Some of the biggest names in IT and online services have banded together to standardize the way applications are run in the cloud.

Organized by the Linux Foundation, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation was announced Tuesday and has drawn the support of Cisco, IBM, Intel, VMware, CoreOS, Docker, and Joyent. It is also getting input from cloud service providers such as Box, eBay and Twitter.

“We’re seeing a shift towards a new form of application development and data center management, based on container technology and the orchestration and deployment technologies you see in a lot of in web-scale companies,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

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