KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

In this session, Leigh and Pinky will cover best practices when running Flux at scale in production. We'll start with an overview of the scaling capabilities of Flux controllers: - Vertical Scaling - Horizontal Scaling - Sharding We'll dive deeply into each method and explain when and how to use them considering multi-tenancy, cluster fleet size, and workload complexity. We'll also introduce the Mean Time To Production benchmarking tool the Flux team has developed using CUE lang and Timoni. The benchmark measures the time it takes for Flux to deploy thousands of Helm charts and Kustomize overlays on Kubernetes clusters. We'll explain the benchmark results and share lessons from running it on different Kubernetes distributions and providers. The session will conclude with the Flux roadmap and our API promises now that Flux is GA.

Speakers

Leigh Capili

Senior DevRel Engineer, Flox

Leigh is an empathetic speaker and dev with niches in cloud-native systems and security. He has a background in building software to manage infra. Leigh is working in k8s SIG-Auth. He authored kubeadm’s etcd mTLS implementation and Flux 2’s multi-tenant security model. Leigh works... Read More →

Priyanka Ravi

Platform Tech Advocate, G-Research

Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi is a Platform Technical Advocate at G-Research. She is a Flux project member and an advocate for GitOps. She has worked on a multitude of topics including front end development, UI automation for testing and API development. Previously she was a developer... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Flux

11:55am MST

Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times; Liz Rice, Isovalent @ Cisco; Joe Stevens, Ascend.io

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Welcome to Cilium's maintainer track session where you'll get an update on how Cilium is expanding the frontiers of cloud native networking, observability, and security. Cilium is CNCF's most widely adopted CNI, being the default choice for all major cloud providers. This talk dives into the bytecode behind all of the buzz around the project. We'll start with a brief overview of each part of the project before diving into how Cilium is expanding beyond Kubernetes with load balancing and multi-cloud networking and into runtime enforcement with Tetragon. In this session, you'll hear from Cilium contributors and users Isovalent and The New York Times.

Speakers

Joe Stevens

Tech Lead, Infra, Ascend.io

Kubernetes, multi-cloud, CI/CD

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent, now a part of Cisco

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the creators of the Cilium project, and now part of Cisco. Currently on the boards of the CNCF and OpenUK, she was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She... Read More →

Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times

As a seasoned Principal Engineer on the Delivery Engineering team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Cilium

2:30pm MST

Celebrating Prometheus 3.0: A Deep Dive with the Maintainers - Kemal Akkoyun, fal.ai & Josh Abreu, Grafana Labs

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring system and a CNCF Graduate project. It benefits from a rich ecosystem, including Alertmanager, efficient client libraries for many languages, the Prometheus Operator to install on Kubernetes, and numerous Exporters to provide the raw data. This year, Prometheus releases the 3.0 version, which includes new features, a refreshed UI/UX, and plenty of new things that build on what has worked well for years. Join two Prometheus maintainers, Josh and Kemal, to celebrate the 3.0 version and learn what it enables for new and existing users, how to upgrade, and how to get the most out of the latest version! Prepare tons of questions; we will have a lot of interactive time for questions; we want to hear community feedback!

Speakers

Kemal Akkoyun

Staff Software Engineer, Independent

Software Infrastructure Engineer. Programmer. Open Source Enthusiast. I help to build large-scale, distributed, real-time microservice systems and observability infrastructure.

Josue Abreu

Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Josue (Josh) Abreu has been involved in observability for the past 4 years. As a relative newcomer to this world, he was often puzzled at how alerting would function on a small and big scale. Josue works as the Alerting Lead at Grafana Labs and is a Prometheus Maintainer. Over a 10-year... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Prometheus

3:25pm MST

Peak Innovation and Cloud Tweaks: Falco’s Ongoing Runtime Security Development - Jason Dellaluce, Leonardo Grasso & Luca Guerra, Sysdig; Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard; Melissa Kilby, Apple

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

In the fast-paced world of cloud-native runtime security, Falco embraces innovation and adaptability. As a trusted CNCF-graduated project, Falco keeps evolving to meet today’s security challenges with new approaches. This session covers Falco’s latest developments, including better rule handling for flexible ruleset customization and output definition, integration with Prometheus metrics, and an improved installation experience. We will also look at new language extensions and operators, improvements in performance and testing, and powerful new plugins for advanced data modeling. Join us in celebrating Falco’s ongoing efforts to refining runtime security and its dedication to the future of cloud-native environments.

Speakers

Carlos Panato

Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard

Carlos Panato (@cpanato) is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers. He has a diverse background in development, testing, processes, and management. Carlos actively contributes to several Linux Foundation... Read More →

Leonardo Grasso

Open Source Tech Lead Manager / Falco Core Maintainer, Sysdig

Leonardo leads a talented group of open source engineers advancing security projects at Sysdig. Based in Italy, Leonardo combines his deep passion for Linux, Kubernetes, Containers, and Security with a strong background in software design and R&D. As a core maintainer of Falco, a... Read More →

Melissa Kilby

Security Engineer, Apple

Before joining Apple, Security Engineer Melissa Kilby contributed to US Government research projects and taught Applied Data Science at BlackHat. She has a Ph.D., specializing in machine learning and biomechanics. She has also contributed to NASA’s space suit engineering program... Read More →

Jason Dellaluce

Tech Lead, Manager, Sysdig

Jason Dellaluce is an Senior Engineer and Manager at Sysdig and a core maintainer of Falco, the CNCF tool for Cloud Native Runtime Security. On a daily basis, he contributes to the Falco Community and is exposed to Linux, Kubernetes, Containers, Security, eBPF, and the Open Source... Read More →

Luca Guerra

Sr. Open Source Engineer, Sysdig Inc.

Luca is an experienced software engineer, specializing in software design and security research. His professional experience includes designing security solutions, building and breaking secure systems, and vulnerability management. Luca is a core maintainer for the Falco project and... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Falco

4:30pm MST

Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro, Deep Dive & V1.0 Update - Charlie Egan, Styra

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Join us in this dedicated session on Open Policy Agent (OPA), the general-purpose policy engine for policy decision-making and management across the cloud native stack - from application authorization to Kubernetes admission, OPA has you covered. OPA maintainers will provide a comprehensive introduction for newcomers, followed by a deep dive into OPA v1.0 and recent updates. Whether you're a veteran OPA user, or just intrigued by policy as code in cloud-native environments, you will find this session valuable. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with other OPA users and to get your questions answered after the presentation too.

Speakers

Charlie Egan

Senior Developer Advocate, Styra

Charlie has been working with in the Cloud Native space since 2018. He currently works as a Developer Advocate at Styra and on the OPA project. Charlie is interested in authentication and authorization across the stack. You can find him in the OPA Community Slack.

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Open Policy Agent (OPA)

5:25pm MST

The Path to Helm 4 - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, has had a long and storied history alongside Kubernetes, dating back to 2015. As Kubernetes has grown, matured, and evolved, so has Helm. Since Helm is used by communities and organizations throughout the world, it is important that the project remains stable and efficient. For this to occur, Helm utilizes semantic versioning which ensures the CLI and API remain stable. However, as Kubernetes has evolved, it has been difficult to add new capabilities while also complying with these standards. There becomes a point for which breaking changes must be made. For this reason, Helm is embarking on Helm 4 which will help shape the future of the project. In this session, attendees will learn: How Helm remains stable including the safeguards used Why Helm is embarking on a new major version The key the features associated with Helm 4 Helm 3 support, during and afterward How to get involved The future of Helm is NOW and you can participate!

Speakers

Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reducing the overall... Read More →

Matt Farina

Distinguished Engineer, SUSE

Matt works as a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, where he works as the Chief Architect of the SUSE Rancher Team. He is a maintainer of multiple open source projects including Helm and Artifact Hub. Matt is an author, speaker, and regular contributor to open source.

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Maintainer Track, Helm