KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

Tutorial: Kubernetes Smart Scaling: Getting Started with Karpenter - Changsu Lee & Raj Saha, AWS; Wilson Darko & Charlie McBride, Microsoft; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Karpenter is an open-source node provisioner that simplifies infrastructure management for Kubernetes clusters. It automatically launches the right compute resources to handle application demands, allowing you to leverage the cloud's elastic capabilities with fast and simple provisioning. This hands-on workshop will guide you through setting up Karpenter in your Kubernetes clusters, how Karpenter automatically responds to changes in application load, scheduling and resource requirements, and placing new workloads onto available compute capacity. Additionally, you'll explore how Karpenter reduces cluster costs by removing under-utilized nodes, replacing expensive nodes with cheaper alternatives, and consolidating workloads onto efficient resources. Throughout the workshop, you'll gain hands-on experience with Karpenter's advanced capabilities, such as evaluating scheduling constraints, enabling continuous optimization through consolidation, and managing drift for day-2 operations.

Speakers

Wilson Darko

Microsoft

Praseeda Sathaye

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Amazon (AWS)

Praseeda Sathaye is a Principal Specialist SA for App Modernization and Containers at Amazon Web Services based in Bay Area California. She has been focused on helping customers speed their cloud-native adoption journey by modernizing their platform infrastructure, internal architecture... Read More →

Chance Lee

Sr Container specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Chance Lee is a Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS based in the Bay Area. He helps customers architect highly scalable and secure container workloads with AWS container services and various ecosystem solutions. Prior to joining AWS, Chance was an IBM Lab Services... Read More →

Raj Saha

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Raj is the Principal Specialist SA for Containers, and Serverless at AWS. Rajdeep has architected high profile Kubernetes applications serving millions of customers. He is a published instructor on Kubernetes, Serverless, DevOps, and System Design, has published blogs, and presented... Read More →

Charlie McBride

SDE 2, Microsoft

Summa Cum Laude graduates from the University of Washington. I've been emersed within cloud containerization first interning at AWS within Elastic Container Registry, before going to a full-time position at Azure Kubernetes Services. The cloud feels like a natural home, where I'm... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:55am MST

Scratching the Surface: Simulating K8s in MIT Scratch - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Jude Connors, Independent

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Why would anyone re-implement Kubernetes from scratch? And why use Scratch, the graphical programming language from MIT? The best way to understand a machine is to take it apart and put it back together again, but how can we apply this to Kubernetes, which isn’t so easy to take apart? In the code, one is quickly overwhelmed with the nuances of protobufs, channels, and goroutines. Examples can be equally perplexing: why, exactly, would I cuddle a kube? Come see K8s through the eyes of a 14-year-old, re-creating core k8s components in their simplest form with Scratch. Topics include Explain It Like I’m 14 (because one of us is), some surprising things we learned (even after years of working with k8s), and how to pass the torch to the next generation. New users will learn Kubernetes by breaking it down into simple controllers, and veteran contributors will be empowered to tackle the most difficult task of all: explaining your job to your children.

Speakers

Mitch Connors

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mitch Connors is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Aviatrix, and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee. Over the past 17 years, Mitch has worked at Google, F5 Networks, Amazon, an Industrial IoT startup, and State Farm Insurance, giving him a broad perspective on the... Read More →

Jude Connors

Professional 14 Year Old, Unemployed

Jude is a freshman in high school with a passion for puzzles, music, and games of every sort.

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm MST

Solving the Kubernetes Networking API Rubik's Cube - Doug Smith & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat; Shane Utt, Kong; Lior Lieberman, Google

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

AI/ML use cases are steering the Kubernetes wheel in exciting directions. If you’re interested in networking, it might be having a bigger impact on changes to core Kubernetes than you think. Are you hearing the acronyms DRA (Dynamic Resource Allocation) and KNI (Kubernetes Networking Interface) a LOT in the ecosystem lately and wondering how they are connected to AI/ML-Networking, Multi-Networking and CNI? We love the GPU allocation aspects of DRA - but did you know there are considerations for allocating hardware devices for networking too? You might be familiar with CNI - but have you come across the KNI effort to build a standardized set of Kubernetes Networking APIs? For those who are new to Kubernetes networking, trying to solve this networking Rubik’s cube can feel overwhelming. Join us for a fun and informative session where we'll simplify the landscape and help you fit the puzzle pieces together. Leave with confidence to navigate and contribute in this rapidly evolving space.

Speakers

Doug Smith

Principal Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network... Read More →

Surya Seetharaman

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Inc.

Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems... Read More →

Shane Utt

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

TODO

Lior Lieberman

Site Reliability Engineer, Google

Lior is site reliability engineer at Google working on Google Compute Engine. He is a leading maintainer of ingress2gateway, and an active contributor to Kubernetes SIG network focused on Gateway API.

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:25pm MST

Unlocking the Future of GPU Scheduling in Kubernetes with Reinforcement Learning - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe Systems & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Scaling up Multi GPU setup using Kubernetes for large scale ML projects has been a hot topic equally stressed upon among both the AI and cloud community. While Kubernetes is able to providing computing power by scheduling GPU nodes, certain issues like resource fragmentation and low utilization plague the performance and results in cost issues. Why Reinforcement Learning (RL) in particular one would ask. Unlike the other algorithms, RL shines in its unique ability to continuously adapt to changing environments and efficiently handle Complex and Multi-dimensional Objectives making it particularly suitable for the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of Kubernetes clusters. In this talk, we shall explore the current landscape of GPU scheduling and some state of the art RL algorithms proposed for scheduling. Their current impact on Kubernetes and the possible use of RLHF shall be dived deep into. We hope that audience gain more insights into these new ways of scheduling GPUs on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Aditi Gupta

Aditi Gupta, Software Developer at Disney + Hotstar, Disney Plus Hotstar

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer at Disney+ Hotstar. Graduated from Asia's largest tech college for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service... Read More →

Nikunj Goyal

Developer at Adobe, AI and Machine Learning Specialist, Adobe Systems

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, working as a developer at Adobe and a Maths major from IIT Roorkee. I am working with AI and Machine Learning for some time mainly with Generative AI and graph based methods. I am a core part of Text-to-vector generation team at my org and previously worked... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:25pm MST

Tackling GPU Shortages and High Costs by Harnessing Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters - Xiaoman Dong & Alex Pucher, Parasail

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

In the era of supporting AI and large language models, acquiring GPU supplies from major cloud providers is challenging and expensive. Meanwhile, a significant supply of affordable GPU resources is emerging from various third-party providers. Hybrid Kubernetes clusters are the perfect solutions to integrate these GPUs into existing services built on large cloud providers. At our startup focusing on cloud infrastructure, we have created numerous hybrid Kubernetes clusters based on K3s and P2P VPN using the Wireguard protocol. With this setup, we have successfully integrated more than ten sources of GPUs from different geographical locations, achieving nearly unlimited on-demand GPU resources while reducing GPU costs by 2x-4x. In this talk, we will discuss the architecture, pros and cons, requirements, and limitations of pure hybrid Kubernetes clusters for GPUs. We will also share lessons learned during the building and management of such true hybrid Kubernetes clusters.

Speakers

Alexander Pucher

Parasail AI

Xiaoman Dong

Founding Engineer, Parasail

Xiaoman Dong has devoted his past 10+ years building cloud and data infrastructure, and hosted scalable distributed systems with multi region high availability. During his work in Parasail, Stripe and Uber, he has designed, built, and operated several large scale business critical... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:30pm MST

Understanding Kubernetes Networking in 30 Minutes - Ricardo Katz, Broadcom & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

You are learning Kubernetes and started to face concepts like Pod CIDRs, Services, CNI, kube-proxy? Welcome! you have reached the amazing area of Kubernetes networking! We all have already been there and know how complex it may seem on the beginning, but in this talk, Ricardo and James will demystify the Kubernetes network concepts and model on a fun way, exploring how it is designed, why the is a "pause" container on every Pods, how the communication between Pods work, what are kube-proxy and CNI and their importance. In the end of this talk we expect you to get your learning path on Kubernetes Networking clear to better understand not only what are the concepts about, but also see on a live demo how every component correlates and makes the communications possible on a Kubernetes cluster .

Speakers

Ricardo Katz

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom, Kubernetes contributor on spare time. Previously was the tech lead for the Brazilian Government Cloud and Platform infrastructure, being one of the persons responsible for implementing some of the first Kubernetes clusters in Brazil, clusters... Read More →

James Strong

Sr Customer Success Architect, Isovalent at Cisco

James has been working in the cloud for 7 years. He helped build a private cloud at GE Appliances and developed and supported REST API's in AWS on docker. Recently he has passed the CNCF's CKA exam and helps companies migrate their applications to Kubernetes.

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:30pm MST

Bring the Joy Back to Deployments! - Murriel McCabe, Google Cloud & Elizabeth Ponce, Airbnb

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

Destination: deployment! Your feature is complete. Your application is ready. You want to share your hard work with the world. How do you pick the optimal deployment process? Where do you even start? In this talk, Murriel and Elizabeth will be your guides on a brief tour of several open source tools for deploying a workload into Kubernetes. Our journey will begin with manual hello world deployments and from there we will explore some of the most common modern tools for CI/CD, including a demo speedrun! Major destinations on this tour will include helm, kustomize, skaffold, ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins and JenkinsX. We will walk through the fundamentals of CI/CD, explore tradeoffs and discuss the process for implementing these tools in your software development lifecycle. By the end of this talk, you'll be equipped to begin navigating the CI/CD landscape and will leave with resources that will enable you to get started quickly and begin testing in your own environment.

Speakers

Murriel McCabe

Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

Murriel is a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud. She is currently excited about all things DevOps and platform engineering, developer productivity, and container platforms. She is a big advocate for STEM mentorship of girls/youth and exploring how technology can be used for social... Read More →

Elizabeth Ponce

Software Engineer, Airbnb

Elizabeth is a Software Engineer in Search Infrastructure at Airbnb and has a non traditional pathway from Customer Support Specialist to Software Engineering at Airbnb. As a Global Co-Chair for GemTech, Airbnb's Genders Marginalized in Tech employee resource group, Elizabeth actively... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250

SDLC

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:25pm MST

Multi-Tier Security in WasmCloud: From Developer Constraints to Platform Extensibility - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

In 2024, 96% of codebases contain open source, and 74% of these have high-risk vulnerabilities — a 54% increase from 2023. As open source adoption grows and the cloud native landscape evolves, robust security practices are critical. This session explores wasmCloud, a CNCF platform for distributed WebAssembly applications, focusing on achieving a secure-by-default environment. wasmCloud's multi-tier security model addresses the needs of both developers and platform engineers. Developers work in a deny-by-default mode, requiring explicit declaration of all application capabilities. Platform engineers grant these capabilities in a fine-grained manner and extend security through pluggable services. Grounded in real-world experience and practical demos, you’ll leave this talk with the knowledge to configure and extend security using pluggable services, enabling you to leverage WebAssembly to secure your cloud native applications.

Speakers

Brooks Townsend

Senior Software Engineer II, Cosmonic

Brooks is a Lead Software Engineer at Cosmonic, focusing on harnessing WebAssembly to alleviate the pains of modern software development. Brooks started his software development career with Critical Stack, a Kubernetes container orchestration platform that is now open source. He joined... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Beginner