Providing Developer Experience: An introduction to Ketch OSS with Ravi Lachhman

Providing Developer Experience - Innovation vs Control - An introduction to Ketch OSS

Ravi Lachhman is the Field CTO at Shipa. Prior to Shipa, Ravi was an Evangelism Leader / Chief Architect at Harness. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at AppDynamics, Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi is obsessed with Korean BBQ and will travel for food.

As software engineers, we are viewed as having high technical skills. Still, toil can come into play and complexity never goes away. Just because we are software engineers does not mean we have to “just figure it out” when trying to get our ideas into production. Developer Experience is crucial to maintaining innovation and also allowing engineerings to be more productive / focusing on feature development.

Ketch, an open-source abstraction and policy layer, allows developers to focus on features, not infrastructure complexity with Kubernetes. Learn in this session about how Ketch [www.theketch.io] helps get your applications into production and enforce common-sense guardrails. Even if you are green to Kubernetes, Ketch helps abstract away complexities allowing someone with an image [or source] straight to Kubernetes. The Ketch maintainers are always looking for contributions and other ideas, PRs are open!