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Wal-Mart takes OneOps off the shelf, sticks it on GitHub
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is getting into the open-source game, unleashing the code for its cloud management and application lifecyle platform OneOps on GitHub for the entire world to slice and dice.
For those who’re unfamiliar, OneOps is platform for developers to build and launch their cloudy apps across a variety of platforms and environments. Using it, developers can build and deploy their apps on public and private cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Rackspace and CenturyLink, and hybrid clouds based on OpenStack.
Wal-Mart says that the main benefit of OneOps for enterprises is that it means they can better take advantage of the different features, pricing and scalability offered by the various cloud vendors. In addition, another benefit is that developers can build and deploy their apps in a vendor-agnostic fashion.
The world’s biggest grocery store says it’s hoping to attract more contributions from the open-source community as it further develops OneOps.
“Why open source? Walmart is a cloud user, not a cloud provider,” Wal-Mart said in a statement. “It makes sense for Walmart to release OneOps as an open-source project so that the community can improve or build ways for it to adapt to existing technology.”
Wal-Mart also reminded us that this isn’t its first contribution to the open-source world, as it plays a big role in the development of several open-source projects, and has released lesser-heralded open-source technologies its developed by itself in the past.
“We are no stranger to open source. We’ve been an active contributor, releasing technologies such as Mupd8 and hapi with the community. We’ve loved using and contributing to other popular open source projects like React, Node.js and Openstack.”
Wal-Mart’s move highlights how rapidly the open-source trend has accelerated, in that it’s no longer an eye-opener when a big company essentially gives away the technology its spent years developing. Indeed, the biggest story here is that developers have another great tool to help them ensure their applications are compatible with the growing array of cloud platforms.
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