KubeCon NA 2021 – Getting back to reality

Posted: October 11th, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Technology | Tags: , , | No Comments »

January 25, 2020. At the time, just another day at Devconf.cz in Brno Czech Republic delivering hands-on workshops for an emerging concept in the Kubernetes space, GitOps. Looking back, it would become the last in person conference that I would have the opportunity to attend due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fast forward 21 months, and while the world continues to be ravaged by the pandemic, there are reasons to believe things are headed in the right direction. Case in point, KubeCon and Cloud Native Con 2021 where adopters and technologists from leading open source cloud communities come together and share the latest and greatest news within this space.

This, like many other conferences these days, will be available in a virtual format, but there will also be an in person participation as well. After all these months, I am excited to be able to participate on site at the event where I will be able to once again share some of my recent efforts with the community. The following are some of the areas that you can find me either at the physical event or virtually.

OpenShift Commons Gathering – AMA Session

When: Tuesday October 12, 2021 – 2:30 PM PDT

If you or your organization uses the OpenShift Container Platform, what else could be better than hearing about how the community uses OpenShift to drive application deployments to deliver real business value as OpenShift Commons Gathering once again returns to KubeCon as one of the Day-0 events.

As many of you are aware, one of my key responsibilities is to help organizations achieve success by delivering solutions with OpenShift. I will be joining a group of Red Hat engineers and guest speakers for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the OpenShift ecosystem during the OpenShift Commons Gathering event. This session provides an opportunity for you to ask any burning questions that you always wanted to ask as well our thoughts on where we all see OpenShift and Kubernetes headed in the future.

GitOpsCon North America 2021 – Securing GitOps

When: Tuesday October 12, 2021 – 3:30 PM PDT

GitOps is no longer an emerging concept in the Kubernetes space as it might have been back in January 2020, and this is evident by the second GitOpsCon returning to KubeCon as another Day-0 event. Adopting a GitOps based approach is fundamentally a paradigm shift for managing both applications and infrastructure for many organizations. It is important that proper considerations be made to properly enforce property security controls at each step and component involved in GitOps.

This lightning talk on Securing GitOps will highlight many of the key areas that anyone implementing a GitOps based approach should consider for implementing GitOps securely. Not only will the key areas of concerns be highlighted, but a set of tools will be introduced that you can take advantage of immediately.

KubeCon North America 2021 – Helm: The Charts and the Curious

When: Wednesday October 12, 2021 – 11:00 AM PDT

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes and is one of the most popular ways that applications are deployed to Kubernetes. Charts are the packaged Kubernetes manifests and there is a vast ecosystem out there for building, packaging and distributing.

This talk will focus primarily on how to accelerate and secure the packaging and distribution of Helm charts including some of the approaches and tools that you can integrate into your Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process. You really do not want to miss this session, especially those who do use Helm as part of their standard workflow.

Booth Duty

Aside from the formal presentations, I will also be on the expo floor working several of the booths. This affords you the opportunity to “talk shop” and experience open source and cloud native solutions in action.

Red Hat Booth

What should not come as a surprise, I will be present at the Red Hat booth at various times throughout the convention. Aside from stopping by to say hi, be sure to check the associated activities delivered by Red Hat’s best including demos, workshops and live office hours.

More information related to Red Hat’s presence at KubeCon can be found here.

sigstore Booth

One the open source projects that I am heavily involved in these days is sigstore, a Linux Foundation sponsored project that aims to make signing and verifying content easier. Stop by, learn and take the sigstore tooling for a spin by signing content of your very own. Trust me, as soon as you see it, you will be hooked!

I’ll be around for the entire week so feel free to contact me via my various social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) if you are interested in chatting. For those who are not attending the in-person event in Los Angeles, happy to set aside time so that you do not miss out either.

This is going to be fun!

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