Codefresh at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference this week announced it is making available $100 million to organizations that build open source projects based on its continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform.
As a provider of a CI/CD platform built on top of a Kubernetes container orchestration engine that is delivered as cloud service, Codefresh is trying to foster the development of open source code based on microservices constructed using containers.
Each open source project built using the Codefresh platform is eligible to receive up to $1 million in funding.
“They can build their applications on the same platform as the CI/CD they are using,” says Dan Garfield, chief technology evangelist and vice president of marketing.
As channel partners look to build applications to add value many of them are finding the cost of building and deploying those applications to be considerable. By making those applications available as open source code, Codefresh is presenting channel partners that have either already become independent software vendors or are planning to become one a way to reduce their costs. The tradeoff, of course, is any partner or ISVs that take advantage of the program will have to recoup its investment in building software via a business model that depends on services.
Codefresh by making $100 million available is clearly trying to expand the size of the ecosystem that revolves around a CI/CD platform optimized for applications based on microservices it makes available as a service. As partners and ISVs build next-generation applications using containers, many of them are realizing the need to adopt best DevOps practices enabled by a CI/CD platform. That approach not only makes it simpler to build applications faster, it also streamlines the process for regularly updating them.
Of course, ISVs and channel partners won’t be the only organizations competing for a grant from Codefresh. However, in terms of being able to organize the resources required to launch and maintain an open source project, it will ultimately be ISVs and channel partners that will have inside track.
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