Data on Kubernetes Community

// Abstract: PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance, but a production-grade deployment requires many complementary technologies to the database core: high availability and automated failover, backup and recovery, monitoring and alerting, centralized access control and logging, connection pooling, and so on.

Bart Farrell interviews Asier Azaceta, Cloud Security Architect in the IBM European Centre of Competence

For our 11th installation of the data on k8s meetup, we talk with both Sr Tech Evangelists Jeremy Tanner and David McKay from Packet about doing data wrong on k8s.

// Key takeaways:

Data is hard with Kubernetes, especially when adding bare metal to the equation. Attendees will leave with an idea of some pain points they can avoid.

// Abstract:

In this talk, we'll look at great ways to lose data (like running databases on Kubernetes and bare metal), pain points for developers, lessons we've learned, and have a Festivus in September airing of grievances sessions for those who have felt this pain.

// Jeremy Bio

He / Him. Helps developers understand bare metal at Packet, an Equinix company.

Based in Austin, TX and eagerly awaiting a time he can again appear in a city near you. Always an advocate (Developer, Community, BBQ). Likes Motorcycles, bicycles, and mechanical keyboards. Not Questlove.

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// David Bio

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Packet and a member of the Kubernetes org and release team.

As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.

With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways.

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This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS (http://www.openEBS.io) - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus (https://litmuschaos.io/) - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of August 2020, MayaData is the fifth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData software include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/

// Final thoughts

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You can also check out some of our old meetups on youtube here:

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For our 10th installation of the data on k8s community meetup, we talk with CEO of Mayadata Evan Powell about container attached storage, Portworx acquisition, openEBS, can open source make it, and we geek out a bit with questions from the audience.

// Key takeaways:

Kubernetes - extended by CAS and other software - is not just solving the problems of running data on Kubernetes, it is fast becoming the preferred platform for data.

// Abstract:

Back in 2018 the CNCF published a blog we wrote called Container Attached Storage. Today - September 22nd 2020 - a new blog is appearing on their site updating Container Attached Storage. https://bit.ly/2FYGgeR 

This talk borrows very heavily from that blog. What is CAS? Why would anyone use Kubernetes itself for storage? How does a microservices architecture help? Why is shared storage at the end of the road - though still used underneath CAS sometimes?

// Evan Bio

Evan has helped conceptualize, fund, position, lead and scale a few eventually important enterprise infrastructure software companies which were acquired. He is also a part time investor and mentor.

Evan is currently CEO at MayaData. MayaData enables the use of Kubernetes as a data layer and sponsors open source projects including the CNCF project OpenEBS and the LitmusChaos engineering project. MayaData also helps to sponsor DOKC.

Previously Evan helped conceptualize and build StackStorm, a DevOps workflow automation company, where he was co-founder and CEO. StackStorm was acquired and the project became a Linux Foundation project.

Before StackStorm, Evan was founding CEO of Nexenta Systems which defined and led the open storage and software-defined storage space.

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This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS (http://www.openEBS.io) - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus (https://litmuschaos.io/) - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of August 2020, MayaData is the fifth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData software include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/

For our 9th installation of the Dokc data on k8s meetup, we will be talking with Alex Milowski from Redis Labs.

// Key takeaways:

// Abstract:

// Alex Bio

He received his PhD in Informatics (Computer Science) from the renowned University of Edinburgh School of Informatics (Scotland) on large-scale computation over scientific data on the Web in 2014.

Various experience in scientific computing - geospatial and genome data pipelines - and big data platforms.

Recently, he has been working in telecommunications on various mobile financial applications and researching how to improve the productivity of machine learning systems and data scientists by utilizing Kubernetes as a platform. He has experience teaching, mentoring, and developing within various data science/ML domains including topics such as cloud computing, Kubernetes, Spark, Hadoop, text processing/NLP, deep learning, data acquisition, and a whole lot of Python.

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For our 8th installation of the data on k8s meetup, we spoke with Rick Vasquez, Enablement Lead - Services Portfolio at Percona.

// Key takeaways:

// Abstract:

As more companies are moving to kubernetes and cloud native as a standard for developing net new functionality something has to happen to the legacy workloads. Often times we see a lift and shift mentality into kubernetes, we will talk about how that mentality can be dangerous or cause more work than expected.

// Rick Bio:

Hands-on technical practitioner with real world experience in some of the largest open source database deployments in the world. Translating technical and business requirements to the relevant groups is my passion.

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Data on Kubernetes #7: Conway’s Law & Kubernetes - Centralization vs  small team autonomy with Mike Tougeron, Lead Site Reliability Engineer, at Adobe & Joseph Sandoval , SRE Manager, Platform Infrastructure, at Adobe.

Loosely coupled teams, loosely coupled workloads and loosely coupled data - on a built for everyone platform?

Abstract:

If it is run by the platform team, is it inevitably a pet?  Or more of a pet?  Is that the idea, that we give stuff that ” must not fail” to platform teams so they are common services w/ SLAs?  Or how is it decided what is owned by the platform vs. the individual teams.

While talking with Joseph and Mike we also dive into what their stack looks like, must have tools they use on a daily bases, VM vs K8s, differences in stateful apps on k8s and War stories!

Mike T Bio:

Joseph Sandoval Bio:

Currently managing a team responsible for over 200k cores of infrastructure (bare metal, vm’s and containers) in 6 datacenters and 3 AWS regions. 

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Data on Kubernetes Community #6: Operators, operators, operators….Kubernetes operators! With Amit Gupta, Group Product Manager, at Confluent.

Key takeaways:

Abstract:

Bio:

In the past, Amit has worked as Director of Product Management for Platform at Pivotal, and as a Software Engineer working on cloud orchestration technology (think Kubernetes but for VMs) and container scheduling (think Kubernetes, pre-Kubernetes). He has a Master’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He loves soccer, camping, and coffee.

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What is the difference between storage and databases? how do databases and storage work on kubernetes? Data on kubernetes community presents WFT is k8s?!? This is our first of a weekly series where a few friends sit down and learn from each other about Kubernetes. In this episode, we talk through storage and databases. What does OpenEBS and Portworx do and how does that work in conjuncture with databases such as Postgres and Cassandra?

This is meant to be for those who are inexperienced with Kubernetes and do not have an engineering background, yet are interested in trying to learn the landscape of the CNCF and how tech works in general. 

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Doing Data on Kubernetes this week we dive into Globally distributed Business applications with Dave Cook Founder of Gridworkz

Key takeaways: Current data scalability challenges outlined. What’s available today.

Abstract: Scaling ACID compliant databases in the cloud is challenging. We’ll look at a specific use case where we’re trying to scale a Saas Odoo ERP offering on Kubernetes and build a scalable Postgres cluster as a backend service.  

Bio: Dave is the founder of Gridworkz. They provide business software solutions to the SMB market. He is passionate about devops and leading edge open source technology and its practical application to business. Other interests include trying to pay it forward by applying his knowledge to help startups succeed. His latest interest is scaling Odoo and Postgres on Kubernetes. With a long history of working with traditional enterprise systems he sees tremendous potential in redefining how systems will look today and well into the future.

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