KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

Did Kubernetes Make My p95s Worse?

December 6, 2019

When Airbnb first evaluated Kubernetes, they explicitly tested for performance and saw no significant differences. Then in 2019, as Airbnbs migration of services from EC2/Chef to Kubernetes went into …

Emitting, Consuming, and Presenting: The Event Lifecycle

December 6, 2019

Youre building a suite of operators and processes that will run in your cluster to make your job easier. Youve written CRDs to manage cluster and out of cluster resources, youve set up your monitor …

From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Freddie Mac

December 6, 2019

Freddie Mac is one of the two mortgage loan corporations in the United States managing trillions of dollars of assets across the country. Our infrastructure is spread across different Kubernetes provi …

Krane: A Developer-Centric Deploy Tool

December 6, 2019

Have you ever shipped changes to a Kubernetes app and found yourself wondering what actually happened? Krane is an open-source command-line tool created to solve this problem: it helps developers, esp …

Moving from Legacy Infrastructure to the Cloud in a Government Organization

December 6, 2019

Cloud native tech isnt just for start-ups. But, if youre in a government organization looking to go cloud native, you can expect to face extra challenges. How can you select the best tools that will …

CRI-O: Under the Hood

December 5, 2019

CRI-O is an open-source container runtime created for Kubernetes. The project was recently added to the CNCF incubator and has a very active user and contributor community established around it. In th …

Deep Dive Into API Machinery

December 5, 2019

SIG API Machinery is responsible for all generic API topics in Kubernetes, i.e. for the generic API server implementation, API CRUD semantics, discovery, the admission control mechanism, conversion, d …

Deep Dive: CNI

December 5, 2019

CNI, the Container Network Interface, is a small but critical piece of infrastructure linking runtimes such as Kubernetes and CloudFoundry to dozens of different container network implementations. Thi …

Geo-partitioning with Vitess

December 5, 2019

Geo-partitioning is an emerging requirement for multinational corporations. Laws such as the GDPR in Europe stipulate where a users data needs to be physically located, as well as when it can be tran …

Panel: Enterprise-grade, On-prem Kubeflow in the Financial Sector

December 5, 2019

This presentation will explore the journeys of two ML architects from JPMorgan Chase and US Bank, who have deployed Kubeflow into their on-premise environments. These subject matter experts will revie …

Beyond Getting Started: Using OpenTelemetry to Its Full Potential

December 4, 2019

OpenTelemetry is a cloud-native set of APIs and libraries used to generate, collect, and export telemetry from distributed systems. This session goes beyond a basic introduction, and demonstrates how …

Intro: Scheduling SIG

December 4, 2019

Kubernetes Scheduler is a critical component of Kubernetes that finds the best nodes for running pods based the configured scheduling requirements. In this talk, we will cover the scheduling workflow …

Intro: SIG Cluster Lifecycle

December 4, 2019

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is examining how we should cha …

Is There a Place for Performance Sensitive Workloads in Kubernetes?

December 4, 2019

Kubernetes and its ecosystem is used to manage the workload of several big web facing services, serving billions of users every day. But, the same stack is not quite ready to serve the "other" industr …

Jaeger Deep Dive

December 4, 2019

This session is dedicated to an in-depth understanding of the Jaeger project. We will give a short demo of the recently added features, talk about various topics including the architecture, adaptive s …

Kubeflow: Multi-Tenant, Self-Serve, Accelerated Platform for Practitioners

December 4, 2019

The kubeflow platform provides a self-serve multi-tenant platform on k8s for ML developers. Users can train their models using accelerated hardware in an isolated environment. Jobs can be configured a …

Liberating Kubernetes From Kube-proxy and Iptables

December 4, 2019

iptables and Netfilter are the two foundational technologies of kube-proxy for implementing a Service abstraction. They carry legacy accumulated over 20 years of development grounded in a more traditi …

NHD - A Topology-Aware Scheduler for K8s for Low-Latency & HPC Applications

December 4, 2019

With an increasing number of HPC, NFV, and other low-latency applications moving to containers, the ability to schedule these workloads efficiently is important for increasing user adoption. The defau …

Panel: GitOps User Stories

December 4, 2019

The expression, GitOps, has taken off and resonated in the Kubernetes community since its launch by Weaveworks in 2017. GitOps is a way to do Continuous Delivery by using git as a single source of tru …

Piloting Around the Rocks: Avoiding Threats in Kubernetes

December 4, 2019

Over three months in 2019, Trail of Bits completed the first-ever security review of Kubernetes, consisting of source review, dynamic testing, and threat modeling. One artifact, the threat model, lets …

SIG Release - Deep Dive: Release Engineering Subproject

December 4, 2019

The Kubernetes SIG Release is chartered with producing project releases on a reliable schedule. A key component of this is release automation and build tooling. The process/procedures and tools used t …

There's a Bug in My Service Mesh! What Do You Do When the Mesh is At Fault?

December 4, 2019

A service mesh is an increasingly necessary tool when running and debugging modern applications. But what do you do when theres a bug in the mesh itself?Paybase offers the most flexible, developer-na …

Writing a Kubernetes Operator: the Hard Parts

December 4, 2019

Building a custom controller or operator to manage your Kubernetes applications is becoming easier, with the help of libraries and tools such as controller-runtime and Kubebuilder. Putting together an …

Birds of a Feather: Telecom User Group

December 3, 2019

CNCF hosts the Telecom User Group (TUG) for service providers and their vendors to discuss the adoption of cloud native technologies. The community is invited to join this birds-of-a-feather (BoF) ses …

Deep Dive: Apps SIG

December 3, 2019

Kubernetes SIG Apps covers developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes with a focus on the application developer and application operator experience. In this deep dive, we will loo …

Deep Dive: Brigade

December 3, 2019

In this session, we will explore the Brigade architecture, and how it is built to chain together containers and share data between them. We will deep dive on how external events are routed and transfo …

Going Beyond the Node Using VK to Realize Crazy Ideas

December 3, 2019

Virtual-kubelet is an open source kubelet implementation that allows users to extend Kuberentes in multiple, crazy ways. A couple examples include, a provider to order Dominos pizza, or to spin out wo …

How Container Networking Affects Database Performance

December 3, 2019

Through benchmarks, Percona Labs explores the effects of different container networking drivers used in Kubernetes when hosting database workloads. For this talk, we will perform benchmarks using Perc …