KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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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

12:10pm MST

Can Your Kubernetes Network Handle the Heat? Building Resilience with AI Chaos - Lior Lieberman, Google & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Kubernetes networking is complex with many APIs, numerous configurations and potential failure points. In the rapidly evolving world of cloud-native applications, ensuring your Kubernetes network can withstand unexpected failures is not just an advantage—it is a necessity. In this talk Surya and Lior, holding distinct leadership roles in Gateway API and NetworkPolicy API, will demonstrate how you can leverage AI-powered Chaos Engineering to stress test Gateways, NetworkPolicies, and Services on a live cluster! They will share their experiences and lessons learned from using Litmus and enhancing K8sGPT to design and execute AI Chaos experiments, as well as focusing on how you can proactively find gaps and bottlenecks in the network infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to learn from real-world disruption scenarios and participate in a collaborative discussion on how we can leverage AI to build robust Kubernetes Networks.

Speakers

Surya Seetharaman

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Inc.

Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems... Read More →

Lior Lieberman

Site Reliability Engineer, Google

Lior is site reliability engineer at Google working on Google Compute Engine. He is a leading maintainer of ingress2gateway, and an active contributor to Kubernetes SIG network focused on Gateway API.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm MST

Cilium, EBPF, WireGuard: Can We Tame the Network Encryption Performance Gap? - Daniel Borkmann & Anton Protopopov, Isovalent

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

To increase data security for cloud and hybrid cloud deployments, many companies, governments, standards, and tenders require data in transit to be protected. However, network encryption comes at a cost - what is the performance impact and how can we reduce it? In this session, we explore how network encryption can be efficiently enforced with Cilium, eBPF, and WireGuard. We dive deep into Cilium’s integration of WireGuard and elaborate on both the management plane and Cilium’s eBPF datapath. We analyze and benchmark what performance cost one can expect and explore opportunities in the Linux kernel to reduce that price. This talk is for operators and security teams that need to encrypt network traffic, but also want to minimize its overhead. The audience will walk away understanding whether network encryption needs to come at a high toll and whether there are opportunities for optimizations.

Speakers

Daniel Borkmann

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Daniel Borkmann co-created eBPF and is a kernel developer at Isovalent working on eBPF, the Linux kernel and Cilium. He is a long-term Linux kernel core contributor in the eBPF and networking subsystem for over a decade and co-maintains eBPF and XDP. In his spare time, he loves to... Read More →

Anton Protopopov

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Anton is a software engineer at Isovalent, which is now part of Cisco.Anton is leading a team building new generation of Isovalent products and also participates in developing eBPF-based parts of Cilium stack and on eBPF support in the Linux Kernel.During his career, Anton played... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Advanced

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

4:30pm MST

From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

No matter how fast the Services on your Kubernetes cluster are, users would love them to be faster. But how do you get from a huge pile of metrics across a distributed system to real user experience improvements? There is a way, and with the right tools and the right approach, you can better understand and evaluate Service performance. In this talk, you'll learn how to identify the performance parameters that directly translate to user experience. We will explore how to collect performance metrics from running Kubernetes clusters without disrupting normal operations using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, kube-burner, and custom instrumentation. We will discuss how to translate the collected metrics and analysis into concrete actions and how to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations to enhance Service performance. This talk is ideal for k8s networking developers, administrators, SREs, DevOps engineers, and anyone responsible for managing or optimizing Kubernetes networking.

Speakers

Antonio Ojea

Software Engineer, Google

Antonio Ojea is a Software Engineer at Google, where he works on Kubernetes. He is one of the top contributors of the Kubernetes project, with a stronger presence on the areas of networking and reliability. He has a vast experience in Open Source, networking and distributed systems... Read More →

Nadia Pinaeva

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nadia Pinaeva is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat working on Openshift Networking. She collaborates with the SIG-network-policy to improve network security for Kubernetes clusters, and works on ovn-kubernetes network plugin.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate