KCD Hyderabad 2024
2024-06-22
Hyderabad, India
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, security engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, devops engineers, AI/ML infrastructure engineers
topics
CEL CRD validation for Kubernetes; kubernetes multi tenancy security; container data leak prevention; kubernetes networking fundamentals and CNI; platform design on Kubernetes; Backstage value driven platform engineering; software supply chain security and provenance; eBPF for networking and security; ECS to EKS migration lessons; managing air gated Kubernetes environments; securing AI model runtimes and GPUs; Karpenter autoscaling for Kubernetes
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Atulpriya Sharma | 12m |
Welcome note explains why this KCD exists, traces community growth from ~60 members in Jan 2023 to about 1,200 now, and lists concrete metrics: 182 CFPs… | ||
| Keynote: Powering Generative AI with Kubernetes | Janakiram MSV | 32m |
Claims a reproducible on‑prem GenAI stack that uses Kubernetes to run mistl 7B instruct for inference and a separate text-embedding-inference model, with a… | ||
| CRD Validation in Kubernetes | Chirag Kyal | 23m |
Claims that CEL GA in 1.29 plus the x-kubernetes-validation extension lets CRDs carry expressive validation rules so admission webhooks are no longer required… | ||
| Securing Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy | Sneha, Rajasekhar | 30m |
A Red Hat survey result — over 60% delay deployments for security — motivates a demo-heavy walkthrough that ties code-to-cloud risk to concrete fixes. The… | ||
| Panel: Women In Tech | Pooja, Shanta, Megha, Bhavani, Bhargavi | 34m |
Panelists give concrete steps and examples: early-career ambition (ages 21–25) needs three Ps: passion, people, patience and deliberate skill reinvention… | ||
| Chief Guest Keynote | Jayesh Ranjan | 18m |
Telangana reports a formal cloud adoption framework, migrates eOffice and the Aarogyasri health-insurance system to public clouds, and cites big CSPs… | ||
| Securing Containers: Preventing Data Leaks | Vani, Tapan | 26m |
Argues that container logs must have zero tolerance for sensitive fields and follows four pillars: encryption, strict access controls, auditing, and… | ||
| Preventing Bank Heists and AI Takeovers in Kubernetes | Barun | 18m |
Describes using KubeArmor policies to stop runtime attacks on AI workloads: validate models as OCI model signing before deploy, apply a Jupyter notebook policy… | ||
| Navigating the Kubernetes Networking Maze | Sumudu | 22m |
Explains how pods get IPs from per-node CIDRs, how the kubelet calls the CNI to run CNI add/delete/check/version and wire veth pairs into a bridge, and how… | ||
| What Does A Platform On Kubernetes Look Like? | Ram | 20m |
Shows concrete platform choices and demos: buildpacks produce OCI images without Dockerfiles and one person in the room reports production use; Dapper injects… | ||
| Value Driven Platform Engineering Using Backstage | Debabrata | 12m |
States that 24.3M active devs exist and US firms spend $165B while developers spend 40% of their time on non-code work, costing roughly $1T; Backstage acts as… | ||
| Lets secure our Kubernetes cluster | Prithviraj | 11m |
Claims that 60% of Fortune 500 clusters were easily breached and a 2018 incident where Tesla dashboard exposed lead to concrete failures: attackers used… | ||
| Keynote: Supply Chain Security in 2024 | Saiyam Pathak | 19m |
Supply chain attacks rise sharply — a ReversingLabs timeline shows a 1300% increase in certain supply-chain incidents in 2023, with high-profile compromises… | ||
| Role of eBPF in Kubernetes Networking and Security | Rajani, Kunal | 22m |
eBPF runs inside the kernel to speed packet processing, enable on‑the‑fly kernel‑level load balancing and service discovery, and enforce pre‑processing… | ||
| How migrating from ECS to EKS supercharged our infrastructure | Harsh | 09m |
Migrated 200+ microservices from ECS to EKS, replacing manual ECS service definitions with declarative Helm charts and Argo CD; node provisioning moves to… | ||
| Managing Kubernetes in Air-Gapped Environments | Unnati, Akshat | 18m |
Explains how to run Kubernetes completely offline by using a local artifact registry (JFrog/Artifactory or OCI mirror), self‑hosted Git, and air‑gapped CI/CD… | ||
| Panel: Open Source Community in Hyderabad | Amogha, Kalyan, Vineeth, Zubair | 26m |
Panelists map concrete routes: meetups, CNCF Hyderabad and Hyderabad Python User Group run job streams and meetup hiring slots that regularly surface… | ||
| Falcon Flight | Sanchit, Arpan | 29m |
Falcon is an open-source project that deploys full Hyperledger Fabric networks on Kubernetes using Helm charts and a central file store, automating CA… | ||
| Karpenter : Your trusted Companion for Kubernetes Scaling | Toshal | 18m |
Karpenter watches unscheduled pods and uses Kubernetes APIs to observe aggregate resource requests, then calls cloud compute APIs (for example Amazon EC2)… | ||
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