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

12:10pm MST

Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder - Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Wenjia Zhang, Google; Lucas Käldström, Upbound; Carol Valencia, Elastic; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Mentorship, a cornerstone of the community's success, offers a transformative path to growth and development. However, finding the right mentor and building a successful mentorship relationship can be challenging. This panel discussion brings together experienced mentors from diverse roles within the Kubernetes community including maintainers, tech leads, and committee members. The panel members will share their insights on how to get the most out of mentorship at different stages of your Kubernetes journey, as you climb the Contributor ladder. By the end of this panel, the audience will understand essential takeaways for effective mentorship at different contributor ladder marks. The project maintainers can take inspiration from how the Kubernetes project maintainers make use of various mentorship techniques such as Role Based Shadowing, Peer-to-Peer Learning, and Mentorship Cohorts that can help any project especially CNCF incubating projects stick new contributors to the project.

Speakers

Lucas Käldström

Senior Software Engineer, Upbound

Lucas is a Kubernetes and cloud native expert who has been serving the CNCF community in lead positions for 6 years. He’s awarded Top CNCF Ambassador 2017 with Sarah Novotny. Lucas was a co-lead for SIG Cluster Lifecycle, co-created kubeadm, Weave Ignite, and ported Kubernetes to... Read More →

Wenjia Zhang

Engineering Manager, Google

Wenjia Zhang is an Engineer Manager at Google, working on Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Distributed Cloud. She is an active contributor for Kubernetes and etcd open source projects.

Nabarun Pal

Staff Engineer at VMware, Kubernetes Steering Committee and Maintainer, Broadcom

Nabarun is a Staff Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an elected Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release... Read More →

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineering Intern, Akuity

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team, where he built the OBS library that is used by the Kubernetes project to automate the process of managing release... Read More →

Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic

Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm MST

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Our hero, a running app in a secure K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but currently, they have no idea what is going on. Are apps scaling correctly? Are automated deployments successful? What just went wrong, and how can it be fixed? Hero is desperate to escape this fog by adding CNCF tools for logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from a lost and confused app to their final form⎯an app that knows their faults before their users do. In their fourth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they add observability to their cluster, enabling the ability to answer meaningful questions about their system. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and add observability before the session time elapses?

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Whitney Lee

CNCF Ambassador

Whitney is a lovable goofball and a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on her... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

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

4:30pm MST

DNS Deep Dive in Kubernetes with CoreDNS - Jingming Guo, Airbnb

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

In the dynamic world of Kubernetes, efficient DNS resolution is critical for seamless application performance and scalability. CoreDNS, as the default DNS server for Kubernetes, offers flexible and high-performance DNS capabilities. This talk will delve into the lifecycle of a DNS request within a Kubernetes cluster using CoreDNS, offering insights into the flow of DNS traffic and enhancing your understanding of DNS requests and service discovery in Kubernetes—-key knowledge for effective debugging and issue resolution. Additionally, we will present a case study of Airbnb's successful integration of CoreDNS, highlighting the CoreDNS performance evaluation, our seamless migration approach, and scaling strategy. Finally, we will talk about the multi-cluster DNS resolution with CoreDNS. This section will demonstrate how multi-cluster DNS capabilities address the common challenges, discuss performance considerations and multi-cluster DNS limitations.

Speakers

Jingming Guo

Software Engineer, Airbnb

Jingming Guo, graduated from Northwestern University in 2017 and subsequently joined AWS EBS team. At AWS, Jingming led the development of Elastic Volume feature on the Block Express volume and led the EBS Server capacity increase release. In 2022, Jingming joined Airbnb and led the... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any