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Three Hot Open Source Cloud Projects

There is no doubt that Open Source is leading innovation in Cloud Technologies. However one cannot go without noticing the attention generated for the following three Open Source projects. Interestingly these projects are getting the support from previously not so Open Source friendly companies such as Microsoft. However it is also interesting to hear that Amazon is not jumping on them in a big way yet ???  What are these projects? Docker Going by the definition from Docker website, "Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data cen