KCD Pakistan 2023
2023-02-20
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as the organisers put it
Guest post by Saim Safdar We are excited to announce that we have successfully executed Kubernetes Community Days Pakistan. We had appearances from the first certified CKA women in Pakistan…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, security engineers, cloud engineers, developer advocates, community organizers
topics
Prometheus metrics and PromQL; distroless base images with cosign; Skaffold local Kubernetes development; Ambient Mesh zero-trust tunnel; Paralus zero trust access; Deployments vs StatefulSets vs DaemonSets; Kyverno policy automation; Knative serverless computing; Keptn GitOps orchestration and observation; Backstage developer portal; CI/CD build-once promote-artifact; Helm and kustomize manifest generation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| KCD PAKISTAN SUCCESS STORY & FUTURE PLANS FOR KCD PAKISTAN | Katie Greenley, Bart Farrell | 36m |
Kubernetes Community Days Pakistan launches at FAST National University with a hybrid format and a student-first mission, running weekly workshops and 35 prior… | ||
| KCD's, Can be seen as a collaborative bridge between local and International Community. | Audra Montenegro | 02m |
Kubernetes Community Day frames itself as a practical bridge between local meetups and global projects, showing how a group like Cloud Native Islamabad… | ||
| Closing Keynote - Data On Kubernetes | Bart Farrell | 12m |
First Kubernetes Community Days Pakistan launches with organizers from Pakistan, Spain, and the UK and a program that mixes local and international speakers… | ||
| Prometheus in 5 minutes | Pavan Gudiwada | 08m |
Prometheus uses a pull-based /metrics endpoint that it scrapes at configured intervals to store numeric time series (example: overnight user spike causes CPU… | ||
| From unemployed to Technology Evangelist in the Open Source world | Edith Puclla | 12m |
Starts with an Outreachy internship on Apache Airflow (Outreachy internship) and a first merged pull request to the Kubernetes glossary, progresses through… | ||
| Deploy With Confidence: Pre-Deployment Tasks and Manifests Management | Sergio Ocón Cardenas | 29m |
Practical checklist and tools to stop guessing at Kubernetes deployments: validate YAML against API schemas and supported versions, enforce Open Policy Agent… | ||
| Start Securing your Base Images by Making your Own Distroless | Batuhan Apaydın, Furkan Türkal | 24m |
Research finds popular base images average 287 vulnerabilities with 30% high/critical, so this shows a reproducible workflow: build minimal distroless images… | ||
| Skaffold: Local development with Kubernetes | Zubair Haque | 15m |
Shows a concrete workflow: a Node.js front end (index.js) built into a Docker image, deployed to minikube with Kubernetes deployment and service manifests… | ||
| What's a Zero-Trust Tunnel? SimpleOps and SecOps with Ambient Mesh | Marino Wijay | 25m |
Ambient Mesh replaces per-pod sidecars with a per-node DaemonSet z-tunnel that provides zero-trust tunnel behavior: app-to-zunnel traffic is unencrypted… | ||
| From Perimeter to Zero Trust: Securing Kubernetes with Paralus | Atulpriya Sharma | 30m |
Paralus claims to enforce Zero Trust for Kubernetes by providing controlled, audited access and eliminating firewall port changes; the demo shows a Helm… | ||
| Deployments vs StatefulSets vs Daemonsets | Ali Kahoot | 20m |
Compares Kubernetes controllers and gives concrete rules: Deployments create ReplicaSets and handle rolling updates and simple scaling so stateless services… | ||
| CI/CD Best Practices to Deliver Software Faster | Revana Siddesh Bathi | 24m |
Defines CI as builds under 10 minutes, recommends build once and promote the same artifact through all stages, and insists on commit early/commit often with… | ||
| Orchestrating and Observing GitOps Deployments with Keptn | Andreas Grabner | 24m |
Keptn extends GitOps by installing a Kubernetes operator that intercepts workload changes (Argo/Flux or kubectl), creates OpenTelemetry traces and Prometheus… | ||
| Serverless computing using Knative Open Source | Santosh Kumar | 21m |
Claims that Knative runs serverless workloads on Kubernetes and actually demonstrates Knative Serving with Istio integration and Docker Desktop Kubernetes. The… | ||
| Platform Automation with Kyverno | Chip Zoller | 20m |
Kyverno automates platform tasks with three concrete demos: copy and sync ConfigMaps (clones a certificate from one platform namespace to existing and newly… | ||
| Introduction to Backstage | Brad McCoy, Courtney Nickerson | 27m |
Backstage presents a centralized software catalog with code-first component YAML, reusable software templates and an extensible plugins marketplace; the demo… | ||
| Operating High Traffic Websites on Kubernetes | Salman Iqbal | 20m |
Shows how to run a high‑traffic website on Kubernetes by wiring real tools: nginx ingress on minikube, metrics scraped by Prometheus, and autoscaling driven by… | ||
| Opening Keynote talk | Haseeb Budhani | 15m |
Argues that companies must create a dedicated Kubernetes platform team that builds a shared self‑service stack offering Backstage front-ends, CI/CD… | ||
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