Event-driven, serverless architectures are a hot topic in today’s cloud-native application development. To take full advantage of the serverless benefits of event-driven, your application needs to scale and react to those events instantly. It needs to be able to scale from zero to potentially thousands of instances. KEDA is an open-sourced component that provides event-driven autoscaling for your Kubernetes workloads.
In this demo-filled session, we will start with a quick introduction to Kubernetes to ensure everyone is on board and see where KEDA fits in. KEDA can run on any Kubernetes cluster as shown in various demos: using KEDA on Kubernetes in Azure, on your local development machine, and on the new Azure Container Apps that have KEDA built-in. We will use various types of applications ranging from simple console apps, and web apps to Azure Functions to show that KEDA can scale any container. You will then see how you can deploy these applications and scale that to thousands of instances based on events.