Conf42 Kube Native 2024
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, cloud architects, security engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers
topics
KubeVirt VM workloads; amazon EKS cost optimisation; kubernetes-native backups (Canister); gitops with Argo CD and Flux; Karpenter cluster autoscaling; OpenTelemetry multicloud observability; Falcosidekick runtime threat detection; cloud native vector databases (Milvus); RAG pipelines on Kubernetes; schema-as-code migrations (Atlas); Prometheus, Loki and Grafana stack; Go controllers and operators
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Role of AI in Transforming Dialysis Healthcare | Ram Meka | 13m |
AI systems use machine learning and predictive analytics to flag hospitalization risk with >80% hospitalization prediction, tailor dialysis prescriptions from… | ||
| U.S. Healthcare with AI: Cost Transparency and Affordability | Deepak Talasila | 18m |
An AI platform aggregates hospital charge masters, insurance claims and user‑reported prices, uses LLMs plus machine learning and federated learning to produce… | ||
| Encrypting Your Way to Safety: Data Security in Kubernetes | Victor Onyenagubom | 13m |
Covers concrete encryption choices for Kubernetes: symmetric encryption for performance, homomorphic encryption to compute on ciphertext, and traditional… | ||
| KubeVirt Alchemy: Transform VMs into K8s Workloads | Koray Oksay, Batuhan Apaydin | 18m |
KubeVirt runs VMs as pods on Kubernetes using components like the operator, virt-launcher and virt-handler backed by libvirt, supporting live migration and… | ||
| The Frugal k8s Engineer: Strategies for Amazon EKS | Piyush Mattoo, Dariush Azimi | 29m |
Breaks down where EKS dollars go: control plane is fixed at $0.10/hour, data plane drives cost (CPU, memory, EBS, network, load balancers). Shows KubeCost… | ||
| Using cloud native approach to organize data protection | Daniil Fedotov | 27m |
Canister (CNCF sandbox) provides a Kubernetes-native backup framework that actually builds and runs multi-phase backups using blueprints drive multi-phase… | ||
| Strategies for Reliable Database Schema Migrations | Rotem Tamir | 27m |
A real outage occurs when an enum alter triggers a full table rewrite and a lock that lasts around four hours; the recovery shows human review and CI missed… | ||
| Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Processing with Kubernetes | Shiva Kumar Chinnam | 16m |
Claims a 50% reduction in downtime after migrating a claims-processing platform from bare metal with Ansible to EKS + Argo CD + GitOps, replacing ad hoc… | ||
| Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Native Open Source Vector Databases | Timothy J Spann | 26m |
Live demos show a chatbot over documentation and notebooks that run locally then scale to Kubernetes using Milvus and the managed Zill as Cloud path, with code… | ||
| How to monitor your business, and not just your pods | Or Rozenzweig | 24m |
Argues for monitoring business KPIs end-to-end instead of per-pod, demonstrates building a four-step delivery funnel dashboard that sums M1 rates across pods… | ||
| Golang and Native K8s: Symbiotic Relationship in App Development | Abhinav Chunchu | 06m |
Kubernetes runs at scale and the claim here is that Go is the practical enabler: 85% of containerized production workloads and 70% of controllers and operators… | ||
| Simplifying Multi-Cloud Observability | Siri Varma Vegiraju | 15m |
Claims a single open standard cuts multicloud observability toil: OpenTelemetry SDK replaces multiple cloud SDKs so code keeps the same namespace while adding… | ||
| Perses, the GitOps Native dashboard visualization tool | Erwin de Keijzer | 22m |
Perses is a GitOps-native dashboard that just enters CNCF sandbox and aims to be Kubernetes-native with CRDs, Prometheus data sources and a CLI-centric… | ||
| K8s incidents: make logs work for you in real-world troubleshooting | Amir Krayden | |
Logs alone don’t find root cause; adding concrete context does. A real incident traces a frontend gRPC error to the card service which has lost Redis… | ||
| ArgoCD & K8s for Crisis Intervention | Paul Pham, Jesus Alfredo Pizana Espinosa | 21m |
Built a Crisis Services Management platform and deploys it on GCP using GitHub Actions, Terraform, Argo CD, kubernetes and kustomize with one cluster per… | ||
| Harness the power of Karpenter to scale, optimize & upgrade K8s | Chakkree Tipsupa | 27m |
Karpenter replaces ASGs and Cluster Autoscaler and spins up nodes far faster, choosing right-sized instance selection (demo picks C6a.2xlarge then C6g Graviton… | ||
| Streamlining API Governance: Kubernetes Native API Management | Pubudu Chinthaka Gunatilaka | 26m |
Claims that the Kubernetes Gateway API (introduced in 2019) fixes Ingress limits by adding structured HTTPRoute resources, extensible backendRefs and custom… | ||
| Scale production grade K8s Multi-Cluster environments using GitOps | Yuriy Bezsonov | 20m |
Shows how to provision EKS clusters with Terraform and EKS Blueprints, then hand off Kubernetes deployment to Argo CD ApplicationSet so addons and workloads… | ||
| Unlocking the Power of NLP: Techniques in K8s-Native Applications | Vishal Khadake | 12m |
Overview of practical NLP work that names tools and shows outcomes: demos of GPT-3/4, Google Translate, Alexa and Grammarly as real systems, and concrete uses… | ||
| How CircleCI's team use K8s to deliver demos | Eddie Webbinaro, Moo Olaniyan | 20m |
CircleCI runs demo pipelines that deploy to EKS clusters in North America, EMEA and Japan using Terraform modules + Vault for secrets and the CircleCI Releases… | ||
| No JVM, no Kafka: the future of streaming data pipelines | Bobur Umurzokov | 28m |
Claims a working real‑time price recommendation pipeline built without JVM or Kafka using Supabase → Glassflow → OpenAI, created via web UI or Python SDK in… | ||
| NATS: The Challenger to Kafka's Messaging Throne | Mohamed Moussaoui | 17m |
NATS claims simple deployment and millions of messages per second throughput while keeping security and multi-tenancy; architecture splits into NATS Core… | ||
| Leading High-Impact Engineering Launches | Ramneet Bhatia | 18m |
Describes creating a dedicated launch captain role who owned readiness and cross‑functional communication for projects like Netflix page sharing, producing a… | ||
| Looking for Flow in All the Wrong Places | Chris Gallivan | 28m |
Defines flow as both an individual state and an organizational ability to deliver value faster, argues most teams misplace focus on visible metrics and feature… | ||
| Architecting Scalable Order Management Systems with Microservices | Jubin Thomas | 15m |
Concrete architecture for an order management system that breaks a monolith into capability-aligned services (shopping cart, order, customer, inventory) each… | ||
| Foundations of Routing & Switching: Scalable Network Infra | Ravi Theja Kambhampati | 16m |
Covers practical stack choices: VLANs, trunking and STP for Layer 2; OSPF, BGP, MPLS for Layer 3; route distribution, QoS, ACLs and IPsec for resilience and… | ||
| Securing the Cloud: Multi-Layered Protection for Enterprises | Venukumar Chirlawar | 29m |
Claims a multi-layer framework that stitches firewalls, NGFW, IDS/IPS, DDoS protection and VPNs with app security (patching, pen tests), TLS and key… | ||
| Runtime K8s Security: Threat Detection with Falcosidekick | Aleksandra Drobnjak | 23m |
Falco (kernel eBPF or module) captures syscalls and Falcosidekick fans out alerts to 60+ destinations while the Falcosidekick UI shows rule, severity and tags… | ||
| From Code to Cloud: Mastering K8s Deployments with Ballerina | Anupama Pathirage | 37m |
Shows a working hotel-management backend built in Ballerina that compiles to a self-contained executable and auto-generates Dockerfile and Kubernetes YAML with… | ||
| Mirror Mirror on My local machine | Anita Ihuman | 27m |
Demonstrates Mirrord as an open-source CLI and IDE plugin that runs a local process inside a Kubernetes context by launching an agent pod in the target… | ||
| Cloud Native Nix! | Leigh Capili | 41m |
Flocks builds reproducible, project-tied dev environments on top of Nix so teams get bit-for-bit identical builds, native binaries on darwin/arm64 and… | ||
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