Rey Lejano

Kubernetes is highly configurable and extensible but it is complex. Users are often confused about where to start their Cloud Native journey with Kubernetes, and complexities increase with day two operations.

This session covers the complications you should prioritize when architecting, implementing, and scaling Kubernetes in the enterprise.

Track:

3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Learn how to implement day 2 operations such as monitoring, logging and security
2. Understand GitOps for automating deployments
3. Recognise infrastructure as code deployment and the various autoscaling options

More information coming soon.

Daniel Bryant

Today, developers building applications on Kubernetes are being asked to not just code applications but to also be responsible for shipping and running their applications. We often talk about needing a Kubernetes platform, but are we really looking for a PaaS? Or are we looking for some kind of developer control plane with a Goldilock-sized collection of tools that provides just the right amount of platform?

This session will look back on my experience of building platforms, will walk-through the CNCF ecosystem through the developer control plane lens, and look at what’s next in the future of this important emerging category.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1. Learn the importance of treating the platform as a product
2. Realize that you can’t have good developer experience (DevEx) without good UX
3. Understand how to focus on workflows and tooling interoperability

Angel M Rayo.

Ignite is an innovative and fast-paced style used to deliver a concise presentation. These are five minute talks consisting of twenty slides which auto advance every fifteen seconds—rapid fire SRE learning bursts!

Track:

Ignite

Take this time to visit the Expo Hall, connect with sponsors and network with your peers.

More information coming soon.

David Frappart

With a growing adoption of containerized workloads and AKS as a target, security topics are at the heart of architecturing discussions. Specifically, securing data through encryption capabilities of one cloud platform can rapidly become a headache.

In this session, we will start with rapid state-of-the-art encryption options available in the Azure platform as well as focusing on the 2 parts that matter for managing encryption at rest in AKS.

My aim is that you will have a clearer and better understanding of how you can manage encryption with Microsoft managed Kubernetes solution, and how this potentially impacts operations.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Understand Azure Kubernetes Encryption’s option for Worker plane
2. Learn about Azure Kubernetes Encryption for Control plane
3. Identify the operational impact of encrypting AKS

Micheál Kingston

Microservices power our favourite digital experiences. But what are the challenges faced by organisations that wish to adapt to a microservices infrastructure in Kubernetes? What are the benefits of modern app delivery in a containerised world, and how can you mitigate many of the complexities?

In this session, you will hear F5’s perspective on the powerful capabilities of modern practices, such as container orchestration and service mesh.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1. Learn about Container Orchestration and why is it important
2. Understand Service Mesh, augmenting the Orchestration and connecting the dots
3. Learn about software infrastructure and portability and how to make the right choices for your organization

Nigel Poulton

Best-selling author and video-trainer Nigel Poulton uncovers a future where Kubernetes and WebAssembly work together to change the future of cloud computing: to boldly go where Kubernetes could never go before.

Virtual machines brought the first wave of cloud computing, followed by the second wave based on containers. We’re about to experience the third, and it’s based on WebAssembly.

This session introduces you to WebAssembly in the cloud and how it will make applications smaller, faster, more secure, and more portable and demonstrate how WebAssembly intersects with existing technologies such as Kubernetes.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Understand how and why the third wave of cloud computing is coming
2. Recognise how third wave computing is based on WebAssembly
3. Learn about third wave’s impact on Kubernetes

Michael Levan

Have you ever worked in an environment where servers were just sitting around underutilized? What about in an environment where you requested resources and they weren’t available? These questions lead to not only resource optimization, but understanding cost and how to bring it down.

This session is all about how you can optimize resources for Kubernetes clusters utilizing various tools and platforms.

In the cloud, resources (compute, storage, etc.) are either constantly overprovisioned or underprovisioned. Organizations are either spending way too much money monthly in the cloud for resources that aren’t needed or “scaling up” strategies aren’t in place, which ends in production environments not performing the way engineers are expecting.

How can you plan for resource and cost optimization in the cloud?

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to optimize Kubernetes clusters from a resource perspective with Sosivio.
2. Cost optimization with Cast.ai and Kubecost
3. Planning how resources will be used to avoid over or underutilization.

Take this time to visit the Expo Hall, connect with sponsors and network with your peers.

Chip Zoller

Using Kyverno, a CNCF Incubating project, coupled with Nirmata Policy Manager, delivers use cases for platform teams.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1. Policy is required when operating Kubernetes in production.
2. Technical complexity must be reduced, not increased, and tool selection should be made with this in mind.
3. Collaboration and governance are concerns for multiple business units in an organization and a centralized management framework should be leveraged.

Robert Hodges

Storage is the heart of every database. But which storage is the fastest? And which is best for your analytic application?

This session explores the trade-offs between the main storage types available in all major public clouds. We’ll start with basic performance metrics. Then, using ClickHouse as an example, we’ll show how databases access different storage types and how it translates to query speeds visible to your users.

Spoiler: the fastest storage does not always give the best query performance.

Track:

Technology

3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Learn how choices in storage types alter the performance of analytic applications
2. Gain practical tips to maximize the performance of each storage type
3. Discover standard tricks like caching, volume stacking, sorting, and compression that help you build fast analytic applications even on so-called “slow” storage.

Viktor Nagy

People often ask us whether they should use branches or directories. Our recommendation is both.

Git was invented to track software development but it requires some adaptation and flex to use it for infrastructure that is, by nature, stateful.

In this session, you’ll learn about our recommended setup, and how we came up with it for managing deployments in git. We will also define what stateful architecture means, why it’s relevant, and where we are using branches and directories and why.

Track:

Process

3 Key Takeaways:

1. Learn how to organize a git repository for deployments, especially GitOps
2. Understand why you should forget the typical application development git patterns
3. Learn how GitLab can support you with a best-in-class setup including necessary approvals and gates in the release process

Marc Halcrow

Closing notes from DevOps Institute

Yes. SKILup Days are available on this platform for 30 days after the event. Any previous event content can be accessed on demand through DevOps Institute’s “SKILup IT Learning program“.

No applications are required to access the event. However, we do recommend that mobile users access the event via vFairs mobile application available both on android and iOS devices.

To enquire about sponsoring one of our SKILup Days, please get in touch with our “Sponsorship Team”.

If you’d like to speak at one or more of our SKILup Days, please get in touch with our Events Team events@devopsinstitute.com who will send further information.