I think this just demonstrates the power of vendor-neutral Open Source. I don’t mean that in an inflammatory way. Istio, a collaborative project from Google/IBM that was arguably going to be a slight differentiator for their respective clouds was forced to go vendor-neutral after Linkerd did.
Same thing happened to Knative.
CNCF definitely has some politics but its been interesting to see large OSS projects be essential dead on arrival now if its not in a vendor neutral holding org.
I personally try to favor vendor neutral projects now. Slightly smaller chance of being burned like I was with Grafana switching licenses.
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Yeah they joined CNCF last September;
https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/istio-accepted-into-cncf/
I think this just demonstrates the power of vendor-neutral Open Source. I don’t mean that in an inflammatory way. Istio, a collaborative project from Google/IBM that was arguably going to be a slight differentiator for their respective clouds was forced to go vendor-neutral after Linkerd did.
Same thing happened to Knative.
CNCF definitely has some politics but its been interesting to see large OSS projects be essential dead on arrival now if its not in a vendor neutral holding org.
I personally try to favor vendor neutral projects now. Slightly smaller chance of being burned like I was with Grafana switching licenses.