Open-source is an exciting environment for technological experimenting — it’s also very vast and frequently changing. Luckily, organizations have realized that the open-source world is terrain in need of mapping and tour guides, and some now offer special education and training in open-source and multi-cloud environments.

Stormy Peters, VP of developer relations at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, said that recently demand for Cloud Foundry-trained development experts has sprung up. In order to meet this demand, the Foundation will be offering special Cloud Foundry certification programs.

She told John Furrier (@furrier), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit, “All of our training so far has been sold out, so there’s always a huge demand for it.”

Peters also spoke about Cloud Foundry’s special onsite pair-programming courses. “We have what we call a dojo, which is a center,” she explained. “And people go there to learn about Cloud Foundry and actually physically go for six weeks.”

She said that attendees learn collaboration through having “two pairs of eyes on every piece of code and a lot of mixing within the community.”

Give and take

Peters spoke enthusiastically about the give and take and the mobility of players in the open-source world. “I really like that all the user companies are joining,” she said, adding that this assists with interoperability for true multi-cloud solutions.

She said that Cloud Foundry is expanding its role as guides and managers for those in the new cloud computing world.

She said that in the past, when you wanted more compute power, you added more hardware; later, to boost compute power, you added virtual machines. “Now people are in the container mode; add more containers when you need more compute power. But you still have to manage all those containers,” Peters explained. She contends that Cloud Foundry has the expertise for the job.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit.

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