Schedule: Kubernetes sessions

Track host

Michael Hausenblas (Red Hat) is a developer advocate for Go, OpenShift, and Kubernetes at Red Hat, where he helps app ops engineers build and operate distributed services. Michael shares his experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing through demos, blog posts, and public speaking engagements and contributes to open source software such as OpenShift and Kubernetes. Previously, Michael was a developer advocate at Mesosphere, chief data engineer at MapR Technologies, and a research fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he researched large-scale data integration and the internet of things and gained experience in advocacy and standardization (World Wide Web Consortium, IETF). In his free time, Michael contributes to open source software (mainly using Go), blogs, and hangs out on Twitter too much.

9:30–13:00 Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Kubernetes 101

Location: King's Suite - Sandringham

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft)

Average rating:

(4.24, 17 ratings)

In this hands-on Kubernetes workshop, Bridget Kromhout guides you through an interactive look at all the moving parts you need to know about to use Kubernetes in production. Read more.

9:30–13:00 Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Monitoring your containers correctly

Location: Buckingham Room - Palace Suite

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Michael Kehoe (LinkedIn)

Average rating:

(3.00, 3 ratings)

Michael Kehoe walks you through building a small monitoring utility for cgroup containers to illustrate best practices in container monitoring. You'll explore various cgroup constraints and learn how to specifically monitor for each of them to ensure that your application is behaving as expected. Along the way, Michael shares tricks and tips about monitoring containerized applications. Read more.

14:00–17:30 Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Using Istio

Location: King's Suite - Sandringham

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Lee Calcote (Layer5), Girish Ranganathan (Layer5)

Average rating:

(2.67, 6 ratings)

Lee Calcote and Girish Ranganathan walk you through building observable, resilient, and secure microservices with Istio and Kubernetes. Read more.

13:15–13:55 Friday, 2 November 2018

The hidden cost of Kubernetes

Location: King's Suite - Balmoral

Secondary topics:  Systems Architecture & Infrastructure

Bridget Lane (Gannett | USA Today), Marcelo Mandolesi (Gannett | USA Today)

Average rating:

(4.33, 6 ratings)

Bridget Lane and Marcelo Mandolesi share the USA TODAY NETWORK's two-year journey learning, migrating to, and running Kubernetes, exploring the hidden costs, expectations broken, the company's process of evangelizing, and why they would do it all over again. Read more.

14:10–14:50 Friday, 2 November 2018

From kubelet to Istio: Kubernetes network security demystified

Location: King's Suite - Balmoral

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Andrew Martin (ControlPlane)

Average rating:

(3.17, 6 ratings)

Kubernetes provides multiple layers of network security, from the API server to requests between applications themselves. Andrew Martin explores the underlying technologies on which these layers are built and discusses the principles behind encryption, identity, and trust in Kubernetes. Read more.

14:10–14:50 Friday, 2 November 2018

Securing Kubernetes networking with Consul Connect

Location: Park Suite (St. James / Regents)

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Nic Jackson (HashiCorp)

Average rating:

(4.80, 5 ratings)

Dynamic cloud-based infrastructure has forced us to reevaluate how we route and secure traffic in our internal networks. One popular solution is to use a service mesh. Nic Jackson demonstrates how the open source HashiCorp Consul Connect and Envoy allow you to easily secure service-to-service communication in Kubernetes while also securely integrating external services and data stores. Read more.

15:40–16:20 Friday, 2 November 2018

Switching horses midstream: The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes

Location: King's Suite - Balmoral

Secondary topics:  Systems Architecture & Infrastructure

Sarah Wells (Financial Times)

Average rating:

(4.00, 8 ratings)

The Financial Times recently migrated its content platform to Kubernetes. Join Sarah Wells to find out what it takes to migrate 150+ microservices from one container stack to another without affecting the existing production users and while the rest of your teams are working on delivering new functionality. Read more.

16:35–17:15 Friday, 2 November 2018

Writing a Kubernetes operator to deploy a complex system

Location: King's Suite - Balmoral

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Philippe MARTIN (Anevia)

Average rating:

(1.75, 4 ratings)

The Kubernetes API is extensible, allowing you to create your own resources that behave like native ones. Philippe Martin explores the tools, concepts, and a real example of a custom resource that simplifies the deployment of a complete content delivery network (CDN). Read more.

16:35–17:15 Friday, 2 November 2018

GitOps and Jenkins X

Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite

Tracy Miranda (CloudBees)

Average rating:

(4.00, 2 ratings)

Tracy Miranda discusses GitOps, Jenkins X, and what the future of CI/CD for Kubernetes should look like. Read more.