Keynotes

Day 1

Liz Rice

• Showed several graphs demonstarting the growth of K8s and CNCF in the 1-2 years
• CNCF Projects of Note:
  • Kubernetes
  • containerd
  • Helm
  • Prometheus
  • Fluentd
  • Open Tracing and Jaeger
  • Envoy (service mesh)
  • CoreDNS
  • Linkerd (service mesh)
  • Rook (K8s storage)
  • Vitess (DB cluster to scale mySQL)
  • gRPC
  • NATS
  • Harbor (container registry)

Michelle Noorali- Helm

• K8s package manager
• Governance Model:
  • Project Maintainers
  • Org Maintainers
• Helm Hubhub
• Monocular- a UI for Helm Chart Repositories (for ro-charts?)
• Chart Museum- make a helm repository

Envoy

• Lyft
• Goal: The network should be transparent to applications
• Service Mesh

etcd

• 5 years old
• consensus database that powers k8s
• flat key values
• fancy thing of etcd: automatic leader election
• etcdctl
• README driven development
• written in Go

Aparna Sinha - K8s, Istio, KNative

• version 1.13
• GKE allows you to use Istio and KNative as addons to K8s

Wendy Cartee VMWare

• 3 Lessons Learned Getting 100,000 Enterprises to use K8s:
  1. Tech decisions become business decisions
  2. Turnkey, full solotions with minimal maintenance
  3. Training and certification for non-developers

Day 2

Janet Kuo: K8s Project Updates

• v1.13.0
• Extensibility
  • Taking future growth into consideration

Jason McGee, IBM

• App requirements:
  • Stateful and Stateless
  • Events and Requests
  • Simple and Flexible
• 3 Stacks for 3 Styles:
  • 12-Factor Apps
  • Functions
  • Containers
• https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/master/install/Knative-with-IKS.md

Liz Rice on Security

• Update your cluster
• Setup rules on an open policy agent
• Check your images for vulnerabilties with an image scanning program
• Open source governance

Melanie Cebula AirBnB

• K8s services
• Transitioning from monolith to microservices
• Microservices were chosen so that AirBnB could scale their CI
  • More deploys per week
  • Load testing
• Benefits of K8s:
  • Declarative
  • efficient scheduling
  • extensible API
• Benefits of Docker
  • portable
  • immutable
  • reproducible
• Benefits of YAML:
  • human and robot readable
• Reducing boilerplate
  • Prefer templating over file inheritance
  • Input should be optionally templated YAML files
• There was a lot more. Find the video. 😄