KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

In-person
November 12-15
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11:15am MST

Behind Schedule: Pod Resource Configuration from Beginning to... Huh? - Joe Thompson, Platform9

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Pod resource requests, limits and priority are some of the most fundamental concepts of Kubernetes clusters, and they're easy to understand: if nodes have the resources you need, you get scheduled, and if not, you don't... right? Joe will walk you through some of the surprising behaviors you may encounter with the seemingly basic rules that Kubernetes follows when scheduling and running pods -- and how those rules themselves may not be what you think! We'll dig into eviction and preemption (and why the difference matters) and why priority sometimes doesn't solve the problems you think it will. We'll finish with recent changes to pod resource management that are upending long-standing basics of pod scheduling, particularly the in-place pod resizing feature alpha-released in the last few versions of Kubernetes. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of the (not-so-) simple mechanics, as well as how to debug them when things get messy.

Speakers

Joe Thompson

Technical Product Marketing Manager, Platform9

Joe Thompson's IT career is near the end of its third decade. He's been part of the cloud-native community since 2014, starting with OpenStack and adding Kubernetes a few months after it debuted. He's spoken at KubeCon, Cloud Native Rejekts and many local meetups and enjoys showing... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:10pm MST

Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder - Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Wenjia Zhang, Google; Lucas Käldström, Upbound; Carol Valencia, Elastic; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Mentorship, a cornerstone of the community's success, offers a transformative path to growth and development. However, finding the right mentor and building a successful mentorship relationship can be challenging. This panel discussion brings together experienced mentors from diverse roles within the Kubernetes community including maintainers, tech leads, and committee members. The panel members will share their insights on how to get the most out of mentorship at different stages of your Kubernetes journey, as you climb the Contributor ladder. By the end of this panel, the audience will understand essential takeaways for effective mentorship at different contributor ladder marks. The project maintainers can take inspiration from how the Kubernetes project maintainers make use of various mentorship techniques such as Role Based Shadowing, Peer-to-Peer Learning, and Mentorship Cohorts that can help any project especially CNCF incubating projects stick new contributors to the project.

Speakers

Lucas Käldström

Senior Software Engineer, Upbound

Lucas is a Kubernetes and cloud native expert who has been serving the CNCF community in lead positions for 6 years. He’s awarded Top CNCF Ambassador 2017 with Sarah Novotny. Lucas was a co-lead for SIG Cluster Lifecycle, co-created kubeadm, Weave Ignite, and ported Kubernetes to... Read More →

Wenjia Zhang

Engineering Manager, Google

Wenjia Zhang is an Engineer Manager at Google, working on Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Distributed Cloud. She is an active contributor for Kubernetes and etcd open source projects.

Nabarun Pal

Staff Engineer at VMware, Kubernetes Steering Committee and Maintainer, Broadcom

Nabarun is a Staff Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an elected Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release... Read More →

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineering Intern, Akuity

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team, where he built the OBS library that is used by the Kubernetes project to automate the process of managing release... Read More →

Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic

Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm MST

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Our hero, a running app in a secure K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but currently, they have no idea what is going on. Are apps scaling correctly? Are automated deployments successful? What just went wrong, and how can it be fixed? Hero is desperate to escape this fog by adding CNCF tools for logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from a lost and confused app to their final form⎯an app that knows their faults before their users do. In their fourth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they add observability to their cluster, enabling the ability to answer meaningful questions about their system. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and add observability before the session time elapses?

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Whitney Lee

CNCF Ambassador

Whitney is a lovable goofball and a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on her... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

3:25pm MST

Create & Distribute a Plugin for Kubernetes (Kubectl) in Few Minutes? Easy! 🙂 - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Gaëlle Acas, Doctolib

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Kubectl is the most powerful tool that allow you to interact with the API Server of a Kubernetes cluster. We use it everyday to list the pods, deploy a service, scale a deployment to 5 replicas... but do you know that you can add custom features to the kubectl CLI? Indeed, Kubernetes is an extensibe world that allows you to extends most of its components (Network, Storage, Container runtime, webhooks … ) and even the kubectl CLI. In this talk, Gaëlle and Aurélie will show you how it can be easy to create a plugin in a few minutes. For that, they will create, in live, a plugin in Bash, to make our pods more user-friendly. But that's not all! The goal of this talk is also to share our awesome plugin with others and for that, Krew is “The place to be”. At the end of this talk you will have all the marbles in hand in order to be able to create & share your own plugin to the world or only to your internal teams. Ready? Create your own plugins!

Speakers

Gaëlle Acas

Site Reliability Engineer, Doctolib

Site Reliability Engineer at Doctolib & co-organiser of the CNCF Nantes meetup. As a cloud addict, I love playing with containers, surfing Dev&Ops skills and juggling the world of serverless. I also love to share and pass on my passion for code to our kids.

Aurélie Vache

Developer Advocate, OVHcloud

Aurélie is a CNCF Ambassador, a Docker Captain & Google Developer Expert. She created a new visual way to learn & understand Cloud technologies: "Understanding Kubernetes/Istio/Docker in a visual way" in sketchnotes, books and videos. She has been working as a Developer & Ops for... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:30pm MST

DNS Deep Dive in Kubernetes with CoreDNS - Jingming Guo, Airbnb

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

In the dynamic world of Kubernetes, efficient DNS resolution is critical for seamless application performance and scalability. CoreDNS, as the default DNS server for Kubernetes, offers flexible and high-performance DNS capabilities. This talk will delve into the lifecycle of a DNS request within a Kubernetes cluster using CoreDNS, offering insights into the flow of DNS traffic and enhancing your understanding of DNS requests and service discovery in Kubernetes—-key knowledge for effective debugging and issue resolution. Additionally, we will present a case study of Airbnb's successful integration of CoreDNS, highlighting the CoreDNS performance evaluation, our seamless migration approach, and scaling strategy. Finally, we will talk about the multi-cluster DNS resolution with CoreDNS. This section will demonstrate how multi-cluster DNS capabilities address the common challenges, discuss performance considerations and multi-cluster DNS limitations.

Speakers

Jingming Guo

Software Engineer, Airbnb

Jingming Guo, graduated from Northwestern University in 2017 and subsequently joined AWS EBS team. At AWS, Jingming led the development of Elastic Volume feature on the Block Express volume and led the EBS Server capacity increase release. In 2022, Jingming joined Airbnb and led the... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

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

TLS and MTLS: Introduction to Modern Security - Andrew Davis, Independent & Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

A constant presence in our lives for nearly 25 years, TLS is a cornerstone of modern security practice — especially in a zero-trust world. In cloud native, mTLS comes up every time service meshes get mentioned. Even so, both these technologies are still sources of endless questions. How do they work? How are they related? What problems do they solve – and which others do they not solve? How does it relate to end-user auth? What's all this stuff with certificates anyway? And why should you care about these things? Thankfully, answering these questions isn't that complex. Sandeep Kanabar, Lead Software Engineer at Gen, and Andrew Davis, a Cybersecurity Expert—both Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG members—will discuss what TLS and mTLS are, what they do, how they work, why they matter as standards, and what nearly 25 years of attacking them have to say about security. They'll use Linkerd as an example, but this talk will apply to any situation involving mTLS or TLS, no matter the implementation.

Speakers

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer working at Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock). A frequent meetup speaker, Sandeep enjoys sharing his lessons learned from 15+ years in the tech space with the community. He's a staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion and... Read More →

Andrew Davis

Cybersecurity Specialist, Not Applicable

A passionate self-taught cybersecurity expert, Andrew Davis is a big believer in life-long learning. He has worked for various Fortune 500 companies, including DELL and Fidelity Investments. Deaf himself, Andrew is a strong advocate for accessibility. He's an active member of the... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

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

5:25pm MST

Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

The idea of serverless computing really took off in 2016. But after an apparent peak in 2019, it seemed to be on the decline. Yet things took an about face again in 2022. The idea of serverless functions not only regained lost ground, but even now it is hitting new levels of interest. Why? In this session, we first get very clear about what “serverless” means as a design pattern. Then we dive into what it is good for, and mention a few of the major successes of serverless computing. From there, we look into the present and future of serverless technology, particularly inside of Kubernetes. WebAssembly is the runtime technology that enables serverless in Kubernetes to outperform Amazon Lambda and other competitors.

Speakers

Matt Butcher

CEO, Fermyon

Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

11:55am MST

Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes - Mofi Rahman & Abdel Sghiouar, Google

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

The rapidly evolving landscape of Machine Learning and Large Language Models demands efficient scalable ways to run distributed workloads to train, fine-tune and serve models. Ray is an Open Source framework that simplifies distributed machine learning, and Kubernetes streamlines deployment. In this introductory talk, we'll uncover how to combine Ray and Kubernetes for your ML projects. You will learn about: - Basic Ray concepts (actors, tasks) and their relevance to ML - Setting up a simple Ray cluster within Kubernetes - Running your first distributed ML training job

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.

Mofi Rahman

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Mofizur Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at Google. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He is a strong believer of the power of open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:00pm MST

Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Building on my KubeCon EU 2022 talk, "From Kubernetes to PaaS to... err, what's next", I'll introduce the topic of platform engineering through the lens of a software developer and architect. My primary goal is for developers to understand "what good looks like" with a successful platform build and help them understand how a platform can influence the SDLC (for better or worse!) Key takeaways from the session: - Explore how platform architecture influences software architecture and vice versa - Learn why the principles of coupling and cohesion apply to platform components (and configuration) in the same way as they do with software components - Understand what to expect from an effective platform, including how applications are built, shipped, and run - Learn about key platform metrics grounded in developer experience frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, and DevEx

Speakers

Daniel Bryant

Platform Engineer & Head of Product Marketing, Syntasso

Daniel Bryant is the head of product marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner