Going Beyond the Node – Using VK to Realize Crazy Ideas
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-11-20· at 15:20· Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center, Upper Level·
summary
Virtual-kubelet (vk) runs as a node by importing its library and implements node and pod controllers to register nodes and reconcile pod lifecycle; providers implement create/delete/update and can run workloads on anything from MacBook as a Kubernetes node to Azure Container Instances. Demo fetches Mac‑compiled images and maps pod status via async status callbacks, and the team scales vk to 160 ACI instances across regions in minutes. Roadmap targets metrics, custom pod deletion policies, and provider helper libraries.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:38Coding
- 12:18What is VK
- 13:33VK Provider Interface
- 20:53Why Build a Provider
- 22:50Gotchas
- 24:51Providers
- 30:17Roadmap
- 32:25Questions








