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You Can't Have a Cluster [BLEEP] Without a Cluster

You Can't Have a Cluster [BLEEP] Without a Cluster

December 15, 2019

I've been running Kubernetes in production for 2 years, and have worked on enterprise Kubernetes service teams including the Azure managed Kubernetes team. This presentation is very special and will t …
Monolith to Microservice: Pitchforks Not Included

Monolith to Microservice: Pitchforks Not Included

December 14, 2019

Learn how GitLab turned its omnibus into cloud native Helm charts by way of containerization and orchestration. This talk aims to help practitioners already running large scale, successful products m …
Fly Your Containerized Environments by Joint Work of Harbor and Dragonfly

Fly Your Containerized Environments by Joint Work of Harbor and Dragonfly

December 13, 2019

With the emergence and development of Kubernetes, it's becoming possible to run and operate large-scale containerized applications and services in enterprise environments. How to securely and effectiv …
HomeAway's Multi-Cloud Traffic Director

HomeAway's Multi-Cloud Traffic Director

December 13, 2019

Case Study about how HomeAway built a global Multi Cloud Traffic Management solution using Content Distribution Networks and a hybrid of public and private clouds. Over the last two years we have grow …
Serverless server-side rendering: Improving user experience with React and serverless functions

Serverless server-side rendering: Improving user experience with React and serverless functions

December 13, 2019

For years, developers have relied on browsers to render web pages client side, which often leaves users patiently waiting for web pages to load. This less-than-favorable experience can be changed by writing user interface components in React. Join Natalie Qabazard to explore the pros and cons of rendering a web page server side using React and a serverless resource.
Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into Kubernetes

Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into Kubernetes

December 13, 2019

In early 2017, HubSpot faced a growing problem: our MySQL infrastructure was complex, expensive, and failing to scale. Hundreds of databases running on more than a thousand EC2 instances were managed …
Audi's journey to an enterprise big data platform

Audi's journey to an enterprise big data platform

December 12, 2019

Carsten Herbe and Matthias Graunitz detail Audi's journey from a Hadoop proof of concept to a multitenant enterprise platform, sharing lessons learned, the decisions Audi made, and how a number of use cases are implemented using the platform.
Deep Dive: Falco

Deep Dive: Falco

December 12, 2019

In any Cloud Native architecture, theres a seemingly endless stream of events that happen at each layer. These events can be used to detect abnormal activity and possible security incidents, as well …
Charting a data journey to the cloud

Charting a data journey to the cloud

December 11, 2019

What happens when you combine near-limitless data with on-demand access to powerful analytics and compute? For Deutsche Telekom, the results have been transformative. Mick Hollison, Sven Lffler, and Robert Neumann explain how Deutsche Telekom is harnessing machine learning and analytics in the cloud to build Europes largest and most powerful IoT data marketplace.
Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created?

Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created?

December 11, 2019

Istio is emerging as a popular service mesh layer for cloud native apps and it delivers a variety of great features for devops scenarios. While security is one of its core tenets, Istio has far more p …
Performance Testing Ingress for Internet-Scale Workloads

Performance Testing Ingress for Internet-Scale Workloads

December 11, 2019

Have you ever wondered how much ingress traffic a Kubernetes cluster could handle? How many nodes would it take to handle the traffic of an Alexa top-40 website? Understanding these numbers and how yo …
Collecting Operational Metrics for a Cluster with 5,000 Namespaces

Collecting Operational Metrics for a Cluster with 5,000 Namespaces

December 10, 2019

Kubernetes is popular to provide a multi-tenant, shared infrastructure layer for many eng teams within an org. This is great for the teams, as they have a stable, scalable cluster to build upon. Howev …
Deep Dive: Harbor

Deep Dive: Harbor

December 10, 2019

Harbor is an open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. It has been widely used by organizations large and small around the world to resolve the image man …
Deep Dive: NATS

Deep Dive: NATS

December 10, 2019

The NATS project and its ecosystem have been continuously evolving since joining the CNCF and in this session we will share a retrospective of what is the current state of the art and overall directio …
Distributed training of deep learning models

Distributed training of deep learning models

December 10, 2019

Mathew Salvaris, Miguel Gonzalez-Fierro, and Ilia Karmanov offer a comparison of two platforms for running distributed deep learning training in the cloud, using a ResNet network trained on the ImageNet dataset as an example. You'll examine the performance of each as the number of nodes scales and learn some tips and tricks as well as some pitfalls to watch out for.
Adding a New Storage Provider to Rook

Adding a New Storage Provider to Rook

December 9, 2019

The CNCF hosted Rook project has built a framework for running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, enabling storage providers to seamlessly and effectively integrate into cloud native environments. This …
Fast analytics on fast data: Kudu as a storage layer for banking applications

Fast analytics on fast data: Kudu as a storage layer for banking applications

December 9, 2019

Olaf Hein explains how a large German bank relies on a Kudu-based data platform to speed up business processes. Olaf highlights key data access patterns and the system architecture and shares best practices and lessons learned using Kudu in development and operations.
Game Server Networking with Envoy

Game Server Networking with Envoy

December 9, 2019

Game servers can be incredibly difficult to scale and operate within cloud environments. Latency management is paramount to ensuring that game players' experiences to vary widely even on less reliable …
How to protect big data in a containerized environment

How to protect big data in a containerized environment

December 9, 2019

Recent headline-grabbing data breaches demonstrate that protecting data is essential for every enterprise. The best-of-breed approach for big data is HDFS configured with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), but TDE can be difficult to configure and manageissues that are only compounded when running on Docker containers. Thomas Phelan discusses these challenges and explains how to overcome them.
Lightning Talk: Schedule the Scaling of Your Kubernetes Resources Using kube-start-stop

Lightning Talk: Schedule the Scaling of Your Kubernetes Resources Using kube-start-stop

December 9, 2019

Almost every Kubernetes cluster out there has unwanted resources running 24/7 even if those resources are only used within the work week. Cloud providers have schedulers to solve that problem for VMs, …
Shopifys $25k Bug Report, and the Cluster Takeover That Didnt Happen

Shopifys $25k Bug Report, and the Cluster Takeover That Didnt Happen

December 9, 2019

In May, a security researcher reported a vulnerability in a Shopify microservice and demonstrated how it could be used to access keys from the Google Cloud metadata API. This could have led to a clust …
Lightning Talk: A Desktop GUI for your First Kubernetes Deployment

Lightning Talk: A Desktop GUI for your First Kubernetes Deployment

December 8, 2019

Installing Kubernetes with a GUI? What? In the age of cloud APIs and command line tools? Yes. A simple and clear user interface makes the difference between a pleasant learning experience and a frust …
Lightning Talk: Kubernetes is Blowing Up

Lightning Talk: Kubernetes is Blowing Up

December 8, 2019

This talk will discuss how in a very short time, Kubernetes and cloud native computing has grown a economic ecosystem in the wake of the open source project momentum. …
Lightning Talk: Scaling Distributed Deep Learning with Service Discovery: How CoreDNS Helps Distributed TensorFlow Tasks

Lightning Talk: Scaling Distributed Deep Learning with Service Discovery: How CoreDNS Helps Distributed TensorFlow Tasks

December 8, 2019

Training models with modern deep learning architecture is often computationally intensive and requires an efficient distributed system at scale. Such systems in distributed machine learning community …
Lightning Talk: Tips for Operating Kubernetes with OpenStack Cloud Provider

Lightning Talk: Tips for Operating Kubernetes with OpenStack Cloud Provider

December 8, 2019

OpenStack, one of popular Kubernetes cloud providers, consists of diverse components and is highly configurable, this proposal introduces some tips and tuning configurations to improve the performance …
Kafka in jail: Running Kafka in container-orchestrated clusters

Kafka in jail: Running Kafka in container-orchestrated clusters

December 7, 2019

Kafka is best suited to run close to the metal on dedicated machines in static clusters, but these clusters are quickly becoming extinct. Companies want mixed-use clusters that take advantage of every resource available. Sean Glover offers an overview of leading Kafka implementations on DC/OS and Kubernetes to explore how reliably they run Kafka in container-orchestrated clusters.
Keynote: CERN Experiences with Multi-Cloud Federated Kubernetes

Keynote: CERN Experiences with Multi-Cloud Federated Kubernetes

December 7, 2019

Using public cloud resources to cover for peak workloads is a practical and economical alternative to over provisioning on-premise resources. This is the case in environments like CERN where its large …
Keynote: Re-thinking Networking for Microservices

Keynote: Re-thinking Networking for Microservices

December 7, 2019

Its been said that Istio is a network for services, not bytes. What does that mean and what does a service mesh offer to developers and operators of microservices? We will discuss this and how Isti …