Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Call, Apr 2022: The Korifi Project
Bridging Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, Korifi aims to bring the cf-push experience to container orchestration.
The Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting in April featured a live demonstration on how to install Korifi. (Previously, the tool was known as CF on Kubernetes.) Korifi is a community project focused on creating a Kubernetes-native implementation of Cloud Foundry. The call was moderated by Ram Iyengar from the CF Foundation.
The Korifi project
Korifi is the third community iteration of putting Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes together, following in the wake of cf-for-k8s and KubeCF. According to Ram, however, the new tool also builds up on a lot of other projects (e.g., Eirini), which all strive to bridge Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes capabilities.
To provide more context as to how Korifi differs from cf-for-k8s and KubeCF, Eric Malm from VMware shared a brief history of the project. “There’s still a lot of value in the developer abstractions we’ve built up in the Cloud Foundry community over the past many years, not just in application and routing, but also with things like service brokers and service bindings,” explained Eric. “Continuing to present those interfaces and integrating those with the evolution of technologies like buildpacks and service brokering systems still seems very valuable.”
Eric mentioned that the vision for the Korifi project started in the first half of 2021. Development began near the end of 2021, with a goal to integrate more thoroughly with Kubernetes resources and create an architecture that is more modular and extensible in comparison to cf-for-k8s and KubeCF.
Read the meeting notes to learn more about Korifi’s evolution, an upcoming v0.1 release, etc.
