KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

Adapting Kubernetes to Constrained IP Address Environments

Adapting Kubernetes to Constrained IP Address Environments

December 16, 2019

When it comes to IP addresses, Kubernetes has a demand and supply issue.On the Demand side, Kubernetes treats Pods as first class citizens with their own IPs. This makes port mappings and usage from a …
Enforcing Automatic mTLS with Linkerd and OPA Gatekeeper

Enforcing Automatic mTLS with Linkerd and OPA Gatekeeper

December 16, 2019

Whether you are operating a 5-node or a 500-node Kubernetes clusters, ensuring the integrity and security of the traffic among your workloads is something that should be taken seriously. As your team …
From Issue to PR Merged: A Fluentd Tail

From Issue to PR Merged: A Fluentd Tail

December 16, 2019

Do you often find yourself opening an issue or looking for an alternative open-source project with support for your use case? Not sure where to start in contributing a fix for an issue?Getting involve …
KubeVirt Intro: Virtual Machine Management on Kubernetes

KubeVirt Intro: Virtual Machine Management on Kubernetes

December 16, 2019

This session will provide an introduction to the KubeVirt project, which turns Kubernetes into an orchestration engine for not just application containers but virtual machine workloads as well. This p …
Living with the Pathology of the Cloud: How AWS Runs Lots of Clusters

Living with the Pathology of the Cloud: How AWS Runs Lots of Clusters

December 16, 2019

Disk speed screeches to a crawl, packets get dropped, connections time out: welcome to the cloud! Most of the time the cloud "just works", but when it doesnt, how does Kubernetes and etcd handle fail …
PodOverhead: Accounting for Greater Cluster Stability

PodOverhead: Accounting for Greater Cluster Stability

December 16, 2019

Accounting is very important in Kubernetes. Better accounting leads to improved node stability, density, and more accurate charging users based on their actual resource utilization. Unfortunately, the …
Porting Envoy to Windows; A Progress Report

Porting Envoy to Windows; A Progress Report

December 16, 2019

Envoy is a high-performance open source edge and service proxy that makes the network transparent to applications. As of now Envoy is only available on Linux, and thats a big blocker for Windows team …
SIG Usability: Intro and How to Get Started

SIG Usability: Intro and How to Get Started

December 16, 2019

SIG Usability is a new SIG focused on the core end-user usability of the Kubernetes project. This covers topics like user experience and accessibility. The goal of SIG Usability is to facilitate adopt …
10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes

10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes

December 15, 2019

Its a brand new world in infrastructure with the advent of microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, and service mesh. And all is well. Or is it? Find out how easy it is to break container runtime …
Admission Webhooks: Configuration and Debugging Best Practices

Admission Webhooks: Configuration and Debugging Best Practices

December 15, 2019

Admission (mutating and validating) webhooks have become popular mechanisms for extending Kubernetes API request admission. The admission webhook API is graduating GA in Kubernetes 1.16, where new fea …
An Introduction to Helm

An Introduction to Helm

December 15, 2019

CNCF Helm is a package manager that provides the tools to find, share, and install and manage software in Kubernetes. In this session you will learn the basics about using Helm. We will look at the ma …
Building a Database as a Service on Kubernetes

Building a Database as a Service on Kubernetes

December 15, 2019

Stateful, scalable storage on Kubernetes is an unsolved problem. Creating it as a service is even more difficult. The cloud-native ecosystem offers many tools such as the operator-sdk, Prometheus, Gra …
Fluentd: Cloud Native Logging

Fluentd: Cloud Native Logging

December 15, 2019

Logging for cloud-native applications and environments is a continuous challenge from an operational perspective. Fluentd offers a full logging layer than can be accommodated and extended as required …
Intro to the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy

Intro to the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy

December 15, 2019

This introduction will go over what the multi-tenancy working group has been working on and how new contributors can become engaged. New users and contributors are encouraged to attend if multi-tenanc …
Kubernetes in Your 4x4 Continuous Deployment Directly to the Car

Kubernetes in Your 4x4 Continuous Deployment Directly to the Car

December 15, 2019

Automotive industry is getting more and more digitalized. Vehicles are not only a mean of transportation, but they pursue to be the drivers' control center with multiple software components onboard. T …
Managing Apache Flink on Kubernetes - FlinkK8sOperator

Managing Apache Flink on Kubernetes - FlinkK8sOperator

December 15, 2019

We have designed and built an open-source Kubernetes native operator that manages the complete lifecycle of Apache Flink applications from creation to execution. FlinkK8sOperator (https://github.com/l …
Building the Cloud Native Kernel: Kubernetes Release Engineering

Building the Cloud Native Kernel: Kubernetes Release Engineering

December 14, 2019

Is Kubernetes a kernel or distribution? Yes! It is necessarily both!CRDs, out-of-tree cloud providers, and CNI/CSI/CRI abstractions evolve Kubernetes core toward an extensible kernel.At 2017, KubeCo …
Design Decisions for Communication Systems

Design Decisions for Communication Systems

December 14, 2019

When hearing about a new programming language, one might learn it is imperative, strongly-typed, dynamically-type-checked, object-oriented, and garbage-collected. If they have used multiple languages …
Jaeger Intro

Jaeger Intro

December 14, 2019

This session is an introduction to Jaeger and distributed tracing. We will do a demo of the current Jaeger features, talk about the roadmap, and finish with a Q&A. After this session the attendees sho …
Service Discovery With Hybrid and Multi-Cloud: Introduction to CoreDNS

Service Discovery With Hybrid and Multi-Cloud: Introduction to CoreDNS

December 14, 2019

CoreDNS is a flexible and extensible DNS server with a focus on service discovery. While best known for its ability to serve as the cluster DNS of Kubernetes, CoreDNS is also capable of service discov …
Superpowers for Windows Containers

Superpowers for Windows Containers

December 14, 2019

The Windows Operating System does not support privileged operations from inside a container today. Daemon-sets on Windows nodes in Kubernetes clusters that need to perform configuration actions on the …
Weighing a Cloud: Measuring Your Kubernetes Clusters

Weighing a Cloud: Measuring Your Kubernetes Clusters

December 14, 2019

Kubernetes is complicated. Instrumenting it can be worse. Measuring the components of a distributed system shouldn't be as daunting as being asked to weigh a literal cloud.In this talk, we'll go over …
Airbnb Service Discovery: Past, Present, Future (Challenges of Change)

Airbnb Service Discovery: Past, Present, Future (Challenges of Change)

December 13, 2019

In 2013, Airbnb released an open source service discovery solution (SmartStack) and has functioned on the same framework for years. Historically our infrastructure ran on AWS EC2 instances and utilize …
Developing Edge with Kubernetes

Developing Edge with Kubernetes

December 13, 2019

While its original intent was to solve cloud-centric architecture challenges, Kubernetes can be used as a platform for developing Edge and IoT applications.The session will take a look at this topic f …
Dragonfly Intro: Plugin Framework and New Distribution Strategy

Dragonfly Intro: Plugin Framework and New Distribution Strategy

December 13, 2019

In cloud native world, image distribution is never an easy problem when the number and size of container images scale up. It has to be fast and resource efficient and to be cloud native. This session …
Intro to Cloud Provider Azure

Intro to Cloud Provider Azure

December 13, 2019

In this session, you'll learn about how Kubernetes runs on the Azure infrastructure. We will cover development in the cloud provider over recent Kubernetes releases with support for new features in Az …
Intro to Kubernetes Sig-Architecture Subprojects

Intro to Kubernetes Sig-Architecture Subprojects

December 13, 2019

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 e …
Making an Internal Kubernetes Offering Generally Available

Making an Internal Kubernetes Offering Generally Available

December 13, 2019

In the span of two years, Spotify went from two developers investigating what a potential migration to Kubernetes might involve to having an internal, multi-tenant offering of Kubernetes become genera …