KCD Guadalajara 2025
2025-03-29
Guadalajara, Mexico
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, cloud architects, security engineers, observability engineers
topics
Kubernetes operators in Rust; Ruby-based Kubernetes operators; Argo Rollouts with Istio; Karpenter node autoscaling; cost optimization on cloud; KServe for large models; WebAssembly on Kubernetes; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; Cilium network observability; Podman quadlets with systemd; KubeVirt virtual machines in Kubernetes; Crossplane-driven API provisioning
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Experience | Alex Parra | 01m |
Emphasizes celebration of community and collaboration and repeatedly cites high participation and mutual learning, claiming innovation, enthusiasm, and harmony… | ||
| Code, Dependencies and Security: Where Is the Risk | Erikz | 28m |
The talk examines concrete supply-chain risks in build tools, package repositories and container images, citing examples like a Kubernetes Ingress flaw (CVSS… | ||
| Creating Operators with Rust | Ivan Chavero | 42m |
Shows how to build Kubernetes operators in Rust using the Cubarest library, generating CRD JSON via Rust macros and enforcing spec validity at compile time… | ||
| Sustainable Platform Engineering: Having a Green Thumb Without Shooting Up | Darío Gutiérrez Mori | 35m |
Compares major cloud providers' sustainability claims with metrics: Google on potential energy use and regional renewables, AWS opaque with a net‑zero 2040… | ||
| Safe Deliveries: Implementing Canary Deployments with Argo Rollouts | Gerardo Lopez Falcon, Fabrizio Sgura | 31m |
An operator named Aristi (built with Kubebuilder and Go) integrates Argo Rollouts, Istio, and Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger to automate canary deployments. It… | ||
| Metatron Kubernetes Operators in Ruby | Jonathan Gnagy | 33m |
An open source Ruby library called Metatron gem pairs with Metacontroller composite controller to let Ruby apps expose a sync endpoint and return desired… | ||
| App Platform IDP with Ready-to-Use CNCF Projects | Jorge Gaona | 23m |
Akamai’s App Platform is an installable, open-source beta that deploys an opinionated CNCF stack onto a customer Kubernetes cluster, including Helm charts… | ||
| The Big Kubernetes Mistake Paying More Than Necessary | Luis Redda | 33m |
Kubernetes clusters often overprovision resources: a survey across more than 15 companies found about 10% CPU utilization and 23% memory utilization. The talk… | ||
| Lightweight Architecture for a Startup with High Growability | Mauro Parra | 32m |
A blueprint for a bootstrapped, auditable SaaS using AWS: Aurora PostgreSQL for data, S3/CloudFront for front hosting, and containerized backends pushed to ECR… | ||
| How to Use Podman Quadlets | Miguel Bernal Marin | 29m |
Explains how Podman quadlets (added in Podman quadlets v4.4) convert container, volume, network, build and pod configuration into systemd --user units placed… | ||
| DevOps, Kubernetes and Observability | Rafael Garcia | |
Explains how adopting Cloud Native and Kubernetes enables shifting from multi‑year releases to frequent deploys (1, 10, 100, 1000 per day) by keeping code… | ||
| KubeVirt + Istio: Virtual Machines on Kubernetes | Carlos Z Reyes, Carlos Eduardo Simon Zepeda | 32m |
Shows how to run legacy virtual machines inside Kubernetes using KubeVirt by representing each VM as a VMI pod that runs QEMU/libvirt via virt-launcher, and… | ||
| Optimizando Clústeres de Kubernetes Gestión Eficiente de Cargas de Trabajo Karpenter | Bruno Leonel André Lopes | 33m |
Karpenter manages Kubernetes node provisioning on AWS with a focus on cost reduction and faster scaling by replacing ASG logic, supporting groupless… | ||
| Disguise Your Kubernetes Cluster as a Ninja | Rolando Carrasco | 41m |
Shows how to make a Kubernetes control plane and services inaccessible from the public internet by closing all incoming ports and running an identity‑based… | ||
| Building Architectures for Platform Engineering on AWS | Armando Herra | 17m |
Describes how to build a Platform Engineering stack on AWS using patterns like cluster-as-a-service, namespace-as-a-service, and template-as-a-service, and… | ||
| Kubernetes Hardening for Regulatory Compliance: A Practical Approach | Areli Octavio Solis Espitia | 34m |
Steps to harden Kubernetes for PCI, SOC and HIPAA: validate node baselines with kube-bench, scan VM images with OpenSCAP, centralize access using a bastion… | ||
| Of Quadlets and Other Daemonless | Alejandro Acosta | 34m |
Shows how to run a WordPress + MariaDB stack using quadlets with Potman 4.4 by creating systemd --user unit files so containers run as an unprivileged user… | ||
| Resilient Architectures on Amazon EKS: High Availability Patterns and Strategies | Alejandra Bricio | 30m |
Amazon EKS provides a highly available control plane while worker nodes can run on Fargate, managed node groups, or self-managed nodes; true resilience is… | ||
| AI in Kubernetes The Promise | Alvaro Soto | 22m |
Kubernetes can safely use AI only when automation enables wiping and redeploying clusters in hours (not weeks) using existing logs and traces. Practical AI… | ||
| The power of Open. | Brent Schroeder | 35m |
Large-scale adoption claim: Kubernetes: 77,000 contributors from 44+ countries and North American usage at about 65% cloud‑native adoption, delivering… | ||
| Reduce Costs and Optimize on Your Cloud with Karpenter | Victor Jimenez | 34m |
Karpenter is shown provisioning Kubernetes nodes using NodeClass blueprints and the EC2 Fit API to pick among 800+ instance types (Spot, on‑demand, Savings… | ||
| Migrating GitHub Actions with Nested Virtualization to a Cloud Native Ecosystem | Victor Morales | 34m |
Describes replacing macOS nested-virtualization CI by running self-hosted GitHub Actions on a home cluster: a ~$250 Intel NUC hosts three concurrent runners… | ||
| My First Event-Driven Serverless App with Numaflow | Gustavo A Bonilla | 29m |
A hands-on demo of building an event-driven serverless pipeline with Numaflow on Kubernetes that routes HTTP POSTs into a processing vertex which classifies… | ||
| OpenTelemetry for Busy People | Isaac Ruiz Guerra | 35m |
OpenTelemetry is explained as a practical observability stack that unifies traces, metrics and logs using language SDKs, a central collector with exporters… | ||
| Building and Enabling APIs with Crossplane 1 | Javier Sepúlveda | 35m |
Shows how to use Crossplane with the AWS and Kubernetes providers plus a KSL function to create a single reusable composite API that accepts project name, VPC… | ||
| Taking Back Control of Your APIs with Gateway API | Hugo Guerrero | 32m |
CubeRnetes Gateway API provides a way to regain control of exposed services by separating responsibilities and applying governance where Ingress fell short… | ||
| Serving Large Language Models using KServe | Edgar Hernandez | 35m |
A demo of KServe on Kubernetes (OpenShift on AWS) showing orchestration of a model server that pulls a Hugging Face Granite model via an init container and… | ||
| WebAssembly Everywhere, All at Once | Alvin Estrada | 36m |
WebAssembly is shown running not just in browsers but also on servers, edge, IoT and serverless Lambdas using the WASI host interface and runtimes like Wasmer… | ||
| Network Observability in Kubernetes with Cilium and Hubble | Juan Carlos Martinez | 34m |
Describes using Cilium and Hubble with eBPF to provide kernel-level network observability so Kubernetes pods emit labeled, structured metrics and flow metadata… | ||
| Istio in Action: Taking Kubernetes Traffic Control to the Next Level | Alex Parra | 28m |
Istio is used to manage Kubernetes traffic with concrete resources: VirtualService and DestinationRule for routing (by path or user agent) and an… | ||
| Charting New Frontiers: The Evolution of Observability in Cloud Environments | Jaime Omar Montero | 31m |
Describes unifying and automating observability across logs, metrics, traces and dashboards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger, Fluentd and Grafana with… | ||
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