KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Backstage Onboarding: Your Journey to Community Contribution!

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

Join us for an in-depth session on Backstage, an incubating project within the CNCF ecosystem. Backstage is a framework for building Internal Developer Portals, enhanced with a variety of plugins. In this session we will guide you through your local environment, ensuring you have all the prerequisite tools like NodeJS and TypeScript. We will then walk through the Contributing Guide to help you familiarize yourself with the project and the contribution process. From there, we will dive into a curated list of GitHub Issues perfect for first-time contributors. You will have the opportunity to receive help from Backstage experts while we tackle these issues. Embark on your journey of contributing to Backstage and its vibrant community of plugins!

Speakers

Patrik Oldsberg

Senior Engineer, Spotify

Patrik is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify and a core maintainer of Backstage. In 2019 he joined the team in Spotify’s platform organization that owned the Backstage platform, and worked together with the rest of the team to bring it out in the open. Before joining Spotify... Read More →

Ben Lambert

Core Maintainer of Backstage, Senior Engineer at Spotify, Spotify

Ben is an Engineer at Spotify and a Maintainer of Backstage.io

André Wanlin

Customer Success Engineer, Spotify

André, a full Stack Developer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is an active member of the Backstage open source project having contributed 3 plugins - Azure DevOps, DevTools, and Linguist - as well as various features, bug fixes and documentation updates. He's often found on the... Read More →

Paul Schultz

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Hi! I'm Paul Schultz, a Software Engineer at Red Hat. I started as an intern in 2021 and now work on open-source projects like Devfile and Backstage. As engineer for Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage), I tackle maintenance challenges – dependencies, version control, automated... Read More →

Yi Cai

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Yi Cai is an enthusiastic developer and recent contributor to the Backstage ecosystem. Working with Red Hat, Yi helps deliver the Janus and Red Hat Developer Hub projects, adding valuable features and improving functionality. She migrated plugins from static to dynamic using a team-developed... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest

11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Collaborative WebAssembly Creation with WasmCloud

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

wasmCloud aims to provide a seamless developer experience for building, testing, and deploying WebAssembly components. Join maintainers and community contributors at this Contribfest to build WebAssembly components and enhance wasmCloud's core developer experience. We'll test our newest feature, wash dev, by rapidly building applications in Wasm. With support for Rust, Go, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript, developers of all backgrounds can get hands-on with Wasm. Since applications built with wasmCloud use the latest Wasm standards, components created during the workshop will benefit the broader Wasm ecosystem. Contributors who find bugs, improvements, or new features can pair program with maintainers to contribute directly to wasmCloud.

Speakers

Bailey Hayes

CTO, Cosmonic

Bailey Hayes is the CTO at Cosmonic. She believes the future is in distributed systems and WebAssembly (Wasm). She wears many hats in the open source ecosystem from standards to implementations as the W3C WebAssembly WASI Subgroup co-chair, Bytecode Alliance TSC Director, and maintainer... Read More →

Colin Murphy

Senior Software Engineer, Adobe

Colin Murphy is a senior software engineer on the Adobe Express team. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for infrastructure of Adobe Document Cloud microservices, including Adobe Sign and Acrobat Web. He has been responsible for the implementation of major portions of Adobe’s... Read More →

Taylor Thomas

Engineering Director, Cosmonic

Taylor Thomas is an Engineering Director working on WebAssembly platforms at Cosmonic. He actively participates in the open source community and is one of the creators of Krustlet and Bindle. He is a CNCF Ambassador and a regular speaker at various open source conferences and meetups... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

2:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Enhancing Kubernetes Debugging and Observability with Inspektor Gadget

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

Let’s dive into the world of Kubernetes observability and debugging by joining the Inspektor Gadget Contribfest. Inspektor Gadget is both a collection of eBPF tools (Gadgets) and a systems inspection framework for Kubernetes, containers, and Linux hosts. In this session, maintainers will give a quick introduction to the Inspektor Gadget project and will guide participants to setup their development environment. The gadgets concept will be introduced, and we’ll guide participants to create a simple hello world gadget. Then, participants will be able to contribute in different ways: - By building gadgets for new use cases - By extending the existing gadgets - By brainstorming ideas of new features

Speakers

Mauricio Vásquez Bernal

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mauricio works as a software engineer at Microsoft. He is interested in eBPF, Kubernetes, networking and low level programming. Mauricio has used eBPF in different scopes like implementing network virtual functions (polycube project), tracing solutions (Inspektor Gadget) and recently... Read More →

Jose Blanquicet

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jose is a Senior Software Engineer focused on Kubernetes and eBPF technologies for debugging and observability. He is currently working to maintain and develop Inspektor Gadget, an open-source project from the Kinvolk team at Microsoft.

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest

2:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Helm 4: The Next Generation of the Kubernetes Package Manager

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Love it or hate it, there is little argument that Helm remains a popular choice for packaging Kubernetes applications. As the project embarks on its first new major version since 2019, Helm 4, anyone who makes use of Helm, whether it be a producer or consumer, has the opportunity to help shape the future and direction. Join members of the Helm community to get a unique opportunity to take part in the development of Helm 4 so it can provide the next generation of Kubernetes applications and users the package manager for today and tomorrow.. In this session, attendees will learn: Learn about the key features being considered Support for Helm 3 before, during and after Helm 4 is released How to get involved in the Helm project, including the various roles and responsibilities The process for contributing to the Helm codebase This is a session any Kubernetes contributor does not want to miss

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 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

4:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Kickstart Your eBPF Journey with Tetragon

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

Tetragon and eBPF have a lot of buzz and this is your chance to get involved diving into the bytecode or docs! Tetragon’s docs are still young and your new contributor's perspective will be a superpower for spotting issues or unclear wording in the various quickstarts, guides, and concepts pages. The project’s CLI, tetra, is another great opportunity for those interested in code contributions around ease of use, testing, and consistency in flags and output. Tetragon’s documentation tech stack uses Markdown, built with Hugo, and a customized Docsy theme. The CLI is written in Go with the Cobra library and uses gRPC to communicate with the agent. While this session should help you get more familiar with Tetragon and can lead to more contributions in the future, those technologies are also used in Kubernetes and many other CNCF projects.

Speakers

Mahé Tardy

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Mahé is a security engineer at Isovalent and an active contributor to Kubernetes SIG Security. He was previously working as a security researcher and loves working with Linux, security, and Kubernetes!

Kornilios Kourtis

Dr, Isovalent

I am a software engineer at Isovalent, working on cloud-native networking, security, and observability using eBPF. Before that, I worked in industrial (IBM) and academic research (ETH Zurich, NTU Athens) in systems, including operating systems, storage and network stacks, and high-performance... Read More →

Joe Stringer

Cilium Maintainer, Isovalent

Passionate about building efficient network dataplanes, and actively involved in the communities around Cilium, eBPF and the Linux kernel.

John Fastabend

Director of Engineering, Cisco

John is currently leading the Security and Observability team at Isovalent where he created Tetragon a runtime security and observability tool. When not working on Tetragon he maintains various bits and pieces of the Linux kernel contributing primarily to the BPF subsystem and networking... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest

4:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Meshery Contribfest: Extending the Cloud Native Manager

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Join the Meshery maintainers and community in improving the leading cloud native management plane. This is your chance to get hands-on with the tools shaping the future of collaborative cloud native management. Opportunities: Work on core functionality in the Server (Golang) or UI (React) or extend Meshery by building your own plugin. Contribute to the Meshery documentation by incorporating your own examples of cloud native solution architectures using Meshery Designer. Why Contribute to Meshery? - Gain experience with cloud native technologies, including essentially every CNCF project and open source development practices. As is the 10th fastest growing CNCF project, Meshery has a vibrant community. Work alongside passionate maintainers and contributors. No Prior Experience Needed: We welcome contributions from all levels of experience. Join us at Meshery Contribfest and be part of the growing community shaping the future of collaborative cloud native management.

Speakers

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →

Lee Calcote

Founder, Layer5

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers and enabling organizations. As Founder of Layer5, he is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno: Lets Build Together!

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Come meet the Kyverno maintainers and community for an hands-on, interactive, workshop and session where we deep dive into the Kyverno project. Kyverno is a cloud native policy as code solution that elegantly solves critical challenges across security, automation, and compliance. You will learn about Kyverno’s architecture, the role of each component, how to try Kyverno, and set up your environment to contribute to the project. This hands-on session will be led by Kyverno maintainers and organized so that both developers as well as non-developers can learn, explore, and contribute!

Speakers

Chip Zoller

Product Manager, Kubecost

Chip Zoller is a technologist, maintainer, and contributor to the Kyverno project where his primary focus is on process, enablement, documentation, automation, policy design and authoring, and community. He is a maintainer and contributor to several other open source projects in the... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Making SlimToolkit XRAY Even Easier to Use: Building a Terminal UI

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

SlimToolkit has an interactive prompt mode that makes it easy to pick the right flags and values you'd need to configure the tool commands that let you inspect, minify and debug your containers. The interactive prompt mode helps you only with the setup part of the command execution. The command output is still the same CLI text output and it can be improved by presenting the output in a more tabular and a more interactive way. The "XRAY" command in SlimToolkit is a great candidate for this enhancement. The command output gives you a lot of information about the target image including what's inside including the files inside. Let's build a TUI to make it easy navigate the container file system and the discovered metadata. No low level SlimToolkit or container technology domain is necessary. You only need to know basic Go and you need to be open to learning a few of TUI Go libraries (e.g., Bubble Tea, Bubbles and Lip Gloss)

Speakers

Kyle Quest

Founder, AutonomousPlane

Kyle is the creator of DockerSlim, a popular tool to inspect, minify and debug containers. He's the founder/CEO of AutonomousPlane & he's also the founder/CTO of Slim.AI. He's building an autopilot to fix vulnerabilities in application dependencies. Kyle has been building applications... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest

2:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Hop Aboard and Contribute to Headlamp

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

Headlamp is a Kubernetes UI with a focus on usability, flexibility, and extensibility. It is an open source, CNCF Sandbox, project, and can be run as a desktop application, or as a web app. One of Headlamp’s main features is its plugin system, which allows users and vendors to extend its basic functionality and create their own customized Kubernetes user experience. In this Contribufest session, Headlamp’s maintainers will work with the participants to onboard them to Headlamp development. Participants will start by building the project and creating a small plugin. We also invite everyone interested to join us in brainstorming ideas for the project and its community.

Speakers

Joaquim Rocha

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Joaquim has been involved in a number of Free and Open Source Software projects for the past 15 years, from the Linux desktop and phones to the cloud. He is an Emeritus Member of the GNOME Foundation and has been a speaker in events such as KubeCon, GUADEC, and FOSDEM. Joaquim currently... Read More →

René Dudfield

Rene Dudfield, Microsoft

Hey hey! I'm René, and I make things. Using tech like Kubernetes, Go, Python, C, JavaScript/TypeScript, React. By day: I'm a mild mannered software developer working on open source K8s UIs for Microsoft. For fun: I ❤️ data audio reactive video synths, and make pygame. My passion... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest

2:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Sidecar-Less Service Mesh: Let’s Work Together on Istio V2

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Attendees will gain an overview of the sidecar-less service mesh architecture and learn how to contribute to the Istio project. We will explore the necessary tooling to build Istio from source, and run unit and end-to-end tests. After setting up the environment, we will contribute to the Istio project. Maintainers will provide a curated set of GitHub issues for the session, focusing on good-first-issues and Istio V2. We will review useful resources and ways to interact with the project and community, highlighting the benefits of sidecar-less Istio and guiding you through your first contribution.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source at solo.io, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

4:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: K8gb Contribfest: Enhancing K8gb Project with Arbitrary Network Resource Integration

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

The k8gb project is entering a new era of extensibility with the ability to integrate with arbitrary network resources. Recently, we decoupled our strong dependency on standard Ingress, opening new pathways for various integrations such as Gateways and non-HTTP Services. In this iteration of Contribfest, participants will execute the flow of integrating a new resource type to be globally load-balanced.

Speakers

Yury Tsarev

Principal Solutions Architect, Upbound

Yury is an experienced software engineer who strongly focuses on open-source, software quality and distributed systems. As the creator of k8gb (https://www.k8gb.io) and active contributor to the Crossplane ecosystem, he frequently speaks at conferences covering topics such as Control... Read More →

Andre Aguas

Senior Systems Engineer, Open Systems AG

Andre is a Systems Engineer at Open Systems' Cloud Platform team. For the past 3 years he was an integral part of the Observability team where he established Thanos and Loki as the two fundamental components of the company's observability stack. Throughout this journey, he has also... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

4:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers to make the project better for everyone. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute, and you can count on maintainers from different project areas to help you on your first steps: documentation, Collector, Java, JS, Ruby, Python, .NET, and more.

Speakers

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is an approver for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.

Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a software engineer at Grafana Labs, a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, a member of the project's governing board and CNCF Ambassador. He has presented about distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and other related topics at conferences like KubeCon... Read More →

Trask Stalnaker

Software Engineer, Microsoft

OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation Maintainer, Glowroot Author, Java @ Microsoft

Pablo Baeyens

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog

Pablo Baeyens is a Senior Software Engineer working at Datadog. He lives in Granada, Spain and since late 2020 he has been involved in the OpenTelemetry project, where he maintains the OpenTelemetry Collector and works in OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions.

Piotr Kiełkowicz

OpenTelemetry .NET Maintainer, Spluk

Piotr Kiełkowicz is a software developer currently employed at Splunk. He actively contributes to the development of OpenTelemetry and maintains OpenTemetetry .NET. You can explore his work on GitHub: https://github.com/Kielek

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A

🚨 Contribfest