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Gopher Meets Crab: A Rust Journey in Cloud Native – Phil Estes, AWS
If you’ve been around the container and cloud native ecosystem for any length of time, you know most major components are written in Go: from Docker to runc and from Kubernetes to etcd! This means that many of the common constructs, for example the OCI specs, or Kubernetes API resources, are easy to use from other Go programs, but not quite as easy when you step outside of the Go ecosystem.
In this talk we’ll dive into the experience of trying to use containers from a Rust-written client and delve into existing work from early adopters of Rust. There are quite a few crates that help us along the way, providing some level of parity for Rust developers in the cloud native ecosystem. There are still complexities and hurdles as well, and we’ll share our experience navigating this as a long-time Go programmer and Rust newbie.
Attendees will take away some quick tips as well as gotchas for working in the container and cloud native ecosystem as a Rust developer and, who knows, maybe soon the Gopher and the Crab will be the best of friends.
