GitOps for the Kubernetes Developer: OpenFaaS, Helm, and Istio

GitOps for the Kubernetes Developer: OpenFaaS, Helm, and Istio

Tuesday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm across the street from DockerCon!

EVENTBRITE REG REQUIRED FOR SECURITY LIST: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gitops-for-the-kubernetes-developer-openfaas-and-helm-tickets-46757814883
EVENTBRITE TICKET REQUIRED TO ENTER

The concept of GitOps (coined by Weaveworks) has been finding traction in various communities and new projects. Join us for an evening of short talks and discussions of what GitOps is (if you’re new to it) and some key applications.

7:00 pm: Food and Drink

7:20 - 9:00 pm (approx 20 mins per topic):

OpenFaaS Cloud: when GitOps met Serverless Functions:
Alex Ellis (VMware) and Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks)
OpenFaaS Cloud is a new project built by the community on top of OpenFaaS which offers a native GitHub integration bringing users GitOps to functions. Just push code and get endpoints with HTTPS and your own subdomain.
Cloud functions can be convenient, but being locked into one platform has its drawbacks. OpenFaaS Makes Serverless Functions Simple with Docker or Kubernetes. The project is growing in popularity amongst developers with a number of real-world use-cases, over 100 contributors and 12k GitHub stars.

GitOps and Helm:
Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks) will talk about how to optimize Helm through a GitOps approach.

GitOps and Istio:
Zack Butcher (most recently at Google) will give an overview of Istio and top 3 things you need to know about 0.8.
Stefan Prodan (Weaveworks) will then demo an example of applying GitOps to Istio.

Food and drink and networking!

Speaker bios
Stefan Prodan
Stefan Prodan, a Developer Experience engineer at Weaveworks. He spends most of his time at Weaveworks integrating and testing different open source projects with Weave Cloud and blogging about it. He’s passionate about all things Cloud Native, programs in Golang and has a soft spot for Prometheus as well as OpenFaaS serverless technology -- where he is a core contributor. Previously he worked as a software architect and a DevOps consultant, helping companies embrace DevOps and the SRE movement. Stefan has over 15 years of experience with software development and he enjoys programming in Go and writing about distributed systems.

Alex Ellis
Alex Ellis is the lead and creator of the award-winning open-source Serverless project OpenFaaS. Alex has 12 years of experience writing enterprise software and scaling distributed systems for over 500k clients and currently works as a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. He is very active in the cloud and container community writing blogs, mentoring and speaking at global events on everything from Kubernetes, to Go, to Raspberry Pi.

Zack Butcher
Zack has worked at Google as one of the core contributors to Istio. Prior to Istio he worked on a variety of teams across Google Cloud Platform, focusing on authorization, policy, data retention, and the internal system Istio draws from.

Other guest speakers to come!

EVENTBRITE REG REQUIRED FOR SECURITY LIST: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gitops-for-the-kubernetes-developer-openfaas-and-helm-tickets-46757814883
EVENTBRITE TICKET REQUIRED TO ENTER