KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

Lightning Talk: Introduction to GitOps Deployment to Kubernetes

January 13, 2020

There exist many practices for continuous deployment to Kubernetes. Among them GitOps goes well with declarative configuration of Kubernetes, and leads to more reliable configuration management. GitOp …

Lightning Talk: Overengineering your Chatbot for Fun and Science

January 13, 2020

Chatbots are fun! They are also universally useful no matter what kind of developer you are. Whether you are building out a customer service bot or automating daily tasks through your preferred Chat p …

Lightning Talk: Behind The Scenes: Kubernetes Release Notes Tips & Tricks

January 12, 2020

This session aims to shed more light on the release note process from the Kubernetes contributor's point of view. We will briefly discuss the entire release note process from PR to release day. We wil …

Lightning Talk: CRDs Aren't Just for Add-Ons Anymore - Painting a Picture of the Future

January 12, 2020

Kubernetes has a huge contributor community. There is a steady flow of new ideas for things Kubernetes could or should do, and those almost always change the API in some way. We already have a broad A …

Lightning Talk: Labels in Prometheus Alerts: Think Twice Before Using Them

January 12, 2020

As developers, we hear a lot about the importance of monitoring and alerts. But without proper notification, we might spend too much time trying to understand what really is going on. In this talk, El …

Lightning Talk: Monitoring Kubernetes with BPF and Prometheus

January 12, 2020

Kubernetes has made it incredibly easy to build distributed applications out of large numbers of microservices. But monitoring, or even accurately tracking, the interaction between each of these servi …

Lightning Talk: Spawning Kubernetes In CI For Integration Tests

January 12, 2020

Making sure a Kubernetes operator works correctly is a very important step before deploying it to production. Without good integration and E2E test coverage, its easy for a bug to get in. Therefore …

Keynote: 5 Years of etcd: Past, Present, and Future

January 11, 2020

In July 2013 the etcd project was announced to solve a critical problem for CoreOS: how to safely coordinate unattended automatic software updates across a cluster of Linux nodes. Today hundreds of co …

Keynote: Kubernetes, Istio, Knative: The New Open Cloud Stack

January 11, 2020

Kubernetes has succeeded in its initial mission. Launched by Google as an open source platform built on the foundations of Borg, Kubernetes has grown into an enterprise platform, with a strong communi …

Lightning Talk: Connect from Browsers Using gRPC-Web

January 11, 2020

We are delighted to introduce gRPC-Web, a cross-browser javascript library which allows developers to write web applications that connect to gRPC servers. In this lightning talk, we will briefly talk …

Lightning Talk: CoreDNS Over gRPC: Reliable Service Discovery for Kubernetes

January 11, 2020

While service discovery in Kubernetes may be provided via multiple mechanisms, DNS is the most commonly used and highly recommended for its ease of use. One challenge with DNS-based service discovery …

Lightning Talk: Kubegres: Accessing K8s From Postgres

January 11, 2020

Postgres is a very versatile database. In addition to regular SQL queries, you can use a Foreign Data Wrapper to make anything - other databases, JSON files, Twitter - appear to be just another set of …

Lightning Talk: PID Autoscaling Strava's Linkerd Service Mesh Using Prometheus Data

January 11, 2020

Stravas traffic fluctuates alongside our athletes weekly exercise habits. Our service infrastructure must dynamically scale to meet constantly changing demands efficiently and cost effectively. This …

Lightning Talk: Running Kubernetes in the Federal Government

January 11, 2020

Tackling security compliance is a long and challenging process for agencies, systems integrators, and vendors trying to launch new information systems in the federal government. Each new information s …

Lightning Talk: The Future of Humans in a World of Automation

January 11, 2020

The cloud providers have built service after service in an attempt to automate away the need for ops professionals. So where is the future for people in ops? Is there a future or should the engineers …

Birds of a Feather: What Should a Container Build Manifest Look Like?

January 10, 2020

We create containers by reusing several pieces of software from disparate locations, internal and external to our organization. We then rely on the providers (trusted or not) of the pieces to publish …

Cloud Jumping with Kubernetes

January 10, 2020

Kubernetes promises a degree of freedom from cloud vendor lock-in, providing an API and runtime for containers that most cloud providers support. Beyond the core of container orchestration, there are …

Getting The Most Out Of Kubernetes with Resource Limits and Load Testing

January 10, 2020

You've carefully crafted your first K8s service, and you're ready to deploy it to production. Well, not quite: there are still some important unknowns to understand before your service will be ready f …

Intro: Apps SIG

January 10, 2020

Join Kubernetes SIG Apps to learn about the areas of our focus, what we are working on currently, and how you can get involved. Veteran SIG Apps members will be on hand to help answer questions. …

Intro: KubeVirt BoF

January 10, 2020

KubeVirt extends Kubernetes with the ability to run virtual machineworkloads, as Kubernetes itself is not able to launch those. To do soKubeVirt introduces dedicated custom resources around virtualiza …

Keynote: Charting a Path to Take Kubernetes to 100,000 Enterprises

January 10, 2020

What will it take for Kubernetes to be adopted by 100,000 enterprises? While Kubernetes has gained early adoption with significant contributions from the community, the majority of enterprises has yet …

Keynote: Phippy Goes to the Zoo: A Kubernetes Story

January 10, 2020

Settle in for story time and listen to the official sequel to the Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes. Follow the tale of Phippy and her niece as they take an educational trip to the Kubernetes …

Real-time Vision Processing on Kubernetes: Working with Data Locality

January 10, 2020

Kubernetes as a general purpose cloud native application platform simplifies the operation of applications. Data processing is one of the common of applications that benefit from the power of Kubernet …

Towards a Vendor Neutral Kubernetes

January 10, 2020

With over 50 Kubernetes Certified Platforms and Distributions, building Kubernetes with an open cloud philosophy has never been more important. This comes with a large set of technical and organizatio …

Container Platforms as Equalizers: Running Health Services Across the World

January 9, 2020

Praekelt.org creates and operates a number of health and youth-related services which are hosted on containerised clusters around the world, often in countries without an established cloud provider pr …

Experience Report: Running a Distributed System Across Kubernetes Clusters

January 9, 2020

Kubernetes makes it easy to run distributed applications, even those that manage persistent state, within the confines of a single cluster. Running the same applications in a multi-region or multi-clo …

Front-end Application Deployment Patterns

January 9, 2020

Kubernetes is a powerful deployment platform that allows complex workflows like rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments of software. Safely managing these complex deployment patterns for frontend …

How Symlinks Pwned Kubernetes (And How We Fixed It)

January 9, 2020

Ever wonder how Kubernetes deals with security vulnerabilities? This talk illustrates the process by walking through the discovery, patching, and disclosure of CVE-2017-1002101. In Nov 2017, we recei …