CloudEvents - A First Step Towards Serverless Interop
summary
CloudEvents is a CNCF-backed spec (v1.0 released Oct 2018, sandboxed May 2018) that standardizes four required event attributes (id, source, specversion, type) so middleware can route without parsing payloads. It supports binary (HTTP headers) and structured JSON payload encodings and transport bindings for HTTP, AMQP, MQTT, Kafka and NATS. Knative uses adapters to normalize incoming events into CloudEvents enabling broker fan‑out, trigger filtering and parallel routing. The spec deliberately omits end‑to‑end security and reply/transport routing, and offers language SDKs and adapter guidance for AWS S3, GitHub, etc.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31CloudEvents origins...
- 3:07The pain...
- 5:20In Dec 2017, CloudEvents is born...
- 9:49An example...
- 13:21CloudEvents in action... Knative Eventing
- 17:11Core specification
- 19:32Other documents
- 23:22In case you're wondering, what's not included?
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