Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

Call it “serverless,” call it “event-driven compute” or call it “functions as a service (FaaS),” the idea is the same, allocate memory dynamically to event-driven functions to built microservices. Serverless computing platform allow developers to focus in building the application logic while abstracting away the infrastructure requirements and management details.

Many serverless offering from cloud-managed providers restrict the behavior of app logic that they run, sometimes making certain classes of applications impractical. Kubernetes has been the de-facto open source management platform for running applications in containers through a well-orchestrated tooling mechanism, taking care of the scalability, rolling updates, self-healing and load-balancing processes.
In this context, Suman Chakraborty will explain the major advantages Kubernetes provides in running serverless frameworks, the major open source projects that brings serverless functionality in Kubernetes and the challenges that has been reported by consumers in adopting Serverless frameworks in recent times.