KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns & Arda Guclu, Red Hat

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Have you ever wondered how kubectl and kustomize enhancements are designed and built? Curious why your favorite feature request wasn't accepted? Join the folks from Kubernetes SIG CLI to find out! In this session, the SIG CLI maintainers will provide an introduction to the tooling they are working on and an overview of how to get started contributing. They will share the work done over the past year and the roadmap for what is next. Join us to help shape your favorite tools!

Speakers

Eddie Zaneski

Staff OSS Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Eddie lives in Denver, CO with his wife and dog. He loves open source and works on the Kubernetes project. When not hacking on random things you'll most likely find him climbing rocks somewhere.

Arda Guclu

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Senior software engineer at Red Hat, regular contributor to Kubernetes and one of the maintainers of kubectl.

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, CLI

11:55am MST

Cluster API Deep Dive - Roadmap to API Graduation - Fabrizio Pandini, Broadcom & Vince Prignano, Apple, Inc.

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

The Cluster API is the de-facto project to manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters at scale using simple declarative APIs. In 2021 the project reached production readiness, and today the community is working towards the next major milestone: graduating the APIs to v1 General Availability. Join us to get an overview how Cluster API is today used in production and discover what's planned for our APIs exciting new features like Karpenter, in-place upgrades, and more.

Speakers

Vince Prignano

Apple

Fabrizio Pandini

Staff Engineer 1, Broadcom

A Kubernetes contributor obsessed with making Kubernetes lifecycle simple and consistent across all types of infrastructures, so everyone can build amazing applications on top of it. When I’m not busy as a SIG Cluster Lifecycle tech lead or as a project maintainer in Cluster API... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Cluster Lifecycle

2:30pm MST

Bare Metal Kubernetes with KOps: Gathering Community Wisdom - Justin Santa Barbara, Google & Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Kubernetes on bare metal presents unique challenges compared to cloud deployments. While kOps is optimized for cloud environments, we have begun to explore bare metal support and identify key architectural trade-offs. We'll examine common architectures for bare metal Kubernetes, such as node discovery and availability without cloud services. Introducing a VM layer creates a familiar Kubernetes environment but adds complexity and can limit hardware performance. We'll discuss managing devices like GPUs and the need for tooling when hardware health isn't verified by a cloud provider. This talk will delve into the kOps project and its potential in supporting bare metal Kubernetes. However, our primary goal is to learn from the community. We invite you to share your successes, struggles, and insights to shape the future of our tooling for bare metal. Your feedback is crucial in guiding our development and ensuring kOps meets the needs of those deploying Kubernetes on bare metal.

Speakers

Justin Santa Barbara

Software Engineer, Google

Justin has been contributing to kubernetes since 2014, initially as the primary maintainer of the kubernetes AWS support, he also started the kOps project. He loves helping users adopt and grow their use of kubernetes, and believes that we have only scratched the surface of the kubernetes... Read More →

Ciprian Hacman

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Ciprian Hacman is a Software Engineer, working with cloud-native technologies. He is also an open source project maintainer for kOps (Kubernetes Operations), etcd-manager, cloud-provider-aws and frequent contributor to other projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Cluster Lifecycle

3:25pm MST

Intro & Deep Dive - Kubernetes Infrastructure - Arnaud Meukam, Independent & Mahamed Ali, Cisco

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

This session will examine the intricacies of Kubernetes infrastructure, ongoing maintenance efforts, and strategic security enhancements. We will showcase notable achievements, address challenges, and emphasize the significance of our collaborative efforts with fellow SIGs. The session concludes with an interactive Q&A, welcoming invaluable feedback and insightful discussions from all participants to shape our future trajectory. Join us in this unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of SIG k8s Infra together.

Speakers

Arnaud Meukam

Open Source Engineer, Independent

Arnaud is a Open Source Engineer and he is a core Kubernetes contributor. He is been involved in the project for over 5 years now, is the SIG Chair for the Kubernetes Infrastructure Group and Release manager.

Mahamed Ali

Senior DevOps Engineer, Cisco

Mahamed is a Senior DevOps Engineer at ThousandEyes by Cisco and improves developer experience for fellow engineers. He is also an OSS Maintainer and works on Kubernetes as the SIG K8s-Infra Tech Lead and on Knative as the Productivity Working Group Lead.

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, K8s Infra

4:30pm MST

Gateway API: What's New, What's Next? - Christine Kim & Nick Young, Isovalent at Cisco; Mattia Lavacca, Kong; Guilherme Cassolato, Red Hat

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Gateway API represents the next generation of ingress and service mesh APIs for Kubernetes. Since its promotion to GA (General Availability) last year, numerous features have been added, with many more in development. In this talk, we will introduce the latest enhancements, review all recent changes to the API, and discuss what lies ahead. Many features are planned to graduate to GA in the upcoming releases, while others will be introduced as experimental. This talk is the ideal opportunity to familiarize yourself with these changes, connect with the Gateway API community, and get answers to all your questions!

Speakers

Guilherme Cassolato

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Guilherme is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, core member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Kuadrant, developer and maintainer of Authorino, active contributor in the Kubernetes community with the Gateway API project by SIG-Network.

Nick Young

Senior Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Nick has been working to prevent the entropic downfall of systems for 25 years, across datacenters, clouds, networking, and others. He's a Staff Engineer at Isovalent, and a maintainer on the Kubernetes Gateway API project, where he works on improving the ingress and mesh experiences... Read More →

Christine Kim

Developer Relations, Isovalent at Cisco

Christine Kim focuses on developer experience at Isovalent, where she dabbles in the world of Kubernetes and Service Meshes.

Mattia Lavacca

Software Enginner, Kong

Mattia is a Software Engineer at Kong, working on Kubernetes networking. He is a key contributor to SIG-Network projects, such as Gateway API, Ingress2Gateway, and Blixt, and the co-lead of Kong's Gateway API implementation. He is working on many Kong projects related to networking... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Network

5:25pm MST

Securing the Future of Ingress-Nginx - James Strong, Isovalent & Marco Ebert, Giant Swarm

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

Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Ingress NGINX is a very flexible Ingress controller that provides users with a lot of NGINX functionality through annotations. However, this flexibility also raises security concerns for maintainers and cluster administrators. There have been eight significant CVEs and RCEs in Ingress NGINX. To address these issues, we have created a security hardening guide, which will be presented as a preview in this talk. Additionally, we will enable restrictive features by default to offer a more secure out-of-the-box experience with Ingress NGINX such as annotation validations. To maintain and secure the project and its Gateway API implementation, we will not be adding any new features to the core functionality of ingress, and a significant amount of functionality, such as UDP/TCP Routing, will be moved to Gateway API. We will also unveil the new name of the project during this presentation.

Speakers

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.

Marco Ebert

Site Reliability Engineer, Giant Swarm

I'm Marco - working in Open Source for more than a decade, with Kubernetes since 2016 and as a maintainer of Ingress NGINX since 2023!As an SRE, I'm always interested in infrastructure & networking and love learning new stuff while troubleshooting complex platforms.After work, you... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A

Maintainer Track, Network