Welcome To Cloud Native Now!

Today, we rebranded our Container Journal publication to Cloud Native Now. This was a move that was a long time coming. Since we launched Container Journal a few years ago, the cloud-native community has evolved and grown to become so much more than just containers–the name just no longer fit the mission. Cloud Native Now is a much better fit.

Let me give you a little history about how Container Journal started and how we ended up at Cloud Native Now. When I came back from what was possibly the second DockerCon in Seattle, I told our team at DevOps.com that Docker containers were going to change the way software was run. This was not just based on Solomon Hykes’ presentation at the time but on the enthusiasm of developers and ops folks—they were eager for this change; it was just what they had been looking for. The enthusiasm and energy of that community was palpable.

We decided we should consider spinning off a separate site dedicated to the community solidifying around Docker containers. While we considered names and mapped out launch plans, I went to the next DockerCon, this one in Austin, Texas. After that event, I again gathered the team and told them this thing called Kubernetes from Google was going to be the manager for Docker containers. At that point, I was pretty sure the central piece of this whole new way of deploying and managing software was going to be around building, orchestrating and managing containers. So Container Journal was born.

Check out this conversation between Alan Shimel and chief content officer Mike Vizard discussing the history of Container Journal and the evolution to Cloud Native Now!

I was not totally wrong in my opinion, but as usual, I wasn’t totally right, either. I missed the totality of the cloud-native movement and the totally new stack of solutions it spawned. Cloud native is so much more than containers and Kubernetes today. 

We saw this even before the COVID-19 pandemic at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in San Diego, California in 2019. I think that was when the cloud-native movement really took off. The pandemic has not dampened this movement. Today security, data and observability are all thriving parts of the cloud-native world.

Going forward, Cloud Native Now will continue to cover the totality of the cloud-native landscape. We look forward to its maturation and growth. We think this is the most dynamic and enthusiastic community we cover here at Techstrong Group, and we hope you’ll continue to explore all the exciting developments in cloud native along with us!