KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:15am MST

Architecting Tomorrow: The Heterogeneous Compute Resources for New Types of Workloads - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Finland

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Imagine managing a set of diverse workloads on a Kubernetes node, operating across dozens of CPU cores and several memory zones. But do you truly comprehend the difference between one CPU core versus another? Are you aware of the impact that different memory zone might have on your workload's efficiency? Will optimisations for one type of workloads be helpful for another? Do you think that your ML workload will behave same way as e.g. Redis? This presentation delves deep into CPU internals, memory types (DRAM, HBM, CXL), and diverse cache/core types and layouts. Explore recent hardware advancements and their impact on workloads. We'll examine native compute resource allocation strategies from a hardware point of view, crucial for enhancing workload performance and optimising energy usage and cost efficiency. Join and learn details of the modern hardware architecture that gives you a framework to make more informed choices on hardware resource optimisation for your infrastructure.

Speakers

Alexander Kanevskiy

Principal Engineer, Cloud Orchestration Software, Intel Finland

Alexander is currently employed by Intel as Principal Engineer, Cloud Software, focusing on various aspects in Kubernetes: Resource Management, Device plugins for hardware accelerators, Cluster Lifecycle and Cluster APIs. Alexander has over 25+ years of experience in areas of Linux... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:10pm MST

Building Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on Spot Instances with Drafter and PVM - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Building Kubernetes clusters that span across multiple cloud providers prevents vendor lock-in and offers flexibility. Using spot instances can further cut costs by up to 90%, but they can terminate with only 30 seconds' notice. Traditionally, migrating VMs across cloud providers and CPUs to mitigate this has been challenging due to hardware constraints. PVM (Pagetable Virtual Machine) is an experimental kernel technology that changes this by enabling KVM without hardware assistance or emulation. Using the research paper, this session will explain how PVM works and how the open-source Drafter and Firecracker projects can use it to migrate VMs between cloud providers. The session includes a live demo of running Kubernetes components like the Kubelet, CRI, CSI and CNI inside VMs and migrating them in a heterogeneous EC2, GCP, and Azure environment. This allows evacuating a Kubernetes node and network without downtime if a spot instance is terminated or if another provider is cheaper.

Speakers

Felicitas Pojtinger

Software Developer, Loophole Labs

Felicitas Pojtinger is a software engineer working on all things cloud native. She has developed multiple popular OSS projects such as the WebRTC-based overlay networking tool weron, the Go network boot server bofied, the go-nbd library and more. Currently, she does research and development... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

2:30pm MST

Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Application Level - Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

The cloud native sustainability landscape is rising rapidly with new tools that are solving new challenges. This session will provide a quick overview of the latest tools & initiatives within the landscape. The speaker will dive into different sections, from infrastructure to application, and cover tools within the landscape. They will explore key tools like Kepler for energy consumption monitoring, KubeGreen for scaling down deployments, Scaphandre for detailed power usage metrics, & Cloud Carbon Footprint for tracking and reducing carbon emissions. This talk will showcase the practical application of these tools, demonstrating how they can be integrated to create a comprehensive sustainability strategy. Attendees will learn landscape segmentation & how they can use it for their cloud native applications today in order to track & reduce their carbon emissions effectively. This talk will offer how these tools can be used together to make cloud native deployments more sustainable.

Speakers

Saiyam Pathak

Principal Developer Advocate, Loft Labs

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine... Read More →

Saloni Narang

Independent DevRel, Kubesimplify

Saloni is working as an independent DevRel, helping companies to form their DevRel strategies. Previously she worked at SAP Labs and has worked on different cloud tools including GCP,Oracle, & AWS. She loves to learn about new open-source tools in the CNCF landscape. She has been... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

3:25pm MST

Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

The Kubernetes code now allows native construction of generic control planes, without container types and in new form-factors other than your beloved clusters, be it customized apiserver binaries or embedded into other applications. This talk gives an in-depth explanation of what a generic controlplane is, how to construct it, how to extend it with custom types and how to control which native Kube APIs like secrets, configmaps, etc. or mechanisms like resource quota or RBAC are available. Specifically, we will cover 3 variants: 1. single-tenant generic control planes using upstream Kubernetes. 2. multi-tenant generic control planes using kcp to scale horizontally in one process. 3. multi-shard and multi-region generic control planes with focus of backing SaaS services.

Speakers

Stefan Schimanski

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Upbound

Stefan is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to teach and help people to learn... Read More →

MJ / Mangirdas Judeikis

Staff Engineer, Cast AI

With 10+ years in engineering, tech has been my passion from the start. Graduating in computer networks, I thrive on Go, Kubernetes, and an OpenSource approach. As an SRE practitioner, it's all about owning what you touch. No cloud preference, just adaptability. My motto? "Learn daily... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

4:30pm MST

Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics - Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

This work is based on 17 months experience managing a digital agriculture platform that has aggregated and processed tens of gigabytes of data on 1500 cows on a commercial dairy farm. Significant challenges surfaced tied to multi-cluster management, fault-tolerance, and privacy as the number of applications and farm management models grew. To bridge this gap, we designed and implemented a cloud native networked system for multi-cluster configuration and management of farm data analytics that leverages KubeStellar and Software-Defined Farm paradigm. Our experience from designing, implementing and deploying this framework showcase how Kubernetes can enable farmers and agribusinesses to leverage the power of containerization and cloud-native computing to optimize workflows and streamline agricultural operations. This work presents progress towards cloud-native, scalable, and fault-tolerant data analytics in digital farming with potential environmental, financial, and societal impacts.

Speakers

Braulio Dumba

Staff Research Scientist, IBM

Dr. Braulio Dumba is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research. In 2018, he joined IBM under the Hybrid Cloud organization. His current research is focus on edge computing and hybrid cloud computing. Dr. Dumba earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin... Read More →

Gloire Rubambiza

Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University

Gloire Rubambiza is a Ph.D. candidate in CS at Cornell University, where he conducts research in hybrid cloud computing for digital agriculture with an emphasis on societal impact. At Cornell, he was a University Fellow, a fellow of NSF National Research Traineeship in Digital Plant... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00am MST

Kubernetes Workspaces: Enhancing Multi-Tenancy with Intelligent Apiserver Proxying - James Munnelly & Andrea Tosatto, Apple

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes means sacrificing essential features like cluster-scoped list/watches and multi-namespace/cluster-scoped RBAC. This often leads to additional complexity when configuring operators and forces discrepancies and friction with cluster-as-a-service type offerings. In this talk we will go through a demonstration of an intelligent Kubernetes apiserver proxy that introduces the concept of a ‘workspace’. Borrowing the name from the KCP project, a Workspace is a virtual apiserver endpoint that provides a ‘cluster-scoped’ view over a group of namespaces in a remote cluster. We’ll then go on to discuss optimisations and changes that we’d like to make within Kubernetes to better support apiserver proxying for multi-tiered caching, routing and scoping purposes.

Speakers

James Munnelly

Staff Field Engineer, Apple

James Munnelly is a Field Engineer at Apple, helping customers adopt and adapt Kubernetes, and driving adoption of OSS cloud native technologies. James is also the founder of the cert-manager project, a Kubernetes extension for managing x509 certificates. He's an active member of... Read More →

Andrea Tosatto

Site Reliability Engineer, Apple

Andrea works at Apple as a Site Reliability Engineer. His day to day job consists in managing the lifecycle and ensuring the reliability of a multi-tenant compute platform built on top of Kubernetes. He is deeply passionate about multi-tenancy and any related topic, ranging from runtime... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:55am MST

Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Quantum computers pose a unique threat to computer security, as the encryption standards we rely upon are vulnerable to powerful quantum computers. While those computers are still several years away, "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks put all data not protected using quantum-safe security at risk. So what can we do now to protect our applications? In this talk, Paul will demo how to deploy a quantum-safe application on Kubernetes. He'll provide a brief overview of quantum-safe cryptography and why it's needed, highlight key work being done in the open source community to migrate to quantum-safe cryptography, and conclude with a demo of how to build a quantum-safe cloud-native application. In particular, he'll show where and how to make changes to a Kubernetes environment to ensure users are protected by quantum-safe connections. At the conclusion of this session, listeners will have a set of practical steps they can take to help secure their applications in a post-quantum world.

Speakers

Michael Maximilien

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a currently a Distinguished Engineer with IBM. I am the leader for IBM’s Open Source team contributing to all things Serverless and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). I have worked at various divisions of IBM. At... Read More →

Paul Schweigert

Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Paul Schweigert works on quantum and serverless technologies at IBM. He has extensive experience in open source (Knative and Kubernetes in particular) and has spoken at numerous conferences. He has also led various platform engineering and data science teams. In a previous life, he... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm MST

Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads - Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Sidecar containers are a powerful Kubernetes design pattern, running alongside the main application within the same pod to provide supporting features like observability, configuration and communication. However, sidecars can be resource-intensive, adding up to high CPU, memory and network bandwidth usage. WebAssembly (Wasm) offers a solution with its low resource usage and minimal memory footprint compared to Linux containers. Its quick start-up time enables scale-to-zero capability, making it a perfect fit for sidecar containers. The Containerd Runwasi project extends the sidecar pattern by enabling Kubernetes-native deployment and management of Wasm workloads.This talk will show how you can get started deploying Wasm sidecars to support your primary services with additional functionality. It will conclude with a demo of integrating these Wasm sidecars with your existing sidecar framework, whether that be Service Mesh or Dapr. Tune in to see Wasm sidecars on Kubernetes!

Speakers

Jiaxiao Zhou

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jiaxiao (Joe) Zhou is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He is on the Azure Container Upstream team and works on bringing WebAssembly to the cloud through projects like "runwasi", "SpiderLightning", and "containerd-wasm-shims". He is a Recognized Contributor to the Bytecode Alliance... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

3:25pm MST

Load-Aware GPU Fractioning for LLM Inference on Kubernetes - Olivier Tardieu & Yue Zhu, IBM

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

As the popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) grows, LLM serving systems face challenges in efficiently utilizing GPUs on Kubernetes. In many cases, dedicating an entire GPU to a small or unpopular model is a waste, however understanding the relationship between request load and resource requirements has been difficult. This talk will study GPU compute and memory requirements for LLM inference servers, like vLLM, revealing an analytical relationship between key configuration parameters and performance metrics such as throughput and latency. This novel understanding makes it possible to decide at deployment time an optimal GPU fraction based on the model's characteristics and estimated load. We will demo an open-source controller capable of intercepting inference runtime deployments on Kubernetes to automatically replace requests for whole GPUs with fractional requests using MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) slices, increasing density hence LLM sustainability without sacrificing SLOs.

Speakers

Olivier Tardieu

Principal Research Scientist, Manager, IBM

Dr. Olivier Tardieu is a Principal Research Scientist and Manager at IBM T.J. Watson, NY, USA. He joined IBM Research in 2007. His current research focuses on cloud-related technologies, including Serverless Computing and Kubernetes, as well as their application to Machine Learning... Read More →

Yue Zhu

Research Scientist, IBM Research

Dr. Yue Zhu is a Research Scientist at IBM Research specializing in foundation model systems and distributed storage systems. Yue obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University in 2021 and has consistently contribute to sustainability for foundation models and... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MST

WASM + KWOK Wizardry: Writing and Testing Scheduler Plugins at Scale - Dejan Pejchev & Jonathan Giannuzzi, G-Research

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

In the world of Kubernetes, optimizing scheduler performance is key to maximizing cluster efficiency. This session dives into building custom Kubernetes scheduler plugins using WebAssembly and leveraging KWOK to test their performance. We'll begin by introducing the fundamentals of Kubernetes scheduling and the unique advantages of WebAssembly, such as fast startup times and secure sandboxing. We will show how the kube-scheduler-wasm-extension project can be used to create custom scheduling logic easily. Next, we'll explore KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet), a tool that simulates Kubernetes clusters for testing and benchmarking purposes. Through hands-on examples, we'll demonstrate how to set up KWOK, create realistic test environments, and gather performance metrics to fine-tune your custom scheduler plugins.

Speakers

Jonathan Giannuzzi

Open Source Evangelist, G-Research

Dejan Zele Pejchev

Open Source Engineer, G-Research

Dejan is a seasoned Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and an advocate of open source & Kubernetes-native solutions. Dejan is also a maintainer of Armada, the Kubernetes multi-cluster batch scheduling tool, Testkube, the Kubernetes-native... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

5:25pm MST

What if Kubernetes Was a Compiler Target? - David Morrison, Applied Computing Research Labs & Tim Goodwin, UC Santa Cruz

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Multi-tier programming is a classic concept from the programming languages community, which provides abstractions for building multiple layers of a distributed application at once. For example, there might be a “presentation” tier that displays a user interface, a “data” tier that interacts with a backing database, and a “business logic” tier that connects the two, all of which can be expressed succinctly as part of the same program and compiled into independently-deployable units. However, Kubernetes has pushed modern software development in the opposite direction: SOA applications are composed of hundreds of independent units of code, often written in different languages and development environments. In this talk we provide an overview of multi-tier programming and how it might apply to software development on Kubernetes. We also present a prototype “Kubernetes compiler” that can turn a monolithic codebase into a distributed application that runs on top of Kubernetes.

Speakers

David Morrison

Applied Computing Research Labs

Tim Goodwin

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

I am a 3rd year PhD student in the LSD lab at UC Santa Cruz. I am broadly interested in distributed systems and the abstractions we use to build them. I focus on cloud-native programming models and the challenges they present to developers, and my current research is focused on Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Advanced

2:00pm MST

Faster Containerized LLM Serving via Knowledge Sharing - Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago & Zhou Sun, Mooncake Labs

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Imagine once an LLM learns something from a document, the knowledge can be instantly shared with other LLMs. Unfortunately, today, LLMs must read the same document multiple times, causing a significant slowdown. This session will introduce a new KNOWLEDGE-SHARING system that enables LLMs to share their digested knowledge, in the form of KV caches, so only one LLM needs to process each document. The key challenge is how to store the KV caches cheaply and serve them quickly. Instead of keeping the KV caches of all reusable chunks in GPU/CPU memory, we show a DEMO that with careful implementation on Kubernetes, storing them on cheaper devices is not only economically superior but also delivers significant reductions in LLM serving delay, especially the time to the first token.

Speakers

Junchen Jiang

Professor, University of Chicago

Junchen Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He works at the intersections between networked systems and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 2017 and his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua in 2011. He has received a Google... Read More →

Zhou Sun

CEO, Mooncake Labs

Mooncake Labs is working on the next generation of stateless data architecture, bringing database performance and functionality to structured and unstructured data in datalakes and raw datasets. Previous I lead the query team at SingleStore (cloud-native distributed HTAP database... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate