KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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2:30pm MST

BoF: AI Training in Kubernetes BoF - Marlow Weston, SchedMD; Ricardo Rocha, CERN; Alex Scammon, G-research; Frederick Kautz, TestifySec

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

In this talk, we will lead you down the rabbit-hole of AI training in Kubernetes, where idealism and reality meet. We are not here to feed you tales of digital utopia. We are here to discuss what needs to change. Can Kubernetes be taught to handle the monstrous loads of large-scale AI training? Join a diverse group of engineers, AI researchers, and Kubernetes veterans to learn what problems need to be solved for optimal AI training within Kubernetes. We will discuss solutions and challenges within this space and do comparisons between HPC systems and Kubernetes. Topics will include fine-grained resource control, scheduling, networking, and storage. If you think you can handle the unvarnished truth about Cloud Native AI, come armed with questions, war stories, and a tolerance for the absurd. Just be prepared to leave with more questions than answers-and maybe, if you are lucky, a sliver of insight.

Speakers

Ricardo Rocha

Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN

Ricardo leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training... Read More →

Frederick Kautz

Cloud Native Security Unicorn, TestifySec

Frederick has an extensive background in Cloud Native and Security. Some relevant highlights include previously Co-Chairing KubeCon, authoring NIST SP 800-204D, co-charing the CTA/ANSI working group in securing AI/ML pipelines. Frederick also has an extensive history in Cloud Native... Read More →

Marlow Warnicke (Weston)

Principal Cloud Engineer, SchedMD

Marlow is a Principal Cloud Engineer working on scheduling at SchedMD. She also is a chair for the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG. Marlow has expertise in resource management, the AI/ML Kubernetes cloud compute ecosystem, embedded systems, high performance compute system tools... Read More →

Alex Scammon

Head of Open Source Development, G-research

I enjoy building motivated and effective engineering organizations. Whether at a large international company or a small local startup, I care about how we create products just as much as what those products actually are.

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

AI + ML

11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Collaborative WebAssembly Creation with WasmCloud

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

wasmCloud aims to provide a seamless developer experience for building, testing, and deploying WebAssembly components. Join maintainers and community contributors at this Contribfest to build WebAssembly components and enhance wasmCloud's core developer experience. We'll test our newest feature, wash dev, by rapidly building applications in Wasm. With support for Rust, Go, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript, developers of all backgrounds can get hands-on with Wasm. Since applications built with wasmCloud use the latest Wasm standards, components created during the workshop will benefit the broader Wasm ecosystem. Contributors who find bugs, improvements, or new features can pair program with maintainers to contribute directly to wasmCloud.

Speakers

Bailey Hayes

CTO, Cosmonic

Bailey Hayes is the CTO at Cosmonic. She believes the future is in distributed systems and WebAssembly (Wasm). She wears many hats in the open source ecosystem from standards to implementations as the W3C WebAssembly WASI Subgroup co-chair, Bytecode Alliance TSC Director, and maintainer... Read More →

Colin Murphy

Senior Software Engineer, Adobe

Colin Murphy is a senior software engineer on the Adobe Express team. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for infrastructure of Adobe Document Cloud microservices, including Adobe Sign and Acrobat Web. He has been responsible for the implementation of major portions of Adobe’s... Read More →

Taylor Thomas

Engineering Director, Cosmonic

Taylor Thomas is an Engineering Director working on WebAssembly platforms at Cosmonic. He actively participates in the open source community and is one of the creators of Krustlet and Bindle. He is a CNCF Ambassador and a regular speaker at various open source conferences and meetups... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

2:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Helm 4: The Next Generation of the Kubernetes Package Manager

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Love it or hate it, there is little argument that Helm remains a popular choice for packaging Kubernetes applications. As the project embarks on its first new major version since 2019, Helm 4, anyone who makes use of Helm, whether it be a producer or consumer, has the opportunity to help shape the future and direction. Join members of the Helm community to get a unique opportunity to take part in the development of Helm 4 so it can provide the next generation of Kubernetes applications and users the package manager for today and tomorrow.. In this session, attendees will learn: Learn about the key features being considered Support for Helm 3 before, during and after Helm 4 is released How to get involved in the Helm project, including the various roles and responsibilities The process for contributing to the Helm codebase This is a session any Kubernetes contributor does not want to miss

Speakers

Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reducing the overall... Read More →

Matt Farina

Distinguished Engineer, SUSE

Matt works as a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, where he works as the Chief Architect of the SUSE Rancher Team. He is a maintainer of multiple open source projects including Helm and Artifact Hub. Matt is an author, speaker, and regular contributor to open source.

2024 Helm Contribfest KubeCon NA pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

4:30pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Meshery Contribfest: Extending the Cloud Native Manager

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Join the Meshery maintainers and community in improving the leading cloud native management plane. This is your chance to get hands-on with the tools shaping the future of collaborative cloud native management. Opportunities: Work on core functionality in the Server (Golang) or UI (React) or extend Meshery by building your own plugin. Contribute to the Meshery documentation by incorporating your own examples of cloud native solution architectures using Meshery Designer. Why Contribute to Meshery? - Gain experience with cloud native technologies, including essentially every CNCF project and open source development practices. As is the 10th fastest growing CNCF project, Meshery has a vibrant community. Work alongside passionate maintainers and contributors. No Prior Experience Needed: We welcome contributions from all levels of experience. Join us at Meshery Contribfest and be part of the growing community shaping the future of collaborative cloud native management.

Speakers

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →

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 4:30pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

11:00am MST

🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno: Lets Build Together!

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Come meet the Kyverno maintainers and community for an hands-on, interactive, workshop and session where we deep dive into the Kyverno project. Kyverno is a cloud native policy as code solution that elegantly solves critical challenges across security, automation, and compliance. You will learn about Kyverno’s architecture, the role of each component, how to try Kyverno, and set up your environment to contribute to the project. This hands-on session will be led by Kyverno maintainers and organized so that both developers as well as non-developers can learn, explore, and contribute!

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Charles-Edouard Breteche

Nirmata

KCNA24 Kyverno Contribfest pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

2:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: Sidecar-Less Service Mesh: Let’s Work Together on Istio V2

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

Attendees will gain an overview of the sidecar-less service mesh architecture and learn how to contribute to the Istio project. We will explore the necessary tooling to build Istio from source, and run unit and end-to-end tests. After setting up the environment, we will contribute to the Istio project. Maintainers will provide a curated set of GitHub issues for the session, focusing on good-first-issues and Istio V2. We will review useful resources and ways to interact with the project and community, highlighting the benefits of sidecar-less Istio and guiding you through your first contribution.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source at solo.io, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

KCNA24IstioContributorWorkshop.pptx pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest

4:00pm MST

🚨 Contribfest: K8gb Contribfest: Enhancing K8gb Project with Arbitrary Network Resource Integration

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

Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

The k8gb project is entering a new era of extensibility with the ability to integrate with arbitrary network resources. Recently, we decoupled our strong dependency on standard Ingress, opening new pathways for various integrations such as Gateways and non-HTTP Services. In this iteration of Contribfest, participants will execute the flow of integrating a new resource type to be globally load-balanced.

Speakers

Yury Tsarev

Principal Solutions Architect, Upbound

Yury is an experienced software engineer who strongly focuses on open-source, software quality and distributed systems. As the creator of k8gb (https://www.k8gb.io) and active contributor to the Crossplane ecosystem, he frequently speaks at conferences covering topics such as Control... Read More →

Andre Aguas

Senior Systems Engineer, Open Systems AG

Andre is a Systems Engineer at Open Systems' Cloud Platform team. For the past 3 years he was an integral part of the Observability team where he established Thanos and Loki as the two fundamental components of the company's observability stack. Throughout this journey, he has also... Read More →

Contribfest NA 2024 Enhancing K8GB with Arbitrary Network Resource Integrations pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D

🚨 Contribfest