality designs for planning, networks, multi-cluster joints, application support, security, scalability, and policy execution, as well as codes and document management to improve service governance. Huawei continuously shares its experience in containerization with the community, while benefiting from the transformation. In this way, Huawei and other community members promote the development of cloud native technologies. Huawei has also provided multiple key technology solutions that have been well accepted by the community, such as the cluster federation, advanced container scheduling policy, service route management, and container policy interface.
With its active presence and positive contributions to CNCF, Huawei has been recognized as one of the pioneering companies applying cloud native technology within production environments. They proactively bring their own projects to the community and work with other members to meet customer requirements. Finally, they gained unanimous recognition from all community members during the last TOC election.
HUAWEI CLOUD Builds a Series of CNCF Products, Accelerating Application Migration to the Cloud
The cloud native technology panorama provided by CNCF classifies services into following categories: development and integration, orchestration and management, runtime, resource and image, cloud infrastructure layer, platform layer, and monitoring analysis. The cloud native service stack of HUAWEI CLOUD covers the technical CNCF panorama, including Cloud Container Engine (CCE), cloud container instance (CCI), microservice engine (CSE), application performance management (APM), application O&M management (AOM), cloud performance test service (CPTS), FunctionStage (a serverless function service), application orchestration service (AOS), image repository (SWR), ServiceStage (a one-stop microservice management platform), API Gateway, enterprise-level middleware services (such as DCS, DMS, and DDM), and block chain service (BCS). All these cloud application services support the entire lifecycle, making migrating applications to the cloud easy.
Cloud application services have been provided by Huawei in accordance with CNCF technology practices, being quickly recognized by the market for their commercial use. These services are now available in many industries, such as gaming, biotechnology, Internet, smart city, e-commerce, and enterprise resource planning (ERP), helping customers agilely create their applications to meet different scenarios before and after the migration. For example, after MIGU chose the CCE service for its game applications, its resource utilization rate increased by 100%, system upgrade time shortened from two hours to five minutes, and performance improved by three times thanks to the bare metal containers. After the latest Windows container service was released, Huawei applied it to Guanjiapo software (a financial management application), helping it quickly complete container-based reconstruction based on .net applications. In the Cloud 2.0 Era, various applications are being migrated to clouds, and Huawei cloud application services are helping enterprises rollout applications onto the cloud in a simpler and more efficient manner.
With the leading practical experience in Kubernetes, HUAWEI CLOUD has released multiple industry-leading container services and microservices products, ranking first in the industry in multiple fields. For example, in China, Huawei is the first to launch the high-performance bare-metal container and the Windows container. It is the world's first company to provide a serverless container service based on Kubernetes. In terms of microservices, Huawei first launched the enterprise-class commercial microservice framework CSE in China, and is pioneering support for the Service Mesh feature used to solve complex communication problems in the cloud-based architecture of the traditional distributed system. In this way, the system is no longer bound to a single programming language, it supports the zero intrusive mode to quickly migrate legacy applications to the cloud in a distributed fashion. Huawei is a member of the founding class of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers, and CCE is among the first services to have passed the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program.
In the future, Huawei will continue to invest its efforts into CNCF, building a more convenient cloud computing platform with other community players. Additionally, Huawei will continue to introduce advanced cloud computing technologies from CNCF to China, using Huawei's practical experience to provide cloud-based products to enterprises and help customers accelerate digital transformation.