In today’s multi-cloud world, there is a premium on making an already highly complex information technology infrastructure simpler. Developers want to move software applications across clouds without having to write or adapt new code. That’s why recent news involving a Kubernetes — an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications — project involving Pivotal Software Inc. and Google Inc., along with Microsoft Corp.’s decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation, is attracting widespread interest in the cloud management community.

“It is the idea that you can engage and use multiple resources from these different data center providers without having to completely change your whole organization around it. That’s where multi-cloud becomes powerful,” said James Watters (pictured), senior vice president of product at Pivotal.

Watters spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Troyer (@jtroyer), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, California. He discussed the Summit announcements, shared customer insights and commented on if Pivotal plans to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. (* Disclosure below.)

Foundation to incubate Kubernetes project

The Cloud Foundry Foundation announced during the Summit that it will incubate Kubo — an open source project between Google and Pivotal — as a way to help manage the deployment of containers using Kubernetes.

“Cloud Foundry is really going to embrace multiple ways of deploying artifacts and managing things,” Watters said. “There hasn’t been a platform out there that embraces those with specialized ways of doing them.”

The other major announcement involved Microsoft’s decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Watters viewed the news as an important move by the Azure cloud provider to be more involved in open source. “Once you have a platform, you want as much critical mass on it as you can. Their strategy is that they want to run every workload,” he said.

Watters noted that he’s been hearing clear messages about speed and simplicity from his meetings with top executives in Pivotal’s customer base. “Deliver apps faster, find your value line and approach problems that way. They get that, and that’s why we’ve succeeded economically,” Watters stated.

Asked if Pivotal would be joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Watters said he didn’t have any news to offer other than to say, “We’ve been very friendly with them, and we’d be open to that.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Cloud Foundry Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Cloud Foundry Summit. Neither Pivotal Software Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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