KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:15am MST

Behind Schedule: Pod Resource Configuration from Beginning to... Huh? - Joe Thompson, Platform9

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Pod resource requests, limits and priority are some of the most fundamental concepts of Kubernetes clusters, and they're easy to understand: if nodes have the resources you need, you get scheduled, and if not, you don't... right? Joe will walk you through some of the surprising behaviors you may encounter with the seemingly basic rules that Kubernetes follows when scheduling and running pods -- and how those rules themselves may not be what you think! We'll dig into eviction and preemption (and why the difference matters) and why priority sometimes doesn't solve the problems you think it will. We'll finish with recent changes to pod resource management that are upending long-standing basics of pod scheduling, particularly the in-place pod resizing feature alpha-released in the last few versions of Kubernetes. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of the (not-so-) simple mechanics, as well as how to debug them when things get messy.

Speakers

Joe Thompson

Technical Product Marketing Manager, Platform9

Joe Thompson's IT career is near the end of its third decade. He's been part of the cloud-native community since 2014, starting with OpenStack and adding Kubernetes a few months after it debuted. He's spoken at KubeCon, Cloud Native Rejekts and many local meetups and enjoys showing... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:15am MST

All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski, Broadcom

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Gateway API is the official next gen Kubernetes API for Ingress, Load Balancing and Service Meshes. Many proxies implement the API and pass conformance with glowing colours! But what is it really like to use the API? What isn't covered by the conformance tests that end-users should know. In the talk we'll highlight our experience adopting the Gateway API in the Knative Serving project. We'll talk about the problems we encountered and how we addressed them. Come to the talk and we'll pit some implementations against each other and show some numbers!

Speakers

Dave Protasowski

Staff Engineer, VMware/Broadcom

Dave Protasowski is part of Knative Technical Committee and a Serving Working Group Lead. During the night he works at VMware/Broadcom. Prior he worked on Cloud Foundry things at Pivotal.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:15am MST

All-Your-GPUs-Are-Belong-to-Us: An Inside Look at NVIDIA's Self-Healing GeForce NOW Infrastructure - Ryan Hallisey & Piotr Prokop PL, NVIDIA

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

GeForce Now is a game streaming platform used by 20+ million gamers worldwide. Kubernetes is at the core of its infrastructure powering game workloads and other containerized services and tools. The infrastructure includes many regional clusters with 10s of thousands of GPUs capable of supporting 100s of thousands concurrent gamers. To operate a large Kubernetes infrastructure efficiently, NVIDIA built a GPU maintenance API to enable automated lifecycle management of critical infrastructure components. When combined with a few operators, this API facilitates planning and coordination of crucial driver, GPU, and Kubernetes upgrades at an unprecedented scale, as well as empowering self-healing operators to detect and remediate failures to avoid outages. In this talk, we will share: - How K8s and KubeVirt powers Nvidia GeForce Now - Nvidia’s GPU Maintenance API solution - NVIDIA’s vision for doing automated GPU maintenance at scale in K8s

Speakers

Ryan Hallisey

Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Ryan is a software engineer at NVIDIA. He works on building data centers powered by Kubernetes and KubeVirt for NVIDIA products.

Piotr Prokop

Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Piotr is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA. He works on running high performance workloads powered by Kubernetes for NVIDIA products.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:15am MST

Tutorial: A Mad Scientist's Guide to Automating CNI with Generative AI - Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 12:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Ready to make Kubernetes networking a little easier and a lot more fun? Join Doug for an experiment in configuring CNI (Container Networking Interface) using generative AI. Despite being advised by data scientists to avoid automating machine configurations with generative AI, Doug went into the mad scientist's lab (err, basement) and tested how often a workflow could generate CNI configurations that would establish network connectivity between pods – and the success rate might surprise you. In this session, you'll automate CNI configurations using a large language model (LLM) and gain experience with a nifty tech stack: Ollama for running a containerized LLM, Kubernetes, CNI, and some script wizardry to create your own auto-configurator. Best yet? No prior CNI or AI/ML knowledge needed, and you'll learn along the way! Just in case, have contingency plans ready should any Skynet or Space Odyssey 2001 scenarios arise during the tutorial.

Speakers

Doug Smith

Principal Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:10pm MST

When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

This isn't your typical technical talk. We'll take you on a step-by-step adventure, starting from a humble single database in a container and adding components one by one, just like we did. You'll witness firsthand how we tackled real-world challenges, from storage and scaling to monitoring and UI design, to create an Open Source Cloud Native database platform. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how Kubernetes can be used to orchestrate complex and stateful applications (like databases clusters). Join us and discover how you can break free from vendor lock-in, save costs, and build a database that's truly yours. This is your chance to learn from our triumphs and tribulations, and be inspired to create your own open source success story.

Speakers

sergey pronin

Product guy, Percona

Sergey is a passionate technology “driver”. After graduation worked in various fields: internet service provider, financial sector and M&A business. Main focal points were infrastructure and products around it. At Percona as a Group Product Manager drives forward Kubernetes and... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:10pm MST

Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI-Driven Progressive Delivery - Avik Basu & Saravanan Balasubramanian, Intuit

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

At Intuit, rapid development is essential for swift feature updates and fixes. Yet, 33% of last year's incidents were due to new deployments, highlighting the need for a progressive delivery system with automated rollback capabilities. However, traditional static thresholds fall short for Intuit's ~2500 services, each with unique patterns across multiple key performance metrics. To tackle this, Intuit has implemented an ML-based progressive delivery system that utilizes Prometheus to monitor multivariate metrics, offering a comprehensive view of application health and performance during deployments. The talk will present a case study application, identify its critical metrics, and showcase how Intuit leverages Numaproj and its out-of-the-box ML models to generate anomaly scores during deployments using Argo Rollouts. This strategy enables Intuit to quickly identify and address issues using AIOps techniques, ensuring a smooth and dependable customer experience.

Speakers

Saravanan Balasubramanian

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Bala is the lead engineer and maintainer in Argo workflow project , Intuit- leading Argo workflow project for open source community and Intuit.

Avik Basu

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Intuit

Avik is a data scientist and machine learning engineer with expertise across multiple ML domains such as computer vision, natural language understanding, reinforcement learning, and time series. Currently, he leads the machine learning initiatives for open-source AIOps at Intuit... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:25pm MST

Create & Distribute a Plugin for Kubernetes (Kubectl) in Few Minutes? Easy! 🙂 - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Gaëlle Acas, Doctolib

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Kubectl is the most powerful tool that allow you to interact with the API Server of a Kubernetes cluster. We use it everyday to list the pods, deploy a service, scale a deployment to 5 replicas... but do you know that you can add custom features to the kubectl CLI? Indeed, Kubernetes is an extensibe world that allows you to extends most of its components (Network, Storage, Container runtime, webhooks … ) and even the kubectl CLI. In this talk, Gaëlle and Aurélie will show you how it can be easy to create a plugin in a few minutes. For that, they will create, in live, a plugin in Bash, to make our pods more user-friendly. But that's not all! The goal of this talk is also to share our awesome plugin with others and for that, Krew is “The place to be”. At the end of this talk you will have all the marbles in hand in order to be able to create & share your own plugin to the world or only to your internal teams. Ready? Create your own plugins!

Speakers

Gaëlle Acas

Site Reliability Engineer, Doctolib

Site Reliability Engineer at Doctolib & co-organiser of the CNCF Nantes meetup. As a cloud addict, I love playing with containers, surfing Dev&Ops skills and juggling the world of serverless. I also love to share and pass on my passion for code to our kids.

Aurélie Vache

Developer Advocate, OVHcloud

Aurélie is a CNCF Ambassador, a Docker Captain & Google Developer Expert. She created a new visual way to learn & understand Cloud technologies: "Understanding Kubernetes/Istio/Docker in a visual way" in sketchnotes, books and videos. She has been working as a Developer & Ops for... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:25pm MST

Extending the Gateway API: The Power and Challenges of Policies - Kate Osborn, NGINX

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

From the beginning, the Gateway API has been designed to be extensible. With over 25 implementations to date, it’s crucial that these implementations have a way to support implementation-specific features without resorting to annotations. Among the various ways to extend the Gateway API, the Policy Attachment mechanism stands out as the most potent and challenging. In this session, we will explain what Policy Attachment is and share the lessons we learned at NGINX when implementing our own Policies. You will learn about: - The difference between direct and inherited policies. - How policy inheritance and merging works. - Corner cases, such as conflicting policies and invalid target refs. - Techniques to verify if a policy has been successfully applied. - Strategies for troubleshooting policies. We will show you examples of Gateway API policies as well as policies from multiple Gateway API implementations.

Speakers

Kate Osborn

Software Engineer, NGINX

Maintainer of NGINX Gateway Fabric. Kubernetes enthusiast since 2018.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:25pm MST

Conquering Configuration Constraints: Real-World Patterns for Distributing Data at Scale in Kubernet - Daniel Hrabovcak, Google

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Did you know that major Cloud providers cap the amount of volumes you could attach to a node? You may be tempted to use a ConfigMap or a Secret instead; however, did you know that Kubernetes caps the size of all resources to 1 MiB? What if you need arbitrarily large data? After all, reaching these limits may effectively render your application completely useless and for commonly used operators, constraints are exacerbated. In this talk, we cover all built-in storage mechanisms and their pitfalls. Not only can your data be large, but what about auto-scaled workloads which access the same data? We explore patterns that we at Google explored while working on our open source Prometheus operator, including: variable expansion, compression, sharding, projected volumes and dynamically mounting resources. We discuss how to shape the user configuration surface and how to make your data available at scale. Especially a must-see for anyone distributing configurations in their operator!

Speakers

Daniel Hrabovcak

SWE, Google

Daniel Hrabovcak is a software engineer at Google working within Cloud Monitoring to build Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus. Daniel’s love of coding has lasted a decade, touching on open-source game development and a previous career in full stack development, giving... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Beginner

6:00pm MST

🪧 Poster Session: Revolutionizing Windows Container Startup Performance - Tina Wu & Shaheed Chagani, Microsoft

Wednesday November 13, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase

Are you frustrated by Windows container delays and struggling to meet demand spikes? We are excited to introduce a suite of innovations that will revolutionize your Windows container startup and scaling experience. Conventional Windows container image download, import, and launch processes have long suffered from sluggishness and inefficiencies. By leveraging a new storage stack, CimFS & UnionFS, we anticipate a 30%+ improvement in container image import and launch times. Building on top of that, we are excited to announce Artifact Streaming for Windows Containers to drastically reduce image download time from minutes to seconds. This session will showcase an in-depth exploration of the architecture, implementation intricacies, and tangible benefits of the new storage stack. We will also guide you through compelling use cases and performance benchmarks that highlight the impact. Don't miss the opportunity to stay at the forefront of Windows container technology innovations.

Speakers

Shaheed Chagani

Principal Software Engineering Lead - Microsoft, Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Lead for the File System Virtualization team.

Tina Wu

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

Tina is a Senior Product Manager on the Windows Storage & File Systems team and works on technologies such as Artifact Streaming for faster image downloads for Windows Containers, CimFS & UnionFS for a modern container launch stack, and Storage Spaces for storage virtualization.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase

🪧 Poster Sessions, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner