Hazelcast Joins OpenShift Commons

IMDG experts to collaborate with open source community on container, microservice and big data innovations

Palo Alto, Calif., May 17, 2016Hazelcast®, a leading provider of operational in-memory computing with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 14 million server starts per month, today announced it has become a member of Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons community. The community’s objective is to align industry collaboration with the evolving operational needs of large and emerging enterprises and boost cooperation across the entire OpenShift ecosystem. On Thursday May 19, 09.00-10.00 PST, Chris Engelbert, Hazelcast’s Manager Developer Relations, will be presenting to the community the methodology for setting up Hazelcast’s Discovery Service Provider Interface (SPI) with Docker and Kubernetes on the OpenShift platform in a session entitled “Introduction to In-Memory Distributed Computing on OpenShift.”

With over 100 members, the Commons community has a clear focus on open source initiatives such as Google Kubernetes and Red Hat's Project Atomic. OpenShift Commons was initially formed to look at open source container technologies, but has subsequently widened its focus to cover areas such as microservice architectures and big data analytics. The format of OpenShift Commons includes Special Interest Groups, briefings and mailing lists that serve to generate conversations in open source forums. The briefings are led by Commons members and OpenShift engineers and cover a range of topics such as DevOps best practices, container networking and storage and big data.

As a member, Hazelcast will contribute code to the OpenShift Commons community and collaborate with other members on use cases, best practices and the development of OpenShift and other OSS-related initiatives. To encourage cloud deployments, Hazelcast has developed a Cloud Discovery SPI which enables cloud-based or on-premise nodes to auto-discover each other in the same cluster with minimum configuration and management set-up. Alongside support for OpenShift, Hazelcast comes with integration options for providers such as Kubernetes, Apache jclouds, Consul and etcd (as outlined in a recent blog by Chris Engelbert). In addition, Hazelcast includes container deployment options for Docker.

“We have joined OpenShift Commons to enable us to play an integral role in driving forward open source innovation,” said Greg Luck, CEO of Hazelcast. “Community is the lifeblood that drives enhancements to our enterprise offering so the ethos of OpenShift Commons aligns very well with our own business philosophy. Collaboration is at the heart of the Hazelcast proposition.”

OpenShift is a container-based application platform that enables developers to more quickly develop, host, and scale applications in a cloud environment. The platform’s elastic, multi-language Platform-as- a-Service (PaaS) architecture automates the provisioning, management and scaling of applications, so developers can focus on writing application code for their business.

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