Twelve Factor project has been open-sourced by Salesforce [Video]

Kubernetes has revolutionized applications, and Salesforce Inc. is keeping up with the times by open-sourcing its Twelve Factor project off of the Heroku platform, a platform as a service that allows developers to create, deploy and manage applications entirely in the cloud.

Heroku created Twelve Factor over a decade ago. The company is open-sourcing it now in response to how containers and Kubernetes have changed app development.

“Twelve Factor is a set of principles for optimal app design in the cloud,” said Gail Frederick (pictured), Heroku chief technology officer at Salesforce. “Heroku has been curating and nurturing this community for 13 years. We believe, looking back in our experience, hosting millions of apps in the cloud, that most of the principles are durable, but some of them need to be modernized. So, we have open-sourced it as of this week; we have an initial set of maintainers, and we are inviting contributions from folks at KubeCon.” 

Frederick spoke with …