Data on Kubernetes Community

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

This session walks through the basics of how data is represented in Kubernetes, from the grounds up and explores how databases - as a top consumers of data in this space - are handling multi-node and multi-cluster operations. we will review how operators help and why having a data layer is important when building a kubernetes-native application.

BIO

With over 15 years of IT experience from core datacenter infrastructure to advanced cloud technologies, Barak leads ionir’s product and solutions portfolio, engaging with customers, partners, and acts as kubernetes-native data advocate.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

- Running Data on Kubernetes is fun and easy

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

The rise of Kubernetes has triggered an exponential growth of metric and trace data. This talk explores capturing and persisting telemetry data from Kubernetes apps without any specific code changes using the OpenTelemetry Operator.

BIO

James Blackwood-Sewell is currently a Principal Developer Advocate at TimescaleDB in Sydney. Before that he meandered through the PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and Prometheus landscapes as the Chief Architect at Jirotech.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Storing observability data from Kubernetes on Kubernetes doesn't need to be hard - sometimes you don't even need to change your code to do it!

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

In Kubernetes, it can be difficult to keep application API keys, access tokens and passwords safe. There are several different approaches to solving this problem, and in this talk Kim will demonstrate how to install Hashicorp Vault and the Secrets Store CSI Driver so that your applications can access secrets stored in ephemeral volumes.

BIO

Kim is technologist and educator, and she currently works as a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. Kim lives in Denver, Colorado in the USA.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

How the Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver with Vault uses Kubernetes volumes

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Welcome Helm users! CNCF Flux has a best-in-class way to use Helm according to GitOps principles. For you, that means improved security, reliability, and velocity - no more being on the pager on the weekends or having painful troubleshooting or rollback when things go wrong.

Built on Kubernetes controller-runtime, Flux’s Helm Controller is an example of a mature software agent that uses Helm’s SDK to full effect.

Flux’s biggest addition to Helm is a structured declaration layer for your releases that automatically gets reconciled to your cluster based on your configured rules:

In addition, Scott will show how to use Helm Charts to run reliable stateful workloads.

If you want to follow along with Scott’s demo, here are a couple of resources to help you prepare ahead of time:

BIO

Scott is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist and Developer Advocate at Weaveworks. He co-founded the Basekamp art and research group in 1998 and the massively collaborative Plausible Artworlds international network.

In technology he enjoys helping develop open source software that anyone can use, most recently projects in the cloud native landscape including co-maintaining Helm and Flux. In daily decisions, large or small, he tries to help make the world a better place for everyone.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Scott will take you on a tour of Flux’s Helm Controller, share the additional benefits Flux adds to Helm and then walk through a live demo of how to manage helm releases using Flux.

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Explanation of how the how-to-dok project evolved into rap-god-api

BIO

An aspiring tech enthusiast who's massively into Data Science, Kubernetes and Operations(DevOps)

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

This talk will provide a high-level overview of Kubernetes, Helm charts and how they can be used to deploy Apache Druid clusters of any size.

We'll review how Kubernetes functionality enables resilience and self-healing, historical tiers through node group affinity, middle manager scaling through Kubernetes autoscaling to optimize ingestion capacity and some of the gotchas along the way.

BIO

Sergio Ferragut is a database veteran turned Developer Advocate at Imply. His experience includes 16 years at Teradata in professional services and engineering roles.

He has direct experience in building analytics applications spanning the retail, supply chain, pricing optimization and IoT spaces.

Sergio has worked at multiple technology start-ups including APL and Splice Machine where he helped guide product design and field messaging.

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Most K8s users find stateful K8s deployments challenging, to say the least, when persistent data is involved the declarative, portable, self-healing nature that we are accustomed to in stateless deployments is replaced with complexity, resiliency issues and portability restrictions. While K8s is a standard, portable between environments, data is restricted to its physical location and its provider. In this session, we will review the challenges facing stateful K8s, and how to free data to enjoy the same level of portability as the application layer.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

To assure stateful deployments enjoy the same declarative nature we came to love in stateless deployments, we the K8s users should adopt technologies that do not restrict data to a physical location or to a specific public cloud vendor, designing portable agnostic K8s apps should be

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Kubernetes is massively powerful, but there are still a large number of details that are needed to get right before really leveraging to build a robust data infrastructure. I'll dive into the complexities we've uncovered at Plural and how we're solving them, from cloud configuration to observability to managing upgrade lifecycles.

BIO

Career backend engineer turned tech founder

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

In this session, we'll be talking about a new open source project in the CNCF community i.e. the Cloud Native Glossary.

I'll be talking about how one can get involved & start their contributions in this initiative.

If you are someone wanting to get involved with the CNCF community, this is your chance!!!

BIO

I'm Kunal Verma, a sophomore pursuing Bachelor's in IT from India. I am a DevOps enthusiast and also passionate about Open-source!

Currently, I am exploring the DevOps and cloud-native ecosystem and contributing to the Kubernetes, Data On Kubernetes Community & the Layer5 community.

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Eventually the time will come to run a stateful app in Kubernetes. This can be a scary thing adding more moving parts to a Kubernetes cluster and deploying as well as managing your app on Kubernetes when it requires state.

In this talk Steve Buchanan will take you through a journey of understanding how storage works in Kubernetes, how to Persistent state with pods, what storage options are available with Azure Kubernetes Service, best practices, and a demo of deploying a stateful app to AKS.

BIO

Steve Buchanan is a Principal Program Manager with a leading global tech giant focused on improving the cloud. He is a Pluralsight author, the author of eight technical books, and a former 10-time Microsoft MVP.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Overview of Storage in Kubernetes covering Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes, & Persistent Volume Claims. Overview of Azure Storage, Best Practices to running stateful apps in Kubernetes.