KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024: Full Schedule

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9:30am IST

Keynotes to be Announced

Wednesday December 11, 2024 9:30am - 11:00am IST

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Wednesday December 11, 2024 9:30am - 11:00am IST
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Keynote Sessions

11:00am IST

Coffee Break ☕

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am IST

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Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am IST
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Breaks

11:30am IST

Welcome | CNCF Project Lightning Talks - Jorge Castro, CNCF

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 11:33am IST

Room 1

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 11:33am IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

11:30am IST

Harnessing Emerging Data-Plane Technologies for Next-Gen Load Balancers - Shatakshi Mishra, Marvell Technology

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST

Room 4

Cloud Load Balancers (CLBs) have evolved significantly, now featuring advanced capabilities such as proxying, SSL/TLS termination, and auto-scaling. The underlying data-path technologies have advanced from traditional Linux networking to include eBPF, DPDK, VPP, and P4. Each of these technologies offers unique advantages and trade-offs: eBPF excels in real-time processing but lacks some comprehensive features, DPDK provides high performance with reduced transparency, VPP offers modular packet handling with strong Linux compatibility, and P4-based solutions, while still evolving, promise enhanced flexibility and performance. This session will delve into these data-path technologies, examining their maturity, limitations, and suitability for modern data centers. As specialized hardware units become increasingly integral to large data centers, we will highlight how these units effectively leverage data-path technologies to perform numerous tasks, thereby enhancing overall efficiency.

Speakers

Shatakshi Mishra

Senior Software Engineer, Marvell Technology

Shatakshi Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer at Marvell Technology with 3+ years of experience. She is skilled in P4 Programming Language, Kubernetes Orchestration, and Cloud Native Technologies, dedicated to providing innovative solutions and leveraging cutting-edge technologi... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST
Room 4

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

Configuring Object Store for Vector Database Applications - Jiffin Tony Thottan, IBM

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST

Room 3

Vector databases like Milvus and LanceDB are revolutionizing similarity search and AI workloads. However, their performance in cloud-native environments depends heavily on optimized storage configurations. This session will delve into configuring Ceph's RADOS Gateway (RGW) using Rook for this workload. And provide a sample demo of how to run these applications with RGW.

Speakers

Jiffin Tony Thottan

Backend Engineer, IBM

Jiffin Tony Thottan is part of the IBM Storage Team working as a Backend Engineer in Ceph. Initially part of the NFS team and contributed to GlusterFS , NFS-Ganesha projects. He has given presentations about his work at various conferences like FOSDEM, Storage Developer Conference... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST
Room 3

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

Empower Your Platform Journey with Platforms Working Group - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST

Room 6

Platform engineering is gaining momentum globally, with companies increasingly adopting or building platforms. The interest is evident in the growing number of platform meetups, including in India. Amidst all the buzz and efforts around platform engineering, the Platforms Working Group, part of TAG App Delivery is there to help you on your journey of adopting platforms. In this talk, we'll provide an insight into the Platforms Working Group and our mission to support the community's platform adoption efforts. We'll walk you through our key initiatives and the practical assets we've developed - from our comprehensive whitepaper to our maturity model - to help teams at all stages of their platform journey. We'll also share how you can get involved with the Platforms Working Group to contribute to the ongoing work and propel your platform efforts as well.

Speakers

Atulpriya Sharma

Co Chair Platforms-WG, TAG - App Delivery | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth. In addition, I'm also a CNCF... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

11:30am IST

From Three Pillars to More with OpenTelemetry - Steve Flanders, Splunk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST

Room 5

OpenTelemetry has transformed the observability landscape by moving beyond the traditional three pillars of traces, metrics, and logs. With these core components now stable, the project is expanding its reach to encompass even more facets of system monitoring and performance analysis. In this session, we will explore the latest advancements in OpenTelemetry, including the integration of profiling, which offers deeper insights into application performance by capturing detailed execution data. Additionally, we'll discuss the emerging concept of entities, which promises to provide a more holistic view of system components and their interactions. By expanding its capabilities, OpenTelemetry is not just enhancing the granularity and scope of observability but also setting the stage for more comprehensive and actionable insights. Join us to learn how these new developments can help you achieve unparalleled visibility into your systems and drive better operational outcomes.

Speakers

Steve Flanders

Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk

Steve Flanders is a Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk (acquired by Cisco) responsible for the Observability Platform team, which includes contributions to the OpenTelemetry project. He was previously the Head of Product at Omnition (acquired by Splunk). Prior to Omnition, he... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST
Room 5

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

11:30am IST

Revolutionizing Hybrid HCI: How Kubernetes Transforms Multi-Cloud and Legacy Management - Ashik J M & Sibiraja L, Cloudera

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST

Room 2

Managing hybrid environments with public and private clouds poses significant challenges, especially with disparate interfaces and legacy applications. Our development and QE teams faced difficulties navigating multiple environments—testing private cloud code on private Docker clouds and public cloud code on public resources. Legacy apps, often running on bare metal or metal instances, added complexity. To tackle this, we used Kubernetes and CNCF projects like KubeVirt, CrossPlane, and Longhorn to build a unified hybrid hyper-converged cloud platform. This session will explore how we integrated these technologies to streamline operations. You'll learn about the initial challenges, how KubeVirt enabled virtualization, CrossPlane’s role in multi-cloud management, Longhorn’s storage solutions, and the unification of these components into a cohesive platform.

Speakers

Sibiraja L

Staff DevOps engineer, Cloudera Software India Pvt Ltd

The speaker, a Staff DevOps Engineer at Cloudera company, is deeply involved in Kubernetes-related projects, where he focuses on solving complex challenges within the Internal Container Cloud Platform. Leading this team, he is passionate about addressing intricate system issues and... Read More →

Ashik J M

Engineering Manager, Cloudera

Ashik is an Engineering Manager from Cloudera, Bangalore. He has over 12 years of experience in solving problems at scale in various production environments. He is currently leading the internal cloud platform team, focusing on container orchestration and cloud native technologies... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:05pm IST
Room 2

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

11:35am IST

LitmusChaos Evolution: The Latest Innovations and Security Enhancements To Chaos Engineering | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:35am - 11:40am IST

Room 1

A lot has transformed in the chaos engineering ecosystem with the large scale adoption the practice has witnessed in the recent years. As the LitmusChaos project matured with a robust UI and varied usecases, the rise in community growth is a story in itself. This lightning talk will showcase the project's latest updates, including new features that enhance user experience and making the platform more secure. The other highlight includes the results of a recent third party security audit sponsored by the OSTIF and conducted by 7A Security which helped strengthen the platform's security posture.
Additionally, I'll discuss LitmusChaos' active participation in LFX mentorship programs, mentorship program in South Korea fostering contributions from mentees and growing the community.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:35am - 11:40am IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

11:42am IST

Pick Cilium! Lessons Learned From Writing 20+ Cloud Native Case Studies about Cilium | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:42am - 11:47am IST

Room 1

Bill has interviewed over 20 companies in industries ranging from media to financial services about why they picked Cilium for their cloud native platform. In this talk, he will reveal what end users truly want when adopting cloud native technologies and what the forcing function was for each of them to choose Cilium.

You’ll hear firsthand accounts of the triumphs and tribulations faced by companies like Bloomberg, DigitalOcean, The New York Times, and more as well as the specific benefits these organizations are reaping, from enhanced security and observability to improved performance and cost savings.

By the end, the audience will understand the real-world applications and advantages of Cilium and why end users chose it.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:42am - 11:47am IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

11:49am IST

Karmada: Project Introduction and Updates | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:49am - 11:54am IST

Room 1

Karmada, a CNCF incubating project, aims to offer a unified control plane for seamless deployment and management across diverse cloud environments.

In this lightning talk, the following topic will be covered:

- Briefly introduction of Karmada
- Core Capabilities
- Key Use Cases
- Community updates

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:49am - 11:54am IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

11:56am IST

Introduction to Kyverno, the Cloud Native Policy Engine | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:56am - 12:01pm IST

Room 1

Kyverno is often described as a "Swiss Army kinfe" due to its many capabilities. In this quick tour, learn about its capabilities and how you can use Kyverno to improve security, compliance, and streamline operations across your clusters.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 11:56am - 12:01pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:03pm IST

Contributing to Submariner - How to Get Started | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:03pm - 12:08pm IST

Room 1

A short talk on how developers can contribute to Submariner, areas needing contribution and help provided to new contributers

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:03pm - 12:08pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:10pm IST

Wasm Powered Open source LLMs and AI Agent | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm IST

Room 1

As AI and machine learning continue to shape modern enterprises, the need for fast, scalable, and secure deployment of AI models across server, edge devices with different underlying infra is critical. In this lightning talk, I will introduce how WasmEdge, a lightweight WebAssembly runtime, is powering open-source LLMs (Large Language Models) and AI agents for real-time, decentralized inference with portability and efficiency. WasmEdge enables developers to deploy AI models across diverse hardware environments with minimal overhead.

We’ll explore how WasmEdge’s newest features of function calling, text to speech, text to image, video recognition, along with its cross-platform compatibility and secure sandboxing make it ideal for running LLMs and AI agents in industries. You can also add any AI agents (like cursor) alongside your self hosted open source LLMs

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:17pm IST

What's happening with CAPIBM | SIG Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:17pm - 12:22pm IST

Room 1

This presentation will start with CAPIBM introduction and proceed with discussing the CAPIBM releases and new features. We will also discuss major milestones followed by the roadmap, and other critical information attendees should know about the project. Join the session to learn how to get involved!

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:17pm - 12:22pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:20pm IST

Developing Kubernetes Applications Beyond Go - Rohan Kumar, Red Hat & Sun Tan, Sciam

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 5

Have you felt left out of Kubernetes development because you're not a GoLang expert? The good news is you don’t need to be. While GoLang has traditionally been the go-to language for creating Kubernetes-native tools like Helm, Argo CD, and Prometheus, Kubernetes is language-agnostic and can be interacted with via its declarative REST API in any language. This session will explore the growing ecosystem of Kubernetes application development beyond Go. We’ll review popular Kubernetes libraries and frameworks in languages like Python, JavaScript, and Java. To illustrate, we’ll demo the Java Operator SDK, showcasing how to build Kubernetes applications without relying on Go. Whether you code in Python, JavaScript, or Java, this talk will give you the tools and confidence to develop Kubernetes-native applications in your preferred language.

Speakers

Sun Tan

Techlead, Sciam

Sun is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he strives to enhance the lives of developers. He has contributed to projects like Eclipse Che, Eclipse JKube, and the Java client for Kubernetes, known as "fabric8-kubernetes-client". Outside of work, Sun shares his knowledge by... Read More →

Rohan Kumar

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Rohan is a Software Developer currently living in Chandigarh, India. These days he is working at Red Hat to improve the experience of Java developers on top of Kubernetes. If you are a Java developer trying to move projects to Kubernetes. You may find my projects useful. You can find... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST
Room 5

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:20pm IST

From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: EarnIn's Network Evolution with Linkerd - Kush Trivedi, EarnIn & Somnath Chakraborty, Earnin

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 4

As EarnIn, one of the leading fintech companies, rapidly scaled in the number of microservices and user base, we recognized the need to ensure our network layer could keep pace with our scale. Initially relying on an enterprise service mesh that eventually became a bottleneck for our applications as well as our operators, we explored all the available service mesh out in the market, ultimately choosing Linkerd. This talk will delve into our decision-making process, focusing on why we chose LinkerD and how it has transformed our network and application architectures. We'll cover the crucial aspects of Linkerd that enhanced our system's performance, robustness, and security, all while simplifying operations and ensuring reliabilityᅳensuring our operators can rest easy. Join us to learn how LinkerD can elevate your service mesh strategy to meet the demands of substantial growth while keeping your architecture simple.

Speakers

Kush Trivedi

Sr. Platform Engineer, EarnIn

I am working with EarnIn where I leading the service-mesh & observability paradigm as well as cloud-native adaption effort for the Kubernetes use-case and product revenue fit, as well as working on the platform infrastructure to provide one-touch onboarding of the applications on... Read More →

Somnath Chakraborty

Somnath Chakraborty, Earnin

Engineering Manager at Earnin, leading the India Platform team based in Bengaluru. Have worked extensively infrastructure and platform management, AWS and Azure cloud technologies, DevOps, and automation.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST
Room 4

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:20pm IST

Data Protection Considerations for Elastic Cloud-Native Applications - Pankaj Ahire, Veritas Technologies

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 3

In this comprehensive session, we will delve into the intricate details of data protection in the context of cloud-native applications. We will start by examining the automation of application discovery. This includes a special focus on application-consistent backups, particularly crucial for distributed applications utilizing multiple persistent volumes. We will then navigate the considerations for temporary storage and compute needs during backup and restore operations. The discussion will extend to the impact on production applications' compute and I/O performance. As a highlight, the session will explore strategies for detecting and protecting applications from ransomware attacks. The final segment of the presentation will cover application recovery and thereby mobility of applications across different Kubernetes platform distributions. Each aspect is designed to prepare participants for a future where cloud-native data protection is efficient, resilient, and cost-effective.

Speakers

Pankaj Ahire

Mr. Pankaj, Veritas Technologies

Pankaj is technical lead and building data protection capabilities for Kubernetes, Hypervisors, OpenStack, File Systems in Veritas NetBackup. He is one of the key members of NetBackup engineering that laid the foundation for Kubernetes protection. He has overall more than two decades... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST
Room 3

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:20pm IST

Into Containerd; Through the Eyes of a Contributor - Akhil Mohan, VMware by Broadcom

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 6

The containerd project has been around for more than 7 years now, with 500+ contributors from hundreds of companies spread across the globe. There is also a large ecosystem of projects that grew around based on containerd. This has enabled us to receive numerous features and fixes from contributors and members of all the ecosystem projects. This has also led to the creation of a few non core subprojects under containerd. In this session, led by maintainers, we will discuss how to get involved in the community and start making meaningful contributions to the project. We will go through areas that need help, both from new comers as well as experienced developers. We will also spend time on how the community tackled issues that spanned across multiple projects and stakeholders. Along with this a brief update on containerd 2.0 will be given. Attendees will leave with information to identify an area in which they can understand, work on and contribute back to the container ecosystem.

Speakers

Akhil Mohan

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

Akhil works as a Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom. An active contributor to projects in cloud native and container ecosystem. Akhil is a maintainer of containerd, and the kubernetes publishing-bot sub project. He works mostly on container runtimes and kubernetes sig-node a... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

12:20pm IST

Side Effects - Lessons Learnt While Building Traffic Platforms Serving 1.5 Million+ TPS Using K8s - Sumit Mathur & Sushanth Kamath A, Intuit

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 2

At Intuit, we have ~2000 production services that serve North-South and East-West Traffic using API Gateway and Service Mesh. These services span across ~350 k8s clusters and are managed by 10,000+ engineers. This talk walks you through multiple design iterations conducted by the Traffic team at Intuit in building the platforms that serve 1.5 Million+ TPS. Topics that are covered include lessons learnt while 1. Designing a cost effective, low latency, highly scalable, multi tenant API Gateway and Service Mesh platforms. 2.Using a non blocking model to externalise Authorization using an OPA based sidecar. 3.Distributing traffic configurations that are self serviced by 10,000+ engineers to the Traffic runtime platforms. 4. Designing Rate Limiting solutions with Low latency and low error

Speakers

Sushanth Kamath A

Leads Traffic team at Intuit India, Senior Staff Engineer at Intuit, Intuit

works as a Senior Staff engineer at Intuit leading the traffic team (API Gateway and Service Mesh) at IDC. I have worked on API Gateway ecosystem for 7+ years and on Service Mesh for 4+ years. I am very passionate about building software that runs at scale!

Sumit Mathur

Group Engineering Manager of Traffic Team at Intuit, Intuit India Product Development Centre Private Limited

I am Sumit Mathur with 15 years of experience in platform and cloud technologies. I am an Engineering leader at Intuit and lead the API Gateway, Service Mesh, Configuration as Service and In Session Customer experience team.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST
Room 2

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:24pm IST

Intro to the CNCF App Development Working Group | WG Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:24pm - 12:29pm IST

Room 1

We are excited to introduce the newly formed Application Development Working Group (WG) under the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for App Delivery within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Co-chaired by Mauricio Salatino, Daniel Oh, and Thomas Vitale, this WG aims to foster the growth of developers in the cloud native space. The Application Development WG was established to address the increasing need for specialized focus on cloud native application development. Our mission is to engage and support developers transitioning to or enhancing their practices within the cloud native ecosystem. This initiative is integral to the CNCF’s broader strategy of promoting cloud native technologies and fostering a vibrant, collaborative community.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:24pm - 12:29pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:31pm IST

Taking a Quick Look at New Features in Argo CD v2.12 | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:31pm - 12:36pm IST

Room 1

In complex CI/CD environments, managing and previewing applications efficiently can be a challenge, especially when dealing with large repositories, multi-source applications, or performance bottlenecks. Argo CD version 2.12 addresses these issues by introducing several key features and improvements.

This lightning talk will cover the latest additions in Argo CD 2.12, including new commands for easier application set previews, fixes for mono-repo sync issues, and performance enhancements for large applications. If you're looking forward to getting quick updates about the new release features and bug fixes around Argo CD, you should definitely attend this talk.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:31pm - 12:36pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:38pm IST

Buildpacks : Quietly Redefining the Build Experience | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:38pm - 12:43pm IST

Room 1

Cloud Native Buildpacks have emerged as an elegant way to create containers in the cloud native space. They are of utility to platform operators in designing automation for several verticals that aim to utilize cloud native tech.
In this talk, I intend to present the most recent areas of focus for the Buildpacks community. These include ARM64 migration, focus on security primitive such as SBOMs, and other optimisation to Buildpacks workflows.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:38pm - 12:43pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:45pm IST

The gRPC Well Known Protos | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:45pm - 12:50pm IST

Room 1

gRPC has found widespread adoption in organizations around the world. You've probably written a protobuf yourself to define your own API. But did you know that the gRPC project actually defines several standard gRPC services that are generally applicable. In this talk, you will learn about gRPC's reflection, health, channelz, and status protos and how you can use them to get more out of your gRPC-based system.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:45pm - 12:50pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:52pm IST

Keptn: Supercharge Your Deployments! | Project Lightning Talk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:52pm - 12:57pm IST

Room 1

Discover how Keptn automates your deployment checks, improves observability, and reduces the complexity in your Application Lifecycle workflows.
This talk will introduce the Keptn project, highlighting its core features such as pre/post-deployment tasks/checks, DORA metrics for GitOps tooling, metrics collection from different observability platforms, and much more!
Learn some real-world use cases of Keptn as well!

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:52pm - 12:57pm IST
Room 1

Project Opportunties, Project Lightning Talk

Content Experience Level Any

12:55pm IST

Lunch 🍲

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:55pm - 2:55pm IST

TBA

Wednesday December 11, 2024 12:55pm - 2:55pm IST
TBA

Breaks

2:55pm IST

Multi-Node Finetuning LLMs on Kubernetes: A Practitioner’s Guide - Ashish Kamra & Boaz Ben Shabat, Red Hat

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 1

Large Language Model (LLM) finetuning on enterprise private data has emerged as an important strategy for enhancing model performance on specific downstream tasks. This process however demands substantial compute resources, and presents some unique challenges in Kubernetes environments. This session offers a practical, step-by-step guide to implementing multi-node LLM finetuning on Kubernetes clusters with GPUs, utilizing PyTorch FSDP and the Kubeflow training operator. We'll cover - preparing a Kubernetes cluster for LLM finetuning, optimizing cluster, system, and network configurations, and comparing performance of various network topologies including pod networking, secondary networks, and GPU Direct RDMA over ethernet for peak performance. By the end of this session, the audience will have a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies involved in multi-node LLM finetuning on Kubernetes empowering them to introduce the same in their own production Kubernetes environments.

Speakers

ASHISH KAMRA

Senior Manager, Red Hat

Dr. Ashish Kamra is an accomplished engineering leader with over 15 years of experience managing high-performing teams in AI, machine learning, and cloud computing. He joined Red Hat in March 2017, where he currently serves as the Senior Manager of AI Performance at Red Hat. In this... Read More →

Boaz Ben Shabat

Senior AI Performance Engineer, Red Hat

I am an Engineer with extensive experience in optimizing large-scale, high-performance computing environments. My expertise includes network architecture, system performance tuning, and cloud infrastructure. I excel in solving complex technical challenges and improving efficiency... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm IST

Invoking Serverless Functions via GRPC Service Mesh - Kannan Jayaprakasam, Google

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 4

This talk will explain new options for proxyless service mesh to enable secure authentication with serverless-based backends. Vanity URLs and reverse proxies have historically posed an issue for proxyless service mesh, making it difficult to use them, and the speaker will talk about upcoming new features in gRPC that make this possible, while also ensuring robust security and preventing misrouted traffic. The audience will discover how proxyless service meshes secure authentication with serverless backends, opening up new possibilities for modern architectures. The audience will also come to know how the client can intelligently determine the control plane's support for these new features, enhancing adaptability and streamlining deployment.

Speakers

Kannan Jayaprakasam

Software Engineer working on gRPC at Google, Google

Kannan works as a software engineer at Google in the gRPC team.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 4

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Advanced

2:55pm IST

Ensuring Seamless Service Continuity in 5G: Enhancing Kubernetes Disaster Recovery for Telecom - Saurabh Swaraj, Grace Hanusha, Sunil N, Ganesh Chandrasekaran & Karthikeyan Subramaniam, Samsung

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 3

In the telecom industry, service availability is critical, making local and geographic redundancy essential for disaster recovery. While 5G Core Networks emphasize centralized, cloud-native strategies, 5G Access Networks require distributed, low-latency redundancy for edge cloud environments. Current CNCF tools like Velero, Portworx, and Stash offer Backup and Recovery Solutions but lack live synchronization between active and standby clusters, crucial for telecom's KPI needs. This session will explore a K8S-native solution designed to bridge this gap, offering seamless redundancy for telecom workloads, particularly in microservices-based deployments like vRAN/ORAN. This solution supports a 2-way policy-based sync, allowing for fine-grained control on how data is managed during failover. The solution integrates with CNCF projects, including Nephio for intent-based automation and Prometheus for real-time monitoring, aligning with the move towards distributed cloud-native deployments.

Speakers

Karthikeyan Subramaniam

Samsung

Ganesh Chandrasekaran

Head of Telco Orchestrator Part, Samsung R&D, Samsung R&D, India, Bangalore (SRIB)

Ganesh is the Head of Telco Orchestrator Part at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore. He holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications from UCL, London,UK. Ganesh completed his PhD from the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey, UK. Since 2017, he has worked with Samsung... Read More →

Grace Hanusha

Cheif Engineer, Samsung R&D

Chief Engineer at Samsung R&D Banglore

Saurabh Swaraj

Lead Engineer, Samsung R&D

I’m Saurabh Swaraj, a Lead Java Engineer with nearly 6 years of experience in developing scalable systems and solving complex problems. At Samsung R&D, I designed a Live Sync system that improved consistency to 99% and reduced delays by 16 minutes. Previously at Digbi Health, I... Read More →

Sunil N

Chief Engineer, Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, Samsung Research Institute Bangalore

Sunil has good experience in architect, design, implement software applications in telecommunication management domain. He is interested in Cloud, AI/ML domains.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 3

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any

2:55pm IST

What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 6

This talk will go through all the exciting new features we have recently added to gRPC. We will be covering topics such as OpenTelemetry, Service Mesh, K8s Gateway APIs and GAMMA. We will also cover tips and tricks for building a Microservices Application with gRPC.

Speakers

Kevin Nilson

Software Engineering Manager, Google

Kevin works at Google as a Software Engineer Manager on the gRPC team. At Google Kevin has worked on projects such as Chromecast, Google Home, Stadia and now gRPC. Kevin is a Java Champion and four time JavaOne Rock Star. Kevin has spoken at conferences such as Google I/O, JavaOne... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

2:55pm IST

Is GitOps a Broken Experience - Where Is the Ops in GitOps ? - Rajalakshmi Kamath V, Walmart Global Tech

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 5

Imagine the k8s resource model only had “spec” and not the “status”. How operationally challenging would it have been to infer this critical information from out of band approaches? While Gitops frameworks work very well to translate a pre-defined intended state, it fails to provide visibility into the actual state of the system. This entails a need to build tools to improve infrastructure observability. Gitops, also fails to address immediate operational control and recovery in the event of outages and offers a broken experience. Gitops has been the primary developer experience for Walmart running over 200k workloads and 10k deployments per day on 1000s of k8s clusters across public and private cloud. This talk highlights our learnings on building various ops tooling which provides deployment/running state of the workloads to complement our Gitops based deployment pipelines.

Speakers

Rajalakshmi Kamath V

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech

Rajalakshmi Kamath is a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech focussed on core cloud native functionalities that power Walmart's container platform. She has a knack for building new solutions and is a prolific contributor for building tools for the Walmart Cloud Native Platform... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 5

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm IST

Stay Ahead of Disruptions : Experience Robust DNS Failover for API Gateway and Service Mesh - Gourav Yadav & Venkata Krishna Murthy Vadrevu, Intuit

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 2

In Intuit, We have API Gateway and Service Mesh platforms that are responsible for handling ~30 billion requests every day and providing ingress to ~2000 services. With this talk, we’ll see - * How Admiral manages failover configurations by creating required custom resources like globalTrafficPolicy (GTP) across 300+ clusters and provides feedback on the activity. * Manage Observability for all failover activity and provide better insights to Developers. * How Intuit achieved simplified centralized failover UI experience leveraging Kubernetes and Istio features. * Operational challenges associated with managing the failover configurations. * High Availability and DR for services across 7000+ namespaces and enabling more than 900 teams to have seamless and unified experience to manage failover endpoints.

Speakers

Venkata Krishna Murthy Vadrevu

Staff Engineer, Intuit

Venkata works as staff engineer in the Service Mesh team at Intuit. Had a previous experience designing 5G core network products over service mesh. He loves to explore solutions that simplify things for the users. Spends his free time with family and kids.

Gourav Yadav

Engineering Manager, Intuit

Gourav has over 13 years of experience working in top product companies, unicorn startups and investment banks, where he has built mission-critical systems that power some of the world's most demanding businesses. He is currently working as Engineering Manager, and leading API Gateway... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 2

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Advanced

3:45pm IST

Optimizing 5G Networks: Deploying AI/ML Workloads with the AIMLFW of O-RAN SC - Subhash Kumar Singh, Samsung

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 1

This session will explore the AI/ML Framework (AIMLFW) within O-RAN SC (O-RAN Software Community) community, designed for dynamic and efficient 5G network management. Key Topics: - Introduction to O-RAN SC and AIMLFW: Overview of O-RAN’s architecture and mission. - AI/ML Use Cases in O-RAN: Real-world applications like traffic prediction and anomaly detection, supported by AIMLFW’s scalable platform. - Architecture and Components of AIMLFW: * Kubeflow for Model Training * KServe for Model Deployment * O-RAN Specification for AI/ML Workload Deployment * Core ML Lifecycle Components - Challenges and Solutions in AI/ML Deployment: Addressing common challenges in distributed 5G environments. - Future Directions and Community Collaboration: Potential integration with Flyte and MLflow for enhanced AI/ML workflow management.

Speakers

Subhash Kumar Singh

Mr., Samsung

Subhash Kumar Singh is a Senior Chief Engineer at Samsung, where he leads the AI/ML Framework (AIMLFW) project within the O-RAN Software Community (SC). Over the years, Subhash has been actively involved in several prominent open-source communities. His extensive experience in these... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:45pm IST

From CPU to GPU: Progressive Delivery for Complex ML Deployments - Sumit Jain & Divyansh Saxena, Adobe

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 2

Applying modern deployment strategies, such as incremental releases, to complex ML architectures presents unique challenges, including managing resource constraints and ensuring cost efficiency. In the GPU environment, new replicas can take up to an hour to become operational due to extended image pull times. Despite these challenges, implementing advanced deployment strategies is crucial to minimise the impact of faulty versions, much like in traditional CPU workloads. In this session we will present on how to overcome these hurdles in GPU-based workloads. We will: - Start with traditional deployment approaches. - Progressively address advanced scenarios, such as implementing cost-efficient progressive delivery for high CPU-consuming workloads on GPU nodes and orchestrating sequential multi-resource deployments. - Reference our recent experience designing CI/CD for the GenAI applications. - Conclude by sharing cost comparison and best practices for GenAI model deployments.

Speakers

Divyansh Saxena

Software Engineer, Adobe

Divyansh is a CKAD ,Oracle and AWS certified Software Engineer currently working at Adobe with extensive experience in designing CI/CD pipelines, microservice architecture and advanced deployment strategies for smooth version releases. He previously worked in OLX and has a total of... Read More →

Sumit Jain

CI/CD Architect, Adobe

Sumit is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience in the industry, currently serving as an architect at Adobe, where he focuses on CI/CD solutions, Developer productivity, Container orchestration, Observability & Diagnostics primarily using Argo tooling and GitOps... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 2

AI_dev Sessions, MLOps + GenOps + DataOps

Content Experience Level Any

3:45pm IST

The Importance of Designing Single-Resource Controllers - Feny Mehta & Francesco Ilario, Red Hat

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 4

While anyone working with Kubernetes knows about Controllers and Custom Resources, most don't know that there are many ways of designing a Controller, but just one good practice. That practice is "single resource": your controller should only manage a single resource, instead of having a single controller for multiple resources or multiple controllers for a single resource. This talk guides you on implementation of single-resource Controllers, showcases examples of a well-designed controller and good practice of designing Single-Resource controllers by comparing it with discouraged alternative designs. This talk focuses on practical insights, on aforementioned design’s pros and cons, and how its implementation affects the efficiency of Operators. After the talk, attendees will be able to design and implement single-resource controller, and have a deeper understanding of good practices of designing a kubernetes controller

Speakers

Feny Mehta

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Feny is a Kubernetes and Golang enthusiast. She has been into the software field for about 7 years but just 3 years into the vast field of kubernetes.

Francesco Ilario

senior software engineer, Rred Hat

I'm a Senior Software Engineer passionate about Open Source, Linux, Go, and Kubernetes. In my free time, I like to learn and experiment with new technologies and go on motorcycle rides.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 4

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:45pm IST

WebAssembly Profiling with Pprof and Wzprof - Rajiv Ranjan Singh, A.P. Moller - Maersk & Naman Lakhwani, Independent

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 3

Embark on a journey to supercharge your Go applications targeting WebAssembly by harnessing the profiling capabilities of pprof and wzprof. This session unravels the intricacies of optimizing Go-powered web applications for maximum performance. Discover how pprof provides deep insights into CPU and memory usage, forming the foundation of our optimization journey. Complementing pprof, wzprof, tailored for WebAssembly, offers streamlined performance analysis during module execution. Through practical demonstrations, learn how pprof and wzprof work together to resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize computations, and manage memory effectively. This talk equips both seasoned Go developers and WebAssembly newcomers with essential tools and techniques to maximize application efficiency and speed.

Speakers

Naman Lakhwani

Independent, -

During his time at VMware, Naman was one of the early members of the VMware Tanzu's long-term support (LTS) team. He is a Kubernetes org member and closely works with the Structured-Logging Working Group in Kubernetes. He started his open-source journey with CNCF in 2021 with the... Read More →

Rajiv Singh

Rajiv Ranjan Singh, A.P. Moller - Maersk

I am working as a software engineer at A.P. Moller - Maersk. I graduated from JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bengaluru with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science & Engineering. I am fascinated by the extensive impact computers can have on solving real-world... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 3

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:45pm IST

KubeEdge DeepDive: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 6

KubeEdge project maintainers will provide an overview of KubeEdge's architecture, explore how KubeEdge, with its industry-specific use cases, introduce the graduation process from CNCF. The session will kick off with a brief introduction to edge computing and its growing importance in IoT and distributed systems. The maintainers will then delve into the core components and architecture of KubeEdge, showcasing how it extends the capabilities of Kubernetes to manage edge computing workloads efficiently. Drawing on a range of industry use cases, including smart cities, industrial IoT, and retail, the maintainers will demonstrate the real-world impact of KubeEdge. They will share success stories and insights from organizations that have deployed KubeEdge in their edge environments, highlighting the tangible benefits and transformational possibilities it offers. The maintainers will also share the advancements in technology and community governance as a new CNCF graduation project.

Speakers

Fei Xu

KubeEdge TSC Member, Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Cloud, Huawei Cloud

KubeEdge TSC Member, Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Cloud Focusing on Cloud Native,Kubernetes, Service Mesh, IoT and other fields. Currently maintaining the kubeedge project which is a CNCF incubation project. And also participating in Huawei Cloud container products. And has... Read More →

Hongbing Zhang

KubeEdge TSC Member, Chief Operating Officer, DaoCloud

Hongbing Zhang is Chief Operating Officer of DaoCloud. He is a veteran in open source areas, he founded IBM China Linux team in 2011 and organized team to make significant contributions in Linux Kernel/openstack/hadoop projects. Now he is focusing on cloud native domain and leading... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

3:45pm IST

Tying OpenFeature and OpenTelemetry for Automated Rollouts of New Services - Pranay Prateek & Vibhu Pandey, SigNoz

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 5

Rolling out a new service, adding databases clusters, are always challenging. The recommended way is to start with diverting small % of traffic to the new service and increase rollout % if things look well. If things don’t go well, the rollout % should be reduced. This is generally done through feature flags and manually monitoring the service with an observability tool. Feature flags enable remote update of rollout % without doing new deployments. OpenFeature is a new CNCF project which is trying to standardise feature flagging. It also has built-in hooks for OpenTelemetry so that feature flag values are available by default in tracing & metrics data captured by OpenTelemetry. In this talk, I will share how you can leverage open standards like OpenFeature (for feature flagging) and OpenTelemetry ( for observability) to better manage rollouts. You can enable automatic increase or decrease of rollout % by tying observability with feature flagging.

Speakers

Pranay Prateek

Maintainer, SigNoz

Pranay is one of the maintainers at SigNoz, an open source APM. He loves working on open source and observability, and has deep interest in philosophy esp. around Existentialism He is one of the organisers of OpenTelemetry APAC discussion group meetings & has been speaker in events... Read More →

Vibhu Pandey

Platform Engineering, SigNoz

Platform engineer with a twist: I'm my own first customer! Started out as a backend engineer, which helped me truly understand the meaning of platform engineering. Transitioned to this field and became a strong advocate for it as the bedrock of organizational success. Led platform... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 5

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:20pm - 4:50pm IST

Room 1

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:20pm - 4:50pm IST
Room 1

Breaks

4:50pm IST

PepsiCo’s Smart Edge Computing Delivers Anomaly Detection & Proactive Problem Solving to Boost Sales - Praseed Naduvath & Amit Mele, PepsiCo

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 1

In the era of digital transformation, PepsiCo is leading the way in integrating edge computing to ensure real-time data processing across its network. Utilizing lightweight Kubernetes solutions like K3s and RKE2, PepsiCo has built a platform that boosts computational capabilities at edge locations. Supported by Rancher and Longhorn, this platform enables efficient microservices deployment, providing the agility needed to meet dynamic market demands. A key component is the deployment of advanced ML models for camera and video inferences, which need substantial GPU resources. PepsiCo employs cutting-edge GPU sharing techniques to optimize these costly assets, improving performance and scalability while reducing costs. Join us to explore PepsiCo's edge computing strategy, its use of lightweight Kubernetes, and innovative GPU sharing techniques. Learn how PepsiCo is harnessing edge computing to drive operational excellence, sales growth and maintain a competitive edge.

Speakers

Amit Mele

Amit M, PepsiCo

I currently hold the position of Deputy Director of Integration Engineering in PepsiCo with 17 years of experience, I specialize in platform engineering and application development. With certifications in CKA, CKS, K3S, and Edge Architect, I’ve spent 6 years in platform strategy... Read More →

Praseed Naduvath

Praseed Naduvath, PepsiCo

Praseed Naduvath is a techno-manager with over 18 years in IT, specializing in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Security Specialist, he excels in managing and securing complex Kubernetes environments... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

Scalable ML Inferencing Pipeline Using K8s - Smitha Jayaram & Vinod Eswaraprasad, NVIDIA

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 5

Inference engines are used to generate prediction or deduce new information based on certain rules and data. With rise in the number of applications that benefit from inferencing, there is a definitive need to build Inferencing Services that are robust, performant (latency optimized) and can seamlessly scale on demand. In this session, we will discuss a proven set of procedures and guidelines for building and managing inference pipelines on Kubernetes. We will discuss details of the underlying hardware (GPU/CPU/memory) and K8s configuration requirements of some of the well-known Inference engines. We will demonstrate how robust and fault tolerant pipelines for LLM and RAG can be built using basic K8s constructs like operators, statefulsets and persistent volumes; along with enabling automated monitoring, triaging and remediation of the failed hardware and software components.

Speakers

Smitha Jayaram

Principal Software Engineer, Nvidia

Smitha is principal software engineer at NVIDIA focusing on software solutions for building scalable, cloud native GPU computing infrastructure. She has been working in the area of building scalable storage solutions, and cloud native platform design for the last 24 years. In the... Read More →

Vinod Eswaraprasad

Solution Engineering, NVIDIA

Vinod is principal software engineer at NVIDIA focusing on software solutions for building scalable GPU computing infrastructure. He has been working in the area of building fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed platform architecture and design for the last 26 years. In the current... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 5

AI_dev Sessions, MLOps + GenOps + DataOps

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar, Google

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 4

The rapidly evolving landscape of Machine Learning and Large Language Models demands efficient scalable ways to run distributed workloads to train, fine-tune and serve models. Ray is an Open Source framework that simplifies distributed machine learning, and Kubernetes streamlines deployment. In this introductory talk, we'll uncover how to combine Ray and Kubernetes for your ML projects. You will learn about: - Basic Ray concepts (actors, tasks) and their relevance to ML - Setting up a simple Ray cluster within Kubernetes - Running your first distributed ML training job

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google

Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 4

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:50pm IST

Reimagining Kubernetes Pods: Nested Containers with CRI-O - Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Inc

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 3

With user namespaces reaching beta in Kubernetes and new developments in CRI-O, we’re closer to making nested containers within pods more flexible and powerful. Traditionally limited by masked /proc and restricted user namespaces, this approach now offers capabilities similar to Podman. In this talk, we will explore how Kubernetes’ security features—privileged mode, rootless containers, and network isolation—can enable running containers inside pods. We’ll examine the support matrix for various configurations and discuss upcoming work to bring VM-like flexibility to Kubernetes pods for more secure and dynamic container orchestration.

Speakers

Sohan Kunkerkar

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Inc

Sohan Kunkerkar is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, bringing expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and containers. His active contributions extend to CRI-O, a container runtime engine, and various sub-projects within the Kubernetes Sig-Node community. Sohan... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 3

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

Kyverno: An Introduction and Deep Dive - Sachin Agarwal & Vishal Choudhary, Nirmata; Avinash Kumar Gupta, Razorpay; Anushka Mittal, Independent

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 6

Kubernetes policies are configurations that manage other configurations or behaviors, and Kyverno is a policy engine built for Kubernetes. In this session, you will learn about why Kubernetes requires policies and hear about real-world use cases on how policies can improve security, compliance, and save costs! First, Vishal a Kyverno maintainer will provide an introduction to the project and describe its core capabilities. Next, Avinash will share and end-user journey on operationalizing Kyverno, and Sachin and Anushka will cover advanced use cases like multi-tenancy and resource optimization for cost savings.

Speakers

Anushka Mittal

Software Developer, Nirmata

Anushka Mittal is a software developer with Nirmata. She was an LFX Summer Mentee for CNCF-Kubernetes. She worked in Intel in their Display team and with Nirmata as an intern. Previously, she has spoken at KubeCons and other conferences . She is passionate about the Kubernetes community... Read More →

Vishal Choudhary

Software Engineer, Nirmata

Vishal is a student and a software engineer, working on cloud-native projects focusing on governance and securing software supply chains for everyone! He is a maintainer of Kyverno and an active contributor at several other projects in the space. He is always looking to discuss tools... Read More →

Avinash Kumar Gupta

Head of DevOps, Razorpay

Avinash is an innovative leader with a multifaceted tech background. From Software Development to DevOps and SRE, he excels in optimizing costs, enhancing availability, and boosting developer productivity. His expertise in building self-serving tools has streamlined operations, driving... Read More →

Sachin Agarwal

Solutions Architect, Nirmata

I am passionate about cloud-native governance and think Kubernetes will become the platform that drives other platforms. I have designed solutions for large monitoring, and orchestrating cloud-native solutions and have played a pivotal role in fostering cloud-native concepts and microservice... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

4:50pm IST

Using Kubernetes for Operating Legacy, the Way to Happy Legacy Developers - Soren Davidsen, Bankdata.dk

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 2

How do we build a self-service platform that allows developers to interact with a legacy application through Kubernetes? In most other parts of the organisation, developers seek to operate on Kubernetes using the now-familiar concepts of GitOps and cloud-native ways for deploying their applications. When Kubernetes is a one-stop for deployment, the cognitive loads for platform and infrastructure can be minimized, and gives better focus to implementing business needs. In this talk, Bankdata.dk will share their experience building a Kubernetes API-driven self-service platform for operating three of their most critical legacy systems on Kubernetes, through ArgoCD and GitOps. The platform builds on the Java operator framework, and wraps operations on a portal server also running in Kubernetes. Bankdata.dk delivers all IT to 9 danish banks, including the 2nd and 3rd largest.

Speakers

Soren Davidsen

Software developer, Bankdata.dk

Soren is a software developer at Bankdata's platform team, where his focus is developer experience and automation, apart from ensuring operational robustness for the member banks. Outside of work, time is spent with family, reading hard sci-fi, and and maintaining/contributing to... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 2

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

Running GenAI Apps the Cloud Native Way - Arun Gupta, Intel

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 1

Enterprises are eager to adopt Generative AI to increase their productivity. OPEA, the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, is a new project with the Linux Foundation. It provides a framework of composable microservices for state-of-the-art GenAI systems including LLMs, data stores, and prompt engines. It provides blueprints of end-to-end workflows for popular usage such as ChatQnA, CodeGen, and RAG systems. OPEA applications leverage cloud-native architecture to simplify deployment. It even includes a friendly high-level pipeline definition language for deployment on Kubernetes. This session will introduce OPEA, key component microservices, and how GenAI applications can be composed using those microservices. The attendees will learn to start with OPEA by deploying their GenAI application on a k8s cluster. Explicit contribution opportunities will be shared with the attendees. You'll also see an open source OPEA playground running on k8s, and how to contribute your components to it.

Speakers

Arun Gupta

VP/GM, Open Ecosystem, Intel

Arun Gupta is vice president of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Any

5:40pm IST

Search/Vector DBs as Microservices: Pros and Cons - Radu Gheorghe, Vespa.ai

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 4

Traditionally, search engines and vector DBs (the boundaries got blurry lately) are deployed as monoliths in a cluster, managed by a StatefulSet and a lot of technology-specific logic. Newer use-cases (e.g. RAG, semantic search in general) implicitly push for more stateless work: e.g. generate embeddings on the fly, re-rank, local LLMs. Decoupling this work and managing it separately makes more sense now, but is it worth the complexity? This session takes a deep dive into the architectures of search engines (mainly Vespa, but Elasticsearch, Solr and others will be in the picture, too) to highlight both pros and cons of separating concerns in information retrieval. And how much separation is good for which scenario. In the end, you should have a better idea about both the technology and the deployment type that fits your use-case best.

Speakers

Radu Gheorghe

Software Engineer, Vespa.ai

Radu is in the search space for 13 years, mainly on Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch and more recently Vespa.ai. Helps users with both the relevance and the maintenance side of retrieval, and it's the latter that naturally leads to Kubernetes. Enjoys education in all its forms (training... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 4

AI_dev Sessions, Data Engineering + Management

Content Experience Level Any

5:40pm IST

Fantastic KEPs and Where to Find Them: A Guide to Kubernetes Enhancements! - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 5

We, Priyanka and Jason, have been involved in Kubernetes release cycles for years, taking on roles from shadow to Release Lead and Emeritus Advisor. While we've worked with Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) throughout this time, it wasn’t until the 1.29 release, while prepping for press interviews, that we really dug into them—and wow, did we learn a lot! KEPs aren’t just feature proposals; they give you a peek into the entire lifecycle of a feature—designs, alternatives, testing, and final code. They’re a goldmine for understanding Kubernetes, whether you’re new or a seasoned contributor. We’ll walk you through some real KEPs and share our approach to reading and making sense of them. If you’re curious about Kubernetes and want to explore its features more deeply, join us. There’s so much to discover, and we’re excited to share what we’ve learned with you!

Speakers

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, Kubernetes GitHub Admin, v1.31 Emeritus Advisor, v1.29 Release Lead, SUSE

Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, contributing to Kubernetes via Release, ContribEx, Testing, and CLI SIGs. She is the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes v1.31, Release Lead for v1.29, GitHub Admin, and Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx). She... Read More →

Jason

Kubernetes New Org Membership Coordinator – SIG Contributer Experience, Janusworx

Jason Braganza is a seasoned IT consultant with over 20 years of expertise in designing solutions for SMBs. He is currently focused on the path to learning and promoting FOSS. He mentors young folk in Linux, communication & blogging at the Linux Users' Group of Durgapur. He has also... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 5

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

5:40pm IST

Effortless Clustering: Rethinking ClusterAPI with Systemd-Sysext - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 3

Through the years, ClusterAPI has evolved into an indispensable tool, streamlining the lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters across multiple infrastructure providers. The current approach adds a layer of complexity at the image-building stage, presenting users with a multitude of options. But what if we challenge this conventional approach? This presentation introduces a paradigm shift in ClusterAPI image building, leveraging systemd-sysext and image composability. Join me in this talk as we explore how this innovative approach could help cope with the never-ending matrix of Kubernetes versions and Distro images, significantly enhancing usability for users managing their workloads.

Speakers

Sayan Chowdhury

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Sayan is a Linux Software Engineer at Microsoft and a maintainer of Flatcar Container Linux. As a Release Manager, he works to maintain and build Flatcar. With a strong passion for open source, Sayan has been involved in other communities, namely Python, Fedora and Mozilla. Sayan... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 3

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

Introduction to Vitess: Scalable Database for Modern Applications - Manan Gupta & Harshit Gangal, PlanetScale

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 6

Welcome to the Vitess introductory session! In this talk, you’ll discover what Vitess is and explore its high-level architecture along with the powerful features it offers. We’ll also delve into how Vitess is able to serve query traffic as a distributed database. Finally, we’ll cover the latest updates in recent Vitess releases and give you a sneak peek into the exciting features planned for the next release.

Speakers

Harshit Gangal

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

A technology enthusiast with a keen interest in distributed systems. He has been involved in database scalability for 8+ years and is associated with CNCF graduated project Vitess. He is the maintainer for Vitess and contributes significantly to the query serving part of Vitess. Currently... Read More →

Manan Gupta

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

Manan Gupta is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he works on the Vitess project and focuses on cluster management, high-availability features, and query-serving. He is a maintainer of Vitess and has a passion for designing and implementing robust and scalable solutions that... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 6

Maintainer Track

5:40pm IST

Faster Deployments at PepsiCo with Self-Service Continuous Delivery Using the App of Apps Pattern - Chaitanya G & Prasanti Kadiyala, PepsiCo

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST

Room 2

At PepsiCo, we are committed to enhancing efficiency and developer experience by continuously reviewing our processes and systems. As part of streamlining our deployment workflows, we transitioned to the GitOps methodology and adopted ArgoCD, a powerful GitOps tool with a feature-rich web UI that facilitates intuitive management of deployments, rollbacks, and application health. By leveraging ArgoCD's App of Apps pattern, we could define a bootstrapper Application, enabling the automation of application deployment. This approach allowed us to achieve self-service Continuous Delivery, empowering teams to independently manage their deployments while maintaining centralized control and visibility. Join us, as we share some of the challenges, including managing dependencies, configuring environments and ensuring consistency across deployments. Additionally, we will highlight the strategies and best practices, including the implementation of App of Apps pattern and the integration of Helm.

Speakers

Chaitanya G

Chaitanya G, PepsiCo

With 15 years of extensive experience in the IT industry, I serve as the DevSecOps lead at PepsiCo, spearheading the holistic development and implementation of DevOps, GitOps, and Agile strategies within the organization.

Prasanti Kadiyala

PepsiCo, Sr Analyst, PepsiCo

A seasoned DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, with deep understanding of cloud computing, containerization, and infrastructure as code, with a particular focus on Kubernetes and GitOps. Started my career as a .NET developer, where I gained a solid... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:40pm - 6:15pm IST
Room 2

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

6:15pm IST

Networking + Evening Reception

Wednesday December 11, 2024 6:15pm - 7:45pm IST

TBA

Wednesday December 11, 2024 6:15pm - 7:45pm IST
TBA

Experiences