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Standards in cloud native computing

Standards in cloud native computing

- In this video we'll talk about standards in cloud native computing. So standardization is very important. That is to guarantee interoperability and that is why there are many common standards in cloud native environments. Mech is based on open source technology, which allows anyone to use and participate in developing the resulting software, and it prevents vendor lock-in. This open source infrastructure also means that cloud native can be provided as a commodity usable by anyone, so that companies can focus on developing their solutions on top. Containers have become the standard for packaging applications. And container formats as such as standardized by the Open Containers Initiative, or OCI. OCI is a Linux Foundation product that was started by Docker in 2015. OCI considers a couple of standards, like the image spec, which defines how to build and package container images, or there runtime spec, which defines how to run a container, or the distribution spec, which is more…

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