Knative - Bringing Serverless to your Kubernetes Cluster (Tech-Talk)

Kubernetes by large has won the platforms' war. However, for an application developer, the details of getting an application up and running on Kubernetes is beyond what they need to care about. Efforts of implementing Serverless on top of Kubernetes aim at making the user experience simpler by removing the unnecessary complexities of Kubernetes.

Knative in particular is one of the major efforts in implementing Serverless on top of Kubernetes. In this talk we discuss the transition of starting with a Kubernetes application and making it serverless using Knative. We will show the user experience, and deployment experience of using Knative through real life examples. Finally we will discuss the path forward with serverless platforms on top of Kubernetes.

Speaker:
Nima Kaviani
A senior cloud engineer with IBM. He is a contributor to Knative and Cloud Foundry's Eirini. Prior to that Nima was the contributor to Cloud Foundry's Diego for over two years. Nima holds a PhD in computer science and tweets and blogs about Serverless, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and other distributed systems.

Agenda:
18.30 - 19.00: Registration, Food, Drinks and Networking
19.00 - 20.30: Tech Talk