“Serverless” is one of the most trending paradigms for designing applications, but what most early adopters find out is that doing something more than a “Hello World!” is hard. The more your application is deconstructed into smaller pieces, the more you need better communication patterns. Real-life applications also interact with tons of external systems and managing this complexity is hard.

Camel K is a lightweight integration platform for Kubernetes created specifically to address these issues. It’s based on Apache Camel, the most powerful open source integration framework, and it leverages Knative to deliver integration patterns in a serverless way.

We will show how Camel K works under the hood and, with coding examples, we’ll also demonstrate how Camel K makes it easy is to connect (almost) anything using integration patterns and the 300+ components that Apache Camel provides.