The Serverless Landscape

PodCTL - Enterprise Kubernetes

Show: 27
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about the new Serverless working group and whitepaper from CNCF, the 4 elements of serverless, the difference between serverless and FaaS, and the on-going role of Ops teams in a serverless world.
Show Notes:

• CNCF Serverless Whitepaper
• Serverless Working Group in the CNCF
• Event Specification
• Innovate Summit - State of Serverless
• Serverless Landscape (via Redpoint VC)
• Kubernetes/Serverless Frameworks - Fission, Fn, Kubeless, Nuclio, OpenWhisk, OpenFaaS, Riff (and several others emerging)
• Serverless isn’t Simpler
• A Twitter Rant about Serverless and Ops
• Ansible for Serverless

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about the history of serverless within the CNCF, and maybe within the context of PaaS and Kubernetes.

Topic 2 - When talking about Serverless, there seem to be 4 areas to dissect:

• The thing that executes the function (is this a container orchestrator)
• The data sources that can be on either side of the function execution
• The developer experience (or lack of experience)
• Billing/Usage/Metering

Topic 3 - What were your key takeaways from reading the CNCF Serverless whitepaper?

Topic 4 - What about Operations? Do those jobs go away? Are there Ops uses for serverless?

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