KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual

How easy is it to use cloud resources alongside with your Kubernetes applications? Actually, provisioning cloud resources and consuming them by the k8s apps is never an easy game. We usually need to struggle in creating cloud services one by one in different cloud product consoles and configuring them separately. Essentially, cloud and k8s are two different systems, interoperability is the missing part. In this tutorial, audience will walk through a unified and standard approach to manage apps and cloud resources. We will do an end-to-end workshop from modeling a distributed app which consumes various cloud resources in unified definition, to practices like dependency management, service binding, and cost management for the cloud. GitOps tool, Crossplane and OAM will be the main open source technology we use in the workshop.

Applications running on Kubernetes are composed of dozens of resources maintained through an intricate collection of carefully maintained YAML files. As applications evolve and teams grow, these files become hard to manage and reuse — copying & pasting from previous projects is not the solution! The CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s) is a new open-source software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications and resources using familiar programming languages. In this tutorial, the creators of cdk8s show you how to define your first cdk8s application, design a reusable construct and package it as a library, and generally say goodbye (and thank you very much) to writing in YAML. Bring your laptops set up with your favorite development environment in one of the supported languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, or .NET).