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to GitHub in the last year: a leader at their top. n Brian Fox CTO of Sonatype:
Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub shows that the developer is king, collaboration is critical to innovation, and open source has truly taken center stage. While Microsoft initially viewed open source programs with skepticism, fearing competition with its proprietary model, it has quickly realized that open source, and its developers, are what’s driving today’s application economy. Developers build the infrastructure that underpins our lives and businesses; collaboration between them is crucial to unlock open source’s full potential. Any and every initiative that helps to build better software faster, should always be supported. With Microsoft’s resources behind a great company like GitHub, the future of secure, quality open source looks brighter than ever. n Setu Kulkarni, VP of product & cor-
porate strategy for WhiteHat Security:
Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub is a visionary acquisition that can further extend their cloud-native design-devel-
op-run ecosystem play. With GitHub and subsequent integrations with the breadth of the Microsoft stack, Microsoft hopes to gain wider adoption across the developer community and enterprises alike. n Udi Nachmany, VP of sales and business development for Cloud 66:
Microsoft will now own large parts of the software delivery chain: GitHub (source control), Visual Studio (IDE), Azure and Azure Stack (compute), package management (Helm), and more. Given Microsoft's increased activity around Kubernetes, CI and container delivery seem to be gaps in that story—this is a great opportunity for providers of complementary tools to offer unique value to customers. n Sam Basu, a member of the develop-
er relations team for Progress:
This was destined to happen. Microsoft is by far the biggest contributor to GitHub and cares too much about its OSS investments after the death of CodePlex. n Randy Bias, VP of technology and
strategy at Juniper Networks:
what Microsoft has always been about. This deal proves we are deeply into the cloud era and that businesses must embrace and transform themselves or face the consequences. In addition, Atlassian and GitLab both revealed that since the news went live, they have seen a uptake in teams switching over to their solutions. Atlassian stated in a post that “After the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub, Bitbucket started to see a spike in the number of GitHub users migrating their repositories to Bitbucket. Why? Many users understand they can get everything they had on GitHub in Bitbucket plus more, and at a lower cost. Tens of thousands of customers — including 60 of Fortune 100 — turn to Bitbucket as their code collaboration solution.” According to GitLab: “It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about #movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we’ve seen a 7x increase in orders.” z
GitHub is a natural extension of
Docker’s goal: Reaching more developers BY DAVID RUBINSTEIN
Docker unveiled new tools and functionality to enable a wider range of developers to create containerized applications, and for IT to manage applications across clouds and platforms. The announcements were made at the company’s 5th DockerCon conference, held this year in San Francisco. For developers, Docker announced Docker Desktop GUI, template-based workflows designed to ease developers into containerization. The templates mean developers don’t have to learn to write Dockerfiles or Compose files, and let teams create models for collaboration. “This is a new way to build containerized applications for people with little knowledge of creating containers,” said David Messina, chief marketing officer at Docker. On the IT side, Docker Enterprise Edition gets the ability to facilitate feder-
ated application management. Through the one interface, organizations can manage and secure their applications whether running on-premises, in multiple clouds and across hosted Kubernetes-based cloud services, according to the company’s announcement. “Containers are portable, but management is not,” explained Messina. The solution, he added, solves the problem of running Amazon Kubernetes Services or Amazon EKS with other solutions and having to log into each one to view the application. “You need to be able to see all the places your application is deployed at once,” he said. “You need an aggregated view and the ability to act on” that information. The solution also brings an enterprise level of security, policy, enforcement, and governance. “A key part is that Docker has never been tied to an operating system or virtualization model,” added Jen-
ny Fong, Docker’s director of product marketing. She added federated asset management enables users to determine who has touched the application, or where the app came from, as well as offering features such as vulnerability scanning, image signing and security. Finally, Docker demonstrated Windows Server Containers in Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise Edition. “We’ve been working with Microsoft in engineering since 2014,” Messina said. “We began running Windows and Linux in the same Docker Enterprise cluster since August 2017.” The solution gives organizations the ability to use Kubernetes in .NET and Windows Serverbased applications with Docker EE. “Containerization is now central to an organization’s IT strategy, to their cloud strategy” Messina said. “Developers need to know how to work containers into their applications.” z