KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.