Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Authors: Matt Turner, Liam White

2023-04-20

Kubernetes is a very extensible system, to the point that the apiserver and database can be run on their own. In this configuration there's no controller-manager or scheduler, and no support for actually running workloads. However these components can support CRDs and Operators. This makes it a perfect host for lightweight control planes for other systems. In this talk, Matt will show how an Operator can run on just a bare-bones control plane. The control-plane cannot run workloads and the Operator (Istio, in this case) doesn't deal with anything in the cluster. However, together they functions as a small, lightweight unit providing services outside the cluster. Matt will explain the theory of this style of deployment, and how to set it up yourself. He will show a demo using the Istio control plane, which will provide networking services to a set of VMs (as there is no cluster).

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Jeremy Saenz, Todd Beets

2022-10-27

NATS is an open source, high performance messaging system and connective fabric. It aims to simultaneously simplify the number of technologies you use for your services to communicate, while also empowering you to build systems that are globally available, multi-cloud, multi-geo, and highly adaptive to change and scale. In this session you'll receive a brief introduction to NATS, then dive in to some of the many features of NATS like communication patterns, streaming/persistence, key/value and more. This session is highly interactive so come ready to participate and have fun!