KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024: Full Schedule

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11-12 December
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9:55am IST

Keynote: And the Service Is Now Part of the Mesh! A Case Study of Service Mesh Adoption at Flipkart - I V Prasad Reddy & Purushotham Malipedda, Flipkart

Wednesday December 11, 2024 9:55am - 10:10am IST

Auditorium

Istio based ServiceMesh offers a lot of features. However realisation of these features differ in their requirement for adoption levels. Adoption of Service Mesh for a single service, all services in a call graph, all services of the organisation unlocks different sets of features. At Flipkart, leading e-commerce service in India, with ~6K services and a scale of 15 Mil RPS, practical constraints, scale challenges and failures of attempts at traditional onboarding, pushed us to arrive at a ZERO touch, operator powered and phased onboarding model. This approach expedited our Public Cloud bursting, Disaster Recovery solutions and unlocked features like service graph, securing east-west traffic etc.. With the services already onboarded to mesh, they are able to leverage mesh features with minimal and incremental changes that increased the usage. In this talk we like to share our journey of adopting Service Mesh, challenges faced and how adoption progressed with the operator model

Speakers

Purushotham Malipedda

Platform Engineering at Flipkart, Flipkart Internet Pvt Ltd.

Standardising non functional concerns of micro services with service mesh platform

I V Prasad Reddy

Mr, Flipkart

I. V. Prasad Reddy is a Software Architect working with Flipkart. He leads Network Services team within Platform Engineering group which manages Load Balancing, Service Discovery, Network Isolation. He is passionate about platforms and has recently been working on modernising the... Read More →

Wednesday December 11, 2024 9:55am - 10:10am IST
Auditorium

Keynote Sessions, Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

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

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

201

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

Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin

Director Accelerator Solutions, Marvell

Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin serves as the Director of Accelerator Solutions at Marvell Technologies. Leading a software team, he focuses on Packet Accelerators, Transport and Network Security stacks, VPP software, and DPU solutions, with a particular emphasis on 5G, Security, and Networking... Read More →

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
201

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

B202B

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
B202B

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

201

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
201

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

B202B

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
B202B

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

B101A

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
B101A

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Auditorium

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
Auditorium

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

305

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
305

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Auditorium

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
Auditorium

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

201

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

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

I'm a Software Engineer passionate about Open Source, Linux, Go, and Kubernetes.

Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
201

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Auditorium

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
Auditorium

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

305

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
305

AI_dev Sessions, MLOps + GenOps + DataOps

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

B202B

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
B202B

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

B101A

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
B101A

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

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

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

B202B

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
B202B

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

B101A

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
B101A

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate