This article reveals how early experiments bringing two major CNCF projects together – WebAssembly and Kubernetes – promises greater agility and major efficiencies. By Sean Isom.
Born out of pizza-fueled build nights, Adobe’s Ethos project emerged from a desire to find better ways to ship cloud software. Focusing around containers, we first worked to port an exact replica of the developer’s local environment in the cloud. Next we created a standardized environment in which to run our software – a basic clusterization model. By building a centralized infrastructure platform, we could solve some developer pain and create economies of scale in efficiency, security, and operations.
The article deals with:
- Taking Wasm from the browser to the backend
- Use Case 1: Running individual functions in wasmCloud
- Use Case 2: Running wasmCloud as a service in Kubernetes clusters
A major advantage of WebAssembly on the backend is that it can securely enable high performance and efficiency, while still being compatible with Kubernetes. So, in a case like ours, where we have huge investments in Kubernetes operations, compliance, and automation, we can integrate WebAssembly directly into our existing infrastructure. We can take advantage of new technologies today whilst understanding that the future may look completely different. Nice one!
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