KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:15am MST

SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom; Shaun Crampton, Tigera; Nadia Pinaeva & Dan Winship, Red Hat; Antonio Ojea, Google;

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

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

Dan Winship

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dan is a Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Network and has been working on Kubernetes and OpenShift networking at Red Hat since 2016.

Antonio Ojea

Software Engineer, Google

Antonio Ojea is a Software Engineer at Google, where he works on Kubernetes. He is one of the top contributors of the Kubernetes project, with a stronger presence on the areas of networking and reliability. He has a vast experience in Open Source, networking and distributed systems... Read More →

Nadia Pinaeva

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nadia Pinaeva is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat working on Openshift Networking. She collaborates with the SIG-network-policy to improve network security for Kubernetes clusters, and works on ovn-kubernetes network plugin.

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.

SIG Network Intro and Updates KCCNC NA 2024.pptx pdf

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

Maintainer Track, Network

12:10pm MST

SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

SIG Scheduling is responsible for the components that make Pod scheduling decisions in a Kubernetes cluster, such as kube-scheduler for pod to node assignment, kueue for job queueing, Kwok for scheduling load testing, among other projects. In this session, you will learn the basics of these projects and how they can be extended. You will also learn about our recent advancements and ongoing work, such as higher scheduling throughput in kube-scheduler, fair sharing and hierarchical cohorts in Kueue and evaluating performance and scalability efficiently using Kwok.

Speakers

Aldo Culquicondor

Sr. Software Engineer, Google

Aldo is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. He works on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, where he contributes to kube-scheduler, the Job API and other features to support batch, AI/ML and HPC workloads. He is currently a TL at SIG Scheduling and an active member of WG Batch... Read More →

Kensei Nakada

Software Engineer, Tetrate.io

Kensei Nakada is a software engineer at Tetrate. In the community, he is a sig-scheduling approver, and a core maintainer of the project kube-scheduler-simulator and kube-scheduler-wasm-extension.

Kubecon NA 2024 SIG Scheduling pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:10pm - 12:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Scheduling

2:30pm MST

SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

SIG-Multicluster is focused on solving common challenges related to the management of many Kubernetes clusters, and applications deployed across many clusters, or even across cloud providers. In this session, we'll give attendees an overview of the current status of the multi-cluster problem space in Kubernetes and of the SIG. We’ll discuss current thinking around best practices for multi-cluster deployments and what it means to be part of a ClusterSet. Then we’ll highlight current SIG projects, focused use cases, and ideas for what’s next. Most importantly, we’ll provide information on how you can get involved either as a contributor or as a user who wants to provide feedback about the SIG's current efforts and future direction. Bring your questions, problems, and ideas - help us expand the multi-cluster Kubernetes landscape!

Speakers

Ryan Zhang

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Dr. Ryan Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager working in Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University, specializing in Grid computing. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, he has managed teams of software engineers... Read More →

Stephen Kitt

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Stephen is one of the maintainers of the Submariner project, providing connectivity and service discovery across multiple Kubernetes clusters. He is a long-time open source contributor, and has been at Red Hat since 2015, working on OpenDaylight and Submariner.

Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson

Principal Engineer, Google

Jeremy is a software engineer who works on Google Kubernetes Engine. His main focus is on simplifying the Kubernetes experience, and making it as easy as possible to deploy applications both within a cluster with things like GKE Autopilot, and across clusters with multi-cluster solutions... Read More →

Laura Lorenz

SWE, Google

Laura Lorenz is a software engineer at Google. She is an active member of Kubernetes’ upstream focused on SIG-Multicluster, SIG-Node, and releases.

SIG Multicluster intro & deep dive KCNA24 pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Multicluster

3:25pm MST

SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Kubernetes SIG Node maintainers track session will cover the latest updates in the Kubernetes Node subsystem. The emergence of Generative AI has introduced new challenges and workload behaviors. And SIG Node is up for the challenge. SIG Node owns components and interactions between pods and host resources, including the Kubelet, Container Runtime Interface, and Node API. SIG Node is responsible for the Pod’s lifecycle from allocation to teardown, to liveness checks and shared resource management. We work with various container runtimes, kernels, networking, storage, and more; anything a pod touches is SIG Node’s responsibility! The session will be led by Kubernetes SIG Node leads and will be interesting for seasoned contributors as well as people seeking to get involved in the project. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the latest developments in the Kubernetes Node subsystem. The session is open to all Kubernetes users, regardless of experience level.

Speakers

Dawn Chen

Principal Software Engineer, Google

Dawn Chen is a principal software engineer at Google. Dawn has worked on Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE) before the project was founded. She has been one of tech leads in both Kubernetes and GKE. Prior to Kubernetes, she was the one of the tech leads for Google internal... Read More →

Mrunal Patel

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Mrunal Patel is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on containers for Openshift. He is a maintainer of runc/libcontainer and the OCI runtime specification. He started the CRI-O runtime. He is a SIG-Node chair and tech lead.

Sergey Kanzhelev

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Sergey Kanzhelev is a seasoned open source and cloud native maintainer working actively on Kubernetes. Sergey is serving as co-chair of SIG node. He is also one of the founders of OpenTelemetry. He is working on engineering aspect of software and its practical application. He is contributing... Read More →

SIG Node maintainers track NA 2024.pptx pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Node

4:30pm MST

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, David Ashpole & Richa Banker, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation is responsible for ensuring high quality and consistent instrumentation across the Kubernetes project. We will begin with an introductory overview of the efforts the SIG Instrumentation has worked on in the past and is currently working on. This deep dive session will go into detail about currently ongoing efforts happening within SIG Instrumentation to share with the audience concrete pieces of work to encourage future collaboration. Software engineering and operations are both disciplines practiced in SIG Instrumentation, and any experience will help the special interest group's mission. Join this session to learn how to get involved in SIG Instrumentation to make instrumentation even better!

Speakers

Richa Banker

Software Engineer, Google

Currently a software engineer at Google. Exploring and contributing to OSS Kubernetes on the side.

Han Kang

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Han Kang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Han co-chairs SIG instrumentation (leading stuff like the metrics stability effort - https://bit.ly/stability-kep) and participates in SIG API-Machinery (spearheading things like the safer upgrades initiative - https://bit.ly/safer-k8s-upgrades... Read More →

David Ashpole

David Ashpole, Google

I am a TL for Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation, a maintainer of OpenTelemetry-Go, and lead the OpenTelemetry + Prometheus compatibility effort.

Damien Grisonnet

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Damien Grisonnet is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, he is very active in the monitoring ecosystem of Kubernetes for which he serves as a technical lead for Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation as well as a maintainer for projects such as kube-state-metrics, metrics-server, and prometheus-adapter... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Instrumentation

5:25pm MST

Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions - Joe Betz, Google & David Eads, Red Hat

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Prevent a single node compromise from leaping to other nodes. If you deploy or develop per-node agents, learn how to combine recent and developing features (validating admission policy, service account token node claims, CRD field selectors, and field selector authorization) to build secure hardware extensions.

Speakers

Joe Betz

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Joe Betz is a tech lead of the Kubernetes api-machinery SIG. Joe has contributed to extensibility features including custom resources, admission webhooks, and CEL. Joe has also contributed to etcd as a project maintainer.

David Eads

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

David Eads is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat and co-lead for Kubernetes sig-apimachinery and TL for sig-auth.

Squashing Trampoline Pods pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, API Machinery

11:00am MST

SIG-Apps: Powering Applications with High-Volume Data and APIs - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Janet Kuo, Google

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Over the last decade, Kubernetes expanded support for various workloads from stateless to stateful, from simple jobs to complicated batch workloads. All the APIs have become mature, consistent, and full-featured. We've been busy in SIG Apps, and there's more to come. In this session the SIG Apps leads will provide an overview of what has been accomplished since its inception. They will highlight major milestones, sub-projects and share various stories surrounding major events. They will also discuss how the work has been shared between SIG Apps, Work Groups and sub-projects. The session will conclude with an open discussion and Q&A. Attendees will learn about contributing to SIG Apps themselves.

Speakers

Janet Kuo

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Janet Kuo is a Staff Software Engineer at Google. She's joined the Kubernetes project since before the 1.0 launch in 2015. She is Kubernetes project maintainer, SIG Apps chair, and KubeCon co-chair emeritus. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and taking photos.

Maciej Szulik

Staff Platform Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Maciej is a passionate developer with almost two decades of experience in many languages. Currently he's working on Kubernetes for Defense Unicorns. Whereas at night he is hacking on side projects with python. In his spare time he enjoys reading a good book or taking photos.

KubeCon NA 2024 SIG Apps pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Apps

11:55am MST

SIG Autoscaling Projects Update - Jack Francis, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

The last year’s been an exciting time for SIG Autoscaling, with Karpenter being accepted as a subproject just before Kubecon NA 2023, work to support more advanced workload types for operators, and more. Come along to hear about: Karpenter’s first year as a SIG Subproject - what’s happened over the last year, and what we’ve got planned for the next year. Dynamic Resource Allocation - how the SIG is involved in k8s’ efforts to make it easier for users to run cost effective and efficient workloads requiring GPUs and other custom resources. Provisioning Requests and Pod & Node Headroom - new APIs planned for the Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter to support long standing requests for improved support for batch workloads and from cluster operators. Improvements in the SIG’s processes - the SIG’s been hard at work improving and extending our use of k8s’ test infra, expanding our test coverage, as well as improving our release processes over the last year.

Speakers

Jack Francis

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jack works on open source Kubernetes from his basement in Portland, Oregon, USA. When he’s not working, he’s usually upstairs hanging out with his family. On occasion he straps on a guitar and turns the amp to 11.

SIG Autoscaling Update KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 pptx

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Autoscaling

2:30pm MST

Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Michelle Au, Google; Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom; Hemant Kumar, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Kubernetes SIG Storage is responsible for ensuring that different types of file and block storage are available wherever a container is scheduled, storage capacity management (container ephemeral storage usage, volume resizing, etc.), influencing scheduling of containers based on storage (data gravity, availability, etc.), and generic operations on storage (snapshotting, etc.). SIG Storage also has a project that provides APIs for object storage support in Kubernetes. In this session, we will deep dive into some projects that SIG Storage is currently working on, provide an update on the current status, and discuss what might be coming in the future.

Speakers

Hemant Kumar

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Hemant is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on storage subsystem of Kubernetes. He is a member of SIG-Storage and author of persistent volume expansion, volume limits, mount options and various instrumentation bits in storage subsystems of Kubernetes. He is also a maintainer... Read More →

Saad Ali

Senior Engineering Manager, Google

Saad Ali is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google. He works on Google Distributed Cloud and the open-source Kubernetes project. He led the development of the Kubernetes storage and volume subsystem. He serves as a lead of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, has served as member of the CNCF... Read More →

Michelle Au

Software Engineer, Google

Michelle Au is a software engineer at Google and is a Kubernetes SIG Storage tech lead. She has been a Kubernetes maintainer since 2018, working on projects including the Container Storage Interface, volume security, volume topology, and local persistent storage.

Xing Yang

Tech Lead, VMware by Broadcom

Xing Yang is a Tech Lead in the Cloud Native Storage team at VMware by Broadcom. She is a co-chair of CNCF Storage TAG, a co-chair of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, a co-chair of the Data Protection WG, and a maintainer in Kubernetes CSI. Before joining VMware, Xing was the Lead Architect... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Storage

3:25pm MST

Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates - John Belamaric, Google & David Eads, Red Hat

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

SIG Architecture maintains and evolves the design principles of Kubernetes, and provides a consistent body of expertise necessary to ensure architectural consistency over time. The SIG takes care of evolution of conformance definitions, API definitions/conventions, deprecation policy, design principles, and other cross-cutting concerns. In this talk, we will provide an introduction to SIG architecture, including its role and the various subprojects that support its activities. Additionally, we will provide a community update on the status of those efforts.

Speakers

John Belamaric

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

John is a Sr Staff SWE, co-chair of K8s SIG Architecture and of K8s WG Device Management, helping lead efforts to improve how GPUs, TPUs, NICs and other devices are selected, shared, and configured in Kubernetes. He is also co-founder of Nephio, an LF project for K8s-based automation... Read More →

David Eads

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

David Eads is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat and co-lead for Kubernetes sig-apimachinery and TL for sig-auth.

2024 KubeCon NA Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Update pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Architecture

4:30pm MST

Navigate Cross SIG Collaborations with SIG Docs - Rey Lejano & Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Divya Mohan, SUSE; Xander Grzywinski, Defense Unicorns

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

As one of the largest open source projects, Kubernetes is divided into twenty-four Special Interest Groups (SIGs). All SIGs share a common goal of advancing the project, and collaboration across SIGs is required to do so. In this session, learn how SIG Docs collaborates with other SIGs on Kubernetes releases, improving Kubernetes security and driving Kubernetes adoption with documentation.

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 →

Xander Grzywinski

Open Source Program Manager, Independent

Xander is an open source program manager with a breadth of experience in the Kubernetes project. Previously he worked in various roles on platform and open source teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, and HashiCorp. When not at a computer, you'd most likely find him at a pottery wh... Read More →

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 →

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, advocating for and contributing to its projects. She is a Kubernetes documentation maintainer and a co-chair for the SIG Community under the Bytecode Alliance. As one of the KCNA exam creators and a lead for the Asian chapter of the... Read More →

Navigating Cross SIG Collaborations with SIG Docs pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Docs

5:25pm MST

What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Softdrive

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

At this maintainer track talk we will cover what is new in the Windows Special Interest Group. This talk will mainly focus on kubelet related improvements including memory-pressure eviction support, cpu / topology manager support, and more!

Speakers

Mark Rossetti

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mark Rossetti is a software engineering focusing on open-source projects at Microsoft and is also the co-chair of Kubernetes' SIG-Windows. Mark focuses on improving the experience of using Windows containers in Kubernetes. Mark has also served on the Kubernetes release team since... Read More →

Aravindh Puthiyaparambil

Director of Engineering, Softdrive

Director of Engineering at Softdrive

SIG windows KCNA24 pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Windows

11:00am MST

Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy CI with Zero Test Flakes - Antonio Ojea, Michelle Shepardson & Benjamin Elder, Google

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

In the fast-paced world of software development, a reliable and efficient Continuous Integration pipeline is essential. However, flaky tests can cause delays, frustration, and decreased confidence in the codebase. This session will go deep into the strategies, best practices, and tools that the Kubernetes projects use to eliminate flaky tests and achieve a robust CI pipeline that delivers high-quality software consistently.

Speakers

Benjamin Elder

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Benjamin Elder is a Senior Software Engineer at Google working on Kubernetes. Ben is a long time contributor to the project since writing kube-proxy's iptables mode for GSoC 2015 and is an elected member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee.

Michelle Shepardson

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Michelle is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, with over 10 years of experience in developing tooling and helping engineer productivity. As a member and chair of SIG Testing, they primarily focus on developing TestGrid, a tool for visualizing test results in a grid to track patterns... Read More →

Antonio Ojea

Software Engineer, Google

[KubeCon NA 2024] Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy CI with Zero Test Flakes pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Testing

11:55am MST

Working Together to Improve Security Visibility in Kubernetes - Rita Zhang & Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Ensuring the security of Kubernetes is a team sport. When a CVE is reported to the SRC for Kubernetes, a process is kicked off that involves a lot of coordination between SRC, contributors from different SIGs, and SIG Release, ultimately resulting in new Kubernetes Releases. Once released, an automatic CVE feed provides a programmatic way to understand the security of the releases. For other security issues, like dependency vulnerabilities and false positives, it isn’t quite as easy to get a full picture. SIG Security, SIG Release, and SRC are working to make this better and in this session we will share more about how things work today and what we plan to do in the future to improve the security visibility of the releases and artifacts produced by the project!

Speakers

Jeremy Rickard

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jeremy Rickard is a principal software engineer at Microsoft where he works on the Azure Container Upstream team. He is currently a co-chair for SIG Release and serves on both the CNCF and the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committees. He was also the Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead.

Rita Zhang

Principal software engineer, Kubernetes SIG Auth co-chair, Security Response Committee, Microsoft

Rita Zhang is a Principal software engineer at Microsoft, based in San Francisco bay area. She leads the Azure Container Upstream team of maintainers and contributors building features for Kubernetes upstream, CNCF projects, and for Azure Kubernetes Service. She is a Kubernetes sig-auth... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Security

2:00pm MST

Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - SIG ContribEx Style! - Kaslin Fields, Google; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Madhav Jivrajani, UIUC; Nabarun Pal, Independent

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

The success and sustainability of the Kubernetes project hinges on its diverse contributor base. In this session, we will explore how the Kubernetes Special Interest Group Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx) empowers contributors, optimizes workflows, & fosters sustained project growth. We will address the challenges of managing an expanding contributor base, the tradeoffs between attracting new contributors and growing existing ones, all while upholding high standards of code quality, stability, and the right balance between feature development, bug fixes & security enhancements. We will highlight the importance of clear communication channels, our mentorship programs, and knowledge sharing initiatives. We will also share valuable insights into the recent updates about Kubernetes community org membership, the advancements made in the automated assessment tool for membership statistics & more. So, join us in this session to gain insights about ContribEx's many diverse programs.

Speakers

Nabarun Pal

Kubernetes Maintainer, Independent

Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, 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 →

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, Kubernetes GitHub Admin, v1.31 Emeritus Advisor, v1.29 Release Lead, SUSE

Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, contributing to Kubernetes via Release, ContribEx, Testing, and CLI SIGs. She is the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes v1.31, Release Lead for v1.29, GitHub Admin, and Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx). She... Read More →

Madhav Jivrajani

Independent, UIUC

Madhav is currently working at VMware on upstream Kubernetes. He has been a part of the Kubernetes community for about a year and mainly helps out with SIG-{Contribex, Node, Architecture, API-Machinery}. He was also involved with the structured logging efforts in the Kubernetes project... Read More →

Kaslin Fields

OSS K8s & GKE Developer Advocate, Google

Kaslin Fields is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, a Container enthusiast and creator of tech comics. She uses her knowledge of DevOps technologies and methodologies to help others as they enter the Cloud Native world. By creating comics about DevOps tech, she hopes to make learning... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Contributor Experience

2:55pm MST

Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

When you put your trust in a new Kubernetes version, you know that the community behind the release ensures high levels of quality. The Kubernetes community achieves release-gating confidence with continuous testing and integration. With the recent migration of built-in cloud providers to external components , the community has made changes to the testing of infrastructure-specific behaviors and patterns. We have removed some tests and changed others, and now we plan to build a more robust testing framework that all cloud providers can utilize. Join us for a discussion of the future of cloud provider testing, with a look at the changes that have occurred during the external migration and the challenges that are ahead for building a cohesive infrastructure testing framework. You can expect to leave this session with a clear understanding of how cloud provider testing works, why it is important to test on as many cloud providers as possible, and where you can help shape the path forward.

Speakers

Michael McCune

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Michael McCune is a software developer creating open source infrastructure and applications for cloud platforms. He has a passion for problem solving and team building, and a lifelong love of music, food, and culture.

Bridget Kromhout

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem.

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Cloud Provider

4:00pm MST

Pushing Authorization Further: CEL, Selectors and Maybe RBAC++ - Mo Khan & Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Jordan Liggitt, Google

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Significant changes have been made to authorization in recent versions of Kubernetes. For example, common expression language (CEL) in validating admission policy (VAP) can access the authorizer to perform runtime checks during admission. Authorization has also been made aware of label and field selectors, which are available as extra info to be used by webhooks and CEL expressions in VAP. Looking forward, Kubernetes RBAC could be enhanced to take advantage of this new info. RBAC++ is a proof of concept design to combine CEL with RBAC to allow for conditional bindings at runtime. Thinking about even more experimental changes: what if authorization (and RBAC++) could directly assert conditions at admission time?

Speakers

Rita Zhang

Principal software engineer, Kubernetes SIG Auth co-chair, Security Response Committee, Microsoft

Mo Khan

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mo Khan is a software engineer who is passionate about open source and security. He started working on Kubernetes in 2016, and currently serves as a chair, technical lead and subproject owner for Kubernetes SIG Auth, a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee and a contributor... Read More →

Jordan Liggitt

Software Engineer, Google

Jordan Liggitt is a software engineer at Google, and helps lead Kubernetes authentication, authorization, and API server efforts.

SIG Auth 2024 Deep Dive Pushing Authorization Further pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, Auth

4:55pm MST

Navigating the Future: Exploring the Latest in Kubernetes Dashboard Development - Marcin Maciaszczyk & Sebastian Florek, Plural

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

Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Join us for an insightful presentation on the latest updates from the Kubernetes SIG-UI, focusing on the evolution of the Kubernetes Dashboard project. Dive into a comprehensive overview of key changes, enhancements, and advancements, including a detailed exploration of the project's new architecture. Gain valuable insights into how these developments shape the future of Kubernetes management and user experience. Whether you're a seasoned Kubernetes user or new to the ecosystem, this presentation promises to provide valuable perspectives on the cutting-edge developments in Kubernetes Dashboard.

Speakers

Sebastian Florek

Fullstack engineer, Plural

Fullstack Engineer at Plural. Working on the Kubernetes Dashboard project since the beginning. One of the key contributors and a SIG-UI co-leader.

Marcin Maciaszczyk

Fullstack Engineer, Plural

Marcin is a Fullstack Engineer at Plural. He is working on the Kubernetes Dashboard project since the beginning where he became one of the key contributors and a SIG-UI co-leader.

Kubecon 2024 NA.pptx pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B

Maintainer Track, UI