KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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

SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom & Shaun Crampton, Tigera

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

SIG Network is responsible for networking for Kubernetes clusters, and there's never a shortage of interesting problems to solve in this space. In this session we'll provide some updates about SIG Network as a whole, including: * status and progress of core networking components * status and progress of sub-projects * considerations for the future If you're interested in hearing about what's going on in the networking space, or maybe even interested in joining the SIG and finding a place to contribute, please join us!

Speakers

Shaun Crampton

Distinguished Engineer, Tigera

Shaun is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Tigera, looking after Project Calico's iptables and eBPF dataplanes. Before joining the Tigera team, Shaun worked on a number of Software Defined Networking products and cloud scale applications. He holds an MA in Computer Science from... Read More →

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC

Maintainer Track, Network

11:55am MST

CNCF TAG Network: Intro & Deep Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

“It’s the network!” is the cry of every engineer. With the increased prevalence of microservices and distributed systems, it’s true - networking as a discipline has never been more critical in the well-architected design and efficient operation of modern infrastructure. Join this talk for an intro to the TAG, its charter and a deeper discussion of current cloud native networking topics being advanced in this TAG.

Speakers

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 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF

Maintainer Track, Network

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