The CNCF supports the development and adoption of serverless computing paradigms optimized for modern distributed systems. Its serverless working group, formed in June 2017, aims to establish common vocabularies, highlight use cases, and create standardization efforts like event data formats. The group also focuses on educating developers and documenting integrations with other CNCF projects.

1. The CNCF on Serverless
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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Twelve projects currently in the CNCF

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The Cloud Native Landscape

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Four current 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, iguazio, Amazon,
MasterCard, Pivotal, VMware, Serverless
Inc., Clay Labs, The New Stack, A Cloud
Guru, 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, similar to CNI and CSI.
Coalescing on a single format between a few proposals:
● Cloud-Native Event Mapping (CNEM) – (iguazio)
● OpenEvents – (Serverless, Inc.)
● Cloud Auditing Data Federation – (IBM, DMTF)
Handle
any event
from
anywhere
github.com/cncf/wg-serverless

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CNCF Serverless Working Group
● Maintain a matrix and landscape of serverless implementations and features.
● 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

12. The CNCF on Serverless
Daniel Krook • Software Engineer • IBM