Getting Started with Knative: The Way to Build Serverless - Bryan Friedman & Brian McClain, Pivotal
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 2019-04-15

Getting Started with Knative: The Way to Build Serverless - Bryan Friedman & Brian McClain, Pivotal

The open source serverless framework space is crowded and complex. Each unique offering approaches functions differently, with varying methods for triggering, scaling, event formatting. But one thing that most everybody can agree on is to build on top of Kubernetes. With that as the only common ground though, there is still too much fragmentation for developers to wade through when deciding on the right open source FaaS solution.

That's where Knative comes in. An open source project from Google, Pivotal, and other industry leaders, Knative provides a set of common tooling on top of Kubernetes to help developers build functions. It extends Kubernetes by combining Istio with Custom Resource Definitions to enable a higher-level of abstraction for developers. This brings support for things like source-to-container builds, autoscaling, routing, and event sourcing. In this session, we will explore all the components of Knative together and demonstrate how it can be used to effectively deliver a serverless experience to developers on any cloud.

About Bryan Friedman
Bryan Friedman is a Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal. In addition to his recent experience in the cloud product management space, he spent over ten years working for a large enterprise biotech company in a number of various information technology areas including web application development, document management and collaboration, business intelligence, identity and access management, and financial planning and reporting systems. Bryan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo as well as a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance from California Lutheran University.

About Brian McClain
Brian is a Principal Product Marketing Manager on the Technical Marketing team at Pivotal, with a focus on technical educational content for Pivotal customers as well as the Cloud Foundry, BOSH, and Knative communities. Prior to Pivotal, Brian worked on both the development and operations of software, with a heavy focus on Cloud Foundry and BOSH at companies in many industries including finance, entertainment and technology. He loves learning and experimenting in many fields of technology, and more importantly sharing the lessons learned along the way.

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