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A Series of Fortunate CloudEvents

December 10, 2019

Serverless and Eventing are two ultra-popular areas of tech right now, describing a broad set of ideas and capabilities that can service a range of possible systems. We are told that these concepts wi …

Balancing Power and Pain: Moving a Startup From a PaaS to Kubernetes

November 27, 2019

By hiding a lot of complexity and allowing a team to move fast and simply "heroku push" applications, PaaS solutions like Heroku are a perfect fit when you are early stage startup. However, what do yo …

Handling Risky Business: Cluster Upgrades

November 27, 2019

Have you ever had to upgrade your Kubernetes clusters to update to a new release version, push new features or patch critical security vulnerabilities? Did it ever feel daunting to live update API mas …

Deploy Secure and Scalable Services Across Kubernetes Clusters with NATS

November 26, 2019

Services and Streams are the cornerstones of any modern distributed architecture. Communications and observability of modern systems have become just as important as the deployment of the components t …

The Elephant in the Kubernetes Room: Team Interactions at Scale

November 22, 2019

Kubernetes helps us tame sprawling microservices architectures and address increased operational complexity. Kubernetes gives developers abstractions and APIs to deploy and run their services.Yet, the …

Solving Multi-Cluster Network Connectivity With Submariner

November 19, 2019

Today companies face the need to spread workloads across several clusters, leverage the capabilities of specific clouds, create more resilient services, or comply with GDPR by locating and securing sp …

From Snowflake Servers to Snowflake Clusters - The GitOps Journey

November 15, 2019

At MasterCard, we have a unique hard requirement of one dedicated cluster per application due to security and other challenges. In an effort to prevent snowflake clusters, we provided a base set of se …

Reproducible Development and Deployment with Bazel and Telepresence

November 11, 2019

As the system grows in size and complexity the pain of maintaining an up-to-date local environment becomes less and less sustainable. Developers will eventually have to deal with large docker-compose …

Sponsored Keynote: Building a Bigger Tent: Cloud Native, Cultural Change and Complexity

Koping with Change: What kops Learned Adopting etcd3, cluster-api and CRDs

November 3, 2019

Kubernetes continues to adds features rapidly, but this makes it hard to install and operating a reliable kubernetes cluster. kops is an official OSS installation tool that makes kubernetes installati …

Keynote: Metrics, Logs & Traces; What Does the Future Hold for Observability?

October 26, 2019

The the three pillars of observability - monitoring, logging and tracing - were so 2018. A growing consensus is questioning the efficacy of this approach. So whats the next step?Without dwelling …

Repeatable Deployments with Kubernetes, Helm & Bazel

October 23, 2019

Can you run a single command to build your applications, generate the appropriate Kube manifests, and deploy everything to each of your clusters? If you've tried to set this up, you know that you can …

Helm 3: Navigating To Distant Shores

October 22, 2019

Adjusting your spyglass & looking out over the water, you can see how useful a package manager like Helm is. Perhaps youve used it to manage the fractal complexity of packages on your Kubernetes clus …

Building and Maintaining a Client Library - Stories From the Trenches

October 18, 2019

As Kubernetes is a pretty complex system, so is the (REST) API of it. On the first look things feel pretty simple, you authenticate with a token or SSL client certificate and POST few resources to the …

Uber x Security: Why and How We Built Our Workload Identity Platform

October 15, 2019

Since launching in 2009, Uber has become the poster child for explosive growth - in revenue, headcount, and operational complexity. This growth has created new challenges for Ubers engineering team a …

Proxy Service: A New Network Traffic Abstraction in Kubernetes

September 27, 2019

Kubernetes master-to-cluster communication doesnt get as much attention as the opposite direction, yet many critical features (kubectl proxy, logs, exec, ) rely on it to function. In order to suppor …

Plan to Fail: A Good Captain Doesnt Sail Without Life Rafts

September 22, 2019

Historically, formal disaster recovery (DR) plans were only feasible for large enterprises. They could afford to allocate time, resources and the cost of duplicating a datacenter infrastructure. With …