An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
At a packed KubeCon 2018 in Seattle, there’s gotta be 100 forms of projects or startups managing, orchestrating, testing and launching containers into hybrid clouds. Pivotal, though, is trying to live up to its name and reputation as a fulcrum for easing the pain of packaging modern apps and teaching developers to think about a new design paradigm while dragging legacy software into a new, cloudy, multi-cluster world.
Talking to Pivotal SVP of Products James Watters, we found he’s been working with open source contributors and enterprise teams for eight or more years on this new version of an application stack that started with Cloud Foundry and grew in portability atop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The pipeline toward modern continuous delivery is driven by innovations in cloud, containerization and stateless microservices, but also by cultural and process change within companies, a mentorship aspect the company’s Pivotal Labs division promotes.
“This is the opposite of ITIL in the cloud,” Watters said. The company just released a Pivotal Functions Service, or PFS, to allow developers to describe applications using ready-to-deploy stateless, event-driven functions.
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