Schedule: Kubernetes sessions

Jonathan Johnson introduces you to Kubernetes for software engineers through concepts and a hands-on tutorials using KataCoda.com/javajon. Read more.

Kevin Crawley walks you through how to configure a Kubernetes cluster in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), deploy Prometheus and Jaeger to monitor a distributed microservice application, and instrument that application by introducing libraries and tooling to support capturing business metrics. You'll configure, update, and deploy a cloud native application using Gitlab and Gitlab-CI. Read more.

Laurent Bernaille examines the lessons he learned operating large Kubernetes clusters. Read more.

Developers working with Kubernetes still wonder what the optimal development workflow looks like. Join Ellen Korbes to take a look at the capabilities of the tooling available in the current landscape and see if it can offer end-to-end workflows that perform effectively in the real world. Read more.

Andy Kwiatkowski takes a deep dive into how Shopify saved a million dollars a year in infrastructure costs by rolling its own autoscaler. Read more.

New software in production comes with a lot of risks, especially for companies with high availability requirements. However, it’s possible to make significant infrastructure changes while maintaining your company’s reliability. Jose Nino and Lita Cho outline deploying hybrid topologies with Kubernetes and Envoy. Read more.

Out-of-the-box Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy and scale your applications within one Kubernetes cluster in one single region. But it's also possible to deploy an application over multiple clusters in different regions, so it becomes truly highly available even if a complete region fails. Learn how to deploy one application across multiple federated Kubernetes clusters with Bastian Hofmann. Read more.

Regardless of all the technical benefits that Kubernetes brings, team interactions are still key for successfully delivering and running services. Manuel Pais explores how team design affects the success of Kubernetes adoption. Read more.