KubeSphere Kills Open Source Edition

upstart writes:

KubeSphere kills open source edition:

KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.

An announcement was posted in the project's repository stating: "Effective immediately ... we will suspend the download links for the KubeSphere open source version and cease providing free technical support."

"We are fully aware that this may cause inconvenience to some users, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. However, we believe that by concentrating our resources, we can provide users with more professional, stable, and comprehensive commercial-grade services and support."

KubeSphere is "a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel." It is also, according to the project's website, "a CNCF-certified [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Kubernetes platform, 100 percent open source, built and improved by the community."

Effectively, KubeSphere simplifies the management of Kubernetes, which can be unwieldy when it comes to setup and configuration.

One of the founding members of the KubeSphere team, having left KubeSphere developer QingCloud the previous day, posted some of the possible reasoning behind the move: "In recent years, repeated violations of the open source license - by third parties repackaging and monetizing the project - have caused tangible impact on QingCloud's interests.

"While the source code remains available under open source norms, discontinuing the out-of-the-box distributions is, in my view, a challenging adjustment for today's collaborative open source ecosystem.

"Still, as someone who once helped steer this journey, I respect the decision."

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