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Welcome to KCD New York 2024!
On May 22, 2024, the Kubernetes and Cloud Native community will gather in New York City for a one-day technical conference with exciting talks and plenty of opportunities for growing and networking. What to expect: Over 250 developers, system engineers, and IT professionals will be attending this year’s event. A diverse and vibrant community of local and international attendees and speakers
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KCD New York 2024 will be held at Cure 345, located in Manhattan, New York City. The Education and Conference Center is a flexible structure with various arrangements. Each conference room is outfitted with state-of-the-art technology. Roof Top Terrace has a modern and incredible view of the city.
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Day - 01
May 22, 2024 08:30
Registration & Breakfast
May 22, 2024 09:00
Welcome + Opening Remarks
Ahmed Bebars
The New York Times
Ahmed Bebars
The New York Times
Technology Leader | AWS Community Builder | Infrastructure Guru | 6x AWS Certified | Speaker As a seasoned Staff Software Engineer on the Delivery Engineering Cloud Runtime team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.</p><p>Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.
May 22, 2024 09:15
Keynote: Scaling Cloud Native Adoption - Strategies and Best Practices from the CNCF Ecosystem
Learn how to scale your organization's adoption of cloud-native technologies. I'll share strategies for designing, architecting, managing, and operating cloud-native systems. You'll also hear case studies and success stories from the CNCF ecosystem on how organizations have scaled their cloud native adoption.
Taylor Dolezal
CNCF
Taylor Dolezal
CNCF
May 22, 2024 09:30
[Sponsored Keynote] How To Be A Good Landlord: Making Your Kubernetes Tenants Happy
Choosing the right tenancy model for your Kubernetes architecture is hard but what's even harder is making sure your tenants have a great experience using your organization's Kubernetes platform. This keynote will provide high-level insights into the benefits of using virtual clusters for increasing tenant happiness and overall success of an organization's Kubernetes strategy.
Lukas Gentele
Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele
Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.
May 22, 2024 09:35
Keynote
Karena Angell
Red Hat
Karena Angell
Red Hat
Karena Angell is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat focusing on cloud native application workloads for Kubernetes, open source software projects, as well as solutions for the 'open' hybrid cloud. She is a Helm maintainer and TAG App Delivery Technical Lead.
May 22, 2024 09:50
[Sponsored Keynote] Observability in the Next Decade: Beyond Reactive Response
When it comes to running mission-critical applications on Kubernetes, availability and uptime are crucial. However, existing observability tools only alert you about problems after they have occurred. But what if you could add a proactive tool to your toolbelt, to warn you about potential issues—and help you fix them—before they ever lead to downtime? That tantalizing possibility is now a reality.
Fawad Khaliq
Chkk
Fawad Khaliq
Chkk
Fawad is the co-founder & CTO of Chkk, where he is building a proactive approach to availability. This approach enables you to learn from others' operational experiences and mistakes using Collective Learning. Before Chkk, he helped build and scale Amazon EKS and was responsible for networking and availability. And prior to AWS, he enjoyed building systems at VMware and PLUMgrid. He and his family live in the Bay Area, and he enjoys running, hiking, and cooking in his spare time.
May 22, 2024 09:55
Keynote: Releasing a more mature and stable Kubernetes
Releasing the largest Golang-based open-source project in the world is a constantly evolving challenge. The rate of change varies, active contributors increase in some areas and shrink in others. As Kubernetes transitions to maturity, one thing is clear: the number of features in each release grows, and the number of users keeps rising, as does the demand for the artifacts SIG Release builds and publishes monthly. Let's talk about how we manage that as a team!
Stephen Augustus
Cisco
Stephen Augustus
Cisco
Stephen is the Head of Open Source at Cisco, working within the Strategy, Incubation, & Applications (SIA) organization. Across the wider LF (Linux Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of serving as a member of the OpenSSF Governing Board, the OpenAPI Initiative Business Governing Board, the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and the TODO Group Steering Committee. Previously, he was one of the Program Chairs for KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the cloud native community’s flagship conference. He is currently a Chair for Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a maintainer for the Scorecard and Dex projects. In 2020, Stephen co-founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative, a cross-industry group dedicated to helping projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language across codebases, standards, and documentation. He has previously held positions at VMware (via Heptio), Red Hat, and CoreOS. Stephen is based in New York City.
May 22, 2024 10:10
[Sponsored Keynote] Future-Proofing Kubernetes: The Next-Gen Security Horizon
As Kubernetes adoption grows, so do security challenges, from misconfigurations to insider threats. However, advancements in technology, particularly AI integration, offer promising solutions. Future-proofing Kubernetes security requires a proactive mindset, robust collaboration, and compliance with data privacy regulations. By implementing these measures, we can ensure that Kubernetes ecosystems are resilient and ready to face emerging threats. We can lean into the future of Kubernetes security with foresight and integrity.
Michelle Jackman
Palo Alto Networks
Michelle Jackman
Palo Alto Networks
May 22, 2024 10:15
Coffee Break [Morning]
May 22, 2024 11:00
Game Streaming and AI Workloads on Kubernetes with GeForce Now
NVIDIA operates a large-scale Kubernetes cloud for GPU workloads and utilizes the capacity for things like game streaming and AI inference.
This talk will go through how NVIDIA operates and uses Kubernetes at scale and will detail the challenges faced when supporting a Kubernetes cloud for these types of workloads.
Attendees will learn how NVIDIA:
- Operates a large-scale Kubernetes cloud.
- Does just-in-time workload scheduling on Kubernetes.
- Maximizes data center capacity.
- Uses KubeVirt.
Ryan Hallisey
Nvidia
Ryan Hallisey
Nvidia
Ryan is a software engineer at NVIDIA. He works on building data centers powered by Kubernetes and KubeVirt for NVIDIA products.
Rachid Ennaji
Nvidia
Rachid Ennaji
Nvidia
Software Engineer working on NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming product.
May 22, 2024 11:00
Pragmatically Securing GitOps Deployment Pipelines
Sigstore offers a robust solution for the secure signing of diverse artifacts, including OCI images and blob files, ensuring their authenticity and integrity in the software supply chain.
Within the project toolkit, I will introduce innovative concepts to implement security policies for package deployments in Kubernetes clusters. The goal is to showcase the practical process of constructing secure CI/CD pipelines, encompassing pivotal elements rooted in GitOps principles.
Amim Knabben
Broadcom
Amim Knabben
Broadcom
Software engineer with a focus on Cloud Native and Free and Open-Source Software, currently working at VMware as the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Security and Windows tech lead. Amim has been contributing to the Kubernetes community since 2020 mainly on SIG-Network and SIG-Windows initiatives. His main interests are operating systems, computer network, and distributed computing.
May 22, 2024 11:00
[Sponsored] Is My (Open Source) Project Safe?
We know that application dependencies have dependencies. It also happens that GitHub Action's repositories use Actions which use Actions. The nest of dependencies within our CI/CD is complex and largely unobserved. In this talk, we'll introduce techniques like repojacking and command injection and explore the depth of our dependencies alongside research into thousands of mainstream GitHub projects showing the potential upstream attack paths. All findings have been responsibly disclosed
Stephen Giguere
Palo Alto Networks
Stephen Giguere
Palo Alto Networks
I've experienced a wide breadth of technologies throughout a career spanning the aero, telecoms and automotive industry improving quality, safety, velocity and efficiency. I am currently enjoying life as a Cloud Security Advocate with Prisma Cloud (by Palo Alto) specialising in Cloud Application Security. Before this, I was a Solution Architect for 8 years specialising in container and Kubernetes security and establishing DevSecOps best practices for enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
May 22, 2024 11:40
Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking: Are we there yet?
Multi-cluster networking has been an important area within Kubernetes that is still evolving and open to innovation. This talk aims to provide clarity between the multiple cloud native networking projects that deal with the multi-cluster kubernetes space. We cover the APIs and some implementations at the following layers: CNI, Multi-Cluster Services and Application Service Meshes from a multi-cluster viewpoint. We provide architecture analysis, demos & projections on their future evolution.
Sanjeev Rampal
Red Hat
Sanjeev Rampal
Red Hat
Sanjeev Rampal is a Senior Principal Engineer at Red Hat in the Emerging Technologies team within the Office of the CTO. He has extensive experience contributing and building products within the cloud, networking and platforms spaces.
May 22, 2024 11:40
[Sponsored] How to eliminate availability risks and perform timely upgrades
As mission-critical applications increasingly rely on Kubernetes, ensuring availability becomes paramount. Errors, disruptions, and failures pose significant risks, leading to reputational damage and financial losses for enterprises. Two key challenges impede Platform, DevOps and SRE teams from maintaining an up-to-date and safe posture –1/ identifying relevant risks, and 2/ performing timely upgrades to address issues. In this session you will learn how you can address both these challenges.
Fawad Khaliq
Chkk
Fawad Khaliq
Chkk
Fawad is the co-founder & CTO of Chkk, where he is building a proactive approach to availability. This approach enables you to learn from others' operational experiences and mistakes using Collective Learning. Before Chkk, he helped build and scale Amazon EKS and was responsible for networking and availability. And prior to AWS, he enjoyed building systems at VMware and PLUMgrid. He and his family live in the Bay Area, and he enjoys running, hiking, and cooking in his spare time.
May 22, 2024 11:40
Leveling Up Wasm Support in Kubernetes
WebAssembly is a compelling technology for writing high-performance serverless-style apps inside of Kubernetes. With cold start times coming in at half a millisecond, Wasm programs can be started, scaled, and stopped in the blink of an eye. This makes them a brilliant complement to containers, which often take seconds to cold start, but which are much better for long running process.
Matt Butcher
Fermyon
Matt Butcher
Fermyon
Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Bindle, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.
May 22, 2024 12:20
[Sponsored] Tenant Autonomy & Isolation In Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters - A Comprehensive Guide
Because spinning up hundreds of single-tenant Kubernetes clusters is costly, inefficient and hard to manage, this approach is becoming less and less attractive for organizations. However, multi-tenancy is not easy to set up and govern over time. This talk will provide an actionable guide on how to set up multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters in a secure way without compromising tenant autonomy.
Lukas Gentele
Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele
Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.
May 22, 2024 12:20
Kanister.io: a CNCF.io Sandbox Project for Application Consistent Backups
For stateful, cloud-native applications, data operations must often be performed by tools with semantic understanding of the data.
Kanister.io, CNCF sandbox project, extends past infrastructure backups to provide cloud-native approach to data protection. This session offers an overview of Kanister, highlighting blueprints, artifacts, and actions. Followed by a live demo featuring application-consistent backup and restore of AWS RDS.
Daniil Fedotov
Kasten by Veeam
Daniil Fedotov
Kasten by Veeam
Infrastructure and cloud services developer. I'm deeply passionate about open source. Currently contributing to the Kanister project at Kasten by Veeam, we're reshaping data management for Kubernetes.
May 22, 2024 12:20
Five things you need to know about your container runtime
As a Kubernetes user you probably are satisfied to know that a container runtime at the bottom of the stack does whatever it does and lets you get your work done. But, maybe you're curious about the relationship between the runtime components and your orchestration platform? Maybe there was that time when you hit a bug and needed to understand a lot more! This talk will give you a running start, offering five key things you should understand about the container runtime running your containers.
Phil Estes
Amazon Web Services
Phil Estes
Amazon Web Services
Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS. Phil is an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as the member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB). He is also a current member of the 2023 CNCF Ambassador class and enjoys speaking on container technology topics and events worldwide.
May 22, 2024 12:50
Lunch
May 22, 2024 14:00
OpenTelemetry: An Observability Framework and Toolkit
As systems grew increasingly complex and distributed, the need for a unified, scalable, and efficient observability framework became more pressing. OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, emerged to offer comprehensive tooling for capturing, processing, and exporting telemetry data. This session aims to demystify OpenTelemetry, showcasing its capabilities, architecture, and how you can adopt it in your observability practice.
Hope Oluwalolope
Microsoft
Hope Oluwalolope
Microsoft
Hope is a Software Engineer at Microsoft where she builds services that manages Microsoft cloud infrastructure. Currently, her focus lies in facilitating the implementation of observability and OpenTelemetry standards within her team. She is also dedicated to ensuring that organizations adopt and embrace observability practices. Hope also leads and contributes to various tech communities that support women, Africans, and aspiring developers.
May 22, 2024 14:00
Embracing the Future: The Effortless Mutual TLS and Traffic Control Without Sidecars
In today's environments, sidecars have become the dominant choice for implementing mutual TLS, traffic management and rich Layer 7 authorization policies. However, sidecars require applications to restart after being added to the mesh, causing unnecessary overprovisioning of resources. In this presentation, Lin will explain the key advantages of sidecar-less architecture and demonstrate live how both developers and operators can enjoy mTLS and traffic control without any effort or sidecars!
Lin Sun
Solo.io
Lin Sun
Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Ambient Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name.
May 22, 2024 14:00
Practical Insights into Network Configurations for High-Performance Streaming Connectivity in K8s
Sharing the hands-on experiences in setting up high-performance data connections for streaming in Kubernetes environments. Explore the practical challenges and lessons learned when making critical decisions about network setups, including the considerations between Container Network Interface, proxy solutions, and other options. Hopefully will help you to optimize streaming connectivity for high performance in your Kubernetes cluster.
Christina Lin
Redpanda
Christina Lin
Redpanda
Christina has 20+ years of experience in software development. She has worked as a developer, consultant, architect. She is an advocate for making innovative solutions down to earth and making them easily accessible for everyone. Skilled in Open Source technology such as Redpanda, Apache Camel, Kafka and Kubernetes, Ansible.
Paul Curtis
Redpanda
Paul Curtis
Redpanda
Paul began as a financial application developer, moving into customer and sustaining engineering at Netscape and Sun. After Sun, Paul worked as network and systems operations for several start ups, before landing in the Big Data world with MapR. Paul went on to Kubernetes with Weaveworks, and is currently focused on Kafka-based message streaming at Redpanda.
May 22, 2024 14:40
[Sponsored] CI and CD need to go their separate ways
In a cloud native CI/CD landscape, we move from a linear procedure to a complex, branching network of pipelines. Current open-source GitOps platforms fail to accommodate modern, multi-dimensional pipelines, nudging professionals towards CI platforms and custom automation. This unintended side-step only serves to complicate the fundamental robustness of these pipelines.
Kent Rancourt
Akuity
Kent Rancourt
Akuity
Kent's career has spanned many roles, including developer, enterprise architect, and SRE. He has a passion for building the missing tools and technology that would have made life easier for his younger self in prior roles. He is a founding staff engineer at Akuity, where his current focus is on GitOps and automation. When he's not automating things, he enjoys video games, comic books, crossword puzzles, and spending time with his two young kids. He is a self-confessed Legomaniac.
May 22, 2024 14:40
[Sponsored] Uncover Kubernetes cost-optimization trends
Based on findings in CAST AI's 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report, we will dive into the current industry trends in Kubernetes's cloud resource usage, including the biggest drivers of overspending and cloud provider utilization.
Philip Andrews
CAST AI
Philip Andrews
CAST AI
Phil is CAST AI’s Field CTO, and works with customers to educate and encourage kubernetes best practices that lead to optimal cloud costs. With more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of positions, Phil balances resiliency, performance and cost to help customers achieve their goals. Previously, Phil was a Director of Engineering for Security Products at Oracle cloud. This experience helped shape his understanding of cloud scale technology and best practices.
May 22, 2024 14:40
Unveiling Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE): Pioneering the Future of IDPs
In the rapidly changing cloud-native landscape, enterprises are in search of ways to stay ahead, while de-risking their bets on implementations. The world of internal development platforms is arguably more confusing to navigate. Thankfully the CNOE or Cloud Native Operational Excellence group is here to pave a path! Join the New York Times for a discussion on our exploration into the world of CNOE tooling including its reference architecture and its all in one IDP in a box the IDPBuilder CLI.
Tiara Sykes
The New York Times
Tiara Sykes
The New York Times
Tiara Sykes is a Software Engineer at The New York Times. She pivoted to supporting reliability efforts across the larger tech organization after her interest sparked supporting services as a product engineer. Besides striving for technical excellence, Tiara values an engineering culture that encourages everyone to continuously grow and feel safe to learn and make mistakes.
Luke Philips
The New York Times
Luke Philips
The New York Times
Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A_r_c_h_i_t_e_c_t_ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.
May 22, 2024 15:10
Coffee Break [Afternoon]
May 22, 2024 15:25
Explain Cloud Native Business Value to Your Boss
One of the challenges we have as a cloud native industry, is to explain its business value. We get caught up in the new open source project, auto-scaling, load-balancing, and more, but then we can't easily speak in the language the business leaders want to hear in order to spend money or sign off on projects. In this talk, we use the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity model to help educate how all cloud native practitioners need to explain business value to their boss.
Danielle Cook
appCD
Danielle Cook
appCD
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and co-author of the CNCF book Admiral Bash's Island Adventure with Phippy + Friends. She recently became a CNCF Ambassador and founded a virtual event, KubeCrash that focuses on community and open source tech.
Simon Forster
Stackegy
Simon Forster
Stackegy
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus on ensuring cloud native technologies deliver against business goals. As co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Group, Simon developed and co-authored the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model
May 22, 2024 15:25
[Sponsored] Breaking down the principles of platform engineering: How to empower developer experience
Platform Engineering and Platform-as-a-Product principles are key to empowering application development teams. Implementing a modern platform approach requires stepping back and looking at many different aspects covering technology, process, organization and success metrics. The speakers will highlight the benefits of Platform as a Product, reference architectures and best practices to be considered for enabling developer productivity and efficiency. Whether you’re a developer, platform engineer, or technical leader, this talk will equip you with the strategy -and tools- to unlock the full potential of your developer teams.
Valentina Rodriguez Sosa
Red Hat
Valentina Rodriguez Sosa
Red Hat
At Red Hat, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa is a Principal Architect focused on Adoption and applications in OpenShift. She helps customers to achieve their modernization and adoption goals by creating solutions and patterns that can be replicated across any organization. She has over 16 years of experience across various companies and organizations, defining system architectures and developing enterprise software. She’s passionate about helping others learn and build great apps on Kubernetes.
Cedric Clyburn
Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn
Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.
May 22, 2024 15:25
Running Low-Latency Workloads on Kubernetes
Configuring Kubernetes to optimally run a particular workload is best described as a continuous journey. Depending on your requirements, best practices might not only no longer apply, but actively harm performance. In this session, we document what we've found to work best in our journey running SpiceDB, a low-latency authorization system.
Jimmy Zelinskie
Authzed
Jimmy Zelinskie
Authzed
Jimmy Zelinskie is the chief product officer and co-founder of authzed and co-creator of SpiceDB. Prior to that, he worked on various cloud-native projects such as Quay, clair, the Operator Framework, and the Open Container Initiative while building Kubernetes products at CoreOS and Red Hat.
May 22, 2024 16:05
[Sponsored] Ensuring Data Mobility and Consistency with Cloud Native Databases
Explore the options for deploying cloud-native databases, from StatefulSets to managed services (PaaS) like Amazon RDS and even traditional VMs. An overlooked risk is ensuring data protection and application consistency, which is paramount, regardless of the deployment environment. Discover the significance of leveraging backups to enable portability between Kubernetes environments, underscoring the importance of data mobility in modern database management strategies.
Michael Cade
Veeam Software
Michael Cade
Veeam Software
A seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Ops space. He is currently serving as the Global Field CTO for a leading cloud-native and open-source data protection company. Exploring the world of Cloud,Cloud-Native, DevOps and Open-Source Software software and raising awareness that there is still very much a requirement to protect data and workloads within these platforms. Author of 90DaysOfDevOps, an Open Learning resource for the community with over 20,000 GitHub Stars sharing structured route to learning the world of DevOps. Current Project: Up The Stack, a look into the graduated and incubating projects that we see within the CNCF Landscape.
May 22, 2024 16:05
Controlling data overhead from the OpenTelmetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is becoming the standard for moving observability data within your architecture and to a data store. But its default configuration can overuse data and network resources. In this talk I'll cover the configuration control you have over your collector, and how you can reduce overhead, fix data cardinality and metrics explosion, and remove sensitive data before your data makes it out of your network.
Nočnica Mellifera
Checkly
Nočnica Mellifera
Checkly
No_nica is a dev advocate specializing in cloud applications, serverless, and containerization. She writes regularly for The New Stack and has been published in Information Age and Forbes. She blogs on dev.to, streams on LinkedIn and YouTube, and spends her weekends caring for her dozens of houseplants.
May 22, 2024 16:05
Cloud Native Policy as Code: Principles and Best Practices
Cloud Native promises agility, speed, and self-service. But those very strengths often collide with robust security. Traditional security approaches struggle to keep pace with dynamic cloud-native environments, leaving you facing a dilemma: slow down for security or risk attacks.This session is for platform engineers, looking to deliver self-service without compromising security. It introduces key Policy as Code concepts and demonstrates them using Kyverno, a CNCF policy management tool.
Jim Bugwadia
Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia
Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer of Kyverno, the policy engine built for Kubernetes.
Sagar Kundral
Nirmata
Sagar Kundral
Nirmata
Sagar Kundral is an engineer with a passion for cloud-native technologies and container orchestration. He has over 9 years of industry experience, specializing in Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools
May 22, 2024 16:45
Closing Remarks
Ahmed Bebars
The New York Times
Ahmed Bebars
The New York Times
Technology Leader | AWS Community Builder | Infrastructure Guru | 6x AWS Certified | Speaker As a seasoned Staff Software Engineer on the Delivery Engineering Cloud Runtime team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.</p><p>Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.
Julia Furst Morgado
Veeam
Julia Furst Morgado
Veeam
Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud and Cloud Native technologies easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as a CNCF Ambassador, an AWS Community Builder, a Civo ambassador, a Women Techmakers Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador. Additionally, she organizes the NY Code & Coffee Meetup and KubeHuddle conference, further fostering collaboration and learning opportunities.
Speakers
Philip Andrews
CAST AI
READ BIOPhilip Andrews
CAST AI
Phil is CAST AI’s Field CTO, and works with customers to educate and encourage kubernetes best practices that lead to optimal cloud costs. With more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of positions, Phil balances resiliency, performance and cost to help customers achieve their goals. Previously, Phil was a Director of Engineering for Security Products at Oracle cloud. This experience helped shape his understanding of cloud scale technology and best practices.
Stephen Augustus
Cisco
READ BIOStephen Augustus
Cisco
Stephen is the Head of Open Source at Cisco, working within the Strategy, Incubation, & Applications (SIA) organization. Across the wider LF (Linux Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of serving as a member of the OpenSSF Governing Board, the OpenAPI Initiative Business Governing Board, the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and the TODO Group Steering Committee. Previously, he was one of the Program Chairs for KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the cloud native community’s flagship conference. He is currently a Chair for Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a maintainer for the Scorecard and Dex projects. In 2020, Stephen co-founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative, a cross-industry group dedicated to helping projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language across codebases, standards, and documentation. He has previously held positions at VMware (via Heptio), Red Hat, and CoreOS. Stephen is based in New York City.
Stephen Giguere
Palo Alto Networks
READ BIOStephen Giguere
Palo Alto Networks
I've experienced a wide breadth of technologies throughout a career spanning the aero, telecoms and automotive industry improving quality, safety, velocity and efficiency. I am currently enjoying life as a Cloud Security Advocate with Prisma Cloud (by Palo Alto) specialising in Cloud Application Security. Before this, I was a Solution Architect for 8 years specialising in container and Kubernetes security and establishing DevSecOps best practices for enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
Jim Bugwadia
Nirmata
READ BIOJim Bugwadia
Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer of Kyverno, the policy engine built for Kubernetes.
Sagar Kundral
Nirmata
READ BIOSagar Kundral
Nirmata
Sagar Kundral is an engineer with a passion for cloud-native technologies and container orchestration. He has over 9 years of industry experience, specializing in Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools
Nočnica Mellifera
Checkly
READ BIONočnica Mellifera
Checkly
No_nica is a dev advocate specializing in cloud applications, serverless, and containerization. She writes regularly for The New Stack and has been published in Information Age and Forbes. She blogs on dev.to, streams on LinkedIn and YouTube, and spends her weekends caring for her dozens of houseplants.
Michael Cade
Veeam Software
READ BIOMichael Cade
Veeam Software
A seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Ops space. He is currently serving as the Global Field CTO for a leading cloud-native and open-source data protection company. Exploring the world of Cloud,Cloud-Native, DevOps and Open-Source Software software and raising awareness that there is still very much a requirement to protect data and workloads within these platforms. Author of 90DaysOfDevOps, an Open Learning resource for the community with over 20,000 GitHub Stars sharing structured route to learning the world of DevOps. Current Project: Up The Stack, a look into the graduated and incubating projects that we see within the CNCF Landscape.
Jimmy Zelinskie
Authzed
READ BIOJimmy Zelinskie
Authzed
Jimmy Zelinskie is the chief product officer and co-founder of authzed and co-creator of SpiceDB. Prior to that, he worked on various cloud-native projects such as Quay, clair, the Operator Framework, and the Open Container Initiative while building Kubernetes products at CoreOS and Red Hat.
Danielle Cook
appCD
READ BIODanielle Cook
appCD
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and co-author of the CNCF book Admiral Bash's Island Adventure with Phippy + Friends. She recently became a CNCF Ambassador and founded a virtual event, KubeCrash that focuses on community and open source tech.
Simon Forster
Stackegy
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Stackegy
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus on ensuring cloud native technologies deliver against business goals. As co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Group, Simon developed and co-authored the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model
Tiara Sykes
The New York Times
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The New York Times
Tiara Sykes is a Software Engineer at The New York Times. She pivoted to supporting reliability efforts across the larger tech organization after her interest sparked supporting services as a product engineer. Besides striving for technical excellence, Tiara values an engineering culture that encourages everyone to continuously grow and feel safe to learn and make mistakes.
Luke Philips
The New York Times
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The New York Times
Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A_r_c_h_i_t_e_c_t_ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.
Kent Rancourt
Akuity
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Akuity
Kent's career has spanned many roles, including developer, enterprise architect, and SRE. He has a passion for building the missing tools and technology that would have made life easier for his younger self in prior roles. He is a founding staff engineer at Akuity, where his current focus is on GitOps and automation. When he's not automating things, he enjoys video games, comic books, crossword puzzles, and spending time with his two young kids. He is a self-confessed Legomaniac.
Paul Curtis
Redpanda
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Redpanda
Paul began as a financial application developer, moving into customer and sustaining engineering at Netscape and Sun. After Sun, Paul worked as network and systems operations for several start ups, before landing in the Big Data world with MapR. Paul went on to Kubernetes with Weaveworks, and is currently focused on Kafka-based message streaming at Redpanda.
Christina Lin
Redpanda
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Redpanda
Christina has 20+ years of experience in software development. She has worked as a developer, consultant, architect. She is an advocate for making innovative solutions down to earth and making them easily accessible for everyone. Skilled in Open Source technology such as Redpanda, Apache Camel, Kafka and Kubernetes, Ansible.
Lin Sun
Solo.io
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Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Ambient Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name.
Hope Oluwalolope
Microsoft
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Microsoft
Hope is a Software Engineer at Microsoft where she builds services that manages Microsoft cloud infrastructure. Currently, her focus lies in facilitating the implementation of observability and OpenTelemetry standards within her team. She is also dedicated to ensuring that organizations adopt and embrace observability practices. Hope also leads and contributes to various tech communities that support women, Africans, and aspiring developers.
Phil Estes
Amazon Web Services
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Amazon Web Services
Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS. Phil is an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as the member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB). He is also a current member of the 2023 CNCF Ambassador class and enjoys speaking on container technology topics and events worldwide.
Daniil Fedotov
Kasten by Veeam
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Kasten by Veeam
Infrastructure and cloud services developer. I'm deeply passionate about open source. Currently contributing to the Kanister project at Kasten by Veeam, we're reshaping data management for Kubernetes.
Sanjeev Rampal
Red Hat
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Red Hat
Sanjeev Rampal is a Senior Principal Engineer at Red Hat in the Emerging Technologies team within the Office of the CTO. He has extensive experience contributing and building products within the cloud, networking and platforms spaces.
Amim Knabben
Broadcom
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Broadcom
Software engineer with a focus on Cloud Native and Free and Open-Source Software, currently working at VMware as the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Security and Windows tech lead. Amim has been contributing to the Kubernetes community since 2020 mainly on SIG-Network and SIG-Windows initiatives. His main interests are operating systems, computer network, and distributed computing.
Ryan Hallisey
Nvidia
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Nvidia
Ryan is a software engineer at NVIDIA. He works on building data centers powered by Kubernetes and KubeVirt for NVIDIA products.
Rachid Ennaji
Nvidia
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Nvidia
Software Engineer working on NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming product.
Fawad Khaliq
Chkk
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Chkk
Fawad is the co-founder & CTO of Chkk, where he is building a proactive approach to availability. This approach enables you to learn from others' operational experiences and mistakes using Collective Learning. Before Chkk, he helped build and scale Amazon EKS and was responsible for networking and availability. And prior to AWS, he enjoyed building systems at VMware and PLUMgrid. He and his family live in the Bay Area, and he enjoys running, hiking, and cooking in his spare time.
Karena Angell
Red Hat
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Red Hat
Karena Angell is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat focusing on cloud native application workloads for Kubernetes, open source software projects, as well as solutions for the 'open' hybrid cloud. She is a Helm maintainer and TAG App Delivery Technical Lead.
Lukas Gentele
Loft Labs
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Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.
Ahmed Bebars
The New York Times
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The New York Times
Technology Leader | AWS Community Builder | Infrastructure Guru | 6x AWS Certified | Speaker As a seasoned Staff Software Engineer on the Delivery Engineering Cloud Runtime team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.</p><p>Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.
Julia Furst Morgado
Veeam
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Veeam
Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud and Cloud Native technologies easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as a CNCF Ambassador, an AWS Community Builder, a Civo ambassador, a Women Techmakers Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador. Additionally, she organizes the NY Code & Coffee Meetup and KubeHuddle conference, further fostering collaboration and learning opportunities.
Matt Butcher
Fermyon
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Fermyon
Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Bindle, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.
Valentina Rodriguez Sosa
Red Hat
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Red Hat
At Red Hat, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa is a Principal Architect focused on Adoption and applications in OpenShift. She helps customers to achieve their modernization and adoption goals by creating solutions and patterns that can be replicated across any organization. She has over 16 years of experience across various companies and organizations, defining system architectures and developing enterprise software. She’s passionate about helping others learn and build great apps on Kubernetes.
Cedric Clyburn
Red Hat
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Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.
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