Sydney: Customised Serverless using Azure Functions, Containers and KEDA

In this session we’ll look at two serverless-related topics:

1. Building your own customised Azure Functions baseline image using Docker, and how to use it in your resulting Azure Functions environment.

2. Take a look at the Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) capability that Microsoft is developing in conjunction with Red Hat. KEDA introduces a source-aware event-trigger to Kubernetes which uses the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to deploy and scale Azure Function containers, including scaling to or from zero instances.

** Meet your speaker: Simon Waight**
Simon is the Azure Pro Developer Lead in Sydney for Microsoft. He has more years of experience than he cares to remember in online solution architecture and delivery and has held roles spanning software development, infrastructure architecture and IT operations, and finds modern cloud practices embodied by the DevOps culture to be a sweet spot. During his career Simon has participated in many teams and has a strong understanding of the collaborative nature of successful projects. He enjoys sharing his experience with others and is always happy to chat tech!