Virtual Rejekts 2020

Alex Ellis, Founder @ OpenFaaS Ltd, CNCF Ambassador

Alex is a respected expert on serverless and cloud native computing. He founded OpenFaaS, one of the most popular open-source serverless projects, where he has built the community via writing, speaking, and extensive personal engagement. As a consultant and CNCF Ambassador, he helps companies around the world build great developer experiences and navigate the cloud native landscape.

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04-01
16:20
30min
The need for a Cloud Native Tunnel
Alex Ellis, Founder @ OpenFaaS Ltd, CNCF Ambassador

Everything was fine, we were developing applications for the cloud on our local laptops, until we needed to integrate with webhooks. Then things got tricky at work, all known solutions were blocked like cryptic socat commands, SSH, Ngrok, Argo Tunnels and we had no budget for an AWS account.

We needed a Cloud Native Tunnel, but just didn’t know it yet. That’s when “inlets” began as a holiday project, which then went onto score over 5k GitHub stars and dozens of community blog posts.

That was the beginning of 2019, and now we have a whole ecosystem of tooling to support Cloud Native Tunnels directly integrated into Kubernetes via an Operator and CRD, via a CLI which provisions cloud hosts automatically and a new pro edition which is commercially supported and adds automatic TLS.

This talk introduces real-world use-cases from customers such as connecting private hospital radiography scanners to the cloud for up to 10k locations in Switzerland.

We’ll compare and contrast the inlets OSS tooling to various other solutions and with a live demo, we’ll see Minikube’s LoadBalancer turn from “pending” to a real IP from public cloud. We’ll even be able to obtain a LetsEncrypt certificate on our laptop.

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