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Authors: Kasper Borg Nissen, Brian Nielsen
2023-04-21

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The presentation discusses the development of a centralized developer portal called Backstage that aims to reduce the cognitive load of developers and provide paved paths for compliance requirements. The portal also enables experimentation and fast feedback loops for both customers and engineers.
  • Backstage is a centralized developer portal that reduces the cognitive load of developers and provides paved paths for compliance requirements
  • The portal enables experimentation and fast feedback loops for both customers and engineers
  • Requirements for Backstage were collected through forms and asking developers what would be most valuable to them
  • The showcase of Backstage's capabilities includes the ability to create a service in three minutes
  • The team is also working on aligning internal asynchronous communication and adding metadata around Pi data to schemas
  • The balance between enabling fast development and maintaining compliance is crucial for the success of Backstage
Authors: Arnaud Meukam, Davanum Srinivas
2023-04-21

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The presentation discusses the Kubernetes infrastructure project and its focus on cost optimization and multi-cloud approach to provide CI for the community.
  • The Kubernetes infrastructure project relies on donations from cloud providers such as GCP and AWS to bootstrap infrastructure.
  • The project is working on a multi-cloud approach to provide CI for the community and ensure compatibility and conformance with other projects in the CNCF landscape.
  • The project is also working with third parties such as Fastly to provide access to different services.
  • Contributor experience is handled by the SIG Contributor Experience, which has full ownership of moderation on different communication platforms.
  • The project is unable to directly talk to cloud providers and relies on the CNCF to interact with them.
Authors: Yury Tsarev, Nuno Guedes
2023-04-21

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Kubernetes Global Balancer (KGB) is an open-source project designed to solve the global server load balancing problem and challenge in cloud94. It is a cloud-native solution that is simple to use, does not require any management cluster, and has no single point of failure.
  • KGB was created to solve the global server load balancing problem in a cloud-native way
  • It is designed to be simple to use and does not require any management cluster
  • KGB has no single point of failure and is designed on top of a well battle-tested DNS protocol
  • KGB integrates with environmental DNS and steers traffic to a secondary cluster if the primary cluster fails
  • KGB makes applications globally highly available
Authors: Kunal Kushwaha, Mark Boost
2023-04-21

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Tips for students to overcome challenges and find mentorship in the cloud native industry
  • Research potential mentors and align goals and interests
  • Approach mentors professionally and provide meaningful insight into your background and interests
  • Utilize open source projects to gain experience and build your resume
  • Collaborate with diverse communities to foster innovation and knowledge sharing
  • Overcome communication barriers by asking specific questions and seeking out mentorship
  • Manage time effectively to balance coursework and open source contributions
  • Combat imposter syndrome by recognizing your value and belonging in the community
Authors: Nigel Brown, Steve Kriss
2023-04-21

Contour, a CNCF incubating project, is a high performance ingress and load balancer solution for Kubernetes. The project, its roadmap, and the community have gone through several changes over the past few months and we’d like to give some updates. We will discuss the project and its health, new features added in recent releases, progress on Gateway API support, the project roadmap, and much more. We will also discuss the plans for the future of community building efforts and how you can help us make Contour the best that it can possibly be.
Authors: Urvashi Mohnani, Peter Hunt
2023-04-21

The CNCF landscape is full of options and admins often have trouble choosing projects for different parts of the stack. In the world of Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementations, CRI-O is an excellent option, mixing a combination of new features with dependable stability. In this talk, join us while we walk through what CRI-O is, what it does, and how to install it, as well as some fun new features that've been added recently: like FreeBSD support, NRI support, and seccomp notify support. Audience members joining this session will learn many of the benefits CRI-O has to offer!
Authors: James Cleverley-Prance, Fabian Kammel
2023-04-21

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The presentation discusses the importance of threat modeling and demonstrates common attacks and defensive techniques against Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
  • Threat modeling is important to identify and address security risks in a system before it goes into production.
  • The Microsoft threat matrix for Kubernetes is a useful resource for identifying tactics and entry points an attacker could use and the mitigations to prevent them.
  • The presentation demonstrates six exploit scenarios, including leveraging a compromised container, exploiting RBAC misconfigurations, and hijacking the entire cluster.
  • For each scenario, the impact of the attack is discussed, and controls and mitigation strategies are presented.
  • The presentation concludes with a summary of the lessons learned.
Authors: Aparna Subramanian
2023-04-21

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The presentation discusses the use of Kubernetes as a solution for building an internal platform and evaluates its effectiveness from the perspective of platform engineering teams.
  • An internal platform is necessary to meet the expectations of application developers, business stakeholders, and platform engineers.
  • Before Kubernetes, building an internal platform required an army of experts and took many months to build.
  • Kubernetes was a perfect match for building an internal platform due to its scalability, reliability, resiliency, and extensibility.
  • Kubernetes has fulfilled its promise and is the engine of productivity for platform teams.
  • The CNCF end user developer experience community discusses all things related to building and operating a Kubernetes platform.
Authors: Friedrich Gonzalez, Alan Protasio
2023-04-21

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The presentation discusses the reliability and features of Cortex, a project based on Prometheus and designed for Kubernetes.
  • Cortex is designed for Kubernetes and is not a separate project from Prometheus
  • Cortex uses Thanos for reliability and provides limits to ensure reliability
  • Cortex implements vulnerable replication to ensure data is replicated across instances
  • Cortex has upcoming projects such as Gateway, Down Sampling, Federated Rules, and Native Histogram
  • There are plans to improve observability on the Cortex layer for cardinality
Authors: Ana Medina, Andreas Grabner, Giovanni Liva
2023-04-21

Download the Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit ahead of time. Please have your own k8s cluster (on the workstation or in the loud) and come with the Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit installed. DCO Required.Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit provided automated observability and orchestrate-ability for any type of Kubernetes Workload Deployment. For the orchestration part, Keptn provides pre- and post- deployment hooks which can execute so called Keptn Tasks or Keptn Evaluations. Those tasks can be implemented through a TypeScript function. The contribfest would be a great opportunity to build/hack new integrations to other projects in CNCF, e.g: testing or observability tools for post deployment validation, ticketing tools for post deployment notifications, security tools for automated scanning. Those integrations would be listed in a library of available Keptn Tasks for all Keptn users to consume and therefore easily integrate their favorite CNCF (as well as non CNCF) tools into their deployment lifecycle.This Contribfest session is designed to provide projects with the space and resources to tackle outstanding technical debt, security issues, or outstanding impactful feature requests. They are intended to provide a place for maintainers to meet contributors and potential contributors and work together on solving a problem.