KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

In-person
November 12-15
Learn More and Register to Attend

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 to participate in the sessions. If you have not registered but would like to join us, please go to the event registration page to purchase a registration.

Please note: This schedule is automatically displayed in Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down menu to the right, above "Filter by Date." The schedule is subject to change and session seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

arrow_back View All Dates

11:15am MST

SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom & Shaun Crampton, Tigera

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

SIG Network is responsible for networking for Kubernetes clusters, and there's never a shortage of interesting problems to solve in this space. In this session we'll provide some updates about SIG Network as a whole, including: * status and progress of core networking components * status and progress of sub-projects * considerations for the future If you're interested in hearing about what's going on in the networking space, or maybe even interested in joining the SIG and finding a place to contribute, please join us!

Speakers

Shaun Crampton

Distinguished Engineer, Tigera

Shaun is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Tigera, looking after Project Calico's iptables and eBPF dataplanes. Before joining the Tigera team, Shaun worked on a number of Software Defined Networking products and cloud scale applications. He holds an MA in Computer Science from... Read More →

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Network

11:15am MST

The Spice Must Flow Green: CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG - Marlow Warnicke (Weston), SchedMD & Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

The carbon must be counted. In the Environmental Sustainability TAG, we focus on current and emerging technologies regarding carbon measurement and minimization. As our digital landscape grows, so does its impact on the environment—a factor often overlooked in the pursuit of technological advancement, such as AI. Traditionally, companies focused primarily on financial metrics. However, with increasing awareness of climate issues, stricter regulations, and rising energy costs, environmental impact is now a crucial consideration. We highlight the Green Reviews Working Group and our project to measure impact. We're developing a pipeline that works with current tooling, such as Kepler, to measure the power consumption of CNCF Projects. We explore how to measure energy consumption and emissions of software projects. We also give the status of other projects, such as the sustainability landscape, initiatives such as our sustainability week, and collaborative organisations.

Speakers

Saiyam Pathak

Principal Developer Advocate, Loft Labs

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine... Read More →

Marlow Weston

Principal Cloud Engineer, SchedMD

Marlow is a Principal Cloud Engineer working on scheduling at SchedMD. She also is a chair for the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG. Marlow has expertise in resource management, the AI/ML Kubernetes cloud compute ecosystem, embedded systems, high performance compute system tools... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Environmental Sustainability

11:15am MST

The State of Cloud Native Business Value in 2024 - Danielle Cook, appCD; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Robbie Glenn, Accenture

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

In 2024, what is the state of cloud native business value? We hear that it is marked by unprecedented growth and innovation, but is that what we are seeing? In this panel discussion hosted by the Cartografos Working Group, we provide an update on how organizations of all sizes are leveraging cloud native technologies to enhance agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. Key advancements go beyond technology alone. Panelists will discuss how cloud native is streamlining operations, accelerating time-to-market, realizing ROI through more efficient resource utilization and reduced operational overhead. Attendees will hear how cloud native can drive business goals including how cloud native platforms drive intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making. Attendees will hear how security and compliance frameworks have matured and how cloud native strategies are proving essential for competitive advantage and digital transformation across industries.

Speakers

Robbie Glenn

Tech Architecture Manager, Accenture

Colin Griffin

CEO, Krumware

Colin Griffin is CEO at Krumware, and a Co-Chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group. Colin Griffin is a software engineer by trade, specializing in cloud-native application and infrastructure development; with an emphasis on developer enablement and platform engineering. He founded... Read More →

Catherine Paganini

Head of Marketing, Buoyant

Catherine Paganini is TAG Contributor Strategy Co-chair, CNCF Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG facilitator, CNCF Cloud Native Glossary founder, and Head of Marketing at Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd. A marketing leader passionate about open source, Catherine started her contributor journey... Read More →

Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Independent

Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →

Danielle Cook

VP, appCD

Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Cartografos

11:15am MST

TUF: Secure Distribution Beyond Software - Marina Moore, Independent

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

As organizations improve their software supply chain, they may encounter an influx of metadata: attestations, SBOMs, VEX statements, and more. Have you ever wondered how to securely distribute all of this information to end users? Enter TUF! The Update Framework (TUF), has paved the way for secure software updates throughout the cloud native ecosystem and beyond, and is being expanded to securely distribute signing keys, attestations, and more. TUF allows organizations to ensure that all of this data is up-to-date and resilient to tampering. The TUF project is constantly improving and this talk will highlight some of these improvements, from recent integrations by groups such as Docker and Github to an effort to provide conformance testing across various TUF implementations. The TUF project has an active team of maintainers and contributors that make all of these improvements possible, and we will discuss how you can get involved to keep making the project better.

Speakers

Marina Moore

Independent

Marina Moore has a PhD from at NYU where she performed research into software supply chain security. This research focused on real-world application through open source contribution. She is an open source maintainer and active in open source communities through the CNCF and OpenSSF... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, The Update Framework (TUF)

11:15am MST

Using Notary Project to Ensure Authenticity and Integrity of Artifacts Within the Enterprise - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Tjark Rasche, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

In this session, we will go over the steps and considerations the enterprise goes through to select a reliable and future-proof signing technology and improve the integrity and authenticity of their software artifacts. We will share the questions and constraints in the enterprise and how those were addressed by Notary Project. We will also provide an update on the latest features and the roadmap for Notary Project.

Speakers

Toddy Mladenov

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Toddy has over 25 years of experience in software engineering and design, consulting, and product management for companies like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and SAP. He started his cloud journey 14 years ago as part of the Azure team. Since then, Toddy worked on large-scale cloud implementations... Read More →

Tjark Rasche

Senior Software Engineer, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH

Tjark works as a Cloud Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH. He focuses on automating the cluster lifecycle, cluster security and integrating custom cluster addons with Kubernetes. He is also highly involved with the local Kubernetes community, founder of the Kubernetes... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, Notary

12:10pm MST

AI for Policy and Policy for AI! - Poonam Lamba, Google; Boris Kurktchiev, Nirmata; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Ronald Petty, RX-M; Jimmy Ray, Boeing Digital

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

As Kubernetes becomes the go-to for deploying AI, the need for strong governance and policies is critical. This panel will dive into how policies and AI intersect within Kubernetes. We'll explore challenges, best practices, and new standards for managing AI workloads to guarantee security, fairness, and transparency. We'll examine existing and new policy frameworks for governing AI workloads on Kubernetes, including industry standards and best practices. We'll also address security risks like data privacy and model integrity, and establish clear lines of accountability for AI workloads. This panel is ideal for engineers, operators, compliance officers, and anyone involved in deploying and managing AI workloads on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Ronald Petty

Consultant, RX-M

Ronald Petty is a consultant at RX-M, a global Cloud Native an AI advisory and training firm. Ronald works as a consultant/advisor/board-member for both for-profit and non-profit organizations focusing on technology and related policy issues. Additionally, he authors and edits technical... Read More →

Poonam Lamba

Product Manager, Google

Poonam is a Product Manager at Google, where she leads Policy, Governance, and Compliance for GKE. An active contributor to the Kubernetes Policy Working Group and Gatekeeper project, she is passionate about open-source solutions. Outside of work, Poonam enjoys hiking, paddle boarding... Read More →

Andy Suderman

CTO, Fairwinds

Andy Suderman is CTO at Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider. Andy has worked with cloud native technologies for the last eight years helping organizations adopt and manage Kubernetes. Andy is the creator and primary developer of Goldilocks—an open source tool that... Read More →

Boris Kurktchiev

Chief Plumber, Nirmata

In the world of tools, it's not 'one size fits all.' I'm the expert who always knows when to grab the hammer and when to reach for the screwdriver.

Jimmy Ray

ISO, Boeing Digital

Underpinned by 30 years of technology, writing, and speaking experience, Jimmy Ray is recognized as a subject matter expert in Policy as Code, cloud-native computing, and software supply chain security.Jimmy is the author of Policy as Code - Improving Cloud Native Security, July 2024... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Policy

12:10pm MST

Best Friends Keep No Secrets: Going Secretless with Cert-Manager - Ashley Davis & Tim Ramlot, Venafi

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

In today's complex Kubernetes environments, managing secrets securely is a challenge. Traditional methods often involve complex configurations with secret vaults, secret syncing and secret backups. Regardless of which fancy technology is used, secrets always come with a risk of being leaked. Most of the secrets used in traditional applications can be replaced by short-lived certificates. Applications can prove to be the owner of a certificate without sharing any secrets. In Kubernetes, cert-manager can be used to provision these certificates to all applications without sharing any secret information. Table of contents: - Do we actually need secrets? Comparing authentication methods: static secrets vs short-lived secrets and proof of ownership - How to issue certificates using cert-manager without using [S|s]ecrets - Compatibility and other challenges

Speakers

Ashley Davis

Staff Software Engineer, Venafi

As a teenager, Ash taught himself to program after wondering how exactly video games were made. That led to adventures trawling through open source codebases, sparking an interest in computers spanning from bare-metal machine code right up to scalable distributed platforms like Kubernetes... Read More →

Tim Ramlot

Senior Software Engineer - cert-manager maintainer, Venafi

Tim started working at Venafi as a software engineer after his graduation as computer science engineer at Ghent University. He learned about cert-manager and Venafi through a Google Summer of Code internship. His mission at Venafi is to advance his problem solving skills, whilst contributing... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, cert-manager

12:10pm MST

Dapr's Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means for Your Platform - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

In this maintainer track we will cover the latest developments and updates of the Dapr project looking into 2025, focusing on how Dapr is adding APIs to abstract the complexities of interacting with LLM models at scale, a new distributed scheduling API and workflow engine that can serve millions of activities per second and how Dapr can be used by platform teams to provide golden paths for interacting with the underlying infrastructure

Speakers

Yaron Schneider

CTO / Co-Founder at Diagrid, Dapr Co-Creator, Diagrid

Yaron co-created the CNCF projects Dapr and KEDA while at Microsoft and led the engineering architecture for serverless container platforms that run at scale using open source technologies. Yaron is an avid lover of open source tech and distributed systems, and is a co-founder and... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Dapr

12:10pm MST

Emissary-Ingress: Version 4 and the Road Ahead - Flynn, Buoyant

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Emissary-ingress 4.0 is shipping! This marks the first new major version in some years for Emissary, one of the first Kubernetes-native, self-service API gateways and ingress controllers, and it comes on the heels of some big changes in the project. In this session, we'll start with a quick overview of the need for ingress controllers in general, the benefits of self-service developer workflows, and how Emissary-ingress can help with these issues. We'll also talk about recent changes in the project, what Emissary 4 brings to the table, and how to get involved as a contributor, how to best offer feedback, and what's in store for the project in the future. Emissary's maintainer sessions are always great opportunities to talk directly with Emissary-ingress maintainers and make sure your voice is heard when it comes to the project's future -- looking forward to seeing you there!

Speakers

Flynn -

Tech Evangelist, Buoyant

Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40 years in software engineering (from the kernel up through distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, Emissary-ingress

12:10pm MST

SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

SIG Scheduling is responsible for the components that make Pod scheduling decisions in a Kubernetes cluster, such as kube-scheduler for pod to node assignment, kueue for job queueing, Kwok for scheduling load testing, among other projects. In this session, you will learn the basics of these projects and how they can be extended. You will also learn about our recent advancements and ongoing work, such as higher scheduling throughput in kube-scheduler, fair sharing and hierarchical cohorts in Kueue and evaluating performance and scalability efficiently using Kwok.

Speakers

Aldo Culquicondor

Sr. Software Engineer, Google

Aldo is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. He works on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, where he contributes to kube-scheduler, the Job API and other features to support batch, AI/ML and HPC workloads. He is currently a TL at SIG Scheduling and an active member of WG Batch... Read More →

Kensei Nakada

Software Engineer, Tetrate.io

Kensei Nakada is a platform engineer at Tetrate. In the community, he is a sig-scheduling approver, and a core maintainer of the project kube-scheduler-simulator and kube-scheduler-wasm-extension.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Scheduling

2:30pm MST

Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

The Kubernetes Steering Committee plays a crucial role in overseeing the non-technical aspects of the Kubernetes project and making important project-wide decisions. The committee has a wide scope of working and responsibilities. The committee has evolved over the years. In this session, let’s take a look at how the committee came to be created, the bootstrap era, how it works now and what’s in store for the future. We will have excerpts from our emeritus members who served to shape the goals and vision of the steering committee. We will explore how you can leverage our learnings to enhance the governance of your own cloud native projects. If you are eager to gain insights or have queries about the governance journey of the Kubernetes project, we encourage you to drop by and engage in an insightful discussion.

Speakers

Maciej Szulik

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Maciej is a passionate developer with almost 2 decades of experience in many languages. Currently he's working on OpenShift and Kubernetes for Red Hat. Whereas at night he is hacking on side projects with python. In his spare time he enjoys reading a good book or taking photos.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Steering

2:30pm MST

Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session What We Have Accomplished! - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE; Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry; Miner Yang, Daniel Jiang & Yan Wang, Broadcom

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

In Harbor v2.11, we've successfully integrated SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) within the platform, enhancing our security and compliance capabilities. We're also exploring innovative trends in AI, such as an AI-assisted registry (not to be confused with an AI-integrated bot). Join Vadim and Orlin as they guide you through the latest developments in the Harbor project, along with some exciting side projects within our community that you may find intriguing. This session is a perfect opportunity for software engineers and DevOps professionals to dive into Harbor's advancements and explore new possibilities together. We invite you to join us for firsthand information about what's coming next in Harbor and learn how you can actively contribute to the project. Together, let's make Harbor even better!

Speakers

Miner Yang

CNCF Project Harbor Contributor, Member of VMware Kubernetes techinal staff, Broadcom

Join Cloud Native and Harbor team 2 years ago, Developer of Harbor, Harbor-helm and Harbor Carvel Package.

Daniel Jiang

Broadcom

Yan Wang

Broadcom

Orlin Vasilev

Principal Open Source Technology Advocate, SUSE

Orlin Vasilev is Principal Open Source Technology Advocate and Community Manager for Project Harbor as part of the Cloud Native team at SUSE. Second term CNCF Ambassador and driving the CNCF Meetup Group(~1.7 K members) in Bulgaria. KubeCon CfP review board member. Previously SysAdmin/Dev/SRE/System... Read More →

Vadim Bauer

Harbor Maintainer, 8gears Container Registry

Vadim Bauer is a Container Silverback with over a decade of experience in running containers in production. As a maintainer of the CNCF project Harbor, he focuses on extending the boundaries of OCI artifact management, adoption, and developer experience. At 8gears, Vadim helps cloud... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Harbor

2:30pm MST

Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Data Protection WG is dedicated to promoting data protection support in Kubernetes. The Working Group is working on identifying missing functionalities and collaborating across multiple SIGs to design features to enable data protection in Kubernetes. In this session, we will discuss what is the current state of data protection in Kubernetes and where it is heading in the future. We will also talk about how interested parties (including storage and backup vendors, cloud providers, application developers, and end users, etc.) can join this WG and contribute to this effort. Details of the WG can be found here: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-data-protection.

Speakers

Dave Smith-Uchida

Technical Leader, Veeam

Dave has been a leader in data protection for Kubernetes for the last several years. In addition to his work at Veeam on K10, he is a founding member of the Kubernetes Data Protection Working Group and was formerly the architect for the Velero Open Source Kubernetes backup project... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Data Protection

2:30pm MST

Kubernetes WG Device Management - Advancing K8s Support for GPUs - John Belamaric, Google; Patrick Ohly, Intel; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

The goal of the recently formed WG Device Management is to enable simple and efficient configuration, sharing, and allocation of accelerators (such as GPUs and TPUs) and other specialized devices. This working group focuses on the APIs, abstractions, and feature designs needed to configure, target, and share the necessary hardware for both batch and serving (inference) workloads. The current focus of the working group is the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) feature. Come to this talk to learn what we have delivered in Kubernetes 1.31, what is coming in 1.32 and beyond, and how you can influence the roadmap for Kubernetes support of accelerated workloads.

Speakers

Patrick Ohly

Principal Engineer, Intel

Patrick Ohly is a software engineer at Intel GmbH, Germany. In the past he has worked on performance analysis software for HPC clusters ("Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector") and cluster technology in general (PTP and hardware time stamping). Since January 2009 he has worked for Intel... Read More →

Kevin Klues

Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Kevin Klues is a distinguished engineer on the NVIDIA Cloud Native team. Kevin has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of Kubernetes technologies, including the Topology Manager, the Kubernetes stack for Multi-Instance GPUs, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA... Read More →

John Belamaric

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

John is a Sr Staff SWE, co-chair of K8s SIG Architecture and of K8s WG Device Management, helping lead efforts to improve how GPUs, TPUs, NICs and other devices are selected, shared, and configured in Kubernetes. He is also co-founder of Nephio, an LF project for K8s-based automation... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, Device Management

2:30pm MST

SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

SIG-Multicluster is focused on solving common challenges related to the management of many Kubernetes clusters, and applications deployed across many clusters, or even across cloud providers. In this session, we'll give attendees an overview of the current status of the multi-cluster problem space in Kubernetes and of the SIG. We’ll discuss current thinking around best practices for multi-cluster deployments and what it means to be part of a ClusterSet. Then we’ll highlight current SIG projects, focused use cases, and ideas for what’s next. Most importantly, we’ll provide information on how you can get involved either as a contributor or as a user who wants to provide feedback about the SIG's current efforts and future direction. Bring your questions, problems, and ideas - help us expand the multi-cluster Kubernetes landscape!

Speakers

Stephen Kitt

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Stephen is one of the maintainers of the Submariner project, providing connectivity and service discovery across multiple Kubernetes clusters. He is a long-time open source contributor, and has been at Red Hat since 2015, working on OpenDaylight and Submariner.

Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson

Principal Engineer, Google

Jeremy is a software engineer who works on Google Kubernetes Engine. His main focus is on simplifying the Kubernetes experience, and making it as easy as possible to deploy applications both within a cluster with things like GKE Autopilot, and across clusters with multi-cluster solutions... Read More →

Laura Lorenz

SWE, Google

Laura Lorenz is a software engineer at Google. She is an active member of Kubernetes’ upstream focused on SIG-Multicluster, SIG-Node, and releases.

Ryan Zhang

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Dr. Ryan Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, working on Azure Kubernetes Service Team. Ryan has been working on Cloud Native open source projects for the past few years including CloudEvents, Open Application Model (OAM) and multi-cluster related initi... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Multicluster

3:25pm MST

How to Get Started Contributing in the CNCF - Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women & Riaan Kleinhans, Linux Foundation

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

The CNCF fosters a dynamic and inclusive ecosystem where individuals of all skill sets and regardless of experience can contribute to cloud-native technologies. Let us delve beyond the traditional "how-to contribute" approach and empower you to unlock your potential as a contributor. We’ll get into the core principles of open source, drawing from real-world examples from my experience. Highlighting its collaboration and the inclusive environment it offers. We'll share valuable resources and practical steps to teach you how to get started in the open-source community. Learn how to: - Find projects that align with your skills & interests. - Navigate the open-source collaborative environment. - Contribute with guidelines for beginners. - Leverage your unique perspective. - Use resources to find your contribution niche. This presentation equips you to confidently enter the rewarding world of open-source cloud-native development.

Speakers

Destiny O'Connor

Co-Chair CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG, Web Developer, Women Blessing Women

As Co-Chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group, where I channel my passion for creating a more inclusive tech world for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. My mission is to educate the tech community about the unique challenges and experiences of being deaf in this... Read More →

Riaan Kleinhans

Mr., Linux Foundation

Riaan Kleinhans is a seasoned project manager with extensive experience in customer-facing roles, open-source projects, and community management. Currently, he serves as a Program Manager at the Linux Foundation, collaborating with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Confidential... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Contributor Strategy

3:25pm MST

Life of a Packet: Ambient Edition - John Howard, Solo.io & Keith Mattix, Microsoft

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Istio's new "ambient mode" promises to (and delivers!) dramatically simplify and reduce the cost of running a service mesh. This doesn't come easily, however; Istio employs some advanced and innovative techniques to deliver on this promise. In this talk, Keith and John - two leads on the ambient project - will give an in-depth look under the hood to show how ambient mode operates, walking through how a packet gets from point A to point B securely and efficiently.

Speakers

Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Gateway API, and other networking projects.

John Howard

John Howard, Solo.io

John Howard is a Senior Architect at Solo.io and Istio Technical Oversight Committee member.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Istio

3:25pm MST

Mastering ApplicationSet: Advanced Argo CD Automation - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Argo CD has become an essential deployment tool that engineers use to automate various infrastructure management use cases across hundreds of clusters. This presents a new challenge of managing Argo CD applications at scale. The Argo CD team has explored multiple approaches to solving this, resulting in the creation of ApplicationSet. Over time, ApplicationSet has gained many features, becoming sophisticated and quite complex to use. In this session, we will dive into advanced ApplicationSet features: orchestrating complex rollouts of ingress controllers across multiple clusters and accommodating snowflake clusters. We will enable the audience to answer these and many other questions about using ApplicationSet. Finally, we will demonstrate an effective way to debug ApplicationSet specifications without digging through logs and altering production Argo CD settings.

Speakers

Alexander Matyushentsev

Co-founder and Chief Architect, Akuity

Argo Co-Creator, Argo CD Lead, and maintainer. Energetic and passionate software engineer with over a decade of software development experience. I'm an enthusiast of continuous integration, agile environments, and a huge open-source believer. Core contributor and maintainer of http://argoproj.io... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Argo

3:25pm MST

OpenTelemetry Project Update - Alolita Sharma, Apple; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Grafana Labs; Ted Young, ServiceNow; Morgan Mclean, Splunk; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

This is the official OpenTelemetry session at Kubecon. OpenTelemetry started with distributed traces and metrics, but the project's vision has always been to provide whatever signals are needed from infrastructure, services, and more. This session will focus on what's coming next, including new signals and sources. Join to learn about OpenTelemetry's new logging functionality, including its two logging paths, the benefits of each, and real-world production examples. We'll show the power of the next wave of OpenTelemetry enhancements, including profiling and the insights that this unlocks in combination with distributed traces, and how we're extending your observability to client applications. We'll wrap up with a Q&A of 10+ project maintainers, who can speak to these topics and more.

Speakers

Morgan Mclean

Director of Product Management, Splunk

Morgan is one of the co-founders of OpenTelemetry, and he sits on the project's governance committee and runs multiple initiatives within the project. He is a Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, where he is responsible for the core platform behind Splunk Observability... Read More →

Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a software engineer at Grafana Labs, a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, a member of the project's governing board and CNCF Ambassador. He has presented about distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and other related topics at conferences like KubeCon... Read More →

Daniel Dyla

Senior Open Source Architect / OpenTelemetry GC, JS, Maintainer, Dynatrace

Daniel joined Dynatrace in 2015 working on the Davis Assistant natural language interface to the Dynatrace AI. He is an Open Source Architect, member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group, OpenTelemetry specification contributor, maintainer of the OpenTelemetry JS client, and... Read More →

Ted Young

Director of Developer Education, ServiceNow

OpenTelemetry co-founder

Alolita Sharma

Observability Engineering, Apple

Alolita Sharma is a member of OpenTelemetry GC, Observability TAG co-chair, CNCF End-User TAB Chair and Governing Board member. She leads Apple’s AIML observability teams. She contributes to open source, open standards at OpenTelemetry, Unicode, W3C. She has served on the boards... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, OpenTelemetry

3:25pm MST

SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Kubernetes SIG Node maintainers track session will cover the latest updates in the Kubernetes Node subsystem. The emergence of Generative AI has introduced new challenges and workload behaviors. And SIG Node is up for the challenge. SIG Node owns components and interactions between pods and host resources, including the Kubelet, Container Runtime Interface, and Node API. SIG Node is responsible for the Pod’s lifecycle from allocation to teardown, to liveness checks and shared resource management. We work with various container runtimes, kernels, networking, storage, and more; anything a pod touches is SIG Node’s responsibility! The session will be led by Kubernetes SIG Node leads and will be interesting for seasoned contributors as well as people seeking to get involved in the project. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the latest developments in the Kubernetes Node subsystem. The session is open to all Kubernetes users, regardless of experience level.

Speakers

Dawn Chen

Principal Software Engineer, Google

Dawn Chen is a principal software engineer at Google. Dawn has worked on Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE) before the project was founded. She has been one of tech leads in both Kubernetes and GKE. Prior to Kubernetes, she was the one of the tech leads for Google internal... Read More →

Mrunal Patel

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Mrunal Patel is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on containers for Openshift. He is a maintainer of runc/libcontainer and the OCI runtime specification. He started the CRI-O runtime. He is a SIG-Node chair and tech lead.

Sergey Kanzhelev

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Sergey Kanzhelev is a seasoned open source and cloud native maintainer working actively on Kubernetes. Sergey is serving as co-chair of SIG node. He is also one of the founders of OpenTelemetry. He is working on engineering aspect of software and its practical application. He is contributing... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Node

4:30pm MST

CNI Updates and Direction! - Michael Zappa, Microsoft

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

The CNI or Container Networking Interface is one of the most important projects of Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem. Without it, nodes aren’t ready, and pods aren’t scheduled. This session will provide a brief overview of what the CNI is, where it intersects with Kubernetes, the latest updates, how you can get involved and the future of the CNI. We have talked a lot about CNI 2.0 and now it is becoming a reality. This will be the biggest change to the CNI however let's not get carried away, we will make this seamless for you! Attendees will leave with an understanding of what the CNI is and how it fits into the larger picture of Kubernetes networking so that you can contribute to the CNI community!

Speakers

Michael Zappa

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Hello, I am Zappa. I have been a technologist for over 20 years with a background in networking, systems, software and Devops engineering. I am a self-caught coder and started in the 6th grade. I am passionate about the ecosystem and container networking. My areas in the open-source... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, Container Network Interface

4:30pm MST

How to Expand Your IDP: The New Building Blocks of Backstage - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Learn new ways to get the most out of your internal developer portal (IDP) and improve developer experience and productivity together with the Backstage community. The project maintainers will walk through brand new framework features and resources designed to help you build plugins and integrations. By expanding what a Backstage portal can do, you add value to your own IDP while strengthening the Backstage open source ecosystem. You’ll also hear the latest updates from the different Project Areas and a roadmap for what’s coming next. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so here’s your chance to ask any burning questions!

Speakers

Patrik Oldsberg

Senior Engineer, Spotify

Patrik is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify and a core maintainer of Backstage. In 2019 he joined the team in Spotify’s platform organization that owned the Backstage platform, and worked together with the rest of the team to bring it out in the open. Before joining Spotify... Read More →

Ben Lambert

Core Maintainer of Backstage, Senior Engineer at Spotify, Spotify

Ben is an Engineer at Spotify and a Maintainer of Backstage.io

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Backstage

4:30pm MST

Linkerd Update: Ingress, Egress, IPv6, Enhanced Multicluster, Rust, and More - William Morgan, Buoyant

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

The pace of feature delivery in Linkerd has never been higher. In this whirlwind project update by Linkerd maintainers and directors, you'll learn about the latest developments and upcoming features. We'll discuss new support for egress traffic control and visibility, ingress traffic handling, UX improvements to multicluster, new support for IPv6, and more. Come prepared to learn about the world's fastest, lightest service mesh!

Speakers

William Morgan

Linkerd Director, Buoyant CEO, Buoyant

William is a director on the Linkerd project and the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv, a research scientist at MITRE. He holds an MS in computer... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Linkerd

4:30pm MST

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, David Ashpole & Richa Banker, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation is responsible for ensuring high quality and consistent instrumentation across the Kubernetes project. We will begin with an introductory overview of the efforts the SIG Instrumentation has worked on in the past and is currently working on. This deep dive session will go into detail about currently ongoing efforts happening within SIG Instrumentation to share with the audience concrete pieces of work to encourage future collaboration. Software engineering and operations are both disciplines practiced in SIG Instrumentation, and any experience will help the special interest group's mission. Join this session to learn how to get involved in SIG Instrumentation to make instrumentation even better!

Speakers

Richa Banker

Richa Banker, Google

Currently a software engineer at Google. Exploring and contributing to OSS Kubernetes on the side.

Han Kang

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Han Kang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Han co-chairs SIG instrumentation while also participating in SIG API Machinery, focusing on operational aspects of managing Kubernetes clusters.

David Ashpole

David Ashpole, Google

TODO

Damien Grisonnet

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Damien Grisonnet is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, he is very active in the monitoring ecosystem of Kubernetes for which he serves as a technical lead for Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation as well as a maintainer for projects such as kube-state-metrics, metrics-server, and prometheus-adapter... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Instrumentation

4:30pm MST

Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observability - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Jonathan Perry, State-fu

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

The recent advancements in eBPF tooling, including the enhanced eBPF runtime embedded in the Linux kernel, the BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) for efficient kernel tracing, and the LLVM Compiler for converting C code to eBPF programs, have made it easier to provide always-on network visibility. OpenTelemetry Network leverages these foundational tools to provide out-of-the-box network observability for modern infrastructures. In this talk, we'll explore the architecture of the OTel Network, focusing on its key components: the kernel collector, kubernetes collector, cloud collector, and reducer which together enable collecting, ingesting, aggregating, enriching, and exporting telemetry data collected from various sources. We'll show an end-to-end setup to demonstrate the use of these agents and reducer component to send data to the OTel collector. This session aims to equip end-users and contributors with the necessary infomation to get started with the OpenTelemetry Network project.

Speakers

Jonathan Perry

Founder, State-fu

Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry eBPF network collector. His PhD research at MIT CSAIL focused on performance isolation in datacenter and cloud networks, aiming to enhance network efficiency and reduce latency. Jonathan founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based... Read More →

Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

Founding Engineer, SigNoz

Shivanshu is a Founding Engineer at SigNoz, working on building an OTeL native observability product. He has a keen interest in deep tech and OSS. He is a CNCF ambassador and a member of CNCF projects like OTeL, k8s, and Istio. He has got the opportunity to mentor contributors in... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, OpenTelemetry

5:25pm MST

Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Jesse Brown, Heroku & Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Buildpacks transform source applications into images that run on any cloud. Each output image contains a full Software Bill of Materials which allows platform developers to know precisely what software is deployed. This makes them an excellent solution where a container runtime is provided to untrusted or semi-trusted development teams. There are wider use-cases where many application development teams share a common runtime, like Kuberenetes. In this talk we look at using Buildpacks to deploy web applications at scale, we consider batch processing in large workflows - particularly AI/machine learning workflows - and we look at an example Functions as a Service platform that uses Buildpacks.

Speakers

Jesse Brown

Software Engineer, Heroku

Jesse is a software engineer at Heroku, currently based in Memphis, TN. With a focus on the Heroku Builds suite of services, Jesse has been contributing to buildpacks.io since 2019 and earned maintainer status in 2021. Passionate about Kubernetes and large-scale systems, Jesse dedicates... Read More →

Aidan Delaney

Bloomberg

Aidan is a Buildpacks.io maintainer and currently works in Bloomberg's Data Management Services team. He has worked on Buildpacks (and other infrastructure) for AI and large scale data processing. He likes to build well-tested platforms that have clean interfaces.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Buildpacks

5:25pm MST

Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry - Jonah Kowall, Independent & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

In this session, we will introduce the Jaeger project, explain distributed tracing concepts, and the value it brings compared to other telemetry signals like metrics and logs. The session will continue with a live Jaeger demo, after which the audience will understand the platform features. We will switch gears to focus on the exciting release of Jaeger v2, which is due to be released very soon. This new version will further incorporate OpenTelemetry into Jaeger natively. Then we’ll delve into service performance monitoring and the changes which have happened to this critical feature. We will finish by talking about the roadmap and how to get involved with the project, including our expanding LFX and Google Summer of Code mentorship programs.

Speakers

Pavol Loffay

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Pavol Loffay is a principal software engineer at Red Hat working on open-source observability technology for modern cloud-native applications. Pavol contributes and maintains Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects OpenTelemetry and Jaeger. In his free time, Pavol likes... Read More →

Jonah Kowall

CTO, TBD (between roles)

Jonah Kowall, computer scientist and open-source contributor to OpenSearch, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry. A technical leader across startups to large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance. Led Gartner research on monitoring. Product leadership at AppDynamics, Cisco... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Jaeger

5:25pm MST

Observability TAG Round-up and What’s New for AI Observability - Alolita Sharma, Apple & Chris Larsen, Netflix

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

The Observability TAG has been busy in 2024. We've been hard at work on exciting initiatives designed to address the challenges of large-scale observability. This session will provide an update on our activities, workgroups, and achievements. The cloud is undergoing a supernova event! Massive deployments of GPUs and NPUs running AI workloads are fueling a revolution, but implementing observability for this new ecosystem can easily devour your budget. As CNCF’s Observability TAG, we'll dive into the latest trends in observability that address the cost challenges of the AI Cloud. See what’s new to help manage observability data more effectively, optimize operational efficiency, and keep costs under control.

Speakers

Chris Larsen

Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Netflix

Observability engineer focusing on cross telemetry correlation and maintainer of OpenTSDB.

Alolita Sharma

Observability Engineering, Apple

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD

Maintainer Track, Observability

5:25pm MST

Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions - Joe Betz, Google & David Eads, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Prevent a single node compromise from leaping to other nodes. If you deploy or develop per-node agents, learn how to combine recent and developing features (validating admission policy, service account token node claims, CRD field selectors, and field selector authorization) to build secure hardware extensions.

Speakers

Joe Betz

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Joe Betz is a tech lead of the Kubernetes api-machinery SIG. Joe has contributed to extensibility features including custom resources, admission webhooks, and CEL. Joe has also contributed to etcd as a project maintainer.

David Eads

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

David Eads is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat and co-lead for Kubernetes sig-apimachinery and TL for sig-auth.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, API Machinery

5:25pm MST

XRegistry - Looking Beyond CloudEvents - Calum Murray, University of Toronto

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

CloudEvents helps in the delivery of events by standardizing where common event metadata can be found in the messages carrying those events without the need to understand the schema of each event. But discovering which endpoints support those events, how to communicate with them, and finding the schema of the messages carrying those events can be challenging. This is where xRegistry can be used. xRegisty defines a core set of interoperable APIs for a generic "registry" that can be used to persist and query its contents to help discover resources and their metadata. On top of this extensible base registry model we are developing 3 domain specific registries: Endpoint, Message and Schema registries - specifically aimed at enabling the automation, tooling and code generation often needed in distributed systems development. In this session you will learn about CloudEvents, xRegistry and how we're trying to help users be more productive in an event-driven world.

Speakers

Calum Murray

Engineering Science Student, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

I'm a software engineer, and I love building cool things in open source. I like to seek out the most interesting and challenging problems which I think will have a large impact, and build creative solutions to them. I also like to share my passion for open source with others, and... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Cloudevents