Building and sharing the root of the digital world: Alibaba Cloud builds a comprehensive cloud-native open source ecosystem

Open source is fundamental to the underlying software. Cloud + open source will jointly become the root of the digital world. The basic software of the future digital world should be built on open source, and it needs to be jointly built and shared by the whole industry. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud not only actively embraces open source, but also actively contributes to open source and leads open source. Open source has become one of Alibaba's technology strategies.

On July 28, Cheng Li, CTO of Alibaba Group, was invited to participate in the 2022 Open Atom Global Open Source Summit, and mentioned in the main forum speech that container technology has developed from Alibaba's internal practice to cloud commercialization, and has gradually become a global container technology. leader.

He mentioned, "Alibaba Cloud is an important corporate contributor to the global Kubernetes community and has made significant contributions to the global cloud native open source community. In 2017, Alibaba Cloud Container Service ACK was officially released, becoming the first product in the world to pass the Kubernetes conformance certification. This year, Alibaba Cloud became the only enterprise in China to enter the Forrester public cloud container platform leader quadrant."

Alibaba Cloud has built a complete cloud-native open source ecosystem. Through KubeVela, OpenYurt, OpenKruise, Fluid and other open source projects, it helps Kubernetes extend to more scenarios such as edge, AI, and hybrid cloud. KubeVela has created a de facto standard for modern application delivery management for the cloud computing era, focusing on applications, defining the boundaries and collaboration methods between R&D, O&M, and infrastructure, and has become a CNCF sandbox project. In 2021, CAICT will release KubeVela's Application Model (OAM) as an industry architecture standard.

OpenYurt is the first cloud-native edge computing project open sourced by Alibaba, helping to build an intelligent, cloud-edge-device-integrated edge computing cloud-native infrastructure. It has now become a CNCF sandbox project. Since OpenYurt was open sourced, upstream and downstream cooperation, technology, community, and industry influence have been significantly improved, and in December 2020, it won the TOP 3 edge computing influence project of the Asia-Pacific CDN Industry Alliance; in terms of ecological cooperation, with VMware, Intel, Sangfor, China Unicom, IBM and other upstream and downstream ecological partners have carried out multi-level cooperation in IoT, cloud-edge collaboration, hardware, edge AI, edge security, etc. Among them, the in-depth cooperation with the LFEdge EdgeX project has jointly promoted cloud-native biological model standards Be an industry first.

On Double 11 in 2021, Alibaba Group will realize 100% application cloud-native, and complete the world's largest cloud-native practice. E-commerce, search, big data, and AI businesses all run on a unified container platform. Container Service ACK has provided container application management services for more than 10,000 enterprises in the Internet, finance, retail, manufacturing, transportation and other clouds.

Alibaba Cloud owns many well-known open source projects in the cloud native field, including two top-level Apache projects and ten CNCF hosting projects, covering technical directions such as containers, application delivery, messaging, microservices, and serverless, with leading open source activity and influence. Among them, some open source projects have also become de facto standards in the field. For example, Apache RocketMQ, as the first top-level Apache project of Internet middleware in China, has the largest market share in China in the field of business messaging; Apache Dubbo is the most influential and adopted open source service framework. The highest domestic microservice framework. Like RocketMQ, Dubbo has entered the first phalanx of the Apache China Open Source Project Quadrant in the two dimensions of globalization and influence.

Apache RocketMQ is a top-level Apache project open sourced by Alibaba. As the first open source distributed messaging middleware in China, it has the largest market occupancy rate in China in the field of business messaging. RocketMQ 5.0 is a major upgrade. It is the first in the industry to launch cloud-native "Messaging", Eventing, Streaming" integrated message processing platform, RocketMQ has entered the first phalanx of Apache China's open source project quadrant in the two dimensions of globalization and influence, and has become the open source practice of Peking University School of Software and Microelectronics Elective courses; in terms of commercialization, Alibaba Cloud's MQ messaging products based on RocketMQ surpassed IBM to become the No. 1 market share in China.

Apache Dubbo is a top-level Apache project open sourced by Alibaba. It is a domestic microservice framework with the most influence and the highest adoption rate among open source service frameworks. Like RocketMQ, Dubbo has entered the first phalanx of the Apache China Open Source Project Quadrant in the two dimensions of globalization and influence. According to the latest "Report on Open Source Digitalization in the Microservice Field" released by X-lab Open Lab, Dubbo's open source activity ranks fifth in the world among microservice frameworks. Dubbo 3, launched in 2021, based on the incubation of large-scale usage scenarios in Alibaba, has developed into a user-friendly new-generation cloud-native service framework, and continues to lead the wave of next-generation service framework selection in China.

This year, Alibaba Cloud continued to make breakthroughs in the cloud-native field and released two open-source projects: one is the cloud-native co-location system Koordinator, which is based on Alibaba's internal super-large-scale co-location practice, creating lower access costs for users in cloud-native scenarios , The solution with better mixing efficiency. The other is the OpenSergo project co-initiated with enterprises and communities to solve problems such as various losses and high complexity caused by interoperability between different frameworks.

At present, Alibaba Cloud's open source mainly covers four areas: cloud native, operating system, big data & AI, and database. The total number of Stars gained on GitHub exceeds one million. Alibaba has been ranked first in open source activity and influence among Chinese manufacturers for ten consecutive years.