KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019: Full Schedule

San Diego, California
November 18–21, 2019
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5:02pm PST

Lightning Talk: What Makes a Good Multi-tenant Kubernetes Solution? - Victor Varza, Adobe

Multi-tenancy leads to sharing resources with hundreds of independent users or teams. Currently, Kubernetes primitives do not provide support for running production workloads in a multi-tenant architecture.

This talk is focused on how to glue together open-source technologies in order to achieve soft multi-tenancy requirements such as: self-management, access control, resource control and workload isolation.

You will learn how to build production ready cross-cloud multi-tenant clusters using Kubernetes primitives and other open-source technologies like Cilium, Heptio Contour, Kata Containers, Open Policy Agent and friends.

Speakers

Victor Varza

Sr. Cloud Software Engineer, Adobe

Victor Varza is a Senior Cloud Software Engineer at Adobe Romania, where he is currently working on running an enterprise cross-cloud multi-tenant microservices platform based on Kubernetes. He has over 8 years of experience in development of large-scale platforms based on Linux... Read More →

What Makes a Good Multi Tenant Kubernetes Solution pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:02pm - 5:07pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Application + Development

Experience Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:08pm PST

Lightning Talk: Boosting Your kubectl Productivity - Mauricio Salatino, LearnK8s

If you work with Kubernetes, then kubectl is probably one of your most-used tools. Whenever you spend a lot of time working with a specific tool, it is worth to get to know it very well and learn how to use it efficiently. The goal of this lighting talk is not only to make your daily work with Kubernetes more efficient but also more enjoyable!

Speakers

Mauricio Salatino

Software Engineer, Diagrid

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →

Monday November 18, 2019 5:08pm - 5:13pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Customizing + Extending Kubernetes

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)

5:14pm PST

Lightning Talk: Get Started With Non-Code Contributions to Kubernetes - David Strebel, Microsoft

Want to contribute to contribute to the Kubernetes project, but not a coder? This lightning talk will focus on how you can contribute back to Kubernetes without writing a line of code.

There exists this notion of developers, developers, developers and that you need to write code to be able to contribute to open source. There are many different ways that you can help out in an open source project without being a developer. In quick talk we will show the different needs open source projects have for non-code contributions and the roles that fit in for non-code contributors.

Coming away from this lightning talk you will have a good understating of how you can get involved in the Kubernetes project and start contributing with no code at all!

Speakers

David Strebel

Open Source Architect, Microsoft

Dave Strebel is a Global Open Source Architect on the Microsoft Global Black Belt team. Dave focuses on containers, microservice architecture and the cloud-native ecosystem. Dave has been working in technology for over 15 years and has a mixed background across application development... Read More →

Monday November 18, 2019 5:14pm - 5:19pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Community

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)

5:20pm PST

Lightning Talk: Kuber-What-Es?! Misadventures in Building UIs for K8s-Based ML Platforms - Alexandra Johnson, Independent

Last year, our team set out to build a machine learning platform for launching hyperparameter optimization jobs. However, after our launch, the kubernetes-based machine learning platform wasn't a hit with our internal users. This talk explains why, starting with our three critical user interface design decisions, the two problems these led to, and our one direction for future work. This talk is meant to be a very compact, but honest, look at some of the user experience challenges faced by teams building kubernetes-based ML platforms.

Speakers

Alexandra Johnson

Tech Lead, Independent

Alexandra loves creating simple and easy to use interfaces for complicated products. Until recently, she was the Platform Tech Lead at SigOpt, where she and her team worked on everything from machine learning infrastructure to web dashboards to API design. She is based out of San... Read More →

Kuber what es 2019 pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:20pm - 5:25pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Machine Learning + Data

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:26pm PST

Lightning Talk: Code Kubernetes While You Are Using It - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat

This lightning talk is about deploying a development platform on a Kubernetes cluster and using it to code and rollout an Kubernetes component update. Without stopping coding.

To do so we are going to use Eclipse Che, a container based IDE that runs on Kubernetes and is particularly adapted for rapid cloud native development.

Speakers

Mario Loriedo

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Mario is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and a CNCF Ambassador. He works on container-based developer tools. He co-maintains the CNCF Devfile project and leads the Eclipse Che project. He has been a speaker at conferences such as KubeCon, LinuxCon, JavaOne and FOS... Read More →

Coding Kubernetes While You Are Using It pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:26pm - 5:31pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Application + Development

Experience Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:32pm PST

Lightning Talk: Sharing a GPU Among Multiple Containers - Patrick McQuighan, Algorithmia

We’ve been sharing GPU resources across multiple containers since 2016, and we’ve learned a few lessons along the way. In this lightning talk, we’ll walk you through the work we’ve done and discuss some newer approaches to the same problem.

Specifically, this talk will address:

* Why GPUs matter
* What makes sharing GPUs across containers hard
* How we’ve managed to share GPUs in the past
* Recent solutions, including the GPUShare Scheduler Extender project (https://github.com/AliyunContainerService/gpushare-scheduler-extender)

Speakers

Patrick McQuighan

Senior Software Engineer, Algorithmia

Patrick joined Algorithmia in December 2015 and has focused on improving system performance and creating the Enterprise AI Layer Enterprise product, an ML deployment and management system that runs on multiple cloud providers and on-prem infrastructures. Previously, Patrick worked... Read More →

McQuighan Share GPUs pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:32pm - 5:37pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Machine Learning + Data

Experience Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:38pm PST

Lightning Talk: How the Observability Team at Spotify Radically Decreased On-Call Alerts - Lauren Muhlhauser, Spotify

The Reliability team at Spotify took over the monitoring stack and decreased incident pages by 42% within 6 months. At first, they were devoting all their time to managing on-call alerts and tech debt. Now, on-call alerts are manageable and infrequent, and the team is on a path to using entirely open sourced products.

This stack was developed years prior, when there were few well-developed open source solutions available. Lauren describes how migrations to new tools (Grafana and Prometheus) decreased their backlog and on-call pages. She will also cover the improvements the team made to their own open source products (Heroic and FFWD) and why they chose to continue using and maintaining them. Lastly, she will discuss a new tool that the team will be repurposing and open sourcing in the near future.

Speakers

Lauren Muhlhauser

Site Reliability Engineer, Spotify

Lauren is a Site Reliability Engineer at Spotify on the Observability team. She is currently working on maintaining the monitoring and alerting stack, as well as implementing tracing.

How the Observability Team at Spotify Radically Decreased On Call Alerts pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:38pm - 5:43pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Observability

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:44pm PST

Lightning Talk: CRDs All the Way Down – Using OPA for Complex CRD Validation and Defaulting - Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm

Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and custom controllers (aka the operator pattern) are becoming the main way we extend Kubernetes. From etcd and Prometheus to full-on Kubernetes extensions a la Cluster API and Service Broker API - a lot of teams are building operators.

As the CRD concept is maturing SIG API machinery is adding useful features like validation, defaulting, structural schemas, etc. In more complex extensions with multiple CRDs and multiple controllers, we run into validation and defaulting use cases that can only be modeled with custom validation and mutation webhooks.

This talk will discuss use cases for complex CRD validation and defaulting, incl. common use cases like validating a CRD against another CRD. Furthermore, the speaker will make a point of why to use Open Policy Agent as a common agent to implement such use cases.

Speakers

Puja

VP Product, Giant Swarm

Puja Abbassi is the Vice President of Product at Giant Swarm, building a managed cloud native developer platform based on Kubernetes. In Kubernetes he focuses on extending Kubernetes with custom resources and controllers. With many years of Kubernetes experience and having been in... Read More →

Advanced CRD Validation and Defaulting with OPA pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:44pm - 5:49pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Customizing + Extending Kubernetes

Experience Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Session Slides Included Yes

5:50pm PST

Lightning Talk: Easily Observing Operators - Lili Cosic, Red Hat

With everyone building their own operator, instrumenting them is an important piece of the puzzle. In this lighting talk, Lili will demonstrate how to implement operator observability by using kube-state-metrics as a library, to natively expose operator specific metrics.

Join this session to learn how to generate operator and custom resource metrics on the fly in just a few lines of code, by leveraging kube-state-metrics.

Speakers

Lili Cosic

Lili is a software engineer but her main focus for the past 7 years has been infrastrucure engienering. Her monitoring focus started at Red Hat where she worked on the OpenShift monitoring team, where she worked on OpenShift monitoring product as well as mantained various open source... Read More →

Monday November 18, 2019 5:50pm - 5:55pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Observability

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)

5:56pm PST

Lightning Talk: Open Match - Matchmaking Framework - Robert Bailey, Google

Open Match is an open source game matchmaking framework that simplifies building a scalable and extensible Matchmaker. Open Match is designed to give the game developer full control over how to generate quality matches without having to deal with the challenges of building a scalable online production service. It enables the game developer to re-use the core framework code across games, and just focusing on the rebuilding the matchmaking logic custom to each game.

At its core, Open Match comprises of a set of services hosted in a Kubernetes cluster that manage Players, trigger custom matchmaking logic to generate match proposals and provides ability to evaluate these for quality. The framework also provides functionality such as monitoring, alerting, metrics analysis, autoscaling etc.

Speakers

Robert Bailey

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Robert is part of Google's Cloud Gaming team working on open source gaming infrastructure projects founded by Google such as Agones and Open Match. He was previously a lead for the Cluster Lifecycle SIG, worked on Kubernetes for more than 4 years, and was one of the founding members... Read More →

Lightning Talk Open Match pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 5:56pm - 6:01pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Application + Development

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Session Slides Included Yes

6:02pm PST

Lightning Talk: Is Your Kubernetes Cluster's DNS Working? - Jonathan Perry, Flowmill

Your Kubernetes cluster is gaining traction and more and more developers are bringing up new services. That’s great news. But you’ve been getting reports of intermittent service failures that you haven’t been able to track down. It doesn’t seem to be anything else...could it be DNS? Maybe we’re not running enough DNS pods or they are restarting too frequently?

This talk will explain how to actually measure DNS health for your Kubernetes cluster and properly plan its capacity. We will share some specific mechanisms to gather DNS traffic information per service both with some standard Linux tools and systematically with eBPF.

Speakers

Jonathan Perry

Founder, Startup

Jonathan is an OpenTelemetry maintainer, currently working to reduce noisy neighbor in clusters, which should let operators increase workload density and reduce cost per impact. He was founder and CEO at Flowmill (acquired by Splunk), which developed the eBPF collector which became... Read More →

Is Your Kubernetes Cluster's DNS Working pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 6:02pm - 6:07pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Networking

Experience Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Session Slides Included Yes

6:08pm PST

Lightning Talk: Want to Donate a Project to the CNCF? Here's How - Cheryl Hung, CNCF

From the very first open source project, Kubernetes, to over 30 now, the projects are the lifeblood of the CNCF. The most mature (aka graduated) projects have become de-facto industry standards, backed by thriving communities.

However, it's not always clear how new projects are chosen to enter the CNCF.

Cheryl explains how you can propose a project to join the CNCF, and what the Technical Oversight Committee is looking for.

Speakers

Cheryl Hung

Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm

Cheryl brings engineers together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source.As Senior Director at Arm, Cheryl leads ecosystem strategy to drive adoption across cloud, 5G and networking. She also founded the Cloud Native London meetup with 8000... Read More →

Want to donate a project to the CNCF Here's how Cheryl Hung 18 November 2019.pptx pdf

Monday November 18, 2019 6:08pm - 6:13pm PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

Lightning Talk Sessions, Community

Experience Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Session Slides Included Yes

9:00am PST

Keynote: Hiding in the Dark - Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

What can Minecraft teach us about the adoption of cloud native technologies?

Speakers

Dan Kohn

General Manager, Linux Foundation Public Health, Linux Foundation

Dan leads Linux Foundation Public Health, a new initiative to use open source software to help public health authorities combat COVID-19 and serves as VP, Strategic Programs for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes... Read More →

1 Dan Kohn pptx

Tuesday November 19, 2019 9:00am - 9:10am PST
Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Ground Level

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