© Craig Johnston 2020
C. JohnstonAdvanced Platform Development with Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5611-4_1

1. Software Platform and the API

Craig Johnston1 
(1)
Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

On October 28, 2018, IBM announced a $34 billion deal to buy Red Hat,1 the company behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and more recently Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise Docker/Kubernetes application platform. What we see is $34 billion of evidence that Cloud-native and open source technologies, centered on the Linux ecosystem and empowered by Kubernetes, are leading disruption in enterprise software application platforms.

Any exposure to enterprise software marketing presents a steady stream of platform services released almost daily by major cloud providers, ...

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