[dankohn1]

OpenShift is Certified Kubernetes, so not a fork.

See: cncf.io/ck

(Disclosure: I run the Certified Kubernetes program at CNCF.)

[jstrachan]

OpenShift is a fork of the Kubernetes code base: https://github.com/openshift/origin

I.e. it’s not using the upstream distribution of Kubernetes like the public cloud vendors or Heptio etc.

It’s great it’s a Certified Kubernetes though!

[dankohn1]

Fork has a perjorative meaning, as in taking it and going their own direction. I would describe OpenShift as a distribution.