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title: " Why OpenStack's embrace of Kubernetes is great for both communities "
date: 2016-07-26
slug: openstack-kubernetes-communities
url: /blog/2016/07/openstack-kubernetes-communities
author: >
  Martin Buhr (Google)
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Today, [Mirantis](https://www.mirantis.com/), the leading contributor to [OpenStack](http://stackalytics.com/?release=mitaka), [announced](https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/openstack-will-soon-be-able-to-run-on-top-of-kubernetes/) that it will re-write its private cloud platform to use Kubernetes as its underlying orchestration engine. We think this is a great step forward for both the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities. With Kubernetes under the hood, OpenStack users will benefit from the tremendous efficiency, manageability and resiliency that Kubernetes brings to the table, while positioning their applications to use more cloud-native patterns. The Kubernetes community, meanwhile, can feel confident in their choice of orchestration framework, while gaining the ability to manage both container- and VM-based applications from a single platform.  

**The Path to Cloud Native**  

Google spent over ten years developing, applying and refining the principles of cloud native computing. A cloud-native application is:  

- Container-packaged. Applications are composed of hermetically sealed, reusable units across diverse environments;
- Dynamically scheduled, for increased infrastructure efficiency and decreased operational overhead; and 
- Microservices-based. Loosely coupled components significantly increase the overall agility, resilience and maintainability of applications.

These principles have enabled us to build the largest, most efficient, most powerful cloud infrastructure in the world, which anyone can access via [Google Cloud Platform](http://cloud.google.com/). They are the same principles responsible for the recent surge in popularity of Linux containers. Two years ago, we open-sourced Kubernetes to spur adoption of containers and scalable, microservices-based applications, and the recently released [Kubernetes version 1.3](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/07/kubernetes-1-3-bridging-cloud-native-and-enterprise-workloads/) introduces a number of features to bridge enterprise and cloud native workloads. We expect that adoption of cloud-native principles will drive the same benefits within the OpenStack community, as well as smoothing the path between OpenStack and the public cloud providers that embrace them.
Title: OpenStack Embraces Kubernetes for Cloud Native Benefits
Summary
Mirantis announced it will rewrite its private cloud platform to use Kubernetes, which is a positive move for both the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities. OpenStack users will gain efficiency, manageability, and resiliency, while Kubernetes users can manage both container and VM-based applications from one platform. Cloud-native applications, which are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled, and microservices-based, drive benefits such as increased infrastructure efficiency, agility, resilience, and maintainability. Embracing cloud-native principles will benefit the OpenStack community and facilitate integration with public cloud providers.