I had the opportunity to attend the CoreOS Fest 2017 in San Francisco for a day this past week. There are lots of exciting things happening in the cloud native space, and CoreOS, with its heavy influence with Kubernetes is at the forefront of much of the innovation. The conference itself was on the smaller side, but the amount of emerging technology focused sessions was impressive — I will be excited to see how it grows over the coming years. While there, I was able to attend the session by one of Adobe’s Principle Architects — Frans van Rooyen. (Frans and I worked together from 2012 – 2014 at Adobe.)
In his session, he spoke about several fundamental architecture principles and how they have been applied in the new multi-cloud initiative at Adobe. The platform they have built over the past two years is capable of being deployed inside a data center, inside AWS, inside Azure and even locally on a developers laptop — while providing the same experience to the developer or operations engineer.
The platform is based on CoreOS and uses the Ignition project to provide the same level of provisioning regardless of which cloud platform the workload is deployed on. I hadn’t heard of Ignition or how it operated to provide the level of provisioning it does and will be a technology I investigate further into now. If you are interested in learning more, I encourage you to reach out to Frans over Twitter.
Frans has also spoken about the multi-cloud platform at Mesoscon, focusing on the inclusion of Apache Mesos — the session can be watched on YouTube.
