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OUR SPONSORS
Speakers: Mauricio Salatino and Thomas Vitale
Unlocking New Platform
Experiences with Open
Interfaces
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Mauricio Salatino & Thomas Vitale
KCD Munich
July 1st, 2024
Unlocking New Platform
Experiences with Open
Interfaces
@vitalethomas @salaboy
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Challenges
That teams face when trying to go faster
Onboarding
Process
Application Runtime
and Operations
Distributed
Systems
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Let’s Start with a Demo
Based on https://github.com/dockersamples/example-voting-app @salaboy @vitalethomas
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Demo
@salaboy
https://diagrid.ws/vote-kcd-munich
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It is not that simple
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diagrid.io
• Software Engineer and CNCF
Ambassador.
• Author of “Platform
Engineering on Kubernetes”
(Manning).
• @DaprDev @KnativeProject
@KeptnProject
Mauricio Salatino
salaboy.com @Salaboy
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Systematic
• Software Engineer
• CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE
Pro, Testcontainers Community
Champion
• Author of “Cloud Native Spring
in Action” (Manning).
• OSS contributor (Java, Spring,
Cloud Native Technologies)
Thomas Vitale
thomasvitale.com @vitalethomas
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tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/app-development/
• Bring developers closer to the
Cloud Native ecosystem
• Promote and bring new tools to
the ecosystem that impact
developers on their day-to-day
tasks
• Help platform engineering teams
to understand how di
ff
erent tools
can enable and make more
e
ffi
cient their development teams
App Development Working Group
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Let’s unlock new
platform
experiences!
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Onboarding Process
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Bootstrapping a New Project
@salaboy @vitalethomas
Backstage Software Templates
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Image
pack build
Building a Container Image
Cloud Native Buildpacks
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Empowering Application Teams
Development Work
fl
ows
@salaboy @vitalethomas
Dagger
Implement pipelines
using your favourite
programming language.
Knative Functions
Bootstrap, build, and
deploy Kubernetes-
native functions.
Testcontainers
Dev and test services
integrated in the
application lifecycle.
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Continuous Development
Code, Run, Test, Debug
Development Workflow
gradle bootRun
flask --debug run
yarn dev
Dev & Test Services
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Distributed Systems
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Decoupling application from environments
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Distributed Application Runtime
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Decoupling application from environments
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Cloud-Native Patterns
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Cloud-Native Patterns
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Cloud Native Patterns
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Cloud Native Patterns - Outbox Patterns
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Durable Executions / Workflows
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Application Runtime &
Operations
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Configuration: Workload API
Crossplane Composition
@vitalethomas
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Configuration: Implementation
Crossplane Composition
Workload API
Serverless
Deployment
Service
Binding
Application Conventions
@vitalethomas
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Application Runtime
Going to Production
@salaboy @vitalethomas
Dapr
APIs for building secure
and reliable
microservices.
Knative Serving
Serverless deployments,
autoscaling,
scaling from zero.
KEDA
Event-driven autoscaling,
extensible, function-
aware.
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Platform Operations
Building and maintaining a platform
@salaboy @vitalethomas
Carvel
Kubernetes-native
package management
for portable platforms.
Flux
Continuous deployment
via GitOps and
RegistryOps.
OpenTelemetry
Uni
fi
ed APIs and
protocols for
observability signals
(logs, metrics, traces…).
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Don’t do it alone!
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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If you are in this journey…
Learn about the companies behind these projects
• Knative Serving (https://knative.dev)
• Part of Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
• Part of VMware Tanzu Platform
• APIs adopted by Google Cloud Run
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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If you are in this journey…
Learn about the companies behind these projects
• Crossplane (https://www.crossplane.io/)
• Upbound runs a managed platform, so you don’t need to install and
manage Crossplane
• Upbound Cloud can be run on your compute, so you have full control on
your Crossplane instances
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If you are in this journey…
Learn about the companies behind these projects
• Dapr (https://diagrid.io)
• Run as a managed service on Azure Container Apps, this means that you
have the Dapr APIs available for your containers
• Diagrid o
ff
ers two products
• Diagrid’s Conductor to manage and operate Dapr at scale on your
Kubernetes clusters
• Diagrid’s Catalyst managed service that you can use from any Cloud
Provider, including your on-prem setups.
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If you are in this journey…
Learn about the companies behind these projects
• Buildpacks (https://buildpacks.io/)
• Heroku/Salesforce
• VMware Tanzu
• Google Cloud
• Azure
• Bloomberg
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Takeaways
• APIs, standards and open source projects: help you to protect
your platform investments
• Speedy Onboarding process: simplify and reduce cognitive load
from new team members
• Out of the Box Cloud-Native patterns: abstract away complexity to
reduce cross-environment differences
• Smooth Operations: optimise for your use cases, there is no silver
bullet
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Win a Book! 📕 📕
@salaboy @vitalethomas
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Mauricio Salatino
Thomas Vitale
@salaboy
salaboy.com
@vitalethomas
thomasvitale.com