Kelsey Hightower and Chris Gaun on serverless and Kubernetes

This episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, features a conversation on serverless and Kubernetes, with Kelsey Hightower, developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform at Google (and co-author of Kubernetes: Up and Running), and Chris Gaun, Kubernetes product manager at Mesosphere.

Discussion points:

• Hightower and Gaun agree that the biggest issue people face when deciding to start using Kubernetes is an underestimation of the learning curve.
• Whether or not there is a competition between Kubernetes containers and serverless
• Considerations when attempting to move an existing application to a serverless architecture
• The new open source frameworks that work on Kubernetes (including Kubeless and OpenFaaS)
• Workflow engines being used on top of Kubernetes (including Kubeflow and Argo)
• Security issues regarding Kubernetes clusters

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