KubeDay Australia 2024: Full Schedule

In-person
15 October
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07:30 AEDT

Badge Pick-Up

Tuesday October 15, 2024 07:30 - 18:00 AEDT

Foyer (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 07:30 - 18:00 AEDT
Foyer (Level 1)

Registration

08:00 AEDT

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday October 15, 2024 08:00 - 18:30 AEDT

Foyer (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 08:00 - 18:30 AEDT
Foyer (Level 1)

Solutions Showcase

09:00 AEDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:00 - 09:05 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:00 - 09:05 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions

09:05 AEDT

Keynote: Self-Serving Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Company - Irene Bogosi, Principal Cloud Engineer, BHP & Danilo Gonzalez, Superintendent Cloud Engineering, BHP

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:05 - 09:15 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

What matters most for the developers for faster delivery of software? As a developer I want to be able to deploy and publish my containerized-based application with ease of use on day one. There are several key factors to consider when creating self-serving multi-tenant Kubernetes platform with robust infrastructure and baked-in security on day one. This talk will focus on the Why and the How of addressing developer's pain points with multi-tenant platform using self-serving Kubernetes namespaces and providing single pane of glass.

Speakers

Danilo Gonzalez

Superintendent Cloud Engineering, BHP

Irene Bogosi

Principal Cloud Engineer, BHP

I am Tech-Lead cloud engineer who focuses on improving customer experience in cloud native ecosystem especially with containerized environment

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:05 - 09:15 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering

09:15 AEDT

09:20 AEDT

Keynote: Cost-Efficient Strategies for Service Mesh Control Plane Traffic - Olga Mirensky, ANZ Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:20 - 09:30 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Managing the xDS traffic volume and sidecar connectivity to istiod is crucial for maintaining a performant and reliable service mesh. Non-application traffic, such as control plane and DNS queries, can significantly contribute to cloud costs in a non-obvious way. This session will delve into the specifics of the xDS API, exploring how configuration changes are distributed to sidecar proxies, the payloads of these updates, triggers, and the impact of this traffic on overall performance and cloud expenses. We will also examine how DNS queries from sidecar proxies contribute to this traffic and identify various configuration options to optimise non-application traffic and control costs. Attendees will gain practical insights for efficiently managing their service mesh deployments.

Speakers

Olga

Platform Engineer, ANZ Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

Olga is a Platform Engineer with extensive hands-on experience in building resilient and cost-effective cloud solutions. She specialises in diagnosing and resolving performance issues in Kubernetes environments, with experience running clusters across AWS, GCP and Azure with standalone... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:20 - 09:30 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions, Connectivity

09:30 AEDT

09:35 AEDT

Keynote: Engineering Success: The Blueprint for Effective Platform Adoption - BMK Lakshminarayanan, SECTION6

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:35 - 09:45 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

This talk delves into the critical elements that set the stage for triumphant Platform Engineering implementation. We'll explore how to structure your teams effectively using Team Topologies principles, ensuring optimal collaboration and communication. You'll learn strategies for crafting a product-centric approach to your platform, treating it as a valuable internal product. We'll discuss the importance of securing proper investment and stakeholder buy-in and how to create shorter feedback loops that drive continuous improvement. Finally, we'll examine innovative ways to incentivize platform adoption, ensuring your carefully crafted platform doesn't become a ghost town. Whether you're just starting your Platform Engineering journey or looking to optimize your existing efforts, this talk will provide you with a comprehensive blueprint for success.

Speakers

BMK Lakshminarayanan

Transformation Architect, SECTION6

BMK is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years of experience in software development, solution architecture, DevOps, and strategic consulting. He is a well-known speaker at events like DevOps Enterprise Summit, AllDayDevOps, and DevOpsWorld. BMK is also a mentor and advocate... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:35 - 09:45 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering

09:45 AEDT

Keynote: Scaling GitOps Using ArgoCD Application-Sets: Lesson Learnt - Amit Dsouza, Odyssey Cloud

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:45 - 09:55 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

ArgoCD has gained a lot of traction over the last couple of years, however most companies are still not using Appset's. ApplicationSet changed the game! It introduced generators where you could have one Appset to either deploy multiple repositories or single mono repositories. It gave a simplified path to bootstrap clusters using a mono-repository and deployed a product with microservices in multiple repositories. This was GitOps at scale and it was simple. Amit implemented ArgoCD for a large Australian media company to automate application deployments in Kubernetes, however, the journey was not without its hiccups. In this talk Amit introduces people to ArgoCD ApplicationSets & the Generators used, and how it saves time and reduces complexity by avoiding the need to write new deployment pipelines. Amit walks you through his journey from Application to ApplicationsSets, discussing the mistakes made and lessons learnt, to help you fast track and simplify your ArgoCD adoption.

Speakers

Amit DSouza

Co-founder, Odyssey Cloud, Odyssey Cloud

Amit Dsouza is an IT professional with over 13 years of experience in the industry. He is a co-founder of Odyssey Cloud, Australia. With experience in Fortune 500 companies & startups, he has worked in various locations including Australia, Singapore, & India. Amit specializes in... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:45 - 09:55 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions, SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

09:55 AEDT

Keynote: Closing Remarks

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:55 - 10:10 AEDT

Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 09:55 - 10:10 AEDT
Center Stage Ballroom (Level 1)

Keynote Sessions

10:10 AEDT

Coffee Break ☕

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:10 - 10:40 AEDT

Foyer (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:10 - 10:40 AEDT
Foyer (Level 1)

Breaks

10:40 AEDT

How GoTo Financial Automates Upgrading 60+ Istio Service Mesh Seamlessly! - Zufar Dhiyaulhaq & Didi Yudha Perwira, GoTo Financial

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:40 - 11:10 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, is widely used by many companies. Service meshes simplify observability, traffic management, security, and policy on Kubernetes. While they offer significant benefits, day-to-day operations like upgrades can be challenging. These upgrades require active monitoring during the process. GoTo Financial, for instance, took more than 45 days to upgrade 60+ clusters. This talk will share their journey of building an open-source, opinionated automation solution to simplify the Istio service mesh upgrade process. This solution has shortened upgrade time to 14 days, reduced active monitoring, and frees up valuable engineering resources and minimized downtime risks.

Speakers

Zufar Dhiyaulhaq

Engineering Manager, GoTo Financial

Zufar recently joins Gojek as Cloud Platform Engineer, He has been in the IT industry for 3 years, mostly working with Linux, Cloud, and Kubernetes. He also loves to contribute to open source projects like Istio and help to organize CNCF meetups in Indonesia.

Didi Yudha Perwira

Sr. Software Engineer, GoTo Financial

Didi has been working in GoTo Financial for 3 years and he has been working for Kubernetes and Istio since the day 1 he's working in GoTo Financial. Didi also have experience and passionate in software engineering field, usually he codes Golang, Javascript, Typescript and Python... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:40 - 11:10 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Connectivity

10:40 AEDT

Domain-Driven Platform Engineering: Enhancing Cloud Native Platforms Across Industries - Ajay Chankramath, Brillio

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:40 - 11:10 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Explore how domain-driven platform engineering revolutionizes cloud native platforms across various business sectors including BFSI, HCLS, Retail, Public Sector, Automotive, and Manufacturing. This session delves into the core principles of building and customizing platforms tailored to specific industry needs, automating infrastructure operations, and improving self-service workflows for developers. Attendees will gain insights into integrating domain-specific requirements with cloud native technologies, extending platform functionalities to meet unique business challenges, and accelerating software delivery through optimized toolchains and workflows. Learn how domain-driven design principles enable platform engineers, DevOps professionals, and developers to create resilient, scalable, and efficient platforms that drive business innovation and operational excellence.

Speakers

Ajay Chankramath

Chief Technology Officer, Managing Director | Platforms, Products & Solutions, Brillio

Ajay is a Platform Engineering Expert with 3+ decades of technology leadership experience. A regular speaker and panelist, as well as a prolific writer of blogs and other relevant publications, his current interests are around improving developer productivity using domain-driven platform... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:40 - 11:10 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Platform Engineering

11:15 AEDT

A Tale of Two Plugins: Safely Extending the Kubernetes Scheduler with WebAssembly - Kensei Nakada, Tetrate

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:15 - 11:45 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

There are many use cases for scheduling in the world, and the maintainers regard extendability as crucial. Kube-scheduler has two major ways to extend it, webhook and Go SDK. However, these come with drawbacks; performance/extendability issues with webhook, and the need to rebuild and replace schedulers with Go SDK. The proposed talk seeks to introduce our new solution to these challenges - a WebAssembly based extension. We’ll begin with a story about why custom schedulers are needed, and how existing extensions work. Then, we’ll get into why architecturally WebAssembly is a great fit for plugins, while also covering its challenges, such as sandbox limitations and programming concerns. This session will be delivered by Kensei, SIG-Scheduling core maintainer who founded the wasm extension. When you leave this session, you will know first-hand how a complex WebAssembly project looks and feels, with concrete details of how WebAssembly fits into infrastructure extensibility in general.

Speakers

Kensei Nakada

Software Engineer, Tetrate.io

Kensei Nakada is a platform engineer at Tetrate. In the community, he is a sig-scheduling approver, and a core maintainer of the project kube-scheduler-simulator and kube-scheduler-wasm-extension.

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:15 - 11:45 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Platform Engineering

11:15 AEDT

Leveraging Gateway API for Kubernetes-Native API Management - Sanjeewa Malalgoda, WSO2 Australia Pty Ltd

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:15 - 11:45 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

This session explores the evolution of Kubernetes networking, focusing on the Gateway API as a significant advancement over traditional Ingress resources. We examine how the Gateway API addresses complexities in routing and security for modern microservices, dissecting components like Gateway, GatewayClass, and HTTPRoute. Real-world case studies demonstrate their role in creating scalable, resilient architectures and integrating with service meshes and external APIs. Drawing from our experience developing an open-source API Management platform based on the Gateway API, we share practical insights and challenges encountered during its implementation. This technical deep dive is essential for Kubernetes practitioners aiming to optimize API management with advanced networking capabilities, offering actionable strategies and insights into leveraging the full potential of the Gateway API.

Speakers

Sanjeewa Malalgoda

Director of Engineering, WSO2 Australia Pty Ltd

Sanjeewa is an experienced engineering leader with over 13 years in enterprise integration, focusing on API management and event-driven architectures. He directs API management products at WSO2, highly regarded in the industry and consistently ranked among the top by analysts. His... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:15 - 11:45 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Connectivity

11:50 AEDT

Leveraging Data Output for Architectural Optimization - Diana Omuoyo, Splunk

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:50 - 12:20 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

With so many options available, choosing and architecting CloudNative Solutions is a challenging process. Historically, focus has been placed on the solutions that best address specific use-cases and how these fit into the desired overall enterprise ecosystem. Experimenting is not an uncommon practice, especially where the upstream or downstream dependencies are multi-cloud or hybrid.

So how can we efficiently and effectively design our solutions to optimize for fit, reliability, scalability and stability across our complex distributed systems?

In this session, I will cover some key design use-cases, challenges and how Observability, OpenTelemetry and AI/ML is evolving to provide streamlined insights for practitioners to architect for complexity.

Speakers

Diana Omuoyo

Sr Solution Architect, Splunk

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:50 - 12:20 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced

11:50 AEDT

Containerd Fundamentals - Jorge Arteiro, Microsoft

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:50 - 12:20 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

On this talk, you are going to learn about one of the most important technologies used in the container and Kubernetes space. Docker and Kubernetes use containerd as a high-level library to manage containers, images, snapshotters, OCI specs and all integration with container runtimes and tools. A basic understanding of who is running your application is fundamental to give you a better view of how things work behind the scenes in a Kubernetes cluster.

Speakers

Jorge Arteiro

Cloud Developer Advocate for Cloud Native, Microsoft

I am a Cloud Developer Advocate for Containers and Docker Captain based in Melbourne/Australia with over 20 years in the tech industry. As former Microsoft MVP - Most Valued Professional, I developed my passion to help and sponsor the Community to get into the tech industry, to learn... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:50 - 12:20 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Cloud Native Novice

12:20 AEDT

Lunch 🍲

Tuesday October 15, 2024 12:20 - 13:40 AEDT

Meeting Place 1-4 (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 12:20 - 13:40 AEDT
Meeting Place 1-4 (Level 1)

Breaks

13:40 AEDT

No Requests, No Limits, No Service - How to Bring Kubernetes to a Grinding Halt - Cail Young, Octopus Deploy

Tuesday October 15, 2024 13:40 - 14:10 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

In this talk, Cail will dive into an incident that occurred in Octopus Deploy's internal build platform, where thousands of ephemeral test environment pods jammed up their test cluster for seemingly no reason at all. We'll talk about incident analysis process, the specific contributing factors identified, and the ongoing challenges of the work involved in providing internal tooling.

Speakers

Cail Young

Senior SRE, Octopus Deploy

Cail has spent the last couple of decades working at the intersection of people and technology: in the performing arts, in the motion picture industry, and now in the field of software operations. He is fascinated by learning from incidents - large and small - and will gladly trade... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 13:40 - 14:10 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Cloud Native Experience

13:40 AEDT

How Might You Platform: Avoiding Traps Before It's Too Late - Joshua Bezaleel Abednego, GoTo Financial

Tuesday October 15, 2024 13:40 - 14:10 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Infrastructure teams all across the world now are racing to implement platform engineering, either building their own in-house custom solutions which mostly will equate it to Internal Developer Portal or using off-the-shelves solution from third-party vendor. But is Platform Engineering really equal to Internal Developer Portal? Does it actually bring benefits to not only the product engineers but the infrastructure team as well? How is it different to DevOps? And SRE? And most importantly, what are the common traps of implementing platform engineering? Through the experience of the past few years building and operating a platform for ~700 engineers, the talk will guide on what kind of things that we wish we would've done better to start so you won't have to go through the same mistakes on your platform team.

Speakers

Joshua Abednego

Software Engineering, Developer Experience, GoTo Financial

Joshua is a software engineer in GoTo Financial’s infrastructure department specifically on the Developer Experience team that builds and maintains the internal developer platform powering the company’s engineering team. Earlier he worked as software engineer at Shipper, contributed... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 13:40 - 14:10 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Platform Engineering

14:15 AEDT

Design Patterns for Running AI/ML and Bigdata Workloads on Kubernetes - Rachit Arora, Oracle

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:15 - 14:45 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Kubernetes is a defacto choice of resource manager for different types of requirements like running your microservices, CI/CD pipelines, Analytical applications, etc. Each of these requirements has specific challenges and as we address these challenges some new design patterns evolve which act as templates for many to use these learning and effectively run your workloads. Running AI/ML and Bigdata engines like Spark, Flink, Hive, Tez, Flume, etc on Kubernetes has presented multiple challenges with respect to handling container placement, Config management, confidential data management, enforcement of governance policies, Metadata management, Shuffle data management, Logging and monitoring, Autoscaling, Sharing data with other containers, Sharing libraries across different containers and many more. The Agenda of this talk is to discuss these challenges and how different design patterns have evolved to address them.

Speakers

Rachit Arora

Consulting Member of technical Staff, Oracle

Rachit Arora is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Bigdata service. He is key designer of the Oracle's offerings on Cloud for Hadoop ecosystem . He has extensive experience in architecture, design and agile developmemt. Rachit is an expert in application development... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:15 - 14:45 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, AI + ML

14:15 AEDT

From EC2 to Kubernetes: Takeaways from a Brownfield Migration - Rob Pearson, Octopus Deploy

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:15 - 14:45 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

From 2018 to 2019, we migrated our SaaS product from a conventional setup of 1800 EC2 instances to a scalable architecture managed within Kubernetes Clusters. This session will discuss the entire journey of our migration endeavour, from the nine-month conversion phase to the ongoing challenges encountered in the post-migration landscape. Topics discussed will be migrating existing customers, mitigating the impacts of noisy neighbours, devising efficient deployment strategies, and fine-tuning resource allocation to align with customer usage patterns. Key Takeaways: - Insights into the rationale behind transitioning from EC2 instances to Kubernetes. - Strategies for provisioning dedicated container instances to each customer while preventing interference from noisy neighbours. - The rationale behind opting for managed services for our database and file storage needs. - Challenges encountered during the transition from hosting on Windows to a Linux-based container environment.

Speakers

Rob Pearson

Principal DevOps Engineer, Octopus Deploy

Rob Pearson is a software developer who has written code for over 20 years. He's built enterprise applications, shipped mobile apps and currently helps make Octopus Deploy awesome. Rob loves to go from idea to production and see customers using applications in the real world.

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:15 - 14:45 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Cloud Native Experience

14:50 AEDT

Building and Operating Cloud Native Platforms with the Radius Project - Will Velida, Mantel Group

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:50 - 15:20 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

As organizations attempt to build internal developer platform s to standardize the way they deploy and manage cloud-native applications, they struggle with the cost and complexity of building and operating a home-grown solution. Radius is an open-source framework that enables developers and operators to build, deploy and operate on cloud native applications across public and private clouds. In this session, I'll talk about why developers and operators might want to use Radius when building cloud-native applications, go into the architecture of Radius, compare it other common tools and frameworks for managing cloud native apps, and show how you can build cloud-native applications using Radius. By the end of this session, you'll have an understanding of what Radius is and how you can use it to build and manage your cloud native apps.

Speakers

Will Velida

Lead Software Engineer, Mantel Group

Will is a Lead Software Engineer at Mantel Group, where he helps customers build reliable and resilient applications using Microsoft Azure. Will has extensive experience in software development, building solutions in the financial, health and agricultural industries. Will regularly... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:50 - 15:20 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Platform Engineering

14:50 AEDT

Dear Developers, Zero CVEs != Secure Software - Melissa McKay, JFrog

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:50 - 15:20 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Mindlessly playing whack-a-mole using CVE databases is an inefficient use of a developer's time. And even if you manage to proudly proclaim zero vulnerabilities, it is still possible that your software isn't as secure as you want it to be. The security of your software goes beyond simple compliance. During this session, Melissa will explain and provide real-world examples of the various types of security issues outside of CVEs that developers must be aware of and must consider when developing and deploying cloud-native apps. She will share insights on how to evaluate the plethora of scanning tools available today, and about existing programs and education offered through the Linux Foundation, the OpenSSF, and OWASP. Most importantly, leave this session knowing how to make the most out of "shift-left" security and how to shore up your applications when it comes to resolving dependencies, packaging, and deploying your cloud-native applications.

Speakers

Melissa McKay

Head of Developer Relations, JFrog

Melissa is passionate about Java, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. She is currently Head of Developer Relations for JFrog, serves on the Continuous Delivery Foundation TOC and CNCF governing board. She shares her knowledge with the community as a developer, speaker, and author. Melissa... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 14:50 - 15:20 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Security

15:20 AEDT

Coffee Break ☕

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:20 - 15:50 AEDT

Foyer (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:20 - 15:50 AEDT
Foyer (Level 1)

Breaks

15:50 AEDT

Balancing Innovation with Responsibility: Ethics in Cloud Native Development - Emma Tordsson, Workday

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:50 - 16:20 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Ethics in Cloud Native Development: Balancing Innovation with Responsibility Innovation is key to maintaining a competitive edge and nowhere is that truer than in cloud native development. However, as developers push the boundaries of what technology can achieve, it's crucial to pause and consider the ethical implications of these advancements. This talk will explore the intersection of ethics and cloud native development, focusing on three critical areas: data privacy, environmental impact, and social implications.

Speakers

Emma Tordsson

Principal Enterprise Architect

Emma Tordsson is a seasoned Principal Enterprise Architect with over a decade of experience in guiding organisations through their digital transformation journeys. She excels in translating the complexities of microservices and cloud native architectures into clear, actionable business... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:50 - 16:20 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced

15:50 AEDT

Leveraging GenAI for Seamless Developer Experiences in Backstage - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Seema Saharan, Autodesk

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:50 - 16:20 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Backstage is a powerful developer platform, but what if it could do even more? Imagine automating routine tasks, generating code on the fly, and finding answers faster—all within Backstage. This talk dives into how you can leverage large language models like ChatGPT to supercharge developer productivity. You’ll discover how to: 1. Integrate ChatGPT into Backstage using off-the-shelf open-source components. 2. Seamlessly switch between different large language models to suit your needs. 3. Craft prompts that elicit better, more useful responses from the LLM. Join us to see how the latest AI capabilities can transform Backstage, making your development process more efficient and innovative.

Speakers

Aditya Soni

DevOps Engineer ll, CNCF Ambassador, Forrester

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Searce, and is currently positioned at Forrester Research as a DevOps Engineer II. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Seema Saharan

Site Reliability Engineer, CNCF Ambassador, Autodesk

Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 15:50 - 16:20 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Platform Engineering

16:25 AEDT

Kubernetes as a Platform Framework: Journey from IaC Pipelines to K8s APIs - Navya Srivastava, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 16:25 - 16:55 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

As organizations scale their cloud adoption, they continue to find bottlenecks in their ability to deploy new workloads due to the shear number of resources centralized teams must manage. Developers at these organizations must traverse through multiple workflows—stitching together outputs from multiple pipelines—to deploy their applications. These delays result in new workloads or features taking up to 6-12 months to launch into production. Attempting to remove the bottleneck of centralized teams and empower developers, technical leadership is driving self-service automation initiatives commonly referred to as platform engineering. This presentation covers why platform engineering is trending, why new tools and methodologies are required, real-world customer use-cases, and how to get started. Additionally we’ll demo how to build a modern platform using OSS CNCF tools like Argo, Crossplane, and Gatekeeper.

Speakers

Navya Srivastava

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Solutions architect and technical lead endorsing GitOps and DevOps best practises across the organisation while implementing design of highly available, highly scalable and resilient solution architecture in the cloud.

Tuesday October 15, 2024 16:25 - 16:55 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Platform Engineering

16:25 AEDT

Open-Sourcing the Open Cluster Management Project and the Lessons We Can Learn for AI. - August Simonelli, Red Hat

Tuesday October 15, 2024 16:25 - 16:55 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

A little over four years ago Red Hat and IBM began the process of open-sourcing the Open Cluster Management Project. Today, the technology is productised and 100% open source. This is the story of that journey. We will take you through the history of the project and how it began as an internal solution at IBM built to solve a specific set of problems and then, through the power of collaboration between the community, IBM, and Red Hat, is now a widely used, fully open solution improving the management of Kubernetes clusters in hybrid environments. This is not the story of one product or one project, but rather a reminder of the power, and success, of being open for all. As we stand at the beginning of this new era of AI, we offer this story as a blueprint for open-sourcing AI and everything it entails. The future remains open and this is how we do it!

Speakers

August Simonelli

Principal Product Manager - Red Hat, Red Hat

August Simonelli is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat. He has worked with customers around the world to help them adopt, use, improve, and implement open source technologies. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, August now lives in Sydney, Australia and is a strong advocate for using... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 16:25 - 16:55 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner, Cloud Native Experience

17:00 AEDT

Orchestrating Light, Fast and Efficient WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads in Kubernetes (K8s) - Tim McCallum, Fermyon Technologies Inc.

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:00 - 17:30 AEDT

Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

SpinKube [1], an open-source project, is a revolutionary platform designed to leverage the unique advantages of WebAssembly (Wasm) for Kubernetes environments. SpinKube introduces a streamlined, efficient approach to deploying serverless applications. Complementing SpinKube's advancements, the Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes [2] can run thousands of serverless functions per node. The cold start delays are less than one millisecond. This increase in efficiency translates into up to 60% compute cost savings, providing a cost-effective solution without compromising performance. SpinKube and the Fermyon Platform represent a significant step forward in cloud computing. [1] https://www.spinkube.dev [2] https://www.fermyon.com/blog/intro-to-fermyon-platform-for-kubernetes

Speakers

Tim McCallum

Mr Timothy McCallum, Fermyon Technologies Inc.

Tim McCallum is the Developer Relations & Content Specialist for Fermyon. He is an experienced engineer, writer, editor and award-winning software development mentor who loves collaborating with developers from around the globe. Tim lives on the east coast of Australia and loves to... Read More →

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:00 - 17:30 AEDT
Center Stage 1 (Level 1)

Advanced, Operations + Performance

17:00 AEDT

Where Are We Going With Observability? - Adrian Cole, Elastic

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:00 - 17:30 AEDT

Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

In the last ten years, we've moved observability from concept to practice. We’ve collected signals, like metrics, logs, tracing and most recently profiling, in consistent ways. Now, we query our systems and pinpoint specific entities under investigation, such as slow requests through a Kubernetes service.

Two years ago, ChatGPT forever changed how we interact with systems. We've moved from learning query languages to asking in plain english. We get context-specific advice and we can even ask the system to write queries for us! Can AI help me figure out what I'm running, what happened in an outage, or even prevent one?

This session shows what's possible through real examples of GenAI prompts. You'll understand why concepts like RAG work to your advantage with private information. You'll learn AI does all the hard work, even if using only cheap logs, in a real system. You’ll leave knowing how AI can help us decouple from experts and move more people into successful root cause analysis.

Speakers

Adrian Cole

Principal engineer, Elastic

Adrian is a software engineer working at Elastic. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on OpenTelemetry. His past notable project work includes wazero, Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds.

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:00 - 17:30 AEDT
Center Stage 2 (Level 1)

Beginner

17:30 AEDT

Networking + Evening Reception

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:30 - 18:30 AEDT

Foyer (Level 1)

Tuesday October 15, 2024 17:30 - 18:30 AEDT
Foyer (Level 1)

Experiences