KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:15am MST

GitOops... I Did It Again! Protecting Your GitOps System from Being Used for Privilege Escalation - Oreen Livni & Elad Pticha, Cycode

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

From data theft to privilege escalation in the Kubernetes cluster, you don't want to be the one telling your boss that your GitOps system has been compromised. This talk covers the security of GitOps tools, highlighting common misconfiguration pitfalls and how to avoid them. We will share the story of CVE-2024-31989, a critical vulnerability we discovered in the popular tool Argo. When installed with the default configuration, this vulnerability allowed privilege escalation from any access point to the cluster (such as a webshell) to complete cluster takeover. We will discuss common insecure configurations like this and provide examples from popular open-source projects to explain how your organization can protect itself from these risks. Attendees will receive a guide and practical tools to protect their GitOps systems against such threats.

Speakers

Elad Pticha

Security Researcher, Cycode

Elad is a passionate security researcher with a focus on software supply chain and web application security. He dedicates his time to writing security research tools and finding vulnerabilities across a broad spectrum, from open-source projects and web applications to IoT devices... Read More →

Oreen Livni

Security Researcher, Cycode

Oreen Livni is a passionate security researcher specializing in application and supply chain security, Domain, and networking. With a focus on software supply chain vulnerabilities. Alongside his professional commitments, he immerses himself in art, gardening, and the world of surfing... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

Security

Content Experience Level Any

12:10pm MST

The Hard Truth About GitOps and Database Rollbacks - Rotem Tamir, Ariga

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

For two decades now, the common practice for handling rollbacks of database schema migrations has been pre-planned "down migration scripts". A closer examination of this widely accepted truth reveals critical gaps that result in teams relying on risky, manual operations to roll back schema migrations in times of crisis. In this talk, we show why our existing tools and practices cannot deliver on the GitOps promise of "declarative" and "continuously reconciled" workflows and how we can use the Operator Pattern to build a new solution for robust and safe schema rollbacks.

Speakers

Rotem Tamir

CTO, Ariga

Rotem Tamir (38), father of two. Co-founder and CTO of Ariga, co-maintainer of Atlas and Ent. Ex-data platform architect at Nexar, infrastructure team lead at ironSource.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm MST

Secure by Design CI/CD: Practical Insights from Adobe and Autodesk - Vikram Sethi, Adobe Inc. & Jesse Sanford, Autodesk

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

Worried that your CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows are insecure? Lost in security buzzwords like SBOMs, provenance, attestation, SLSA, OpenSSF, and more? Seeking a clear, actionable reference architecture to secure your pipeline? Whether you are just getting started on your Software Supply Chain Security journey, or are ready to take it to the next level navigating this diverse ecosystem is challenging. Join Vikram and Jesse as they present a reference architecture for secure-by-default CI/CD pipelines and show you effective security controls at every step. See firsthand how these industry giants safeguarded their pipelines while maintaining agility and innovation. This talk will showcase their work, and the work of the CNOE (Cloud Native Operational Excellence) group, which aims to build a paved path through this problem space by producing opinionated software collections or “CNOE stacks” that can be adapted to meet you where your technology is.

Speakers

Jesse Sanford

Software Architect, Autodesk

Jesse is a lifelong software engineer focused on site reliability and Infosec. Currently architecting the juncture of platform engineering and security/compliance for Autodesk's Developer Enablement team. He regularly contributes to open source and frequently speaks about his work... Read More →

Vikram Sethi

Principal Scientist, Adobe Inc.

Vikram is a Principal Scientist in the Developer Platforms organization at Adobe. Vikram has been architecting and building the Developer Experience for Adobe's Internal Developer Platform for the last few years. In the last year or so, Vikram has been working on rearchitecting Adobe's... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Any

3:25pm MST

Scale Job Triggering with a Distributed Scheduler - Cassie Coyle & Artur Souza, Diagrid

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

Imagine scheduling thousands or millions of jobs that are persisted and triggered timely and resilient to downtime. Some jobs might be triggered every second while others need to reliably be triggered on the first day of the month. Achieving high throughput and reliability is critical for the performance and operational efficiency of modern distributed systems. How can traditional cron job scheduling be extended? How can distributed systems handle job scheduling with minimal downtime? What challenges arise when scaling job scheduling to thousands or millions of jobs? In this session, Artur and Cassie will delve into the design of Dapr’s distributed Scheduler and how users can start using it today. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of how Dapr’s Scheduler unblocks scalability of actors and workflows while also enabling new capabilities, like delayed pubsub and schedule job API.

Speakers

Artur Souza

Head of Engineering, Diagrid

I am a maintainer of Dapr since 2019, helped the project reach the 1.0 stable version and keeping frequent releases since then. Currently Head of Engineering at Diagrid, leading the engineering teams building Conductor and the next generation of managed cloud native APIs via Dapr... Read More →

Cassie Coyle

Software Engineer, Diagrid

Cassie, a devoted software engineer at Diagrid actively contributes to Dapr, focusing on Go backend development to simplify the creation of resilient, event-driven, and microservices-based apps. She is a member of the Dapr Day and AppDeveloperCon 2024 program committees. Her work... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MST

Perform Laser Focused Deployments by Deciding in Advance the Blast Radius - Kostis Kapelonis, Octopus deploy

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

Progressive Delivery is an advanced deployment method that allows for zero-downtime application releases. Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller that allows you to adopt progressive delivery in the form of blue/green and canary deployments. We see a lot of teams that choose an arbitrary number of clients that access the new version of a canary. Yes, it is very easy to send only 10% of the traffic to the new version of a Kubernetes deployment. But sometimes you want to choose WHICH 10% sees the new traffic. In this talk we will see several approaches on pinning down specific clients to the old or new version and advanced scenarios for sending canary traffic only to a specific subset of users such as internal employees or customers who have expressed their interest on seeing brand new releases as soon as possible.

Speakers

Kostis Kapelonis

Developer Advocate, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Kostis is a software engineer/technical-writer dual class character. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments with GitOps.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:25pm MST

Taming Your Application’s Environments - Marcos Lilljedahl, Dagger & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

How coupled are your applications code and pipelines to its target cloud or on-prem environment? Kubernetes helps us to abstract how we run our workloads. However, there are other aspects, like infrastructure dependencies, service configuration, build process, deployment descriptors, etc., which need to be considered to make an application portable across multiple environments. Focusing on these aspects make a big difference when migrating apps to reduce costs, meeting compliance requirements or leveraging a specific tech only available somewhere else. Join us to cover three techniques you can implement to level up your SDLC: - Modularizing and enhancing our delivery pipelines to simplify complex environments (Crossplane and Dagger) - Building consistent experiences around well-known interfaces (CloudEvents, Dapr, and OpenFeature) to minimize runtime drift. - Design with separation of concerns to enable fast feedback loops between development and operation teams (Argo CD, Knative)

Speakers

Marcos Lilljedahl

Software Engineer, Dagger

Dad, Docker Captain, OSS lover, helmsman and wine drinker. Father of a joyful kid and wannabe surfer. I like listening to jazz music and tinker with some fun projects when possible. Avid open source contributor.

Mauricio Salatino

OSS Software Engineer, Diagrid

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Intermediate