CNCF TAG Appデリバリー – Announcement

Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon EU 2025

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:04:39 +0100

KubeCon EU 2025 is only a week away!

The TAG App Delivery is excited to bring together cloud-native application developers and framework builders to meet each other and share insights and knowledge. Our goal is to make cloud development better for all by gathering feedback, finding synergies and guiding both users and projects.

TAG booth

You can find the TAG App Delivery at our booth TAG - A in the project pavilion, where we will have lightning talks and showcase the work of the platforms and artifact working groups.

You can find a map of the Project Pavilion booths here

Schedule

We will continuously update the below schedule as more information becomes available. You can also subscribe to the TAG KubeCon Calendar to conveniently keep up to date with our activites. Times are in BST.

Tuesday, April 1st: Co-located Events

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Costa Coffee , East Entrace, Excel, London	Platform Coffee Meetup	CNCF Platforms Working Group
09:00 - 19:00	Level 1 Hall Entrance N10 Room F	Platform Engineering Day
09:00 - 17:30	Level 0 ICC Capital Hall Room I	BackstageCon
09:00 - 17:30	Level 1 Hall Entrance S10 Room A	ArgoCon
09:00 - 17:30	Level 3 ICC Capital Suite 14-16	OpenTofu Day
16:55 - 17:25	Level 1 - Hall Entrance N10 - Room H	Panel: Navigating the Platform Revolution: From Bottom-Up Innovation To Product Thinking	Antoine Bermon, SNCF; Kanika Gera, Adobe ; Louis Bichard, Gitpod; Christina Kraus, meshcloud

Wednesday, April 2nd: Conference Day 1

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Costa Coffee , East Entrace, Excel, London	Platform Coffee Meetup	CNCF Platforms Working Group
10:30 - 12:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads
12:00 - 12:10	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Lightning-Fast Local AI App Development with Podman”	Daniel Oh
12:15 - 12:25	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Build Your Perfect App Delivery Model: Customizing Standards with Crossplane XRDs”	Sarah Murphy
12:30 - 12:40	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Platform Engineering untold thruths: is it just an infrastructure matter?”	Graziano Casto
12:45- 12:55	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Platformization: Perceiving Platform Patterns”	Ram Iyengar
13:00 - 14:30	Booth TAG-A	Platforms Working Group	WG Leads
14:30- 16:00	Booth TAG-A	App Development Working Group	WG Leads
16:00 - 18:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads
18:00- 20:00	Booth TAG-A	KubeCrawl	TAG Leads

Thursday, April 3rd: Conference Day 2

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Costa Coffee , East Entrace, Excel, London	Platform Coffee Meetup	CNCF Platforms Working Group
10:30 - 12:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads
12:00 - 12:10	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Scale Before It Hurts: KEDA for Data-Intensive Apps”	Graziano Casto & Alessandro Cannarella
12:12 - 12:22	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Extensibility and Portability with Radius for Platform Engineers”	Johnathan Smith
12:25 - 12:35	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Is there a tool for this? - App Developer Edition”	Alexandra Aldershaab
12:37 - 12:47	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Your Application Delivery Ran Over My CI/CD: Expanding Beyond Pipeline Thinking”	Luke Philips
12:50 - 13:00	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “GitOps for Everything with Pluggable PipeCD”	Tetsuya Kikuchi
13:00 - 14:30	Booth TAG-A	Infrastructure Lifecycle Working Group	WG Leads
14:30- 16:00	Booth TAG-A	Artifacts Working Group	WG Leads
16:00 - 17:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads

Friday, April 4th: Conference Day 3

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Costa Coffee , East Entrace, Excel, London	Platform Coffee Meetup	CNCF Platforms Working Group
10:30 - 12:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads
12:00 - 12:10	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Continuous Promotion - Take full advantage of your Cloud Native Infrastructure”	Christian Hernandez
12:15 - 12:25	Booth TAG-A	Lightning Talk - “Navigating the Cloud-Native Inner and Outer Loop for Developer Productivity”	Mona Borham
12:30 - 14:00	Booth TAG-A	Open Booth	TAG Leads

Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon NA (Salt Lake City) 2024

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:04:39 +0100

KubeCon NA 2024 is almost here!
The TAG App Delivery is excited to bring together cloud-native application developers and framework builders to meet each other and share insights and knowledge. Our goal is to make cloud development better for all by gathering feedback, finding synergies and guiding both users and projects.

TAG booth

You can find the TAG App Delivery at our booth Kiosk 4A in the project pavilion,

Lightning Talks

Will have lightning talks and showcase the work of the platforms and artifact working groups at the TAG booth.

If you would like to submit a Lightning Talk, please use this form: Lightning Talk Submission Form

Please note the following requirements to submit a talk proposal

The topic should be relevant to the TAG app-delivery. If in doubt, refer to our charter
When submitting project presentations, keep in mind that we will only accept CNCF projects, or projects submitted to CNCF sandbox.
Lightning talks will be a maximum of 10 minutes, a computer display can not be guaranteed.

The call for proposals ends November 8th. If your talk is accepted, we will notify you by November 9th. If you did not hear back from us, your submission has unfortunately not been accepted.

Schedule

We will continuously update the below schedule as more information becomes available. You can also subscribe to the TAG KubeCon Calendar to conveniently keep up to date with our activites.

Tuesday: Co-located Events

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
7:15am MST	Cupla Coffee - 77 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101	“Platform Coffee” meetup	Platforms WG (sponsor TBD)
9:10am MST	Salt Palace - Level 1 - Grand Ballroom G	Platform Working Group Update	Platform Working Group Leads
10:40am MST	Salt Palace - Level 1 - Grand Ballroom G	Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability	Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso
11:15am MST	Salt Palace - Level 1 - Grand Ballroom G	Lightning Talk: Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform?	Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

Wednesday: Conference Day 1

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
7:15am MST	Cupla Coffee - 77 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101	“Platform Coffee” meetup	Platforms WG (sponsor TBD)
11:15am MST	Hyatt Regency - Level 2 - Salt Lake Ballroom C	The State of Cloud Native Business Value in 2024	Danielle Cook, StackGen; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Robbie Glenn, Glennium
10:45am - 3:15pm	Kiosk 3B	Microcks, The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing	Yacine Kheddache, Laurent Broudoux and community members
12:00pm - 1:30pm MST	Platforms Working Group (updated link March, 2026)	Platform Working Group Leads
1:35pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “You Can Score It! Shift Down to the Platform. Do Not Shift Left to the Developers.”	Mathieu Benoit
1:55pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “A Quick Dive into ArgoCD Sync Phases & Waves”	Colin Lacy
2:15pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “What’s Inside The Platform Fanny Pack?”	Ram Iyengar
2:30pm - 4:00pm MST	Artifacts Working Group	Artifacts Working Group Leads
5:25pm MST	Salt Palace - Level 1 - Grand Ballroom H	Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers	Ritesh Patel, Nirmata; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Viktor Farcic, Upbound; Nicholas Morey, Akuity; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon

Thursday: Conference Day 2

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
7:15am MST	Cupla Coffee - 77 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101	“Platform Coffee” meetup	Platforms WG (sponsor TBD)
12:00pm - 1:30pm MST	App Development Working Group	App Development Working Group Leads
1:45pm - 5:00pm	Kiosk 5B	Microcks, The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing	Yacine Kheddache, Laurent Broudoux and community members
1:35pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “A deep dive in Guidewire’s Cloud Platform with CrossPlane and Kubevela”	Jérôme Guionnet
1:55pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “Another Platform Engineering Story: Migration of Legacy PaaS and the Platform Team’s Contributions”	Hiroshi Hayakawa
2:15pm MST	Kiosk 4A	Lighning Talk - “Platform as a Product: Starting with the Personas”	Valentina Rodriguez Sosa
2:30pm MST	Salt Palace - Level 3 - 355 E	Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You	Daniel Oh, Red Hat; Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft; Abby Bangser, Syntasso

Friday: Conference Day 3

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
7:15am MST	Cupla Coffee - 77 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101	“Platform Coffee” meetup	Platforms WG (sponsor TBD)
12:00pm - 1:30pm MST	Infrastructure Lifecycle Working Group	Infrastructure Lifecycle Working Group Leads
11:00am MST	Salt Palace - Level 1 - Grand Ballroom H	Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel	Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Suhail Patel, Monzo; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International

Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon EU 2024

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:04:39 +0100

KubeCon EU 2024 is only four more weeks away!
The TAG App Delivery is excited to bring together cloud-native application developers and framework builders to meet each other and share insights and knowledge. Our goal is to make cloud development better for all by gathering feedback, finding synergies and guiding both users and projects.

TAG booth

You can find the TAG App Delivery at our booth PP19-A in the project pavilion, where we will have lightning talks and showcase the work of the platforms and artifact working groups.

The CfP for lightning talks is now closed.

Please note the following requirements to submit a talk propsal

The topic should be relevant to the TAG app-delivery. If in doubt, refer to our charter
When submitting project presentations, keep in mind that we will only accept CNCF projects, or projects submitted to CNCF sandbox.
Lightning talks will be a maximum of 10 minutes, a computer display can not be guaranteed. The call for proposals ends March 3rd. If your talk is accepted, we will notify you by March 9th. If you did not hear back from us, your submission has unfortunately not been accepted.

TAG presentations

We will also have two presentations at KubeCon itself.

On Tuesday, Tech Lead Lian Li will give A Quick Look at the TAG App Delivery in the form of a lightning talk.

On Thursday, TAG chair Thomas Schuetz and Tech Lead Lian Li will talk about the everchanging landscape of cloud-native application delivery and how that influences the scope of our work in the TAG.

Schedule

We will continuously update the below schedule as more information becomes available. You can also subscribe to the TAG KubeCon Calendar to conveniently keep up to date with our activites.

Tuesday: Co-located Events

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Le Bellune 35 Boulevard Victor 75015	Platform Lean Coffee	Coffee and pastries sponsored by GitPod
09:00 - 19:00	Level 7.1 Room B	Platform Engineering Day	Abby Bangser, Bryan Oliver, Colin Griffin
09:00 - 17:30	Level 7.1 Room C	BackstageCon
09:00 - 17:35	Level 7.3 Room S04	AppDeveloperCon	Mauricio Salatino
09:00 - 17:30	Level 7.3 Room N03	ArgoCon	Andre Marcelo-Tanner, Andrew Block, Scott Rigby
12:30 - 12:37	Level 7.1 Room D	A Quick Look at the TAG App Delivery	Lian Li
15:30 - 15:50	Gaumont Aquaboulevard	Openshift Commons panel From Platform Engineering to Developer Success
Lian Li, Thomas Schuetz, Atul Sharma, Mauricio Salatino

Wednesday: Conference Day 1

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Le Bellune 35 Boulevard Victor 75015	Platform Lean Coffee	Coffee and pastries sponsored by Kratix
10:45 - 12:00	Booth PP19-A	Public Project Meeting	TAG leads
12:00 - 13:00	Booth PP19-A	Open Booth: WG Artifacts	Andrew Block
13:00 - 13:10	Booth PP19-A	OpenGitOps: Who we are and what we do	Christian Hernandez
13:17 - 13:27	Booth PP19-A	The state of GitOps Progressive Delivery 2024	Anton Weiss
13:34 - 13:44	Booth PP19-A	Self-service infrastructure with Backstage	Engin Diri
13:51 - 14:01	Booth PP19-A	Revolutionizing Container Image Building with kpack	Timo Salm
14:08 - 14:18	Booth PP19-A	Kubernetes Developer Experience Patterns	Lou Bichard
14:25 - 14:35	Booth PP19-A	Knative for App Delivery	Ali Ok
14:42 - 14:52	Booth PP19-A	Delivering next-gen applications with WebAssembly	Joonas Bergius

Thursday: Conference Day 2

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
07:15 - 08:45	Le Bellune 35 Boulevard Victor 75015	Platform Lean Coffee	Coffee and pastries sponsored by Krumware
10:30 - 10:40	Booth PP19-A	ArgoCD GitOps Bridge Pattern	Carlos Santana
10:47 - 10:57	Booth PP19-A	Empowering and Accelerating Cloud-Native Development with Buildpacks.io	Michael Murabito
11:04 - 11:14	Booth PP19-A	The BACK Stack	David Murphy
11:21 - 11:31	Booth PP19-A	Sustainable software development in Kubernetes	Davide Bianchi
11:38 - 11:48	Booth PP19-A	Bringing an Internal Developer Platform to Life	Andre Marcelo-Tanner
11:55 - 12:05	Booth PP19-A	Seamless service tracing with OpenTelemetry	Javier Fernandez Rodriguez
12:12 - 12:22	Booth PP19-A	Trace It Right: Observability-Powered Testing at the Speed of Light	Ken Hamric
12:30 - 13:30	Booth PP19-A	Open Booth: WG Platforms	David Stenglein, Bryan Oliver
15:25 - 16:00	Level 7.3 Room E05 - E06	Navigating the Depth of App Delivery Through Memes	Lian Li, Thomas Schuetz

Friday: Conference Day 3

Time	Location	Topic	Presenter
10:30 - 12:30	Booth PP19-A	Open Booth

Blog: Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The CNCF Platforms Working Group (WG) is excited to present the first release of a platform engineering maturity model which provides a more concrete application of the extremely well received white paper from this past April.

Download now as a PDF or view it on our website.

We want to thank the almost 50 people who have contributed their time and ideas to make this model reflect the state of companies both small and large and across both fast moving and highly regulated industries; all of them are listed below.

The platforms white paper released in April 2023 was always aimed at providing an executive summary on the what and why behind platforms. This paper successfully defined a north star for many organizations but left questions about how they can progress. This new model presents platform engineering as the practice used to offer an internal platform as a product through investment in all parts of building platforms and their capabilities - the people, processes, policy, and technology which in turn drive business outcomes.

While presented as a single model with 5 aspects and 4 levels of maturity, the accompanying paper extends well beyond the black and white tick box exercise sometimes associated with maturity models.

Clear explanations of each aspect and each level within an aspect are provided and characteristics and scenarios are provided for each model item. These details have been collected from diverse working group members’ experiences to provide readers a chance to see real world applications hand in hand with the theory behind each progression. In addition, we want your stories to help decorate this model by including examples that you are happy to share. To introduce a new example, please follow the contribution guide and share your story.

As readers, we encourage you to remember that it is not only costly, but sometimes actively detrimental to blindly follow any model to the highest level of maturity. Instead, we hope you will use this model to identify both your current and desired characteristics, enabling you to target your investment in the areas you will most benefit from.

Finally, we want to take this opportunity to reintroduce the working group as a welcoming community of companies building platforms, consulting on platforms, and creating tools to support platform builders. We have a number of exciting initiatives in flight and would love to see you get involved including fortnightly meetings to share platform building stories and a deep dive paper on Platform as a Product. For more information please see our website or join the #platform-engineering channel in the CNCF slack.

Thank you to our contributors!

As we reach this milestone we want to thank all the reviewers for all their contributions and feedback:

Abby Bangser (Project lead)
Abby Kearns
Abdur Rahman Mungul
Adam Gardner
Adrian Cockroft
Antoine Bermon
Areti Panou
Asare Nikansah
Asare Nkansah
Atulpriya Sharma
Blake Romano
Bob Hong
Bruno Dias
Colin Griffin
Colin Humphreys
Daniel Bryant
David Sandilands
Edward (Ted) Newman
Jennifer Riggins
John Dietz
John Gardner
Josh Gavant
Karena Angell
Kief Morris
Kirstin Slevin
Luca Acquaviva
Manuel Pais
Marsh Gardiner
Matt Menzenski
Michael Coté
Michael Kestigian
Nadav Cohen
Nicki Watt
Niklas Beinghaus
Paula Kennedy
Puja Abbassi
Puneet Kandhari
Ram Iyengar
Ramanujan Iyengar
Rick Osowski
Roberth Strand
Rogerio Angeliski
Saim Safdar
Sam Newman
Simon Forster
Tsahi Duek
Victor Lu
Vijay Chintha
Viktor “Bika” Nagy
Vishal Biyani

Resources

Slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C020RHD43BP

Mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-tag-app-delivery

Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon Chicago

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

At Kubecon Chicago TAG App Delivery will bring together maintainers and users of projects that enable cloud-native application delivery to meet and learn from each other. The TAG’s goals as always are to a) enable application delivery projects to learn from each other and from cloud application developers and b) make application delivery faster and more efficient for end users.

To this end the TAG will host a project meeting on Monday morning at the Marriott Marquis on Level 4, room name “Probability”; and booth 41 in the project pavilion at the conference center on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. At these venues we’ll be hosting talks and discussions about app delivery topics; if you’d like to share an open source project, a new idea, or just lead an open discussion please let us know by filling out this form. The project meeting will also be livestreamed to YouTube.

Here’s that info again:

Project meeting on Monday 11/6 from 8am-12pm at the Marriot Marquis, Level 4, room name Probability and YouTube.
Booth and meetup spot at project pavilion booth #P10 on the show floor each afternoon and evening
Form for presentation and discussion proposals: https://forms.gle/ZbNxrK5f72otckvj7

The TAG will also host a panel discussion on Tuesday at 3:25pm on the relevance of platforms and platform engineering for efficient cloud-native computing. Please join us!

Stop by our booth to chat about platforms, GitOps, artifacts and other app delivery topics and learn more about the TAG.

Pre-day meetup - Monday morning

The schedule for the project meeting on Monday morning will be as follows. The meeting will be live streamed and recorded too.

Time	Topic	Presenter
08:00	TAG General Review	TAG Leads
09:00	Sandbox submission review for Radius	Jonathan Smith, Microsoft
10:00	Learn about and discuss CNOE	Nima Kaviani, AWS
11:00	Workload Specifications: Your Best Friends In Platform Engineering	Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud
-	Automating the Deployment of Data Workloads to Kubernetes with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, and Hera	Matt Menzenski, Payit
-	Beyond the Bundle: Porter and CNAB	Sarah Christoff, Microsoft
-	From Apps to Stacks: Delivering Reusable Analytic Stacks on Kubernetes	Robert Hodges, Altinity

Booth meetups - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

The schedule for talks at the booth follows:

Date/Time	Topic
Nov 7 @ 17:00	Chat with participants from Platforms Panel
Nov 8 @ 15:00	Talks and discussions
-	Speed up your API delivery with Microcks
-	How to Build a GitOps Internal Developer Platform on Kubernetes
-	KubeConstellations: Platform Engineering Patterns
-	AAA framework & DCD capability map for Platform Engineering

See you in Chicago!

Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon EU 2023

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

At Kubecon EU next week TAG App Delivery will bring together cloud-native application developers and framework builders to meet each other and share insights and knowledge. Our goal is to make cloud development better for all by gathering feedback, finding synergies and guiding both users and projects.

To this end the TAG will host the following lightning talk meetups. The list of talks and presenters follows below.

a pre-day meetup in RAI Room D301, Congress Center
a booth meetup on Wednesday 4/19 at 3:00pm in booth K1 in the CNCF Project Pavilion in the Solutions Hall
a booth meetup on Thursday 4/20 at 1:30pm in booth K1 in the CNCF Project Pavilion in the Solutions Hall

In addition to these meetings and talks, the TAG will host booth K1 in the project pavilion in the first half of each conference day. Stop by any time to chat with us and learn more about the TAG; initiatives related to operators, GitOps, Platforms and more; and App Delivery-related CNCF projects.

Also, if you work on an open source project related to app delivery and don’t have your own booth, you’re welcome to reserve the TAG booth for a session describing your project! Please DM Josh Gavant on CNCF Slack to coordinate.

Pre-day meetup - Tuesday

Time	Topic	Presenter
13:00	TAG General Review	TAG Leads
13:30	Lightning Talks on Application Delivery
–	Porting CloudFoundry Abstractions on Kubernetes	Ram Iyengar
–	Platform Maturity Model	Abby Bangser
–	Project Unox - A platform showcase experiment	Gopal Ramachandran
–	Burden of Responsibility in cloud-native App Development	Colin Griffin
–	Tailored Platforms on top of Kubernetes	Mauricio Salatino
14:30	TAG Work in Progress Review	WG Leads
–	Platforms	Josh Gavant
–	Operators	Jennifer Streyevitch
–	Artifacts	Andrew Block
–	GitOps	Scott Rigby
–	Other
15:30	Lightning Talks on Application Delivery
–	Capabilities of Portals	Josh Gavant
–	K8sGPT brings superpowers to everyone	Alex Jones
–	Enable secure self-service access to Kubernetes clusters with Paralus	Abhinav Mishra
–	Microcks intro: The Open-source Kubernetes Native tool for API Mocking and Testing	Yacine Kheddache
–	Identity-defined Microservice Networks	Karthik Prabhakar

Booth meetups - Wednesday and Thursday

As mentioned above, we’ll hold meetups with lightning talks on App Delivery topics at booth K1 on Wednesday at 3:00pm and Thursday at 1:30pm.

The schedule for the booth follows:

Date/Time	Topic	Presenter
Apr 19 @ 10:30 - 16:00	Booth open
Apr 19 @ 15:00 - 16:00	Meetup and Lightning Talks
–	ClickOps over GitOps	Laszlo Fogas
–	Implementing the pattern of “as-a-Service” (using Kratix)	Abby Bangser
–	Monitoring-As-Code with Crossplane	Matthias Luebken
–	Using GitOps for AWS Serverless Infrastructure	Carlos Santana
–	Far Beyond Virtual Clusters	Dario Tranchitella
–	GitOps made easy for any applications with PipeCD	Khanh Tran
Apr 20 @ 10:30 - 14:30	Booth open
Apr 20 @ 13:30 - 14:30	Meetup and presentations
–	ReleaseOps: GitOps for the People	Lian Li
–	Composable Platforms with Carvel	Thomas Vitale
–	Making “Tenants” first-class citizens in Kubernetes with Capsule	Dario Tranchitella
Apr 21 @ 10:30 - 12:30	Booth open

TAG presentation

Last but not least, join TAG leads on Thursday for a session describing how applications, operators, GitOps and platforms come together to enable efficient and delightful cloud-native application delivery.

Hope to see you in Amsterdam!

Blog: Announcing a Whitepaper on Platforms for Cloud-native Computing

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

CNCF’s Platforms working group (WG) is pleased to announce the first release of a whitepaper to provide guidance and clarity on the nature and benefits of platforms for cloud-native computing. Download it now as a PDF or view it on our website.

Thank you to our many contributors listed below for their ongoing input and insights!

We prepared this paper because we’ve learned that platforms enable organizations to fully realize the promises of cloud computing. Platforms accelerate application and service delivery by enabling rapid integration of infrastructure and application components. They are a step in the ongoing evolution of enterprise IT, providing core capabilities consistently to enable DevOps-style efficiency and autonomy across an organization.

The objective of this paper is to educate and advise organizational leaders and would-be platform builders by describing the values internal platforms offer, the problems they solve, methods to track their success and attributes and capabilities they require. It presents how today’s CNCF projects fit together as the foundation of complete platform initiatives. Finally, it provides guidance on how to enable platform teams to succeed, how to measure their progress, and some challenges to prepare them for.

WG Platforms and TAG App Delivery are building on this foundation to provide more guidance and reduce complexity for cloud application builders and CNCF project maintainers. Join us via the links below as we expand guidance on practices like integrating a product mindset in platform teams and applying standard governance policies; and as we pursue conventions for capabilities like secrets management, artifact storage, web portals and API frameworks, all potential parts of a complete platform:

Last but not least, this version of this paper will not be the last! Please inform future iterations by responding to our survey (to be shared soon!) and sharing your platform stories with us in CNCF groups and meetups. Hope to talk to you soon!

Thank you to our contributors!

As we reach this milestone we want to thank members of CNCF’s WG Platforms for all their contributions and feedback, particularly the following:

Abby Bangser
Abhinav Mishra
Abi Noda
Alex Chesser
Brad Bazemore
Chris Aniszczyk
Colin Griffin
Dash Copeland
Gopal Ramachandran
Henrik Blixt
Johannes Kleinlercher
Josh Gavant
Justin Abrahms
Lian Li
Mark Fussell
Mauricio Salatino
Pascal Fenkam
Raffaele Spazzoli
Roberth Strand
Saim Safdar
Scott Nasello
Taras Mankovski
Thomas Vitale
Viktor Nagy

Resources

Slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C020RHD43BP
Work item tracker: https://github.com/Cloud-Native-Platform-Engineering/cnpe-community/issues/new/choose
Mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-tag-app-delivery

Blog: Infrastructure for Apps: Platforms for Cooperative Delivery

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

TAG App Delivery formed the Cooperative Delivery working group in late 2021 to gather and report on emerging trends around coordinated delivery of infrastructure capabilities and applications. The TAG noted that while infrastructure teams are successfully adopting software development practices and deploying features and fixes continuously via the likes of GitOps and IaC (Infrastructure as Code), delivery of infrastructure capabilities is often not coordinated well with delivery of applications using that infrastructure. That is, there’s a gap in delivery between application and infrastructure and coordination/cooperation is needed to bridge that gap.

The primary goals of the group have been to a) confirm the hypothesis that there is a gap, b) clarify how it manifests for end users and c) identify and encourage emerging trends to facilitate cooperation. For example, the group’s first hypotheses mentioned the following existing trends:

GitOps: continuous idempotent reconciliation of configuration from declarative descriptors
Operators: reconciliation-oriented services
Pipelines: imperative orchestration of services and applications

In this article we’ll review new trends we’ve learned about from end users and from emerging CNCF projects like Backstage, Crossplane, Dapr, KubeVela and more.

We’ve also learned over the past year that while “cooperation” between infrastructure and application teams is what we seek to achieve, “cooperative delivery” is not a familiar term to most of our contributors. Recognizing that this cooperation is also the goal of “internal developer platforms” (IDPs) and the emerging platform engineering movement, we’re preparing to rename the working group Platforms.

We’re always seeking more input from users and contributors to guide us. Please consider sharing how your organization coordinates application and infrastructure delivery via this GitHub form and share your thoughts in GitHub or Slack.

Platform Engineering

Beyond our original hypotheses, an emerging trend we’ve noted for coordinating infrastructure and applications is platform engineering (PE) and particularly its principle of self-serviceable capabilities. Backstage, for example, is a popular portal framework for these emerging platforms. According to Humanitec lead Luca Galante, platform engineering is “the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era ( link).” Self-service describes the mechanism of cooperative delivery: a developer provisions and uses capabilities in their app on-demand by following documented steps.

In addition to its self-service paradigm, platform engineering also focuses on the needs of application developers and operators, the users of the platform. This increases PEs’ empathy for developers and other platform users and helps them gather feedback and iteratively improve to meet their needs, as product developers do for end customers. The shift in focus also better aligns platform development with an enterprise’s true value streams, rather than infrastructure teams being an out-of-band cost center. It’s not technical exactly, but empathetic relationships between platform engineering and application teams lead to better coordination of infrastructure capabilities and app requirements.

These platforms are typically built using foundational CNCF projects like Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Backstage, Istio, Knative, Keptn and more.

Kubernetes for Everything

Another trend we’ve noted in projects like Crossplane is the adoption of the Kubernetes resource model for configuring and managing all types of infrastructure capabilities and application components. Users no longer provision only deployments, volumes and ingresses via the Kubernetes API; custom resource definitions (CRDs) now enable provisioning of databases, identities, message brokers, observability systems, and much more.

The GitOps movement demonstrated the value of continuous reconciliation for applications, and with so many resource types available developers can now reconcile infrastructure in the same way as applications. For those providing their own infrastructure capabilities, the Operator Framework is a popular foundation for custom Kubernetes-based reconciler implementations.

Capability Injection

Finally, we’ve noted projects like Dapr and KubeVela which seek to coordinate infrastructure capabilities for apps through inference and late resolution and injection of those capabilities. These projects often ask app developers to declare the capabilities they require, like databases and message brokers, and then resolve actual implementations at runtime, perhaps using sidecar containers or eBPF programs. Some projects like Istio can even inject capabilities transparently to the app developer.

Late resolution and injection loosens coupling of apps and infrastructure and is another form of “cooperative” delivery. Imagine getting a database from a different provider depending on the application’s context - an RDS instance in AWS, a CloudSQL instance in GCP, or a CloudNativePG instance on premises.

Conclusion

The mission of the Cooperative Delivery WG - soon to be the Platforms WG - is to gather feedback and highlight emerging trends that address gaps in coordination of infrastructure capabilities and applications. Join us in TAG App Delivery to advance this topic and others relevant to application and platform developers and operators.

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Blog: TAG App Delivery at Kubecon NA 2022

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Join CNCF TAG App Delivery and our working groups at Kubecon in Detroit October 24-28.

Many app delivery-related projects will be holding open office hours and maintaining booths in the project pavilion as detailed here.

A general meeting on the state of the TAG and some emerging app delivery patterns will be held Tuesday, October 25 1-5pm at Huntington Place. Find it on sched.com here.

The agenda for the TAG Meeting on Tuesday is here.

Finally, the Platforms WG will be gathering platform component providers in an “unmeetup” on Thursday 10/27 at 1:30pm, details in this doc.

See you in Detroit!