Aaron and Brian review KubeCon 2017 (Berlin), DockerCon 2017 (Austin) and Aaron’s trip to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions. They also read a bunch of sponsor ads for sponsors they don't have. Use offer code CLOUDCAST to get awesome discounts and free stuff (or not).

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CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Videos
Microsoft Azure Functions
Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions
Azure Logic Apps
Docker to Moby Changes | LinuxKit | containerd 
theCUBE at DockerCon (videos)



Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about CloudNativeCon + KubeCon

About 1200-1500 attendees
 
Lots of Kubernetes projects (60+)
 
Microsoft bought Deis
 
IBM now supports Kubernetes
 
New focus on making the UI/UX better

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about your visit to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions
Azure Functions 


Languages they use 
Event Driven and Trigger Based Code 
Terminology is very developer friendly, specifically Enterprise Developer friendly 
Use cases were very real world, customer references were presented well 
I could see the use case and the problem it solves (compared to others it seems abstract at times) 
Bindings were a differentiator 
I was surprised by the number of external bindings. Of course there were all the MSFT internal ones, but you had JIRA, github, Trello, Asana, etc. It was impressive to see the binding ecosystem
App Insights - ability to debug/trace/monitor 
Logic Apps is like a visual pipeline to build step functions into a workflow 
Came in not knowing really anything and came away with a very clear picture of how they plan to be successful and I give them good odds for sure. Hell, they're Microsoft...





Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what got announced at DockerCon 2017 


Docker to Moby (what does that mean??)
 
LinuxKit - DIY Linux, UniKernel, Windows
  
Enterprise Apps, Oracle, Microsoft





Topic 4 - Let’s talk about what we expect to see/hear at ServerlessConf Austin 


Differences between various implementations

Users vs. Vendors vs. Consultants
Are they all cloud-specific or will we see a cloud-agnostic serverless emerge
 
Understand the Serverless Framework 
 
Better understand use-cases and application patterns













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