Daniel Bryant is the Head of DevRel at Ambassador Labs. His technical expertise focuses on DevOps tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, and he contributes to several open source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, OReilly, and The New Stack, and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon, and JavaOne. In his copious amounts of free time, he enjoys running, reading, and traveling.
Today, developers building applications on Kubernetes are being asked to not just code applications but to also be responsible for shipping and running their applications. We often talk about needing a Kubernetes platform, but are we really looking for a PaaS? Or are we looking for some kind of developer control plane with a Goldilock-sized collection of tools that provides just the right amount of platform?
This session will look back on my experience of building platforms, will walk-through the CNCF ecosystem through the developer control plane lens, and look at whats next in the future of this important emerging category.