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Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. You can use Apache APISIX to handle traditional north-south traffic, as well as east-west traffic between services. It can also be used as a k8s ingress controller. In this talk, Jintao Zhang will introduce how to run Apache APISIX on k8s and how to use Apache APISIX as an ingress controller.

Apache APISIX committer, Kubernetes ingress-nginx reviewer

As an engineer, should I consider getting a certification? What makes a certification valuable to me or my employer? How do I pick which one to get? Will these really help me build stateful applications on Kubernetes?   In this talk, we will discuss the relative value of certifying on different technologies, with a specific focus on CNCF certifications for administration of k8s and developing Kubernetes-native applications.    In this session we will discuss:   - The pros and cons of getting certified - Why your current and future employers might care about your certifications  - What are other things you can do to make yourself a more attractive candidate in this cloud-native landscape    And of course, since Keith is a long-time database geek, we'll talk about how these might help you (or not) build stateful applications on Kubernetes.

Keith McClellan is the Director of Partner Solutions Engineering at Cockroach Labs. He is responsible for building CockroachDB-based solutions with our largest technology partners, including Kubernetes and the broader open-source ecosystem. He spearheaded Cockroach Labs' Kubernetes operator project, acting as the technical lead on the project and being a primary contributor to making that the best way to run CockroachDB on Kubernetes. Prior to Cockroach Labs, Keith has held technical leadership positions in cloud-native and big data companies including DataStax, Mesosphere (now D2IQ), and Platfora.

Adam is a Solutions Architect at Styra, helping companies adopt Cloud Native tech. Coming from a Java-dev background he is most excited about the space where software development and operations meet. When he is not flying in DCS World he is hacking on CI/CD, GitOps and Kubernetes Operators.

As Kubernetes is becoming the infrastructure platform of choice in many companies, database teams are struggling with the question whether to run databases on the cluster or outside of it. This talk will not answer that age-old question. I would rather focus everyone's attention to the developer experience. Modern CI/CD processes need development teams to be flexible and able to deliver without having to ask other teams for resources. So how can a database team provide reliable service while upping their game in DevEx? The answer in Kubernetes-land is providing Custom Resources backed by operators which handle database provisioning on or off the cluster in a way that fits into a GitOps CI/CD workflow. In this talk I will explain the concepts and dive into how you can make your own operator to provide a self-service interface for developers.

A typical user's journey with Crossplane starts with provisioning infrastructure using the Kubernetes API, then evolves to composing infrastructure into higher level abstractions, and culminates with building a complete platform using packages. Crossplane packages are distributed as OCI images, meaning that a platform API can easily be reproduced in any cluster, and they can declare dependencies, which specify the lower level services that support the higher level abstractions. This functionality allows for companies to distribute their product in an infrastructure provider-agnostic manner, and for infrastructure admins to build internal platforms made up of both generic and organization-specific components.

Daniel Mangum is a senior software engineer at Upbound where he is a maintainer of Crossplane, an open source CNCF project. He has held leadership positions in the Kubernetes community, and is an active participant in multiple other open source efforts. When not working in the Cloud Native space, Daniel spends his time writing, speaking, and building tooling for the RISC-V ISA.

This talk will be useful for folks building an internal infrastructure platform, as well as folks that build a product that depends on some form of infrastructure (databases, caches, blob storage, etc.). We will cover how to both build and consume packages, paving the way for advanced usage of Crossplane.

Embedded analytics are a major source of value to application users. Virtually every SaaS offering has them or is adding them now. This talk shows how to build low latency analytic applications on Kubernetes with ClickHouse, a popular, open source data warehouse. We'll start with the ClickHouse Kubernetes Operator to manage data warehouses, then cover ingest and visualization options to build a complete apps. Since this is a K8s talk, we'll of course geek out on the underlying plumbing as well.

Robert is database geek. He started with M204 in the early 1980s and is now working on ClickHouse 20 years later, with digressions into virtualization, SaaS, and security topics. He met up with Kubernetes in 2018 at VMware. Robert is CEO of Altinity, which enables enterprises to use ClickHouse successfully.

1. What are embedded analytics? 2. How can you build them with Kubernetes? 3. What are some of the design issues you'll need to consider?

Kubernetes is a powerful set of abstractions, but it's flexibility and configurability means it's pretty insecure by default. In this hands on talk, I'll show how an attacker can expand the blast radius of an exploit from a vulnerable web application in a container to owning the entire cluster. I'll also cover some ways in which you can prevent this happening to you !

Matt Jarvis is a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences across the world, including Open Infrastructure Summit, FOSDEM and All Things Open, a past winner of the OpenStack Outstanding Community Contributor award, and in 2021 was named one of the Top 100 influencers in Open Technologies in the UK. Matt is also a board director of OpenUK, and the founder of Cloud Native Manchester and Cloud Natives UK.

Kubernetes security considerations

Longhorn is a lightweight, reliable, and powerful distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. It is an open source tool that can be installed on any Kubernetes Cluster. It has features like incremental snapshots and backup that can be backed up to NFS or S3-compatible object storage. In this talk, you will learn about Longhorn, its features including backup/recovery, and how you can take maximum benefit for your persistent Kubernetes volumes. You will also be shown a UI to understand the features in a much better way.

Saiyam is working as Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo with a focus on defining the Civo cloud platform for simplifying Kubernetes and making it accessible for developers. Previously at Walmart Labs, Oracle, and hp, Saiyam has worked on many facets of k8s including machine learning platform, scaling, multi-cloud, managed k8s services, and k8s documentation. He’s worked on implementing Rancher and Influx in different organizations. When not coding, Saiyam works on contributing to the community by writing blogs and organizing local meetups for k8s, rancher, Influx. He is also an Influx ACE, Traefik Ambassador, CNCF ambassador, and can be reached on twitter @saiyampathak.

The audience will get to know about Longhorn, what it is, its features and how to use it. If time permits I can walk through the UI that will give more insights into the Product.

More and more applications are powered by Machine Learning (ML) models. Where the gap between Software Engineers and a Production environment on Kubernetes is already big, the gap between Data Scientists and that same production environment is enormous. In this talk, we will provide you with a framework for translating ML requirements into infrastructural requirements and concrete Kubernetes resources. In the first half of this talk, we will discuss how ML applications are different from most other applications, how ML workloads are structured and how ML requirements translate into Kubernetes resource configurations. In the second half of the talk, we will put this theory into practice. We will do a live demonstration of an ML Deployment on Kubernetes using Istio, Knative and Kubeflow Serving.

Lars Suanet is a Software Engineer at Deeploy. With his background in Computer Science and his interest in AI, he tries to bridge the gap between Data Scientists and DevOps. His personal interests are Chinese culture, Distributed systems, Meditation and Plants.

In this event we will introduce Kubernetes, containers and the cloud native initiative. You will get an overview of the benefits of containers running on Kubernetes and the new mindset that it requires, a new mindset driven by the cultural change the cloud native initiative is promoting. Concepts related to microservices and automation will be covered giving an overview of the different kinds of open tools you can find in the cloud native ecosystem to build an run modern applications in the cloud. Sections 1.- Introduction to Kubernetes & Cloud Native 2.- Docker & Containers. Microservices 3.- Kubernetes. The container orchestrator 4.- Cloud Native with Kubernetes. Modern applications 5.- Cloud Native tool landscape

From 0 to 60/100 (depending on where you live) in just 2h! It may sound "slow" if you talk about cars, but when you talk about databases in general and Postgres in particular, it isn't! From an empty Kubernetes cluster, you will leave the session with one or more Postgres clusters created, all with: high availability and automatic failover; automated backups with lifecycle; distributed logs with lifecycle; Web Console to manage it all; connection pooling; tuned Postgres and connection pool configurations; and any number of installed Postgres extensions. All this in just a single session! BYOK (Bring Your Own Kubernetes): come prepared to the session with a Kubernetes cluster, and ready to create YAMLs and deploy via GitOps; and to do the same using the Web Console, for point-and-click lovers. And learn how to automate Postgres Day2 operations! This session is a tutorial on production quality Postgres clusters based on the open source StackGres.io platform. Go from Zero to Postgres Hero in just one Hands-on-Lab! 

Álvaro is a passionate database and software developer. He founded and works as the Founder & CEO of OnGres (https://ongres.com). He has been dedicated to PostgreSQL and R&D in databases for two decades. An open source advocate and developer at heart, Álvaro is a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community, to which he has contributed founding the non-profit Fundación PostgreSQL (https://postgresql.fund) and the Spanish PostgreSQL User Group. You can find him frequently speaking at PostgreSQL, database, cloud, and Java conferences. Every year, Álvaro travels approximately three-four times around the globe—in 2020 (or now more likely 2021 due to COVID-19), he will hit the milestone of having delivered 100 tech talks. AWS Data Hero (2019).