KCD Washington DC 2021
2021-11-04
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as the organisers put it
CNCF KCD Washington DC presents Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2021 (virtual event) | Nov 4, 2021. Find event and ticket information.
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, devops engineers, security engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
cloud native landscape guide; Skaffold auto-rebuild workflows; VS Code dev containers; Linkerd tap and viz; service mesh retry rules; Argo CD with Crossplane; Flux GitOps tenant management; SBOMs (SPDX and CycloneDX); in-toto build attestations; Gatekeeper OPA Rego policies; Submariner cross-site connectivity; CSI storage drivers
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome remarks | Matthew Cascio | 09m |
Red Cross describes its Kubernetes Community Days sponsorship and a volunteer engineering program called Code for Good that enlists about 500 volunteers, runs… | ||
| The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape explained | Jason Morgan, Catherine Paganini | 23m |
The CNCF map gains a clickable cloud native landscape guide with info icons that jump to plain‑language section pages, and the repo accepts issues and pull… | ||
| Growing up in a cloud native org | Elisa Hebert | 21m |
Cloud native growth requires concrete moves not platitudes: adopt an antifragile approach and build emotionally elastic teams, use Kubernetes plus governance… | ||
| Local development techniques with Kubernetes | Rob Richardson | 32m |
Demonstrates concrete local Kubernetes workflows: use Docker Compose or Minikube for isolated clusters, Skaffold auto-rebuilds and redeploys on file save with… | ||
| Debugging an app with a service mesh | Jason Morgan | 29m |
Linkerd is used to inspect live Kubernetes traffic with Linkerd tap and the viz CLI, revealing a grpc unknown error and 0% success for donut votes while the… | ||
| Here’s how to unleash GitOps without the usual developer headache | Bruno Andrade | |
Argues that app definitions can be simple, Git-first, and independent of underlying infra by using an application layer called catch that runs with Argo CD… | ||
| State of the secure software supply chain | Brandon Mitchell | 29m |
SolarWinds supply chain compromise motivates concrete defenses: ingest dependencies with SBoMs (SPDX or CycloneDX), scan them, and copy into a local registry… | ||
| Securing our clusters with gatekeeper and OPA | Michael Irwin | 32m |
Shows how Gatekeeper + OPA enforce policies Kubernetes RBAC cannot, using Rego constraint templates to block undesired services (no NodePort or LoadBalancer)… | ||
| Hybrid architecture solutions with Kubernetes and the cloud native stack | Oleg Chunikhin | 33m |
Overview of concrete hybrid patterns: Kubernetes acts as an infrastructure abstraction across AWS and Azure, with live demo of cross-site connectivity using… | ||
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