Stop Calling Knative Serverless!
By now most people are familiar with what it means to be a serverless platform, features such as scale-to-zero, auto-scaling and source-to-build. And Knative certainly does all of that. But, by callin …
| Talk Title | Stop Calling Knative Serverless! |
| Speakers | Doug Davis (OM Knative, IBM) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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By now most people are familiar with what it means to be a serverless platform, features such as scale-to-zero, auto-scaling and source-to-build. And Knative certainly does all of that. But, by calling Knative a Serverless platform are we implying that PaaS or CaaS apps shouldn’t share some of these same characteristics? I don’t think so - so let’s stop this charade! In this talk we’ll go over what Knative is, and how we really should look at it as a new way to deploy any app to Kubernetes - not just functions.Developers should focus on writing code, not managing infrastructure. With Knative we take a huge step forward towards abstracting the complexities of Kubernetes w/o giving up the advanced features we all want.
