KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

Harnessing the Power of Envoy Proxy for Building an LLM Gateway - Idit Levine, Solo.io

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

As the demand for LLMs continues to soar, the need for secure, cost-conscious, and content-aware control over its usage is paramount. In this talk, we explore why Envoy Proxy is the optimal choice for building an LLM gateway, leveraging its unique architecture and capabilities. Unlike traditional proxies (e.g. NGINX), which rely on scripting languages for customization, Envoy Proxy stands out due to its extensibility features: filter architecture, callout architecture (ext-proc, ext-auth), and ability to dynamically load libraries. Combined with its high-performant, async core ( C++), Envoy can run as an ingress, egress and mesh gateway. We'll look at using Envoy proxy for LLM credential management, prompt guarding/decorting, analyzing content safety, usage controls, context-aware failover, and observability. Ideal for developers, architects, and tech enthusiasts looking to solve challenges around LLM usage and picking the right technologies for their platform infrastructure.

Speakers

Idit Levine

Founder & CEO, Solo.io

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of Solo.io, a company that creates open-source tools to assist enterprises in adopting and extending innovative cloud-native technologies while modernizing their existing IT investments. Solo.io is a top contributor to CNCF projects such as Envoy... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

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Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:55am MST

How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

For many, the Ingress resource was one of the first Kubernetes APIs they used, adding HTTP routing rules and SSL certs for cluster-external traffic. These APIs are used for production in clusters across the world today, configuring ingress gateways serving hundreds of thousands of connections per second. As of October 2023, the Ingress API has been superseded by the Gateway API, a new set of Kubernetes resources with over 20 implementations that enforces security best practices by design. However, migrating networking APIs is an intimidating task, and doing so safely is every company’s primary concern. Join this session to learn how to make this migration safe by identifying the best migration path, implementing Gateway API best practices, and utilizing community-supported migration tools such as ingress2gateway.

Speakers

Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Gateway API, and other networking projects.

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm MST

How the Tables Have Turned: Kubernetes Says Goodbye to Iptables - Casey Davenport, Tigera & Dan Winship, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

For decades, iptables has been the preferred packet filtering system in the Linux kernel. Used extensively across the Kubernetes networking ecosystem, iptables is now on the way out and is expected to be removed from the next generation of Linux distributions. With iptables past its prime, where does that leave Kubernetes? The successor to iptables -- nftables -- is ready to carry the torch instead, with a newly released beta kube-proxy implementation in v1.31 and network policy using Calico’s nftables backend. In this talk, Dan and Casey will share what they have learned building Kubernetes Service and NetworkPolicy implementations using nftables. They will cover the history and current status of iptables usage in Kubernetes, the capabilities and performance characteristics of Kubernetes networks running on nftables, and why eBPF may not be the right tool for the job.

Speakers

Casey Davenport

Casey Davenport, Tigera

Casey is a core developer on Calico and has been building Kubernetes networking systems since 2016.

Dan Winship

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dan is a Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Network and has been working on Kubernetes and OpenShift networking for 7 years at Red Hat.

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:25pm MST

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Networking 101 - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft & Ram Vennam, Solo.io

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

You’ve (somewhat) grasped the networking model of a single Kubernetes cluster. But how do you enable Pods to communicate across clusters? How do service discovery and DNS work for a multi-cluster setup? How do you secure inter-cluster traffic and manage certificates? Not sure? Don’t worry - this session will have the answers. We’ll start by outlining the core requirements for workloads to communicate across clusters. You’ll then learn some common multi-cluster networking topologies, like flat and multi-network setups, and how inter-cluster connectivity and IP address management differ for each of them. Finally, we’ll cover some popular tools for managing and securing traffic between clusters, like service mesh, CNIs, and gateways, and discuss their use-cases. You’ll leave this session with a solid understanding of fundamental terms and concepts - like virtual networking peering, external DNS, trust domains, etc - needed for navigating the multi-cluster networking landscape.

Speakers

Ram Vennam

Solutions Engineer, Solo.io

Ram Vennam is the Director of Solutions Engineering at Solo.io where he helps companies design and build highly scalable, resilient, distributed systems with the latest cloud-native technology. Previously, he was at IBM where he was a Technical Product Manager and Developer Advocate... Read More →

Niranjan Shankar

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Niranjan Shankar is a software engineer at Microsoft working on the Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). He has experience with multi-cluster operations, edge traffic management and security, GitOps-based patterns, and policy enforcement with Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MST

Microsegment Your Network Like Mastercard with AdminNetworkPolicy - John Zaiss, Mastercard & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Do you manage Kubernetes clusters and need to enforce airtight workload security on a cluster-wide level? This is vital in the Financial Services industry to comply with the PCI Data Security Standard. Mastercard was looking for a built-in Kubernetes solution enabling admins to govern network access between workloads at scale. While exploring different options, they found namespace-scoped NetworkPolicies but wanted to avoid duplicating policies for each namespace. When Kubernetes SIG-Network added AdminNetworkPolicies in v1.25, Mastercard found what they needed! In this session, we will introduce AdminNetworkPolicy and demonstrate applying granular, non-overridable network controls on a live cluster for multi-tenant isolation. Join us to learn how Mastercard is securing microservices in production based on the principle of least privilege and zero trust. We will also share our operational challenges and lessons learnt. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to secure clusters.

Speakers

John Zaiss

Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard

As a Principal Engineer, John brings extensive expertise in Kubernetes, automation, cloud identity architecture, server architecture, VMware ESX, mobile device management, and IT strategy. He is a seasoned information technology professional with a BS in Cybersecurity and a MS in... 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 →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:25pm MST

One Gateway API to Rule Them All (and in the Cluster Configure Them) - Flynn, Buoyant

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Ingress, egress, east-west, north-south… Kubernetes has always had a lot of different ways to talk about network traffic, each with its own concerns. For years, the possibility of unifying these kinds of configuration under a single API was a tantalizing but far-off possibility until Gateway API v0.8 took the first step of combining ingress and mesh configuration. Now Gateway API is taking the next step: bringing egress to the party. Join us for a look into how Linkerd is using these new egress capabilities to meet real user needs! We’ll start with a quick overview of what egress policy covers and what people need from it, how Gateway API makes egress work within its existing model, continue to cover how Linkerd implements it, and finish up with a live demo showing off a real-world example of egress management through the Gateway API. Welcome to the grand unified world!

Speakers

Flynn -

Tech Evangelist, Buoyant

Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40 years in software engineering (from the kernel up through distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Any