Talk: The What, Why and How of Knative On Kubernetes

Kubernetes excels at container scheduling, and offers useful primitives for automating infrastructure. But we’ve noticed that development teams often struggle when they use vanilla Kubernetes for application deployments. By all means, use Kubernetes to push containers all day long. But if you want to push application code — or a function — Kubernetes on its own isn’t enough.

Knative is an open source software layer that helps cloud service providers and enterprise platform operators deliver a serverless experience to developers on any cloud. It’s a way to abstract the operational overhead of deploying and managing workloads that run on K8s and provides a consistent approach so that developers can focus on writing cool code.

In this talk we will discuss what Knative is, why we should consider Knative and how to deploy Knative.

This is for people who are already using Kubernetes or at least have the familiarity with it.

Agenda:

• 6:30-7pm - Doors Open for Networking & Food
• 7-720pm - Introduction of Knative
• 720-810pm - The What, Why and How of Knative
• 810-845 - Q&A + Networking
• 9pm - Venue closes

About the Presenters

Mofizur Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at IBM. His area of interests include container orchestration, micro services and blockchain. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He also tinkers with Node, Python and Java. He is also learning and teaching in the Go, Kubernetes and Hyperledger Fabric community. He is a strong believer of the power open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected several box full of stickers with no signs of stopping. He dabbles in photography sometimes.
He writes tech blogs at NYCDEV medium page which can be found on https://medium.com/@moficodes .

Sai Vennam is a Developer Advocate at IBM with expertise on Node.js, Go, APIs and managed Kubernetes services. He creates developer-friendly content, videos, and samples to showcase the latest and greatest cloud technology. He’s passionate about connecting developers with technology that allows them to be successful. As a hobby, he works on his home automation using Raspberry Pis and serverless technology.