KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:15am MST

Architecting Tomorrow: The Heterogeneous Compute Resources for New Types of Workloads - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Finland

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Imagine managing a set of diverse workloads on a Kubernetes node, operating across dozens of CPU cores and several memory zones. But do you truly comprehend the difference between one CPU core versus another? Are you aware of the impact that different memory zone might have on your workload's efficiency? Will optimisations for one type of workloads be helpful for another? Do you think that your ML workload will behave same way as e.g. Redis? This presentation delves deep into CPU internals, memory types (DRAM, HBM, CXL), and diverse cache/core types and layouts. Explore recent hardware advancements and their impact on workloads. We'll examine native compute resource allocation strategies from a hardware point of view, crucial for enhancing workload performance and optimising energy usage and cost efficiency. Join and learn details of the modern hardware architecture that gives you a framework to make more informed choices on hardware resource optimisation for your infrastructure.

Speakers

Alexander Kanevskiy

Principal Engineer, Cloud Orchestration Software, Intel Finland

Alexander is currently employed by Intel as Principal Engineer, Cloud Software, focusing on various aspects in Kubernetes: Resource Management, Device plugins for hardware accelerators, Cluster Lifecycle and Cluster APIs. Alexander has over 25+ years of experience in areas of Linux... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:10pm MST

Building Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on Spot Instances with Drafter and PVM - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Building Kubernetes clusters that span across multiple cloud providers prevents vendor lock-in and offers flexibility. Using spot instances can further cut costs by up to 90%, but they can terminate with only 30 seconds' notice. Traditionally, migrating VMs across cloud providers and CPUs to mitigate this has been challenging due to hardware constraints. PVM (Pagetable Virtual Machine) is an experimental kernel technology that changes this by enabling KVM without hardware assistance or emulation. Using the research paper, this session will explain how PVM works and how the open-source Drafter and Firecracker projects can use it to migrate VMs between cloud providers. The session includes a live demo of running Kubernetes components like the Kubelet, CRI, CSI and CNI inside VMs and migrating them in a heterogeneous EC2, GCP, and Azure environment. This allows evacuating a Kubernetes node and network without downtime if a spot instance is terminated or if another provider is cheaper.

Speakers

Felicitas Pojtinger

Software Developer, Loophole Labs

Felicitas Pojtinger is a software engineer working on all things cloud native. She has developed multiple popular OSS projects such as the WebRTC-based overlay networking tool weron, the Go network boot server bofied, the go-nbd library and more. Currently, she does research and development... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

2:30pm MST

Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Application Level - Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

The cloud native sustainability landscape is rising rapidly with new tools that are solving new challenges. This session will provide a quick overview of the latest tools & initiatives within the landscape. The speaker will dive into different sections, from infrastructure to application, and cover tools within the landscape. They will explore key tools like Kepler for energy consumption monitoring, KubeGreen for scaling down deployments, Scaphandre for detailed power usage metrics, & Cloud Carbon Footprint for tracking and reducing carbon emissions. This talk will showcase the practical application of these tools, demonstrating how they can be integrated to create a comprehensive sustainability strategy. Attendees will learn landscape segmentation & how they can use it for their cloud native applications today in order to track & reduce their carbon emissions effectively. This talk will offer how these tools can be used together to make cloud native deployments more sustainable.

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 →

Saloni Narang

Independent DevRel, Kubesimplify

Saloni is working as an independent DevRel, helping companies to form their DevRel strategies. Previously she worked at SAP Labs and has worked on different cloud tools including GCP,Oracle, & AWS. She loves to learn about new open-source tools in the CNCF landscape. She has been... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

3:25pm MST

Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

The Kubernetes code now allows native construction of generic control planes, without container types and in new form-factors other than your beloved clusters, be it customized apiserver binaries or embedded into other applications. This talk gives an in-depth explanation of what a generic controlplane is, how to construct it, how to extend it with custom types and how to control which native Kube APIs like secrets, configmaps, etc. or mechanisms like resource quota or RBAC are available. Specifically, we will cover 3 variants: 1. single-tenant generic control planes using upstream Kubernetes. 2. multi-tenant generic control planes using kcp to scale horizontally in one process. 3. multi-shard and multi-region generic control planes with focus of backing SaaS services.

Speakers

Stefan Schimanski

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Upbound

Stefan is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to teach and help people to learn... Read More →

MJ / Mangirdas Judeikis

Staff Engineer, Cast AI

With 10+ years in engineering, tech has been my passion from the start. Graduating in computer networks, I thrive on Go, Kubernetes, and an OpenSource approach. As an SRE practitioner, it's all about owning what you touch. No cloud preference, just adaptability. My motto? "Learn daily... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

4:30pm MST

Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics - Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

This work is based on 17 months experience managing a digital agriculture platform that has aggregated and processed tens of gigabytes of data on 1500 cows on a commercial dairy farm. Significant challenges surfaced tied to multi-cluster management, fault-tolerance, and privacy as the number of applications and farm management models grew. To bridge this gap, we designed and implemented a cloud native networked system for multi-cluster configuration and management of farm data analytics that leverages KubeStellar and Software-Defined Farm paradigm. Our experience from designing, implementing and deploying this framework showcase how Kubernetes can enable farmers and agribusinesses to leverage the power of containerization and cloud-native computing to optimize workflows and streamline agricultural operations. This work presents progress towards cloud-native, scalable, and fault-tolerant data analytics in digital farming with potential environmental, financial, and societal impacts.

Speakers

Braulio Dumba

Staff Research Scientist, IBM

Dr. Braulio Dumba is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research. In 2018, he joined IBM under the Hybrid Cloud organization. His current research is focus on edge computing and hybrid cloud computing. Dr. Dumba earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin... Read More →

Gloire Rubambiza

Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University

Gloire Rubambiza is a Ph.D. candidate in CS at Cornell University, where he conducts research in hybrid cloud computing for digital agriculture with an emphasis on societal impact. At Cornell, he was a University Fellow, a fellow of NSF National Research Traineeship in Digital Plant... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:25pm MST

Workload Identity Federation – Stop Using Long-Lived Credentials - Benjamin Dronen, Ford Motor Company & Kristen Newcomer, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Workload identity federation is a somewhat daunting but extremely beneficial topic in Kubernetes security. In this session, we will share the lessons Ford Motor Company has learned through using workload identity federation with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Entra ID, and other platforms at scale from a wide variety of different workload types, how it has enhanced our security posture, improved developers’ lives, and reduced outages.

Speakers

Kirsten Newcomer

Red Hat

Benjamin Dronen

Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Ben Dronen started at Ford Motor Company in 2022 as part of their Ford College Graduate rotational program. He currently holds a Kubernetes Platform Engineering position and focuses on bare metal Kubernetes deployments. Ben attended Andrews University in Southwest Michigan and holds... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Security

Content Experience Level Any