The CNCF supports the adoption and evolution of serverless computing within modern distributed systems, aiming for scalability and reliability. It includes various active projects and working groups focused on standardizing serverless architectures and facilitating integration among cloud applications. The CNCF Serverless Working Group, established in June 2017, promotes collaboration among major tech companies and works on creating common specifications and educational resources related to serverless technologies.

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Daniel Krook • Software Engineer • IBM

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The CNCF supports modern distributed systems
Create and drive the adoption of a new computing
paradigm that is optimized for modern distributed
systems environments capable of scaling to tens
of thousands of self healing multi-tenant nodes.
• Provide stewardship for projects
• Foster growth and evolution of ecosystems
• Promote of the underlying technologies
• Make the technology accessible and reliable
Fast • Open • Fair

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CNCF membership includes serverless leaders

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Sixteen projects are currently in the CNCF

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The Cloud Native Landscape

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Four active CNCF Working Groups
Provides infrastructure to
hosted projects.
Looks to offer integration
testing between projects.
Providing a Container
Networking Interface
(CNI) specification.
Aims for connectivity and
portability in cloud native
application networking.
Providing a Container
Storage Interface (CSI)
specification.
Aims for portability
across cloud
orchestration systems.
Educate cloud native
developers on serverless
architectures.
Determine what the
CNCF should do in this
space.
Recommend involvement
in specifications and
projects.

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
Formed in June 2017
Participation from:
Google, Red Hat, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft,
SolarWinds, Docker, Oracle, iguazio, SAP
Amazon, MasterCard, Pivotal, VMware,
Serverless Inc., Clay Labs, The New Stack,
A Cloud Guru, Splunk, Honeycomb, Intel
Platform9, Bitnami, Auth0, and Hyper.
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
§ Describes serverless platforms as they exist today using a common vocabulary.
§ Highlights promising use cases and areas where they’ve already proven value.
§ Differentiates serverless from PaaS and Container Orchestration.
§ Describes the mechanics of a generic serverless system.
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
Creating a common model for event data, like CNI and CSI.
Rapidly coalescing on a simple common format.
github.com/cloudevents/spec
cloudevents.org
Handle any event
from anywhere
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
• Produce additional documents and samples that educate users on serverless apps.
• Document integration with other CNCF projects, such as how to monitor and observe.
• Potential collaboration on a declarative packaging format specification.
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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Get involved with the CNCF Serverless WG
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

13. Serverless at the CNCF
Daniel Krook • Software Engineer • IBM