Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for container orchestration. However, the associated onboarding & learning curves are pretty steep. Consequently, the developer experience is lowered by the associated operations tasks that a developer needs to perform for getting an application up & running. Add to this, the overheads incurred by many operations teams toward the design & maintenance of internal developer platforms that are self-service in nature owing to shifts in industry trends.
This is the challenge that SUSE's open source project, Epinio, addresses. It offers an abstraction layer built on Kubernetes to simplify the developer & operator experience. As a developer, you can directly deploy applications with the Epinio CLI & paketo buildpacks onto a K8s cluster without having to worry about the nuts & bolts. As an operator, Epinio empowers you to focus on enforcing guardrails around setup & deployment by working directly with the cluster.
With this session, the speaker aims to arm the audience with a beginner-level understanding of Epinio & empower them to try it locally by covering the following topics:
- Kubernetes & the rise of Platform engineering
- What is Epinio?
- Architecture
- Live demo of installing Epinio
- Roadmap
- How to get involved