Dualing Platforms: Building Services for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Using the Open Service Broker

Dualing Platforms: Building Services for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Using the Open Service Broker API - Alex Ley & Matt McNeeney, Pivotal

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. The Open Service Broker API working group brings together experts from Google, RedHat, Pivotal, SAP and IBM in order to demolish barriers in the adoption of cloud-native services, with a user-centric approach focused on delivering features based exclusively in real world use cases.

After providing an introduction to cloud-native applications and the need for stateful services, we will explain how the Open Service Broker API project can help developers build a variety of services that can be deployed once and consumed anywhere.

We will then run a live side-by-side demo where we build and deploy a service broker and then consume it from applications running in two different platforms: Cloud Foundry and Kubo (BOSH-powered Kubernetes).

About Alex Ley
Alex is a Product Manager for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform and is focused on enabling multi-cloud services using Cloud Foundry and BOSH. Previously, Alex was a committer to the container engine Garden Linux, used by Cloud Foundry, and worked in London's FinTech startup scene. Alex is also contributing to the Open Service Broker API initiative as a member of the project management committee. You can regularly find Alex talking about Cloud Native technologies and agile working practices at conferences around Europe and the US.

About Matt McNeeney
Senior Product Manager, Pivotal
Matt is a Senior Product Manager at Pivotal who works on the Open Service Broker API and the developer user experience using services within Cloud Foundry.