infrastructure

Running High-performance User-space Packet Processing Apps in Kubernetes

Running High-performance User-space Packet Processing Apps in Kubernetes

November 24, 2019

With 5G on the horizon, networking is transforming around us. Network functions have already found their way from proprietary blackbox into servers running in Linux. The Linux networking stack simply …
Building a Medical AI with Kubernetes and Kubeflow

Building a Medical AI with Kubernetes and Kubeflow

November 22, 2019

Engineering AI systems at scale can be difficult, especially in highly regulated environments like healthcare. Many challenges arise, such as ensuring reproducibility, controlling data access policies …
Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production

Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production

November 22, 2019

This talk is the EAGERLY-anticipated sequel to last year's "Kubernetes at Reddit: An Origin story". Whereas the saga's first installment focused on early results, thoughts, and a rough higher-level vi …
Tinder's Move to Kubernetes

Tinder's Move to Kubernetes

November 21, 2019

Almost 2 years ago, Tinder decided to move its platform to Kubernetes. Kubernetes afforded us an opportunity to drive Tinder Engineering toward containerization and low-touch operation through immutab …
Intro + Deep Dive: Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

Intro + Deep Dive: Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

November 20, 2019

The Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed is a CNCF initiative to provide a neutral space for exploring and evaluating open source networking technologies and their interoperability. The initiat …
Creating a Micro Open-Source Community with Helm

Creating a Micro Open-Source Community with Helm

November 19, 2019

For over a century Cond Nast International has set the benchmark for print and digital publishing. Our portfolio is composed of luxury and fashion-oriented brands, like Vogue, GQ, Wired, Glamour and …
Intro + DeepDive: SIG Scalability

Intro + DeepDive: SIG Scalability

November 19, 2019

This session will focus on the different efforts that SIG Scalability is involved in: defining what scalability means for Kubernetes, driving improvements, infrastructure for scalability testing, test …
Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Jobs and the Sidecar Problem

Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Jobs and the Sidecar Problem

November 18, 2019

The popular sidecar pattern has influenced the way organizations integrate their infrastructure with Kubernetes. However, it can often be a challenge adapting the sidecar pattern for workload patterns …
Lightning Talk: When the Command Line is Not Enough: Why Your OSS Project Needs A GUI

Lightning Talk: When the Command Line is Not Enough: Why Your OSS Project Needs A GUI

November 17, 2019

In the ops and infrastructure world, we often rely on command line interfaces to do most of our heavy lifting. What value can a proxy get out of having a dashboard? How can a GUI complement a CLI? In …
Kubernetes Security and How to Fix K8s Cluster at Scale

Kubernetes Security and How to Fix K8s Cluster at Scale

November 16, 2019

As a hosting provider, we have the challenge to run and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters for various customers on our infrastructure, similar to e.g. Google or Azure in a secure way. The majority o …
Lightning Talk: How to Regain the Trust of Your Users

Lightning Talk: How to Regain the Trust of Your Users

November 16, 2019

Regaining the trust of your users is a hard task to accomplish. The secret is to know your infrastructure better and show that to your users. In this talk Eduard will show the approach Booking.com too …
P2P Docker Image Distribution in Hybrid Cloud Environment with Kraken

P2P Docker Image Distribution in Hybrid Cloud Environment with Kraken

November 15, 2019

Docker image is a foundational building block of container based infrastructure, but distributing high volume of docker images in a multi-zone, hybrid cloud system has been a scaling problem for many. …
Intro to CNAB: Packaging Cloud Native Applications with Multiple Toolchains

Intro to CNAB: Packaging Cloud Native Applications with Multiple Toolchains

November 14, 2019

When you deploy a cloud native application, you probably use a variety of tools for each part of the application. Terraform or ARM templates for the infrastructure, Helm or Compose for containers, etc …
Intro: SPIFFE

Intro: SPIFFE

November 14, 2019

Modern software development relies on many microservices working together, that in production may be distributed over different middleware systems, container schedulers, PaaS platforms and even differ …
Tutorial: Cloud-Agnostic Serverless

Tutorial: Cloud-Agnostic Serverless

November 14, 2019

Serverless design patterns have grown in popularity because they allow developers to move faster by focusing on business logic without worrying about the underlying infrastructure where their code is …
Kubernetes Failure Stories and How to Crash Your Clusters

Kubernetes Failure Stories and How to Crash Your Clusters

November 13, 2019

Bootstrapping a Kubernetes cluster is easy, rolling it out to nearly 200 engineering teams and operating it at scale is a challenge. In this talk, we are presenting our approach to Kubernetes provisio …
Intro: KubeEdge

Intro: KubeEdge

November 12, 2019

Recently KubEdge was accepted as a CNCF sandbox project. As one of the reference architecture, KubeEdge provides customers a way to manage Edge nodes from cloud and build fundamental infrastructure ta …
Intro: Testing SIG

Intro: Testing SIG

November 12, 2019

The Kubernetes test infrastructure schedules and executes all of the tests which validate pull requests and repositories in the Kubernetes ecosystem every day. This presentation will explore how job a …
Operating kube-apiserver Without Hiccups

Operating kube-apiserver Without Hiccups

November 12, 2019

Kube-apiserver is the central component of every Kubernetes cluster. Keeping it available at all times is crucial for reliable operation. At the same time we want to restart kube-apiserver, for versio …
What WePay Learned From Processing Billions of Dollars on GKE Using Linkerd

What WePay Learned From Processing Billions of Dollars on GKE Using Linkerd

November 11, 2019

WePay processes billions of dollars worth of payments each year. As the number of services that process payment requests grow in WePays infrastructure, so does the challenge of monitoring, debugging, …
Es-operator: Building an Elasticsearch Operator From the Bottom Up

Es-operator: Building an Elasticsearch Operator From the Bottom Up

November 10, 2019

Operating stateful applications is a challenge and Elasticsearch clusters are no exception. At Zalando, the search infrastructure heavily rely on large scale Elasticsearch clusters consisting of 100s …
Intro: Virtual Kubelet

Intro: Virtual Kubelet

November 9, 2019

Virtual Kubelet has most recently been accepted into the CNCF as a sandboxed project. In this session we will go through the benefits of the project and the landscape of providers that contribute to V …
Keynote: A Journey to a Centralized, Globally Distributed Platform

Keynote: A Journey to a Centralized, Globally Distributed Platform

November 8, 2019

For over a century Cond Nast International has set the benchmark for print and digital publishing. With brands like Vogue, GQ, Wired, Cond Nast Traveller under our umbrella we are operating in more …
Keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes

Keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes

November 8, 2019

Back in 2012, CERN announced one of its most important achievements, the discovery of the Higgs boson leading to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. In this presentation, we will redo the data analysis t …
Serverless is Interesting But FaaS is Not Enough

Serverless is Interesting But FaaS is Not Enough

November 8, 2019

Serverless is interesting because it emphasizes automation of infrastructure, but current Function-as-a-Service implementations are not suited for building general purpose apps. Whats missing is a wa …
How We Used Kubernetes to Host a Capture the Flag (CTF)

How We Used Kubernetes to Host a Capture the Flag (CTF)

November 7, 2019

CTF competitions are now commonly used for cybersecurity education purposes, and are solved by many enthusiast researchers looking for a challenge. In Twistlock, we decided to host an online CTF compe …
Building HA Multi-Cloud Clusters Using WireGuard as a Network Overlay

Building HA Multi-Cloud Clusters Using WireGuard as a Network Overlay

November 6, 2019

Kubernetes abstracts away infrastructure, enabling the community to leverage a single, powerful interface anywhere we like, from bare-metal to public clouds like AWS or GCP. However, not all infrastru …
Lifecycle of a kubectl Command: Harden Kubernetes Setup with Automation

Lifecycle of a kubectl Command: Harden Kubernetes Setup with Automation

November 2, 2019

We at Booking.com run tens of on-premise multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters at scale. To automate integration with our existing bare-metal infrastructure and for running kubectl auth pipeline, we run an …