KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019: Full Schedule

Barcelona, Spain
May 20–23, 2019
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11:05 CEST

Kubernetes Security and How to Fix K8s Cluster at Scale - Simon Pearce, SysEleven & Sebastian Scheele, Loodse

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 of these clusters are fully managed by us. Our customers want to build and run containers. Not maintain and upgrade Kubernetes clusters. In this talk, we will give you a breakdown on how we help our customers to secure their clusters and how we can force Kubernetes upgrades to all clusters in a scalable way. We will use the Kubernetes API bug occurred in December as an example to show how we could fix all Kubernetes clusters in a very short time frame. This talk focus on the secure operation of multiple Kubernetes clusters and the requirements a Cloud Provider have to it.

Speakers

Sebastian Scheele

Kubermatic - CEO, KUbermatic

Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic, one of the leading committers to Kubernetes, focused on developing open core software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations, at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes... Read More →

Simon Pearce

System Architect, SysEleven

Kubernetes, Clouds, docker, Storage, CI/CD, Nginx, Elasticsearch, web hosting

KubeCon Europe 2019 pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:05 - 11:40 CEST
Hall 8.0 B3

Case Studies

Skill Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/5dWRh301Lno

11:55 CEST

Databases on Kubernetes Using a Custom Operator: Day 1, Day 2, and Beyond - Johannes Unterstein, Neo4j

We started the journey of building a managed cloud version of the graph database Neo4j. A bit later we started developing an operator to manage multiple database clusters in k8s.

Handling persistence and Neo4j's own distributed consensus algorithm within k8s gave us a challenge. In this session we want to share the lessons we learned writing this operator and using it in production.

We will start with how to get started using the k8s controller tooling to create an operator to manage a CRD. We go beyond the "day 1" tasks of creating and deleting databases and discuss how we meet "day 2" concerns such as:
- Unit testing our operator using k8s fakes.
- Continuously deploying an operator into a GKE cluster.
- Automatic rolling updates of Neo4j databases with zero downtime and fault tolerance.
- Database administration (backup, restore, password resets etc.) via an operator.

Speakers

Johannes Unterstein

Software Engineer, Neo4j

Johannes (@unterstein) organises the java user group in his home town Kassel, teaches java at the DHBW Stuttgart and works as software engineer at Neo4j. He spent the last few years building distributed and containerised systems with focus on orchestration frameworks. Currently he... Read More →

21.05.2019 Kubecon Neo4j cloud and k8s (1) pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:55 - 12:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 B1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/qgtlztEFqr4

14:00 CEST

Kubernetes the New Research Platform - Lindsey Tulloch, Brock University & Bob Killen, University of Michigan

Academic research institutions are at a precipice. They have historically been constrained to supporting classic “job” style workloads. With the growth of new workflow practices such as streaming data, science gateways, and more “dynamic” research using lambda-like functions, they must now support a variety of workloads.

In this talk, Lindsey and Bob will discuss some difficulties faced by academic institutions and how Kubernetes offers an extensible solution to support the future of research. They will present a selection of projects currently benefiting from Kubernetes enabled tools, like Argo, Kubeflow, and kube-batch. These workflows will be demonstrated using specific examples from two large research institutions: Compute Canada, Canada’s national computation research consortium and the University of Michigan, one of the largest public Universities in the United States.

Speakers

Bob Killen

Research Cloud Administrator, University of Michigan

Bob is a Research Cloud Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) group at the University of Michigan. He has been with the University for more than 15 years, serving in various capacities within the Health System and ARC-TS. As a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Lindsey Tulloch

Student, Brock University

Lindsey is a student at Brock University where she is finishing a BSc in Computer Science and researching potential academic uses for Kubernetes. She previously worked at Red Hat as a software engineering intern where she was part of the multi-cluster team and demoed the federation-v2... Read More →

Kubernetes the New Research Platform (FINAL) pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2019 14:00 - 14:35 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/E09XTOWbBKw

14:50 CEST

Laying the Foundation: Real World Kubernetes Deployment Patterns - Josh Rosso & Craig Tracey, VMware

Enterprise deployments often find themselves gridlocked in debates concerning the "correct" approach for deploying Kubernetes. Should we use immutable images or a complex configuration management solution? What about leveraging one of the managed service offerings? Or even one of the opinionated open source projects? The possibilities are endless but can also be dizzying.

In this talk, Josh and Craig provide an overview of both the successful (and sometimes not so successful) deployment patterns they have encountered across dozens of production Kubernetes users in nearly every industry vertical. They will identify the critical decision making processes that will enable "Day 2" operations, empower stakeholders, and ultimately yield successful Kubernetes outcomes.

Speakers

Josh Rosso

Staff Field Engineer, VMware

I have spent multiple years working in the field, helping Fortune 500 organizations, with a focus on distributed systems and Kubernetes. I was the first field engineer at CoreOS, worked on OpenShift by way of Red Hat acquisition, joined Heptio to help make pure open source Kubernetes... Read More →

Craig Tracey

Staff Field Engineer, VMware

For the past 20 years, Craig has helped build the infrastructure that powers the Internet. In this time, he has had the opportunity to develop everything from kernel device drivers to massive-scale cloud storage services and even built a few distributed compute platforms in between... Read More →

laying the foundation pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2019 14:50 - 15:25 CEST
Hall 8.0 B1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/Rb0JMVVZ1N8

15:55 CEST

Birds of a Feather: Radio Access Network LTE/CBRS Edge - John Studarus, Packet Host

Discussion on deploying and running Kubernetes clusters across micro datacenters supporting edge applications. In specific, we'll be talking about how Packet Host has architected its Kubernetes deployment to support these cell tower collocated clusters. We'll talk briefly about this new ecosystem of ultra-low latency networking via LTE and CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service). We're interested in sharing our experience and then letting the conversation flow to hear how others are adapting to use this new ecosystem.

Speakers

John Studarus

Cloud Engineer, Packet

John merges his interests in computing infrastructure, networking, and software security. His background includes leading product teams, writing prototype code and examining distributed systems at Fortune 500s and startups alike. He brings a rare combination of technical expertise... Read More →

The Edge is Open Kubecon EU 2019 pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2019 15:55 - 16:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/za_ZB1geDRA

11:05 CEST

How We Used Kubernetes to Host a Capture the Flag (CTF) - Ariel Zelivansky & Liron Levin, Twistlock

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 competition with unique challenges that required a live, dedicated persistent machine, for each participant. Using Kubernetes, we managed to successfully host the challenge, publicly open, without sacrificing the security of our infrastructure.

We will discuss:
Introduction to the CTF and why we choose to run it on Kubernetes
Attack vectors for giving users untrusted shells to pods
Container isolation technologies such as gvisor and network policies.
Patterns for dynamically scaling pods and routes for new CTF participates

In the end, attendees will learn the security building blocks of Kubernetes, and how it can be used for non conventional purposes such as hosting a one time live challenge.

Speakers

Liron Levin

Chief software architect, Palo alto networks

Liron is the Chief Software Architect at Twistlock, where he focus on scaling, engineering methodologies and security . Before that, he worked as a tech lead at Microsoft on cloud computing and machine learning projects. He is an active contributor to popular open source go projects... Read More →

Ariel Z

Director, Security Research, Palo Alto Networks

Ariel is a security researcher and the head of research at Twistlock, dealing with hacking and securing anything related to containers.

kubecon talk pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:05 - 11:40 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/kUmaKvxdfvg

11:55 CEST

The Story of Why We Migrate to gRPC and How We Go About It - Matthias Grüter, Spotify

At Spotify, we have historically built services based on our own proprietary messaging protocol and framework. Last year we finally kicked off the daunting multi-year task of migrating everything to gRPC.

Migrating over 1000 services to gRPC poses interesting challenges, many of them are not only technical in nature: they boil down to questions of engineering culture and leadership at scale: How do you get 200 autonomous engineering teams to align on something as fundamental and cross-cutting as a new RPC framework? How do you roll-out gRPC at scale whit minimal disruption to both the organization and to the end-user?

This presentation will address these questions alongside more technical discussions of advanced gRPC concepts such as interceptors, deadlines, and effective schema management and how they are essential in large distributed systems.

Speakers

Matthias Grüter

Engineering Manager, Spotify

Matthias works as an engineering manager in Spotify's infrastructure and operations group.His team is driving the exciting process of transitioning Spotify's backend to cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, gRPC and services meshes. As a manager by trade and engineer by heart... Read More →

KubeConEU 2019 The Story of why we migrate to gRPC and how we go about it pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 11:55 - 12:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 B3

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/fMq3IpPE3TU

14:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Democratizing HPC & AI: Startups Scale Up with Cloud Native - Emily Tanaka-Delgado, Oracle; Charlie Davies, iGeolise; Priya Shah, Sauce; Ant Kennedy, Gapsquare; and Alfonso Santiago, ELEM

Innovativeness, resourcefulness, and responsiveness are all part of the startup DNA, and with the aid of the cloud native era and ecosystem, they are unstoppable. Hear how these European startups are leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, containers, GPUs, Singularity and more to gain efficiencies across architecture, time, and team to reach global scale, reshape user interactions, and even, save lives.

In this panel, startups from Barcelona and the UK will discuss how cloud native technologies have helped unlock access to unlimited potential across such diverse case studies as identifying and fixing gender pay gap issues, creating computational models of virtual patients, reinventing cloud-based video collaboration, and interpreting travel and navigation based on time, all to transform their businesses to match behavioral patterns within their industries.

Moderators

Emily Tanaka-Delgado

Director of DevRel Engagement, Oracle

Emily Tanaka-Delgado leads cloud native DevRel Engagement at Oracle, where she has trail blazed content and programs designed to enable, enrich, and accelerate end users. She has a long tenure in the tech industry with a heavy concentration in cloud and open source technologies. Before... Read More →

Speakers

Ant Kennedy

CTO, Gapsquare

Ant Kennedy is currently CTO at Gapsquare where he is currently focusing on growing the engineering team, establishing best practice in the processes being used, the future architecture and growing Gapsquare's AI/ML capabilities. Previously he has worked at JustEat, Adarga and Boeing... Read More →

Priya Shah

Co-Founder, Sauce

Priya is the Co-founder and CMO of Sauce, the video creation platform that enables businesses to collaborate and co-create with their global communities of employees, customers and fans. Priya and her Co-founders developed Sauce when they discovered the huge barriers that brands were... Read More →

Charlie Davies

CTO and Co-Founder, iGeolise

Charlie Davies is the co-founder and CTO of iGeolise, a location-based software company based in London. Charlie began iGeolise when he noticed that all map data was searched by distance (miles radius), but everyone around him discussed travel using time (minutes). iGeolise developed... Read More →

Alfonso Santiago

R&D Engineer, ELEM Biotech

Alfonso Santiago is a Biomedical Engineer that is helping to develop a computational tool to model and simulate the heart. With this tool, device manufacturers -and in a future clinicians- can reproduce a patient's pathology and treatment to aid the design of the devices and optimise... Read More →

KubeCon Europe 2019 05 07 pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 14:00 - 14:35 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/LP0BFtBbOwE

14:50 CEST

Deconstructing Apache Hadoop: A Dialogue About a Cloud-Native Refactor - Anu Engineer & Marton Elek, Cloudera

Many existing applications like the Big Data stack is in a community debate over moving to K8s. They see it as the future, but there are lots of unknowns and complex problems to solve. This is a dialogue between two developers who are exploring and trying to finding the true path to becoming Cloud Native.

In this talk, we will discuss in detail our experiences and issues that we have faced in moving the Hadoop Object store Ozone as a Cloud native storage solution that runs on top of K8s.

We will take a deep dive into the advantages and challenges that we faced during this journey — having a cluster manager like K8s allows us to move away from managing physical details and instead focus on the storage part. Some of the challenges were things like security and how we tackle that.

Speakers

Marton Elek

Engineer, Cloudera

Marton Elek is am Open Source Engineer at Cloudera. He is an Apache committer in Apache Hadoop project and PMC member of Apache Ratis. He has an experimental containerization project for Hadoop, Spark and other bigdata components which includes docker containers, and configuration... Read More →

Anu Engineer

Principal Software Engineer, Cloudera

Anu Engineer is a Principal Software Engineer at Cloudera. He is a PMC member of Apache Hadoop and Ratis projects. He is one of the core contributors of Apache Hadoop Ozone. He was part of the original Windows Azure team, principal author of VMware Certificate Authority.

Cloud native refactor pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 14:50 - 15:25 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/-LQDbT_HSfo

15:55 CEST

Building Cloud Native GDPR Friendly Systems for Data Collection - Zsolt Homorodi, VTT

For organizations collecting EU users’ data, the General Data Protection Regulation presents considerable challenges. Data must be anonymized and only essential data can be collected. Users must be able to see, download, and delete their data. Setting up the infrastructure to meet GDPR compliance is complicated and time consuming, particularly for resource constrained teams. In this talk, Zsolt Homorodi from VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) will explain how he created a reproducible GDPR compliant lightweight data collection and processing infrastructure that is based on Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies. Zsolt will show how he combines Linkerd 2.0, Pulumi, Contour, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo, gRPC and other tools to architect reliable, predictable, observable and reproducible environments for data collection and processing that comply with GDPR.

Speakers

Zsolt Homorodi

Senior specialist, IT, VTT

I work at VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) as a Senior Specialist (IT). My main role is to support the data scientists in my team: taking care of all the server development and DevOps needs of our projects. For the last 2.5 years I mainly work on a data collection application... Read More →

KCEU19 Pipeline upload pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:55 - 16:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Beginner (Very basic information)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/sKaeOApBPsw

15:55 CEST

Panel Discussion: Leveraging Cloud Native Technology to Transform Your Enterprise - Cheryl Hung, CNCF; Brad Topol, IBM; Ken Owens, Mastercard; & Jeff Brewer, Intuit

Cloud Native Technologies are experiencing dramatic growth and achieving widespread support as the de facto standard platform across a variety of industries. Kubernetes, containers, and related cloud-native technologies and tools have the potential to dramatically transform the enterprise. From enabling enterprises to modernize legacy applications, to automated DevOps release pipelines, to automated failure recovery and improved testing methodologies, the list of innovative development and operational practices emerging based on cloud native technologies is amazing and a tremendous opportunity for enterprises.

This panel will bring together stakeholders from enterprise IT & open src cloud vendors to discuss how the various facets of cloud native technologies can dramatically transform the enterprise. Panelists will discuss the key innovations that are emerging from cloud native technologies to drive more efficient development and improved standardized operational practices to accelerate the digital transformation and modernization of the enterprise.

Moderators

Cheryl Hung

Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm

Cheryl brings engineers together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source.As Senior Director at Arm, Cheryl leads ecosystem strategy to drive adoption across cloud, 5G and networking. She also founded the Cloud Native London meetup with 8000... Read More →

Speakers

Jeff Brewer

Vice President, Chief Architect of the Small Business and Self Employed Group, Intuit

Jeff is Vice President, Chief Architect of the Small Business and Self Employed Group at Intuit. This group is responsible for QuickBooks and its ecosystem. As Vice President, Chief Architect of QuickBooks, Jeff is responsible for the technology strategy of the small business and... Read More →

Brad Topol

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Dr. Brad Topol is an IBM Distinguished Engineer leading efforts focused on Open Technologies and Developer Advocacy. In his current role, Brad leads a development team focused on contributing to and improving Kubernetes and several other cloud native open source projects. Brad is... Read More →

Kenneth Owens

Vice President, Cyber Cloud Security, Fiserv

Technical executive with 20+ years’ experience in architecture, analysis, design, research, and implementation of cloud native patterns, data center and cloud computing infrastructures consisting of SOA software design, virtualization, server, network, security, storage, automation... Read More →

Wednesday May 22, 2019 15:55 - 16:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 E9

Case Studies

Skill Level Any (All levels of expertise would benefit from this session)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/jjgSbYgu2H4

16:45 CEST

10 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Kubernetes, #9 Will Surprise You - Laurent Bernaille & Robert Boll, Datadog

Kubernetes is a very powerful and complicated system, and many users don’t understand the underlying systems. Come learn how your users can abuse container runtimes, overwhelm your control plane, and cause outages - it’s actually quite easy!

In the last year, we have containerized hundreds of applications and deployed them in large scale clusters (more than 1000 nodes). The journey was eventful and we learned a lot along the way. We’ll share stories of our ten favorite Kubernetes foot guns, including the dangers of cargo culting, rolling updates gone wrong, the pitfalls of initContainers, and nightmarish daemonset upgrades. The talk will present solutions we adopted to avoid or work around some these problems and will finally show several improvements we plan deploy in the future.

Speakers

Laurent Bernaille

Principal Engineer, Datadog

Laurent Bernaille worked several years as a consultant specializing in cloud, containers, and automation and helped organizations migrate to the public cloud and adopt containers. He is now Principal Engineer at Datadog and works closely with infrastructure teams, which are responsible... Read More →

Robert Boll

Senior Director of Engineering, Datadog

10 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Kubernetes, #9 Will Surprise You! pdf

Wednesday May 22, 2019 16:45 - 17:20 CEST
Hall 8.0 A1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/QKI-JRs2RIE

11:05 CEST

Running Kubernetes on Ephemeral Infrastructure - Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu, Palantir Technologies

Palantir runs millions of Kubernetes pods on thousands of nodes to power data platforms that, in turn, power the world's most important institutions. Palantir's infrastructure engineering team decided early in their Kubernetes journey to make infrastructure failure a feature of the deployment systems: every node gets destroyed and rebuilt every 48 hours, thus turning extraordinary events into daily routine. In this talk, Greg and Vlad present the reasoning behind implementing an ephemeral Kubernetes infrastructure, discuss the consequences for application architecture, and sketch solutions to the problems encountered along the way.

Speakers

Greg DeArment

Head of Infrastructure, Palantir Technologies

Greg is responsible for building the systems used to run, manage, and monitor Palantir's Foundry and Gotham platforms. This includes managed cloud hosting environments, configuration, and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) and telemetry infrastructure. Over the... Read More →

Vlad Ungureanu

Tech Lead, Deployment Infrastructure, Palantir Technologies

as Tech Lead, Vlad is responsible for Palantir's product Kubernetes infrastructure. His main focus areas are node lifecycle, network infrastructure, and the container runtime. Before that, Vlad was a tech lead on Palantir's Developer Tools team where he helped increase developer productivity... Read More →

palantir kubecon19 k8s on ephemeral infrastructure pdf

Thursday May 23, 2019 11:05 - 11:40 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Advanced (Expert level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/7zUsc2zI5o8

11:55 CEST

Scaling Edge Operations at Onefootball with Ambassador: From 0 to 6000 rps - Jonathan Juares Beber & Rodrigo Del Monte, Onefootball GmbH

Onefootball is a media company with more than 10M monthly active users delivering more than 10 TB daily content. We needed a Kubernetes-based API Gateway and Ingress solution that could handle our 6,000 rps workload reliably and efficiently.

In this session, we'll talk about why we chose the open source Ambassador API gateway, and how we made the migration to it.
We will cover the challenges identified and the benefits we've seen, like:

Cost reduction: Reduced the number of cloud-based load balancers from >100 to 4.

Observability: The combination of Ambassador and Prometheus' capabilities to empower our small SRE team.

Maintainability: We took advantage of Ambassador's Kubernetes declarative configuration, and we were able to decouple the cluster settings and applications' delivery process allowing more velocity on the shipment of new features.

Speakers

Jonathan Juares Beber

SRE, Onefootball GmbH

Jonathan Beber is SRE at Onefootball. Over the past years, he worked with cloud-native environments at many companies helping them to achieve always the balance between agility and stability. His studies are focused on distributed and scalable systems. He's always trying to help the... Read More →

Rodrigo Del Monte

SRE, Onefootball GmbH

Rodrigo Vieira Del Monte is SRE Engineer at Onefootball. Over the past 10 years, he has been involved in implement open-source tools in government, consultancy and fintechs companies in Brazil. Always willing to build environments cost-effective and straightforward for small teams... Read More →

Kubecon onefootball pdf

Thursday May 23, 2019 11:55 - 12:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/07RvO4AChHE

14:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Going Multi-Cloud for Realz. Stories From Media, Retail, & Infrastructure - Lisa-Marie Namphy, Portworx; Eric Han, Portworx; Umair Mufti, DreamWorks Animation; Allan Naim, Google; and Joseph Sandoval, Adobe

Multi-cloud is a long-term strategy for how enterprises source infrastructure that also informs a practical approach for running across disjoint, hybrid environments. Being able to move deliver entire applications into any infrastructure requires both a mind-shift in operations and new set of tooling. It can be hard for teams to decide how to approach multi-cloud workflows, and operationalize, and push their infrastructure providers as organizations move to a multi-cloud world. This panel brings together practitioners and infrastructure providers who have built this multi-cloud world and will offer their perspective.

As a panel, we will cover:
--How multi-cloud changes the development process
--What gains can teams expect in the early days of multi-cloud (and how to achieve them)
--What kinds of workloads are being moved
--What are the best successes and worst horror stories

Moderators

Lisa-Marie Namphy

Developer Relations & CNCF Ambassador, N/A

Lisa is a developer advocate, community architect, and CNCF Ambassador with 20+ years of experience, at cloud native software companies and start-ups. Lisa runs the SF Bay Cloud Native Platforms User Group (one of the largest CNCF groups), personally hosting meetups for the past ten... Read More →

Speakers

Joseph Sandoval

Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering, Adobe

Joseph Sandoval is the Lead Principal Engineer on the Ethos team at Adobe, where he applies his deep operational knowledge of Open Source and Cloud Native projects. He's an upstream Kubernetes contributor, a member of six Kubernetes release teams, and a mentor to newcomers looking... Read More →

Allan Naim

Senior Manager, Google

Allan is a seasoned veteran for public cloud. At Google, Allan is a Sr. Manager within the Google Kubernetes Engine Product Management team focussed on Google Cloud's Open Services platform, enabling Enterprise teams to build modern cloud native architectures. Prior to Google, Allan... Read More →

Eric Han

Product Manager, Portworx

Eric Han heads Product Management at Portworx, a startup focused on cloud-native data management. Portworx has been a leader in Kubernetes SIGs, and co-led the design and implementation of the Container Storage Interface (CSI). Previously he was the co-founder of the Google Container... Read More →

Umair Mufti

Data Services Manager, DreamWorks Animation

Umair is the Manager of Data Services for DreamWorks Animation. In that role, he overseas the deployment and administration of all databases required at the Studio. A particular focus for Umair is running a lean operation which has allowed his team of 6 to administer over 400 database... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2019 14:00 - 14:35 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/JQoC1FtmKds

14:50 CEST

Embracing Upstream Kubernetes in Web Scale Organization - Lei Zhang, Alibaba & Jun Chen, Ant Financial

How does a web-scale organization meet the demands of performance & scalability without forking Kubernetes while still offering a fully integrated and secure offering?

Actually, for any large scale organization or public cloud, we believe the problems we share are the similar: Should I maintain a swarm of small clusters or a single "monster"? What would be the challenge when I scale the cluster to 1k nodes or more? How to fix issues or add features without breaking Kubernetes code? How often the cluster would be upgraded? And how to make engineers think in a “Kubernetes Native” way?

In this talk, we will share some experience & lessons we learnt from applying upstream Kubernetes in Alibaba ecosystem. We will list every challenge we faced, and the "upstream native" practice we fixed it. We will share our unique way of upgrading our Kubernetes with keeping pace of upstream as well.

Speakers

Jun Chen

Senior Software Engineer, Ant Financial

Jun Chen is a Senior Software Engineer of Ant Financial, an affiliate company of Alibaba. He mainly works on core components and extension plugins of Kubernetes and also designed an automated testing and CI/CD system to meet the needs of delivering Kubernetes agilely and reliably... Read More →

Lei Zhang

Partner Software Engineer, Microsoft

Lei is a Partner Software Engineer in Microsoft Azure and was leading the engineering effort in Alibaba including its Kubernetes infrastructure and serverless application platform. Lei has been working as a maintainer on Kubernetes upstream since its beginning.

kubecon speak pdf

Thursday May 23, 2019 14:50 - 15:25 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/ptOLV2wjQUw

15:55 CEST

Democratizing MySQL: From Cloud Managed to Kubernetes Managed - Sachin Manpathak, Platform9 & Flavius Mecea, Presslabs SRL

Platform9, like many startups used public cloud based MySQL service as backend to quickly get started. But as their customer base grew, the public cloud costs became significant. Their goal for this project was ambitious - they wanted to run their own MySQL as a service without any in-house MySQL expertise. They also wished the model to scale well, achievable with a small team.

Learn how Platform9 has reached their goal by using a highly flexible open-source MySQL Operator, written by Presslabs—a startup that aims at democratizing the WordPress hosting infrastructure by using Kubernetes and other open technologies.

This is a back-to-back combo talk featuring 2 people who know the MySQL Operator better than anyone, but differently: the original builder & its heaviest user.

Speakers

Sachin Manpathak

Technical Lead, Platform9

Sachin is a Kubernetes Tech Lead at Platform9. After graduating from UT, Austin he started his career coding tools for making VM management easier @VMware. He then moved on to simplifying Openstack delivered as a service for @Platform9. These days, he is muddying up the Kubernetes... Read More →

Flavius Mecea

Software Engineer, Presslabs

Flavius Mecea is a software and operations engineer at Presslabs. A vivid builder and avid reader, Flavius is always up to something—exploring untapped possibilities using Kubernetes & Go, mentoring students into the secrets of algorithms and DevOps or playing with hardware and... Read More →

Kubecon Democratizing MySQL Cloud Managed to K8s Managed pdf

Thursday May 23, 2019 15:55 - 16:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/T9NY0Iy-jOo

16:45 CEST

Delivering TV Everywhere with Cloud Native Solutions - Arnaud Caron & Jerome Champetier, Mediakind

Traditional TV players are facing huge challenges from the rapid growth of emerging video services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube TV.

TV service providers must modernize and accelerate their operations, moving from dedicated hardware in datacenter to embracing hybrid cloud technologies, DevOps and orchestration, while considering cloud frameworks constraints which aren’t natively designed for real-time media - and issues such as high processing & storage performance, network (latency, bandwidth, multicast), high availability and reliability.

We will present our journey since 2015, showcasing how our architecture migration to microservices / containers / Kubernetes & Helm helped to lay the foundations for our global development team. We will share our architectural designs and explain how we overcame challenges such as K8s deployments, CNI, monitoring and packaging with Helm.

Speakers

Arnaud Caron

Cloud Transformation Portfolio Manager, Mediakind

Arnaud Caron is responsible for defining the architecture transition of the MediaKind portfolio to components in line with the microservices and cloud accelerating Media Innovation and enabling orchestration for operations. Caron joined Ericsson through the acquisition of Envivio... Read More →

Jerome Champetier

Senior Technology Architect, Mediakind

Jerome is Senior Technology Architect, Media Processing & Delivery at MediaKind where he is working on shaping next generation media processing products and solutions. He focuses on the new technology required to deliver the best quality of experience for streaming media. Prior to... Read More →

Delivering TV Everywhere with Cloud Native Solutions pdf

Thursday May 23, 2019 16:45 - 17:20 CEST
Hall 8.0 F1

Case Studies

Skill Level Intermediate (Mid-level experience)
Link to Session Recording https://youtu.be/ZX8uLg_rfeE