Lightning talks

The lightning talks are 10-minute talks by different CNCF projects.

Building containers at scale using buildpacks

A Project lightning talk by Heroku and the CNCF buildpacks.

How and why buildpacks?

  • What: A simple way to build reproducible container images
  • Why: Scale, Reuse, Rebase: Buildpacks are structured as layers
    • Dependencies, app builds and the runtime are seperated -> Easy update
  • How: Use the Pack CLI pack build <image> docker run <image>

Konveyor

A Platform for migration of legacy apps to cloud native platforms.

  • Parts: Hub, Analysis (with language server), assessment
  • Roadmap: Multi language support, GenAI, Asset Generation (e.g. Kube Deployments)

Argo’s Community Driven Development

Pretty much a short introduction to Argo Project

  • Project Parts: Workflows (CI), Events, CD, Rollouts
  • NPS: Net Promoter Score (How likely are you to recommend this) -> Everyone loves Argo (based on their survey)
  • Rollouts: Can be based with Prometheus metrics

Flux

  • Components: Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, …
  • Flagger Now supports gateway API, Prometheus, Datadog and more
  • New Releases

A quick look at the TAG App-Delivery

  • Mission: Everything related to cloud-native application delivery
  • Bi-Weekly Meetings
  • Subgroup: Platforms