In the open source community, it’s hard to not know about, or at least know of Kubernetes; it’s well maintained and supported and deploys code consistently in scalable containers. It will even restart containers and nodes if they go down and do all the load balancing for the user. The problem is: what happens when Kubernetes goes down?

The Cloud Foundry community, also completely open source, created the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime to solve this problem. It offers a way to instantiate, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters on a Cloud Platform. The Container Runtime also gives developers the choice and flexibility to deploy native 12-factor applications and pre-packaged apps delivered to a container in the same platform.

In this talk, topics discussed will include what the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime is, why use it, and how long it takes to start using it.