KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

The concepts and practices of site reliability engineering are changing the way we build and operate our platforms and enabling us to have more meaningful conversations about availability, service-level objectives, and cost. But what are the benefits for the engineer holding the pager? Can we add a human element to our error budgets?

Join Hannah Foxwell to look at site reliability engineering practices through a human lens. Hannah combines SRE with HumanOps and explains how to use SRE practices to improve the health and well-being of your team.

There are more than 2000 contributors to Kubernetes project and thousands working on related projects - many of them doing it as a full time job. In addition to having fun by working on a great project, they want to grow within their role, be promoted and get a rise. How to take advantage from being a member of Kubernetes community in order to empower your career? What are the common challenges while working on such large, distributed and open source project that may slow down your growth? During the talk we will try to answer how to develop your career while working on Kubernetes.

For the last 7 years or so Jupyter Notebooks (formerly known as IPython) has revolutionized the way scholars, enthusiasts and data analysts look at, process and work with data. On the Kubernetes side, component (api-server, scheduler, controller manager, etc.) logs, events, etc. can be an indomitable fire hose of data that can rather difficult to analyze and work with in its raw form. However, as we'll demonstrate, with the right tools, you can create data pipelines so that it can observed, analyzed and visualized in an interactive way using Jupyter notebooks. Insight therein can then be used for any task from performance tuning to debugging.

The outline for this lightning talk is straightforward:

* Problem statement (~ 1 min.)
* Solution and tooling description (~45 sec.)
* How the tooling was used ( ~1 min.)
* Go over the data processing pipeline (~1 min.)
* Results (~45 sec.)

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 this talk we'll look at Linkerd's web dashboard and CLI, and examine ways in which a GUI improves the user experience. In particular we’ll explore ways that a GUI offers more flexibility or better presentation capabilities than a CLI, namely: better data aggregation, easier data entry, better data manipulation, easier annotation and explanations with tooltips and popups, and user customization. In this talk, we’ll spend time looking at how different GUI elements (tables, charts, graphs, diagrams, tooltips, colour) can help the user get the most value of of a product. Lastly, we will talk about how GUIs can increase OSS participation by letting front-end coders contribute.

It’s a race with time to pass most exams, and the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is no different. The CKA was developed by the CNCF, and is fast becoming one of the most strategic certifications to acquire in terms of establishing a credible posture in kubernetes standings. This talk covers topics on how best to combat the screaming passing of time during the exam. How to accelerate getting resources up and running in kubernetes with Kubectl command options, how to optimise the shell environment for speed, and also how to optimise the vim text editor for use with yaml files will all be covered. Some protips on study resources that help you prepare, and how to organise your time during the exam will also be presented.
This talk will cover as much as possible in the allocated time.
We will keep going until time runs out – just like in the exam.