Build Systems that Drive Business
30–31 Oct 2018: Training
31 Oct–2 Nov 2018: Tutorials & Conference
London, UK

The Freedom of Kubernetes

Kris Nova (Independent)
9:5510:20 Friday, 2 November 2018
Location: King's Suite
Average rating: ****.
(4.17, 18 ratings)

In the vastness of the Cloud Native ecosystem, we find ourselves overwhelmed with complexity and a promise that efficiency will one day outweigh this complexity. In this presentation, we take a look at the new era of the Cloud Native space and the kernel that has made this all possible: Kubernetes. We learn that navigating this space is an exercise of technical self-discipline, research, and skill. We learn that freedom is vastly different than flexibility. Finding freedom in this space is an exercise of being able to operate skillfully and quickly without causing harm to your team or those you work with.

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Kris Nova

Independent

Kris Nova is independent, focusing on containers, infrastructure, and Kubernetes, and she’s an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Previously, she was a developer advocate and an engineer on Kubernetes at Heptio. Kris has a deep technical background in the Go programming language and has authored many successful open source tools in Go. She’s a Kubernetes maintainer and the creator of kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool. Kris organizes a special interest group in Kubernetes and is a leader in the community. She understands the grievances with running cloud native infrastructure via a distributed cloud native application and recently authored an O’Reilly book on the topic, Cloud Native Infrastructure. Kris lives in Seattle and spends her free time climbing mountains.