App Delivery in Cloud Native: Where are We? What's Next?

The presentation discusses the changes in application delivery and management in 2021, with a focus on application definition and developer-centric experience. The use of templating and higher-level abstractions is becoming more prominent in Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Templating is widely used to define best practices as templates and expose only necessary parameters to end-users
• Kubernetes is becoming a management plane for more resources beyond just Kubernetes resources
• Application definition is moving beyond infrastructure and towards developer experience
• GitHub's adoption is growing, with more mature use cases for multi-stage delivery and progressive delivery
• Kubernetes is becoming a platform to build platforms, introducing higher-level abstractions and additional tools
• Service catalogs help to scale the adoption of Kubernetes in the templating space

One interesting project mentioned is KubeVela, which allows users to declare best practices as templates using Q language and Helm chart, giving end-users a highly extensible way to define application object attractions based on their own needs.

In 2021, there are more and more buzz around the CNCF landscape and it's getting overly complex! So, where are we now? Where are we heading to? In this session we walk through key trends we observed in cloud native application delivery ecosystem and illustrate major challenges we are facing. We will also demo practices tried to solve these issues based on real world case studies collected by SIG App Delivery, with projects available in open source community, for example, the full application delivery workflow from defining your application all the way to running it in production. Whether you are just about to start running applications on Kubernetes or want to improve your skills. This session will help you to identify what to consider when building app platforms, share good practices, compare different approaches and learn about key trends and quick tour through the CNCF ecosystem with a focus on delivering and running applications.