KCD Amsterdam 2023
2023-02-23..2023-02-24
Amsterdam, Netherlands
as the organisers put it
In-person Event - Kubernetes Community Days comes back to Amsterdam! Join us for 2 days of community building and learning!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening day1 | 02m | |
Opening remarks start late with an apology and we wing it energy, thanking volunteers and noting Serkan is in Turkey doing earthquake relief. The conference… | ||
| Scaling the 4th Industrial Revolution | Sarah Polan | 32m |
Argues that companies must build a standardized, developer-centric platform layer (using Terraform and Vault and embedding a cloud platform team with app… | ||
| Cloud to on-prem and back again | Gijs van der Voort | 30m |
Picnic builds a fully automated fulfillment center with 14 km conveyor belts and 100+ packing stations, requiring sub-100ms junction decisions and 22/7… | ||
| gRPC Proxyless Service Mesh | Gijs Molenaar | 24m |
Spotify migrates from Hermes/Nameless/Helios toward a gRPC proxyless service mesh using Google Traffic Director; Hermes is a homegrown protobuf/ZeroMQ protocol… | ||
| BumbleBee: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love eBPF | Krisztian Fekete | 36m |
eBPF onboarding that skips runtime compilation and userland plumbing, letting you build OCI images of kernel-space C probes, push/pull them with a Docker-like… | ||
| Detecting cloud and container threats | Marcel Claassen | 29m |
Runtime detection uses Falco to watch Linux syscalls via kernel probes or eBPF, applies a rule engine (default rules flag container escape, kubectl… | ||
| GitOps Patterns for managing cloud native applications | Roberto Carratala, Germán M Yébenes | 34m |
Shows concrete GitOps patterns using ArgoCD plus tools like Syncwave and hooks and ArgoCD Image Updater. Demos apply customize overlays to vary CPU/replicas… | ||
| Service MESH without the MESS | Raymond de Jong | 43m |
Cilium uses eBPF in the kernel to replace per-pod sidecars for most networking and observability, cutting resource use and startup/routing latency and showing… | ||
| Operating High Traffic Websites on Kubernetes | Salman Iqbal | 34m |
Demonstrates scaling an Ingress controller on a Minikube cluster by scraping nginx_ingress_active_connections with Prometheus and feeding those metrics into… | ||
| Spreading Apps, Controlling Traffic & Optimising Costs in Kubernetes | Lukonde Mwila | 34m |
Explains how to spread 10 replicas across 3 AZs to get a 3‑4‑3 distribution using pod topology spread constraints, contrasts that with anti‑affinity pitfalls… | ||
| Container Hosting Journey | Robbin Siepman | 34m |
ING runs a multi-tenant namespace as a service on OpenShift 4.10 using a Python project controller built on a custom python operator framework and an… | ||
| unlighted, but what about Security and Multi tenancy? | Jurgen Allewijn, Dinant Paardenkooper | 31m |
City of Amsterdam runs a Shared-AKS (DTAP) multi-tenant AKS platform that centralizes clusters, enforces private endpoints, and charges workloads by agent-pool… | ||
| Gateway API The new way to travel north south | Ara Pulido | 36m |
SIG Network redesigns north‑south routing as the Gateway API, a CRD‑based official kube extension that supports L4 and L7 routing and enforces portability and… | ||
| SOS Sustainable Open Source | Floor Drees | 36m |
Open source underpins most products yet faces license churn, single-maintainer risk and chronic underfunding: 97 of 2400+ audited codebases include OSS, 46% of… | ||
| Managed Kubernetes Service Day Zero Survival Pack | Kristina Devochko | 30m |
Managed managed Kubernetes requires Day Zero work: cloud providers manage control plane but AKs is not PaaS and teams keep responsibility for nodes, updates… | ||
| Kubernetes in the Enterprise Transforming Rabobanks On Premise Applications | Cherwin Nooitmeer | 36m |
Rabobank moves a legacy on‑prem COTS back office onto Kubernetes using EKS, Argo for CI/CD and Flux for GitOps that auto‑deploys images; deployment uses… | ||
| How CERN empowers its users with Kubernetes and OpenShift | Jack Henschel | 36m |
CERN runs two complementary Kubernetes offerings: unmanaged clusters via OpenStack Magnum giving users root access and custom nodes (GPUs, large-memory) and… | ||
| Keynote - Leading in Open Source, a Strategic Approach | Dawn M Foster | 28m |
Company contributions come from individuals whose leadership travels with them, so strategic alignment with business goals prevents churn and preserves… | ||
| Fireside chat | Priyanka Sharma | 28m |
Predicts Kubernetes keeps a Linux‑like momentum, multi‑cloud portability gains real engineering traction, and OpenCost is already doing FinOps work for cost… | ||
| Keynote - Crossing the chasm with multi arch | Cheryl Hung | 21m |
Argues that moving x86 workloads to Arm Graviton cuts cloud bills and power use with concrete numbers: vendors report 25–63% lower costs and a chip-design EDA… | ||
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