KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024: Full Schedule

In-person
11-12 December
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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

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

12:24pm 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

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

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

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

11:30am IST

A Deep Dive Into the Current Runtime Security Landscape - Ankur Kothiwal, CERN

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

Room 3

The most widely used runtime enforcement techniques today are prone to attackers. Many of these techniques work on the principle of stopping or killing a process in response to an attack, which relies at the mercy of an exploit writer putting little to no effort into avoiding triggering these detection mechanisms. Our discussion will focus on various aspects of runtime security: how it is currently implemented, its shortcomings, and the performance implications associated with these approaches. We'll explore a various range of cloud-based runtime security implementations. We'll expose the attacker's perspective, demonstrating how they can bypass these common runtime security measures. This will equip you to anticipate and counter their tactics. Finally, we will cover recent popular attacks and how appropriate runtime security measures can prevent them in the future.

Speakers

Ankur Kothiwal

Computing Engineer, CERN

Ankur Kothiwal is a Computing Engineer at CERN. He is actively involved in open source, currently serving as a maintainer and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, he participated in and mentored various open source outreach programs and has also been a committee member for KubeCon Paris... Read More →

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

Security

Content Experience Level Any

11:30am IST

Tutorial: Flatcar Container Linux Deep Dive: Deploying, Managing, and Automating Workloads Securely - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:30am - 12:55pm IST

Room 5

Flatcar is an operating system purpose-built for securely running container workloads. It ensures security by providing essential tools, reducing the OS size with minimal packages, and making the /usr directory immutable. This tutorial is designed for ops and DevOps professionals, offering step-by-step guidance on getting started with Flatcar. You’ll explore how to deploy it using Terraform, configure it with Ignition, and automate OS updates via Nebraska, enabling you to "set it and forget it.

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 →

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:30am - 12:55pm IST
Room 5

Tutorials, Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

11:35am IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Non-Intrusive Multi-Tenant Auth & Authz with Istio, OAuth2Proxy, and OPA - Adarsh Kumar Singh & Raghuram Sripada, Hitachi Vantara

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:35am - 11:40am IST

Room 1

Simplify authentication and authorization across applications, focusing solely on business logic while ensuring secure services. Our solution features a multitenant proxy to streamline authentication on the SAAS platform. Istio service mesh intercepts every request, with a multitenant-aware proxy (enhanced OAuth2Proxy and caching) connecting to a centralized Identity Provider (IDP) for authentication. Post-authentication, the proxy collaborates with an authorization agent like OPA, passing context for dynamic policy evaluation. Authentication and Authorization are decoupled from the code, allowing developers to use a centrally managed auth service. This shift lets development teams concentrate on business functions, leaving security rules to security analysts, saving time and resources. Externalized authorization management offers runtime controls, including policy management, enforcement, and decision modeling for fine-grained access to applications, services, transactions and data.

Speakers

Adarsh Kumar Singh

Software development engineer, Hitachi Vantara

With over 6 years in software engineering, I specialize in Authentication and authorization for diverse backend applications, utilizing multiple Identity Providers (IDP) through OpenID Connect (OIDC) and Federated Authentication. My expertise extends to building multiple node.js applications... Read More →

Raghuram Sripada

Sr. Director Engineering, Hitachi Vantara

I'm a passionate Engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and managing enterprise-grade solutions. I currently lead a talented team at Hitachi, where we develop core platform components for Hybrid-Cloud Data Infrastructure and DataOps products.

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:35am - 11:40am IST
Room 1

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Any

11:40am IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Have No Fear When Boskos Is Here - Amulya Meka, IBM

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:40am - 11:45am IST

Room 1

Doesn't it get messy when resources are left behind after a test?How do we manage the life cycle of the infrastructure resources? Have you wondered if there's a way to handle it? You are at the right place then, welcome to the world of Boskos where resource management is easier than before. In this talk, we will explore some challenges faced in Continuous Integration(CI) with testing on various infrastructures. It will give an overview on how to use the resource manager service, Boskos to help you better manage your infrastructure and make sure that no stales are left unattended.

Speakers

Amulya Meka

Cloud Engineer, IBM India Private Limited

Amulya Meka is a Software Engineer at IBM. She works on open source projects in the SIG Cluster lifecycle community and has also worked in the container runtime ecosystem.

Thursday December 12, 2024 11:40am - 11:45am IST
Room 1

⚡ Lightning Talks, SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

Content Experience Level Any

12:20pm IST

Rapper's Delight- A Hip Hop Journey Through Cloud Native - Bart Farrell, Learnk8s & Anushka Saxena, Independent

Thursday December 12, 2024 12:20pm - 12:55pm IST

Room 2

With 178 projects, various SIGs & countless ways to contribute, it may be confusing to know where to start in the vast world of cloud-native tech. With my former intern Anushka's help, we'll break down barriers & share our personal journeys within the CNCF ecosystem. Whether you're considering GSoC, joining the shadow release program, fixing a typo in documentation, there's a place for you. We'll use hip hop elements—MCing, DJing, break dancing, art, & knowledge to illustrate how cloud-native is a union of diverse components. You'll get practical advice on taking that crucial first step, with concrete examples of how people from different backgrounds have done it—writing blogs, designing the Kubernetes Mandala, singing at Kuberoke, playing guitar at KubeJam or making their first pull request. By the end, you'll have actionable steps & the confidence to begin or deepen your cloud-native journey. Join us to celebrate the diversity of contributions & get inspired—plus, there'll be a rap!

Speakers

Bart Farrell

Freelance Content Creator, Learnk8s

Bart Farrell is a CNCF Ambassador and Freelance Content Creator, event host, and community consultant. He brings creativity and passion to everything he does, whether it's rapping about Kubernetes or producing creative videos to bring technical concepts to life. Bart engages with... Read More →

Anushka Saxena

Cloud-Native Enthusiast, Job seeker

Learning and unlearning everyday to be a force for good.

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

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

2:55pm IST

AstraZeneca’s Cloud Native Machine Learning Platform - Nithin R, AstraZeneca

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 1

Showcasing AstraZeneca’s cutting-edge Enterprise Cloud Native Machine Learning Platform. It is built on Kubernetes and integrates a diverse array of cloud-native tools, enabling seamless development, deployment, and management of machine learning workflows. My presentation will delve into the architecture, key components, real-world applications, and the integration with Cloudability for cost management, highlighting its role in empowering data science teams and accelerating innovation within AstraZeneca. The tech stack involves Kubeflow, Weights & Biases, Ray, Volcano Scheduler, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Harbor, NetApp Ontap FSx, Kyverno, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Milvus, etc

Speakers

Nithin R

Nithin, AstraZeneca

Building Enterprise AI Platform using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Ray Cluster, Volcano Scheduler, Apache Spark, Deepspeed, Argo, Harbor, GitHub Actions, NVIDIA DGX A100, Milvus.

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Any

2:55pm IST

Bias-Busting AI with a Cloud Native Approach - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 4

As Large Language Models gain prominence, the discussion around AI fairness and ethics has never been more pressing. Cloud Native is emerging as the standard infrastructure for training, deploying, and serving AI workloads, but its role doesn't stop there—it can also play a crucial part in minimizing bias in AI models. This session will delve into: - Mapping Cloud Native principles like attestation and supply chain fundamentals to AI workloads, enhancing explainability and providing actionable recourse. - Leveraging Kubernetes' reconciliation loop to offer feedback that corrects false positives in AI output. - Utilizing the distributed nature of cloud computing to decentralize AI power, promoting more responsible automation. This session is designed for AI practitioners seeking insights from the Cloud Native tech stack, infrastructure beginners looking to understand its extensibility, and experts and maintainers aiming to extend the boundaries of current Cloud Native infrastructure.

Speakers

Rajas Kakodkar

Staff Engineer at Broadcom | Tech Lead at CNCF TAG Runtime, Broadcom

Rajas is a staff engineer at Broadcom and a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Runtime. He is actively involved in the AI working group in the CNCF. He is a Kubernetes contributor and has been a maintainer of the Kube Proxy Next Gen Project. He has also served as the... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 4

AI_dev Sessions, Responsible AI: Ethics + Security + Governance in AI

Content Experience Level Any

2:55pm IST

How a Small Step Towards OSS Turned Out Into a Giant Leap to Cloud Native Adoption for an Enterprise - Ashwin Gupta & Shubham Bansal, Fidelity International

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST

Room 2

Fidelity's journey to cloud started about a decade ago with Cloud Foundry. Open-Source adoption was our first step towards digital transformation and from there today we sit on a CNCF tools stack of Kubernetes, Backstage, Harbor, Elastic, Postgres, Argo, Kafka, Helm, Open Telemetry, Jenkins, TF, Cilium, AWS, Azure, et al. Neil Armstrong once said, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" about his first step on moon; so was the case of Fidelity with CF adoption towards wider adoption. It was never an easy sail towards Open Source CNCF landscape adoption since Fidelity being a global financially regulated organization, has its own challenges for industry regulations and embedded culture. We have divided and conquered the goal taking on the challenges unified but in distributed work streams across the organization. In this talk we would like to share this journey, experience, and learnings with others to help their adoptions of cloud native tools at an enterprise scale.

Speakers

Ashwin Gupta

Technical Associate Director - Cloud Engineering and Operations at Fidelity International Limited, Fidelity International Limited

Ashwin Gupta has a total IT industry experience of close to 2 decades. He works as a strategist and an engineer with capability to solve any problem through coding and automation while adhering to 12-factors principle and following extreme programming practices. His experiences spread... Read More →

Shubham Bansal

Distinguished Engineer - Fidelity International, Fidelity International

Shubham is a Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in Cloud, Platform Engineering and Developer Productivity. He is working as part of Global Engineering at Fidelity International where he works on incorporating and building new tech, platforms, and capabilities. Currently... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm IST
Room 2

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

3:45pm IST

From User to Maintainer: My Journey with Flux CD - Steve Wade, Independent

Thursday December 12, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST

Room 2

Join me as I share my transformative journey from a regular user to a maintainer of Flux CD, a popular GitOps tool for Kubernetes. Open-source software thrives on the contributions of passionate individuals who go above and beyond to support and enhance the community. My journey with Flux CD began as a user, where I leveraged its powerful GitOps capabilities to streamline Kubernetes deployments. However, my desire to give back led me to become a maintainer. In this talk, I will recount my path, the challenges I faced, and the invaluable lessons I learned. Attendees will gain insights into the inner workings of open-source communities, the responsibilities of maintainers, and practical advice for those aspiring to contribute at a deeper level. This session is perfect for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone interested in open-source contributions and Kubernetes.

Speakers

Steven

From free-kicks to git commits, Independents

Steve Wade was a founding engineer at KSOC, a Kubernetes security startup. He held platform leadership roles at UnderWrite Me and Mettle, implementing GitOps for self-service platforms. As a Consultant at Apprenda, he provided Kubernetes consultancy and training worldwide. Steve has... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 3:45pm - 4:20pm IST
Room 2

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

Contributing to Istio : View from an LFX Mentee's Eyes - Adil Mohamed M P, Independent

Thursday December 12, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST

Room 2

Contributing to open-source projects like Istio can be a transformative experience, but how do you begin? In this session, Adil Mohamed M P, a computer engineering student from India and an LFX mentee, will share his personal journey on how the LFX Mentorship program has eased his cloud-native debut. He will share his contributor experience to one of the most popular CNCF projects, Istio, and how he was part of the latest Service mesh buzz word "Ambient Mesh". Adil will discuss how the LFX mentorship program has equipped him with the skills to excel in open-source development and collaboration. Whether you’re a beginner looking to contribute or an experienced developer seeking to give back, this session will offer valuable tips, and a roadmap for making meaningful contributions to cloud-native projects.

Speakers

Adil Mohamed M P

Graduated CNCF Mentee at Istio, not working

Adil, a computer engineering student from India, is an LFX Mentee who has significantly contributed to Istio Ambient Mesh. At his college, he is part of the tech team at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center (IEDC), working on new projects and startups. He is also... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 4:50pm - 5:25pm IST
Room 2

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any