Gateway Software Symposium
April 1 - 2, 2022
Roll Your Own Serverless with Knative
Saturday - Apr 2 2:45 PM CDT - WESTWOOD
Knative is a container-oriented framework for “enterprise-grade serverless on your own terms.” Running in Kubernetes, on any cloud provider or your own data center, Knative offers two serverless capabilities: Serving and Eventing.
Serving is all about auto-scaling, not only up as load increases, but down as load drops off, including scaling all the way to zero.
This presentation is a gentle introduction to Knative.
In this talk, we will explore the following topics:
- What exactly is Knative?
- Getting started with Knative
- Introduction to Knative serving
- Exploring Knative eventing with CloudEvents for asynchronous event processing
You will leave this talk with a solid foundation of Knative basics and a headful of ideas on how your team can roll your own serverless solution using Knative.
Jack Frosch
Software Developer and Architect
About Jack Frosch
Jack Frosch has been developing software professionally for almost three decades and has seen many great, and horrible, projects. He enjoys sharing what he has learned with others in exchange for hearing their stories of victory and defeat.
Jack runs the St. Louis Serverless Meetup, now with more than 600 members, focusing on serverless application architectures and implementations. He is certified as an AWS Solutions Architect Associate and regularly talks on serverless and cloud-native architecture topics.
Software development is actually Jack's second career. His first was as an aviator flying civilian and military aircraft, including the venerable McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom. Please don't ask him about this as that's all he'll talk about, often with his hands illustrating some mock dogfight he once engaged in. Like that time in Germany when he dropped through a hole in the clouds only to be jumped by two F-15 Eagles out of nearby Bitburg AB. There he was, new to the European theater… Told ya. Don't get him started.