Crystal ball: what pundits say is next for Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenStack and Kubernetes

If the average 5-year-old isn’t ready for school yet and can barely count up to 20,, given its explosive growth what’s next for OpenStack? As the community around the world blew out candles to mark that half-decade milestone, pundits and contributors wondered what’s in store.  Here are our favorite crystal ball pieces of the week…

 

“Looking forward to the next one to two years, we will expand to add services and capabilities. You will see us add capabilities for data services, for instance. We will have more vertical-specific tests,” Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Foundation executive director, told The Register in a story where he also predicts that as OpenStack continues to grow, it will need more translations and people willing to do "mundane testing."  All these changes are a good thing — says at least one vendor…

 

"Having Google and all the other IT vendors involved is a good thing for OpenStack and a good thing for Rackspace," says John Engates on the Rackspace blog. "Because cloud computing is becoming more and more hybrid. Companies are choosing multiple clouds, locations and technology platforms to host their applications. OpenStack gives companies choice in how and where they deploy their applications and it gives Rackspace the powerful software to run those workloads on."…

Read more from the source @ http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/crystal-ball-what-pundits-say-is-next-for-cloud-native-computing-foundation-openstack-and-kubernetes