We’re back! This week, Mark welcomes Gabi as his new co-host! Listen in as they discuss Knative with Mark Chmarny and Ville Aikas.

So what is Knative? Mark and Ville explain that Knative is basically a way to simplify Kubernetes for developers. This way, developers can focus on writing good code without worrying about all the aspects of Kubernetes, such as deploying and autoscaling. Knative helps with these functions automatically. Knative also supports many languages which allows developers to bring their own stack. The day-to-day of developing doesn’t change, which is the beautiful thing about Knative!

Knative is open source and easy to deploy. Developers can find installation guides online for any Kubernetes certified instance of service. A link to the installation guide for Knative on GKE is in our show notes.

Mark Chmarny

Mark is a Technical Program Manager for Serverless focusing on enabling customers to be successful with our serverless portfolio on GCP, and driving community awareness of our serverless products on GKE. Prior to that Mark lead the Partner Engineering team for Data, Analytics and ML at Google. Before Google, Mark was the Sr. Director of Datacenter Solutions Group at Intel.

Ville Aikas

Ville is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for Knative, leads Knative Eventing, and (with Matt) conceived ducks for K8s. Previously, Ville worked on Helm, K8s Service Catalog and Kubernetes (before it was Kubernetes). Before the OSS stint Ville was a TL for Google Cloud Storage.

Cool things of the week

• Let the sunshine in: opening the market for more renewable energy in Asia blog
• Get Go-ing with Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language blog
• Building Google’s Game of the Year with Cloud Text-to-Speech and App Engine blog
• Welcome to the service mesh era: Introducing a new Istio blog post series blog

Interview

• Knative site
• Knative Blog blog
• Knative on GitHub site
• Kubernetes site
• MiniKube site
• GKE site
• Pub/Sub site
• Cloudevents site
• Knative Install on Google Kubernetes Engine site
• Knative Slack site

Question of the week

How long does it take for Cloud SQL to detect an outage and trigger High Availability failover?

Where can you find us next?

Gabi will be discussing the awesome new features of MySQL 8.0 at PHP UK - London and you will be also able to find her at Cloud NEXT

Mark will be at GDC in March, Cloud NEXT, and ECG in April

Our guests will be at Cloud NEXT and KubeCon Barcelona