[ademarre]

This is an interesting question. Really, open source and standardization are not competitors. Ideally you'd have both at once; multiple open-source implementations of a standard specification.

That said, there are times when the business model behind an open-source project is ostensibly at odds with standardization. The situation between Docker and CoreOS' app container spec comes to mind. The Docker container spec was defined by the implementation, not the other way around, and CoreOS took that opportunity to define an actual spec (and an implementation). Heated debates erupted.

In the area of cloud orchestration which Kubernetes seems to fill, I think it's still in a "discovery" stage. Early on the Kuberbetes devs said they wanted to focus first on identifying the right abstractions. I imagine standardized specs might come out of it once things stabilize.