Hi Everyone! I'm Ria Bhatia, a Program Manager within Microsoft Azure. I work on Azure Container Instances (ACI) but specifically I've been working on the ACI Connector. The connector allows customers to spin out container instances from their Kubernetes clusters, which gives them the benefits of per second billing and virtually unlimited compute resources. We've already seen a lot of interest from customers because they don't want to manage their worker nodes, but instead they want to focus on building and deploying their containerized applications. The possibility of eliminating the need to manage agents, not just masters, is exciting and wanted by customers.
After releasing ACI we saw a shift in the cloud market, with Hyper.sh forking off our ACI Connector code, and then Amazon releasing Fargate, which is their version of container instances within the cloud. We realized there was an opportunity to help the other cloud providers connect their pods as a service, platforms, to clusters. Therefore we released a new community and pluggable version of the ACI Connector, named Virtual Kubelet and it's currently hosted here: https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet As a result, I'm proposing for the creation of a "Virtual Kubelet" working group where all relevant cloud providers and interested parties can help guide and design the future of "serverless" Kubernetes. Through Virtual Kubelet we can conform on the design for how customers will interact and create applications that directly deploy to Kubernetes without any extra thought on the underlying infrastructure. Mission statement: Design and build a consensus around how users interact with pods as the base layer of infrastructure within Kubernetes. Create an experience so all cloud providers have a consistent and innovative interface for connecting Kubernetes to their pods as a service, platforms. Thanks, Ria -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
