KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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

Tutorial: A Mad Scientist's Guide to Automating CNI with Generative AI - Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 12:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Ready to make Kubernetes networking a little easier and a lot more fun? Join Doug for an experiment in configuring CNI (Container Networking Interface) using generative AI. Despite being advised by data scientists to avoid automating machine configurations with generative AI, Doug went into the mad scientist's lab (err, basement) and tested how often a workflow could generate CNI configurations that would establish network connectivity between pods – and the success rate might surprise you. In this session, you'll automate CNI configurations using a large language model (LLM) and gain experience with a nifty tech stack: Ollama for running a containerized LLM, Kubernetes, CNI, and some script wizardry to create your own auto-configurator. Best yet? No prior CNI or AI/ML knowledge needed, and you'll learn along the way! Just in case, have contingency plans ready should any Skynet or Space Odyssey 2001 scenarios arise during the tutorial.

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 →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:15am - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm MST

Tutorial: Confidential Containers 101: A Hands-on Workshop - Archana Choudhary & Suraj Deshmukh, Microsoft

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

As traditional enterprises with stringent data protection requirements become cloud-native and migrate to Kubernetes on public clouds, they are wondering: “Is my data secure on this shared hardware? Can someone with a host access snoop on my data?” And especially, with the upcoming Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in Europe mandating data protection in use, it’s crucial for users to familiarize themselves with solutions like Confidential Containers (CoCo), a CNCF sandbox project. In this, first of its kind, hands-on workshop we’ll dive deep into using CoCo with k8s. We’ll explore real-world challenges, such as ensuring data confidentiality from platform owners (cloud providers), and show you how to overcome them. Through practical exercises, you’ll learn to set up CoCo and secure your containerized workloads, turning theory into practice. Attendees will discover streamlined practices, find robust protection mechanisms, and gain strategic insights into adopting CoCo.

Speakers

Suraj Deshmukh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Suraj is working on Confidential Containers open-source project for Microsoft. He has been working with Kubernetes since version 1.2. He is currently focused on integrating Kubernetes and Confidential Containers on Azure.

Archana Choudhary

Ms, Microsoft

A software engineer who has been exploring cloud-native technologies, particularly focusing on confidential containers over the past several months.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MST

Tutorial: Get the Most Out of Your GPUs on Kubernetes with the GPU Operator - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, Tariq Ibrahim, Amanda Moran & Christopher Desiniotis, NVIDIA; David Porter, Google

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

NVIDIA’s GPU operator has become the de-facto standard for managing GPUs in Kubernetes at scale. This tutorial provides in-depth, hands-on training on the various GPU sharing techniques that are possible with the GPU operator. Participants will learn to deploy jobs utilizing these sharing techniques, as well as get hands-on experience on the installation and configuration of the NVIDIA GPU Operator itself. This includes an in-depth exploration of its two primary CRDs: ClusterPolicy and NVIDIADriver. These CRDs are essential for configuring GPU-accelerated nodes, enabling GPU sharing mechanisms, and performing GPU driver upgrades. The session will culminate with practical use cases, such as training an AI/ML model and giving participants firsthand experience in managing a GPU-accelerated Kubernetes cluster.

Speakers

Christopher Desiniotis

Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Christopher Desiniotis is a Senior Systems Software Engineer on the Cloud Native team at NVIDIA where he works on enabling GPUs in containers and Kubernetes. He is a maintainer of the NVIDIA GPU Operator, a widely used tool for managing GPUs in Kubernetes, and is focused on increasing... Read More →

David Porter

Senior Software Engineer Google, Google

David Porter is a Senior Software Engineer at Google on the Kubernetes node team. David’s focus is on the kubelet node agent and the resource management area. He is primary maintainer of cAdvisor, a resource monitoring library widely used in kubernetes, reviewer of a SIG Node, and... Read More →

Eduardo Arango Gutierez DE

Senior systems software engineer, NVIDIA

Eduardo is a Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Cloud Native Technologies team. Eduardo has focused on enabling users to build and deploy containers on distributed environments.

Tariq Ibrahim

Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Tariq Ibrahim is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer on the Cloud Native team at NVIDIA where he works on enabling GPUs in containers and Kubernetes. He is a maintainer of the NVIDIA GPU Operator. He has also contributed to several cloud native OSS projects like kube-state-metrics, Istio... Read More →

Amanda Moran

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/, NVIDIA

Amanda has been working in technology since graduating from SCU in 2012 with a Master’s in Science in CS. Prior to this she had graduated with an BS in Biology from UW. Amanda has worked the last 12 years as a Software Engineer, a Solutions Architect, and an Engineering Manager... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00am MST

Tutorial: Kubernetes Smart Scaling: Getting Started with Karpenter - Changsu Lee & Raj Saha, AWS; Wilson Darko & Charlie McBride, Microsoft; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Karpenter is an open-source node provisioner that simplifies infrastructure management for Kubernetes clusters. It automatically launches the right compute resources to handle application demands, allowing you to leverage the cloud's elastic capabilities with fast and simple provisioning. This hands-on workshop will guide you through setting up Karpenter in your Kubernetes clusters, how Karpenter automatically responds to changes in application load, scheduling and resource requirements, and placing new workloads onto available compute capacity. Additionally, you'll explore how Karpenter reduces cluster costs by removing under-utilized nodes, replacing expensive nodes with cheaper alternatives, and consolidating workloads onto efficient resources. Throughout the workshop, you'll gain hands-on experience with Karpenter's advanced capabilities, such as evaluating scheduling constraints, enabling continuous optimization through consolidation, and managing drift for day-2 operations.

Speakers

Wilson Darko

Microsoft

Praseeda Sathaye

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Amazon (AWS)

Praseeda Sathaye is a Principal Specialist SA for App Modernization and Containers at Amazon Web Services based in Bay Area California. She has been focused on helping customers speed their cloud-native adoption journey by modernizing their platform infrastructure, internal architecture... Read More →

Chance Lee

Sr Container specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Chance Lee is a Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS based in the Bay Area. He helps customers architect highly scalable and secure container workloads with AWS container services and various ecosystem solutions. Prior to joining AWS, Chance was an IBM Lab Services... Read More →

Raj Saha

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Raj is the Principal Specialist SA for Containers, and Serverless at AWS. Rajdeep has architected high profile Kubernetes applications serving millions of customers. He is a published instructor on Kubernetes, Serverless, DevOps, and System Design, has published blogs, and presented... Read More →

Charlie McBride

SDE 2, Microsoft

Summa Cum Laude graduates from the University of Washington. I've been emersed within cloud containerization first interning at AWS within Elastic Container Registry, before going to a full-time position at Azure Kubernetes Services. The cloud feels like a natural home, where I'm... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm MST

Tutorial: Live with Gateway API V1.2 - Flynn, Buoyant & Mike Morris, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Gateway API v1.2 is here! We have GA support for service mesh! We have timeouts in HTTPRoutes! We have GRPCRoutes! And we still have precious few real-world walkthroughs of using Gateway API to get real things done… In this hands-on workshop hosted by Gateway API contributors and GAMMA co-leads, we’ll start with completely unconfigured clusters, walk through installing a demo app with your choice of ingress controller and service mesh (Envoy Gateway + Linkerd, or Istio), then dig into actually using Gateway API for routing, resilience, and progressive delivery with an application using HTTP and gRPC at the same time. You’ll walk away with practical, real-world knowledge about what Gateway API can do and how to use it, and portable skills you’ll be able to apply to the many projects implementing Gateway API!

Speakers

Flynn -

Tech Evangelist, Buoyant

Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40 years in software engineering (from the kernel up through distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout... Read More →

Mike Morris

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

Mike is a product manager at Microsoft working on upstream open source projects with a focus on Istio service mesh, and a Gateway API for service mesh co-lead. He is interested in building healthy, sustainable communities and scalable distributed systems, and working collaboratively... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

Content Experience Level Any

4:30pm MST

Tutorial: No Mess Rollouts with Gateway API: Leveraging Gateway API and Argo Rollouts for Progressive Delivery - Nina Polshakova & Lawrence Gadban, Solo.io

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Modern application delivery has many pitfalls: version transitions, traffic management, quality assurance, performance monitoring, and rollbacks. If you encounter an upgrade issue, what can you do? Mirror traffic? Debug locally? Roll back? Argo Rollouts lets teams gradually and safely deploy new versions of applications. A standard Gateway API enables any provider to support Argo Rollouts without provider-specific code. Argo Rollouts monitors Prometheus metrics to verify performance and reverts if success criteria aren’t met. This hands-on lab guides you on integrating Argo Rollouts with applications using different Gateway API implementations. Using Argo and Gateway API resources (HTTPRoute), you’ll learn to adjust traffic weights and gradually direct more traffic to a new version. We will also explore challenges in route delegation and role-based access control within Gateway API and potential extensions to address gaps in traffic shaping, access control, and debugging rollouts.

Speakers

Lawrence Gadban

Software Engineer, Solo.io

Lawrence is a Field Engineer at Solo.io where he works with organizations of all sizes to architect, adopt, and operationalize components such as Envoy proxy, API gateways, and service mesh. Most recently, he has been working directly with several organizations at various stages of... Read More →

Nina Polshakova

Software Engineer, Solo.io

Nina is a software engineer working on multi-cluster Istio solutions on the Gloo Platform team at Solo.io. She is a CNCF Ambassador and has also been on several Kubernetes release teams. She led the Enhancements team for the 1.29 release and is the current lead for the Release Notes... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Any

11:00am MST

Tutorial: OpenTelemetry Hands-on - Automatic and Manual Instrumentation for Java and Python Apps - Matthias Haeussler, Novatec Consulting GmbH & Tiffany Jernigan, Independent

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

In today's software landscape - in the cloud-native one in particular - observability has become a critical aspect of ensuring the performance, reliability, and security of applications. OpenTelemetry, a standard and OSS observability framework, provides a unified way to collect and export telemetry data from applications and services. This tutorial will guide participants through the process of using OpenTelemetry to instrument a simple application, collect metrics, traces, and logs, and send them to various backends for analysis. It covers the implementation and usage of OpenTelemetry into Python and Java-based applications. The exercises include: the instrumentation of a polyglot microservice application, auto vs. manual instrumentation, evaluating the collected traces, logs and metrics, configuring a collector, analysing the results in Jaeger and Prometheus. This tutorial is made for everyone seeking a pragmatic understanding of OpenTelemetry's immediate benefits.

Speakers

Matthias Haeussler

Chief Technologist, Novatec Consulting GmbH

Matthias Haeussler is Chief Technologist at Novatec Consulting, university lecturer for distributed systems, awarded ambassador of Cloud Foundry and the organizer of the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup. He advises clients on Cloud strategies and supports implementations and migrations... Read More →

Tiffany Jernigan

Developer Advocate, www.tiffanyfay.dev

Tiffany is a seasoned technologist and content creator in the Cloud Native space. She most recently was a senior developer advocate at VMware. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:00pm MST

Tutorial: Simplify and Optimize Your YAML with YAMLScriptb - Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Nobody likes YAML (or anything for that matter) when its a giant and repetitive mess. Of course, there are already existing technologies like Helm and Kustomize that help provide make YAML nicer for Kubernetes. The new kid on the block is YAMLScript. Being a complete programming language (built over a vast and mature ecosystem) its capabilities are effectively limitless. That said, its primary focus is on refactoring and improving existing and new large YAML configurations. YAMLScript can help you make the most of YAML in any domain; even those that already make great use of Helm and Kustomize. Having been created by an original inventor and current lead maintainer of the YAML data language (Ingy döt Net) you can count on it meshing well with the YAML you already know. In this hands on interactive tutorial, Ingy will teach you how to make the most of YAML and YAMLScript.

Speakers

Ingy döt؜؜ Net

Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC

Ingy döt Net is one of the original inventors of the YAML data language, and its primary maintainer. He has continuously contributed to Open Source efforts since before it was called Open Source. His passion is creating software libraries that work in as many programming languages... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:00pm MST

Tutorial: Stop Kubernetes' Revolving Door: A Hands-on Tutorial to Secure a Kubernetes Cluster - Savitha Raghunathan & Rey Lejano, Red Hat; Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco

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

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Out-of-the-box, upstream Kubernetes is not secure by default. This tutorial will walk through the official/upstream Kubernetes Security Checklist to set up a cluster securely. The tutorial starts with an introduction to the critical security considerations for Kubernetes environments. Participants will then embark on a guided journey through practical exercises designed to implement security best practices within Kubernetes clusters. Attendees will gain firsthand experience in aspects such as authentication, authorization, network policies, pod security, and more, providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes security principles and how to implement them. This will equip them with the knowledge and skills to effectively secure their clusters. Whether you're new to Kubernetes security or seeking to enhance your expertise, this tutorial offers valuable insights and hands-on experience to strengthen your Kubernetes clusters against potential threats.

Speakers

Savitha Raghunathan

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Savitha Raghunathan is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Container Migration and Application Modernization. She leads K8s sig-security-docs sub-project aiming to create security awareness through docs. As a maintainer of the Konveyor project, she leads the community... Read More →

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!

Rey Lejano

Solutions Architect @ Red Hat, CNCF Ambassador, K8s SIG Docs co-chair, SIG Security subproject lead, K8s v1.23 release lead, DevOps Institute Ambassador, Red Hat

Rey Lejano is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and is the co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs. He contributes to Kubernetes SIG Security, Release, & Contributor Experience. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams including serving as the 1.23 Release Lead and 1.25 Emeritus Adviser... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE

Tutorials, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner