KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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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)

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

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

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

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

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