KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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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

11:00am MST

Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey from on-Prem to Multi-Cloud at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & Payal Patel, Yahoo

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Yahoo is an early adopter of Kubernetes, operating 37 on-prem and 42 multi-cloud production clusters hosting 2700 applications. Our team offers a simple yet powerful interface for users to deploy applications onto our managed clusters. Since 2015, we have handled multiple complex upgrades, including Operating Systems and Kubernetes, upgrading from version 1.0.3 to 1.30.0. In 2023, Yahoo announced plans to migrate to both GCP and AWS cloud platforms. Leveraging extensive knowledge, our team successfully provisioned Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment within a short period. Our team faced numerous challenges during the cloud adoption process, including networking, security, cluster autoscaling, and cost. In this talk, we will share managing K8S in a multi-cloud and discuss the challenges faced and solutions found. Key topics include Shared VPC, IP Space for K8s, securely accessing private clusters, multi-tenant workload identity, and maintaining a user interface to K8S.

Speakers

Nandhakumar Venkatachalam

Sr Princ Production Engineer, Yahoo Inc

Nandhakumar Venkatachalam is a Senior Principal Production Engineer at Yahoo Inc. As a lead engineer responsible for operating the large-scale Kubernetes cluster, he has played a key architect role in building scalable cloud infrastructure. Nandha has been with Yahoo for over 17 years... Read More →

Payal Patel

Principal Software Development Engineer, Yahoo

Payal Patel is a Principal Software Development Engineer in the Cloud Infrastructure team at Yahoo. She is currently developing a hybrid cloud solution for Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCP to set up the Kubernetes clusters at scale. Before that, she worked on managing the Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Platform Engineering

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

11:00am MST

Still Don't Do What Charlie Don't Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Many Kubernetes installations use controllers that include Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to extend their capabilities. However, because CRDs can only have one version installed in a cluster at any one time, version and change management can be very difficult. This talk will benefit both controller implementers and users. For implementers, I have tips on how to more safely make API changes to their CRDs, and for CRD users, some tips on what to look out for when installing CRD updates. All of this is based on using experience from projects like Contour, Gateway API, and Cilium among others. Learn things like: Different CRD version management strategies - what’s worked and what hasn’t How to make schema changes like pluralizing a field or changing field validation in a safe way How not to make the same mistakes I did Expect to come away from this talk having learned from my painful experiences handling CRD changes badly, but also having heard a bunch of Simpsons references.

Speakers

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 →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:55am MST

Share the Ride: Robust Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes at Uber - Sashank Appireddy & Apoorva Jindal, Uber

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes involves the coexistence of multiple users or teams (tenants) on a single Kubernetes cluster while ensuring isolation, security, and performance. Our use cases at Uber span from scenarios with disruptive neighbors to those with large container sizes, specialized hardware, sticky placement preferences, and dynamic resource scaling demands, necessitating robust isolation measures. In this proposal, we present a comprehensive exploration of multi-tenancy in Kubernetes, covering strategies, the challenges we have faced and the effective solutions implemented to overcome them at Uber. Further, we will deep dive into the key aspects of building and managing multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, by establishing strong tenant boundaries leveraging the ideas around node pools and tightly integrating with namespaces.

Speakers

Apoorva Jindal

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Uber Inc

Apoorva Jindal is working as Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber. At Uber, he leads the Compute platform which powers all stateless and batch containerized workloads at Uber.

Sashank Reddy

Staff Software Engineer, Uber Technologies Inc

I am software engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in containerization and distributed systems. As a Staff Software Engineer in the container platform team at Uber Technologies Inc, I lead the design, development and deployment of scalable multi-tenant architecture... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm MST

The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

In the realm of developer platforms, individuals without extensive experience in the cloud-native ecosystem are now venturing into the creation of Kubernetes-based APIs. Tools like Crossplane are transforming every platform engineer into an API designer. Ten years in, the ecosystem still offers little guidance on Kubernetes versioning and API evolution in practice. A naive understanding is not helpful, and many have been burned by relying on intuition. This talk will provide deep, yet applicable knowledge, starting from the first principles of the invariants to maintain when changing APIs in Kubernetes. It will cover tools like schemas, conversion, validation, and admission, and present very concrete and directly applicable API Evolution Patterns. These patterns will help navigate the life cycle of CRD-based projects. This talk aims to educate on how to evolve APIs effectively and safely without inadvertently breaking users.

Speakers

Sergiusz Urbaniak

Team Lead - Kubernetes, https://mongodb.com

Sergiusz is a Kubernetes Team Lead at MongoDB. He is enthusiastic about modern infrastructure software while still enjoying minimalistic networking techniques like morse code. He worked on Mesos, container runtimes, Prometheus Operator, Thanos, upstream Kubernetes, Operators, and... Read More →

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 →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm MST

This Platform Goes to 11: Boost Developer Productivity with Lessons from Salesforce - Joe Kutner, Salesforce

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Internal platforms play an essential role in boosting the productivity of developers who use cloud native technologies. That’s why Salesforce, a global leader in the cloud for more than two decades, evolved its existing collection of managed services and capabilities into a cohesive platform that delights developers. In this talk, you’ll learn how Salesforce's platform removes friction, unifies interfaces, and meets developers where they are with industry standard tooling. As you design and build your own platforms, you’ll be able to use the same principles that guided Salesforce to accelerate day-1 onboarding of new apps, increase the speed of the developer inner-loop and testing cycles, and reduce the time it takes to deliver new code to production. Our lessons learned will help you avoid missteps. Finally, you’ll learn how to measure developer satisfaction, performance, activity, collaboration, and efficiency to ensure that your platform delivers the most value for your developers.

Speakers

Joe Kutner

Software Architect, Salesforce

Joe is co-founder of the Cloud Native Buildpacks project, which aims to make containerization more secure and more developer friendly. He started the project in 2018 while working as DX Architect at Salesforce Heroku, and today is the DX Architect for Salesforce’s Hyperforce platform... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

4:55pm MST

Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale: How Okta Manages Hundreds of Clusters Daily - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei, Okta

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

How do you upgrade your K8s clusters? Perhaps a rolling update of nodes, with services moving around? Can you guarantee a zero-downtime upgrade? Will this method scale and support the velocity of production environments? Likely not. But fear not - you are not alone! At Okta, we maintain hundreds of clusters, each hosting >130 services, with node counts ranging from 20-400 and we are updating them daily. How do we do it? Without an out-of-the-box solutions we had to build our own and we want to share what we learned with all of you! In this talk Kahou and Jeremy will go over the challenges and successes, highlighting how their deployment method provides the foundational blocks to build extra features while reducing the blast radius when something goes wrong - thanks to quick rollbacks and a canary rollouts. In this session attendees will learn how we leverage open source technologies to tackle three main problems: how to scale, how to secure and how to upgrade clusters with no downtime.

Speakers

Jérémy Albuixech

Staff Software Engineer, Okta

Jeremy is a Staff Software Engineer at Okta. Starting as a full stack programmer with a good foundation in Javascript, he then gravitated towards a DevOps role and later became a member of the SRE team at Cisco, picking up an IaC, observability and Kubernetes skillset. With the Okta... Read More →

Kahou Lei

Principal Software Engineer, Okta

Kahou Lei is a Principal Software Engineer with a strong background in Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes. With 20 years of industry experience, he has held significant positions at renowned companies such as Okta and Cisco. Kahou leads critical software engineering initiatives... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate