Alex Ellis created serverless framework OpenFaaS while working a day job. It’s used by some big companies, but he’s resisted the temptation to join one. Instead, he’s offering consulting and seeking sponsorships, building a business from the ground up. He explains the pros and cons of independence to Craig and Adam.
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News of the week

Microsoft launches OpenServiceMesh

Including a bit from Linkerd


Kong releases Kong Mesh
Tanzu Application Service 2.10, formerly known as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
KubeCarrier

Cube carrier
Episode 109, with Sebastian Scheele


Nestybox releaases Sysbox (GitHub)
Palo Alto Networks discloses and fixes fault in KataContainers
JenkinsX plugin for Octant
Backyards gets FIPS compliant
StarlingX 4.0
New AKS features
etcd security audit

Episode 95, with Xiang Li


New Code of Conduct Committee Members

Links from the interview

Alex Ellis
ADP Payroll
Docker Captains program
Lord Birt

Lord Ernie


DockerCon 2016

Ben Firshman
funker
funker-dispatch by Alex Ellis


FaaS
OpenFaaS
Moby’s Cool Hacks - closing keynote
Joining VMware to work on OpenFaaS

VMware blog
VMware Dispatch
Acquisition of Heptio
VEBA


Leaving VMware and Alex going out on his own
OpenFaaS Ltd

Alex’s 2020 mission
The world’s first managed k3s service
First year accounts and end-of-year party


Inlets

Inlets PRO


k3sup

Brown sauce


Arkade
5 years of Raspberry Pi and robots
Insiders Subscription

Treasure Trove archive


The Five Pressures of Leadership in OSS
A bit of Istio before tea-time
Cards Against Containers for Black Girls Code
Alex Ellis on Twitter