Pontoon: An Enterprise Grade Serverless Framework Using Kubernetes – As Used in VMware
summary
Pontoon is an in-house serverless framework built on Kubernetes using Jobs and Deployments, a Java API server (Zeno/Zenon), a priority queue for events, a Scalar that creates dynamic Job/Deployment specs, and a sidecar watcher that handles input, locking, retries and timeouts; it supports warm vs on‑demand containers, preserves logs via existing cluster tooling, aims for at-least-once with idempotency, and reports savings of more than $1,000/day while scaling 10x.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:15Benefits
- 2:49Agenda
- 4:59Serverless Functions
- 6:36Survivalist Framework
- 10:52Evaluation
- 12:12Pontoon
- 15:48Pontoon Components
- 20:25Operational Aspects
- 21:33Demo
- 22:20Duplicate Events
- 23:09Functions
- 23:58Log Monitoring
- 24:30Our Experience
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