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OAM, the Kubernetes Application Model Bridging Development and Deployment

It would be the final piece needed to run a seamless deployment model, one connecting the developer to production, asserted Phil Prasek, a principal product manager at cloud services provider Upbound, in a breakout session at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. With a solid application model in place, a developer could finally build a cloud native application on a laptop, and have it work seamlessly — with no modifications — in a production environment, Prasek said. Without a solid app model, the deployment workflow gets too quickly mired in complexities, slowing things down.

Having these things glued together in the imperative pipelines,” as Prasek noted, leads to “multiple management models and multiple representations of state.

It’s definitely a huge time-sink, and not as efficient as it could be,” Prasek said.