KCD Austria 2023
as the organisers put it
In-person Event - On September 26-27, the Kubernetes and cloud-native community in Austria will gather for the first time in Vienna. Join us for a two-day technical conference loaded with exciting talks and plenty of opportunities to exchange and network. KCD Austria is aimed at developers, operations people, and all other IT professionals interested in cloud-native technologies and is supported by the CNCF.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction and Constanze Roedig's KeyNote | Constanze Roedig | 31m |
Cloud-native tooling is used to make research reproducible and interactive by packaging environments as Docker images, launching them with… | ||
| Bad API Observability | Sonja Chevre | 33m |
Announces Ty adding open Telemetry distributed tracing to its API Gateway after 10–15 customer sessions and shows concrete tooling: OpenTelemetry collector… | ||
| Building a Cloud Native Austria | Daniel Drack, Thomas Schuetz | 30m |
Local chapters grow from meetup to national event: 123 CFP submissions force a thorough review process, sponsors oversubscribe, and a venue for a 200‑person… | ||
| Building your own WASM Cloud with Fermyon | Max Korbacher | 31m |
Shows how to assemble a WASM-based platform using Spin and Fermyon as the runtime layers, with Dapr as the sidecar for state and messaging, running on a local… | ||
| Distributed Tracing is Awesome, Testing is Not... Until Now | Adnan Rahic | 16m |
Distributed traces become test assertions: instrumentation with openTelemetry sends spans to a central collector (Tempo) and Grafana for inspection, while… | ||
| Looking into the Rabbithole of Virtualized K8s Clusters | Robert Gutschale | |
A tool called getdeck runs fully isolated virtual Kubernetes clusters as a Kubernetes operator and a desktop app plus CLI, creating ephemeral dev or staging… | ||
| Observability for Developers | Ivan Merrill | 20m |
Autometrics is an open source microframework that instruments functions and emits Prometheus/OpenTelemetry metrics so developers get three metrics per function… | ||
| Monitoring as Code: Managing your Observability Assets the Cloud-Native Way | Jose Javier Alonso | 27m |
Company moves monitoring to code: a templated pipeline using jsonnet templating and a Go CLI that builds, unit-tests and CI-deploys Grafana dashboards and… | ||
| Self-healing Clusters: Game of Nodes and the Scaling Throne | Nicolas Vermande | 33m |
Shows a live demo wiring Node Problem Detector, descheduler, and cluster autoscaler so pending pods trigger a new node, the descheduler rebalances by evicting… | ||
| Debugging in Golang Apps Inside K8s Environment | Andrii Soldatenko | 40m |
Shows a practical workflow for debugging Go binaries inside Kubernetes by baking Delve into images, toggling an entrypoint with an env var, and running dlv… | ||
| Kubeletosaurus Wrecks: When Memory Requests Meet Limits! | Patrick Pichler | 27m |
Cloned the Kubernetes repo and traced Go code (SyncPod, kubelet.containerRuntime, containerRuntimeManager) plus containerd/CRI to prove that kubelet mostly… | ||
| Cheap Routes, Fast Paths & Keeping Track | Lukonde Mwila | 33m |
Kubernetes networking techniques combine to cut cross‑AZ egress and shorten hops: use pod topologySpreadConstraints and pod affinity to colocate… | ||
| How to Boost Your Community Awareness by Writing | Lenka Bočincová | 17m |
Focuses on making non‑coding contributions concrete: write blog posts, docs, social posts or conference abstracts that answer what / for whom / takeaway up… | ||
| GitOps powered CICD-Glueing it together with Argo Workflows, Events | Felix Hochleitner | 18m |
GitOps CI/CD uses Argo Workflows, Argo Events and Argo CD to trigger containerized build steps on push, create a namespace and new ApplicationSet entry for… | ||
| How and When to Flux your Terraform | Laszlo Fogas, Youcef Guichi | 30m |
Demo shows a k3d cluster with Flux and a terraform-controller CRD that runs terraform inside Kubernetes, using a Git repo for modules and a terraform Runner… | ||
| Supply Chain Security using Free and Open Tools | Christian Köberl | 23m |
Focuses strictly on dependency management: create an inventory with SBOMs (SPDX or CycloneDX), scan artifacts and running images, and automate updates… | ||
| Back to the Future in the Space of Cloud Native Security | Anais Urlichs | 36m |
Highlights specific incidents and concrete defenses: attacker-modified CI install script in a 500-line bash file that exfiltrated environment variables from… | ||
| Cloud Native Superpowers with eBPF | Liz Rice | 51m |
Prepare to be amazed as Liz Rice takes the stage to deliver her captivating keynote, "Cloud Native Superpowers with eBPF," at the KCD Austria conference. In… | ||
| How ING Accelerated Kubernetes Deployments Across 500+ Apps | Wouter Ligtenberg | 33m |
ING standardizes on an internal container hosting platform (an OpenShift cluster offering namespace-as-a-service) and YAML templates that enforce… | ||
| The Future of Service Meshes: Sidecarless or eBPF? | Jona Apelbaum | 31m |
Compares sidecar-based meshes to an Ambient Mesh that moves proxies to the node via a Rust Z tunnel plus optional Waypoint for L7, and shows eBPF acceleration… | ||
| GitOps in a Federated and Regulated Environment at RBI | Daniel Kopeinig, Markus Falkner | 34m |
RBI builds an internal platform called Cortex on okd to run >1,000 apps across about 20 clusters with ~18 engineers operating it, using an app-catalog per… | ||
| Kubernetes Security - Challenge and Opportunity? | Marc Nimmerrichter | 35m |
Outlines a concrete Kubernetes attack chain: application vulnerability → container shell → container escape → node compromise → cluster takeover, and lists… | ||
| Platform Engineering beyond the Buzzword? | David Leitner | 19m |
Argues that platform teams must reduce developer cognitive load rather than become another bottleneck, and recommends shifting ownership to product teams via a… | ||
| Streamline Your Cluster with Automated Node Labels,Taints, and Annotations | Eduardo Arango Gutierrez | 34m |
Node Feature Discovery (NFD) v0.15 runs as master + worker (+ topology-updater) and auto-detects hardware/software to create NodeFeature CRD labels… | ||
| Istio Ambient Mesh: Sidecar vs Sidecar-less, Explained Simply | Antonio Berben | 11m |
Ambient Mesh replaces per-pod sidecars with a node‑level layer‑4 proxy and an on‑demand layer‑7 proxy, claiming to cut proxy instances dramatically and remove… | ||
| External Secrets Operator | Cristina de Dios Gonzalez | 37m |
Open source External Secrets Operator synchronizes Azure Key Vault and other secret stores into Kubernetes by mapping SecretStore/ClusterSecretStore… | ||
| Making your Kubernetes-based log collection reliable & durable with Vector | Maksim Nabokikh | 35m |
Vector runs as node agents that tail /var/log/pods, store checkpoints on a mounted PV, and buffer by default just 1 message so production clusters risk node… | ||
| Bringing Pod Security Admission to Your Kubernetes Distribution | Stanislav Láznička | 33m |
Brings Pod Security Admission into a Kubernetes distribution by committing a clusterwide PSA config, building a controller that maps legacy SCC/ARB to… | ||
| Solving Kubernetes Mysteries with K8sGPT: Your AI-Powered Troubleshooting Companion | Thomas Schuetz | 34m |
K8sGPT is a CLI plus operator that runs hand‑written analyzers to detect real faults like missing service accounts, wrong Service selectors and replica set… | ||
| 4 Common Pitfalls when Adopting Backstage | Arthur Berezin | 36m |
Backstage is not a drop-in product but a TypeScript application (React frontend, TypeScript backend) that ships with SQLite by default and needs Postgres/RDS… | ||
| A Kubernetes Operator Story: From Idea to Cloud Integration | Philip Miglinci | 32m |
A Kubernetes Operator is built in Kotlin operator using the Java Operator SDK and integrates via the Open Service Broker API into the Exoscale marketplace… | ||
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