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Lightning Talk: CRDs All the Way Down Using OPA for Complex CRD Validation and Defaulting

Lightning Talk: CRDs All the Way Down Using OPA for Complex CRD Validation and Defaulting

December 23, 2019

Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and custom controllers (aka the operator pattern) are becoming the main way we extend Kubernetes. From etcd and Prometheus to full-on Kubernetes extensions a la Clus …
Presto: Tuning performance of SQL-on-anything analytics

Presto: Tuning performance of SQL-on-anything analytics

December 22, 2019

Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski and Martin Traverso explore Presto's recently introduced cost-based optimizer, which must account for heterogeneous inputs with differing and often incomplete data statistics, and detail use cases for Presto across several industries. They also share recent Presto advancements, such as geospatial analytics at scale, and the project roadmap going forward.
OPA Introduction & Community Update

OPA Introduction & Community Update

December 21, 2019

Come to this session to learn about the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. OPA is a general-purpose policy engine that solves a number of policy-related use cases in Kubernetes and the wider cloud nativ …
Serverless for data and AI

Serverless for data and AI

December 21, 2019

What is serverless, and how can it be utilized for data analysis and AI? Avner Braverman outlines the benefits and limitations of serverless with respect to data transformation (ETL), AI inference and training, and real-time streaming. This is a technical talk, so expect demos and code.
Solving the enterprise data dilemma (sponsored by erwin)

Solving the enterprise data dilemma (sponsored by erwin)

December 21, 2019

Adam Famularo showcases erwin's combination of data management and data governance to produce actionable insights. Erwin customer Nasdaq then shares a real-world use case. You'll learn how to answer tough data questions, how to maintain a metadata landscape, and how to use data management and governance to produce actionable insights.
Applying Policy Throughout The Application Lifecycle with Open Policy Agent

Applying Policy Throughout The Application Lifecycle with Open Policy Agent

December 19, 2019

Open Policy Agent is built to be used as a library in other tools and there are already several open source projects using OPA as generic policy engine. This is powerful because it allows end users to …
Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

December 18, 2019

With systems like Travis CI, Circle CI, and CodeBuild, we're never more than a few lines of YAML away from a complete continuous delivery pipeline. However, ephemeral build systems constantly recreate the world from scratch, increasing build time and lengthening the CD feedback loop. John Chapin addresses those challenges and shares a reference pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
Rethinking the K8s DNS for the Modern Enterprise

Rethinking the K8s DNS for the Modern Enterprise

December 18, 2019

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the component that provides the most vital piece of information for one to locate and communicate with services running in a Kubernetes cluster. This technology provide …
Intro to Thanos: Scale Your Prometheus Monitoring With Ease

Intro to Thanos: Scale Your Prometheus Monitoring With Ease

December 17, 2019

Thanos is an open-source CNCF Sandbox project that builds upon Prometheus components to create a global-scale highly available monitoring system. It seamlessly extends Prometheus in a few simple steps …
Introducing KFServing: Serverless Model Serving on Kubernetes

Introducing KFServing: Serverless Model Serving on Kubernetes

December 17, 2019

Production-grade serving of ML models is a challenging task for data scientists. In this talk, we'll discuss how KFServing powers some real-world examples of inference in production at Bloomberg, whic …
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 …
Serverless cloud showdown: Orchestrating functions

Serverless cloud showdown: Orchestrating functions

December 15, 2019

As fans of serverless and event-driven architectures, Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Marc Duiker wanted to see how easy it was to create a serverless application in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloudspecifically, by comparing how easy it is to orchestrate functions, using a current car park management example solution. Join them to learn the pros and cons of each cloud vendor.
The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

December 15, 2019

Today, we are witnessing a great proliferation of cloud-native paradigms such as 12-factor apps, microservices, and serverless. Tamar Eilam discusses an emerging unified cloud platform (based on open source projects such as Kubernetes and Istio) and explains why the new frontier is its evolution to unify multiple programming paradigms for greater simplification with power of expression.
Intro: OpenEBS

Intro: OpenEBS

December 12, 2019

Recently OpenEBS was accepted as a CNCF sandbox project. OpenEBS is a block storage provider that is built on top of Kubernetes APIs as well as extends these APIs to let end users have granular contro …
Advanced Model Inferencing Leveraging KNative, Istio and Kubeflow Serving

Advanced Model Inferencing Leveraging KNative, Istio and Kubeflow Serving

December 10, 2019

Model Inferencing use cases are becoming a requirement for models moving into the next phase of production deployments. More and more users are now encountering use cases around canary deployments, sc …
Build Your Own Private 5G Network on Kubernetes

Build Your Own Private 5G Network on Kubernetes

December 7, 2019

Private 5G networks are dedicated cellular networks, confined to user premises and tailored to a specific use case. In smart factories, for instance, they may soon enable remote control of robots, aug …
CRI-O: Under the Hood

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 …
Panel: GitOps User Stories

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 …
Going Beyond the Node Using VK to Realize Crazy Ideas

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 …
Flyte: Cloud Native Machine Learning & Data Processing Platform

Flyte: Cloud Native Machine Learning & Data Processing Platform

November 29, 2019

Flyte is the backbone for large-scale Machine Learning and Data Processing (ETL) pipelines at Lyft. It is used across business critical applications ranging from ETA, Pricing, Mapping, Autonomous, etc …
Balancing Power and Pain: Moving a Startup From a PaaS to Kubernetes

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 …
Prometheus Deep Dive

Prometheus Deep Dive

November 27, 2019

After the Intro session we will go into a mix of advanced use cases, news, and open Q&A with all Prometheus maintainers who are at CloudNativeCon. …
K3s Under the Hood: Building a Product-grade Lightweight Kubernetes Distro

K3s Under the Hood: Building a Product-grade Lightweight Kubernetes Distro

November 24, 2019

K3s is a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes originally designed for the edge. Due to its size, simplicity, and fast spin up, thousands of users are currently running k3s in various use cases besid …
CoreDNS: Beyond the Basics

CoreDNS: Beyond the Basics

November 22, 2019

This session will cover aspects of CoreDNS's configuration beyond the basics, including signing DNS data with DNSSEC, supporting DNS over TLS (DoT), manipulating queries and responses, managing zone d …
RDMA Enabled Kubernetes for High Performance Computing

RDMA Enabled Kubernetes for High Performance Computing

November 21, 2019

Adoption of Kubernetes in scientific workloads has been hampered by limited support for high speed interconnects used in HPC clusters. Fortunately, we can now solve this problem by enabling RDMA in Ku …
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 …
Ready to Serve! Speeding-Up Startup Time of Istio-Powered Workloads

Ready to Serve! Speeding-Up Startup Time of Istio-Powered Workloads

November 20, 2019

Pod startup time has long been a focus area for cloud-native platforms. Optimizing startup time is critical to support use cases such as autoscaling, upgrades, and failure recovery. The recent rise of …
Intro + Deep Dive: Specialized Network Protocols for IoT+Edge with Kubernetes

Intro + Deep Dive: Specialized Network Protocols for IoT+Edge with Kubernetes

November 19, 2019

This session will survey communication protocols and technologies used in the edge and IoT space. These use cases can call for specialized protocols and transports: -publish subscribe, multicast -prot …