The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an organization which just came into existence last year, has said it’s selected Google’s Kubernetes container orchestration tool as its first containerization technology.

The CNCF, which boasts the full support of the Linux Foundation, said Kubernetes is just the first of many open-source tools it’s planning to support. The goal of the CNCF is to cook up and support the development of a variety of container-oriented and microservices-based technologies.

As such, Kubernetes is a great place for the Foundation to start, not least because its one of the more mature container-related tools around. Google’s container orchestration tool can be used to string containers together into walking, talking applications even though those containers are comprised of nuggets of independent code.

The CNCF believes that its decision to adopt Kubernetes will help it to establish its reputation as a non-profit group that’s at the cutting edge of the development of cloud-native apps, said Alexis Richardson, chair of CNCF’s technical oversight committee, to CloudPro UK.

“But this is just the start,” Richardson continued. “The future of cloud-native will involve many projects and use cases, which we look forward to advancing.”

The CNCF added in a statement that its remit is a broad one, and that it encourages applicants across the spectrum of cloud-native, containers and microservices technology.

The Kubernetes IP will be transferred to CNCF’s control, and the Foundation will immediately begin working with the community to establish a project governance model.

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