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Kubernetes Bedtime Stories: Taking the "scary" out of production workloads

Did you miss the "Kubernetes in the Real World" talk in Berlin? NEW and IMPROVED (problems change), you'll hear real-world true stories that will take the mystic out of Day 2 and other hard problems. Running Kubernetes in production managing hundreds of TBs of data per day is not easy. But it’s being done all over the world by these experts. Adobe, Kumulus, Red Hat, and Vexxhost take a container-native approach to solving data management and analytics problems.

This talk, derived by Cloud Native community architect (who has run over 100 OpenStack, K8s & Container-related user community meetups, and therefore very familiar with real-world problems), will feature 4 end users, architects, and operators who have been revealing “secrets” at meetups and conferences around the world about running cloud native production workloads in containers, avoiding data gravity and Kubesprawl when deploying in multi-site environments, addressing storage scale, and performance for stateful applications.


What can I expect to learn?

Here 5 community veterans will touch on some of the un-documented aspects of K8s deployments, addressing the operational complexity still existing in K8s production systems. Many of these questions arise only after the initial install of a K8s system, and often don’t get covered in end user documentation. In addition, the differences that are still exhibited on a case-by-case basis make it difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all document.

Lisa, architect of the largest official meetup group, has run countless cloud native meetups (over 20 on Kubernetes) and user groups in the SF Bay Area for 10+ years. She connects users and operators with compelling insight to tackle the challenge of running production workloads in containers. Her panels are always intriguing, informative, funny, and full of important content, resulting in a long line of people waiting to continue the conversation. People can’t get enough of the real-world experiences delivered at community conferences and meetups!

Wednesday, May 1, 3:20pm-4:00pm (9:20pm - 10:00pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Head of Developer Relations
Lisa-Marie Namphy is one of the OpenStack Ambassadors for the USA and an active member of the OSF Diversity & Inclusion Working Group. Lisa is also a Kubernetes Ambassador. Lisa organizes and runs the SF Bay OpenStack and the Cloud Native Containers User Groups, personally hosting the meetups for the past 9 years. Lisa has been a long time contributor, advocate (and fan) of open source... FULL PROFILE
Director of Field Engineering , Red Hat
Tony leads the Educational Services team at Red Hat (formerly CoreOS) and is on a mission to educate the world on Kubernetes and cloud native technology. He is the author of “Troubleshooting OpenStack” and a member of the OpenStack Speakers Bureau. Tony is a big evangelist for the Container Operator Framework.Prior to joining CoreOS, Tony spent nearly fourteen years at Rackspace in... FULL PROFILE
SRE Manager, Cloud Services/Infrastructure Platform
Joseph Sandoval is the SRE Manager for the Adobe Advertising Cloud platform. His team is responsible for the infrastructure platform which supports global advertising customers at hyper-scale. He has spent the last 5 years working with Kubernetes and sharing the lessons learned from adopting cloud native patterns on private cloud. Joseph has been involved with OpenStack since the Essex/Folsom... FULL PROFILE
VEXXHOST, Inc.
Mohammed Naser is the founder & CEO at VEXXHOST.  Mohammed is a seasoned OpenStack expert who has been in the community for over 10 years, serving many leadership positions within OpenStack such as the chair of the technical committee, board member of OpenInfra, project team lead for several projects such as OpenStack-Ansible/Puppet-OpenStack and core member for several projects such as... FULL PROFILE
Kumulus Technologies
With over 20 years of experience as a systems reliability engineer, and a focus on automating not only application deployments but the underlying infrastructure as well, Robert brings a wealth of knowledge to the full application enablement stack. He has applied this knowledge in fields from high-performance computing to high-frequency trading environments, and everything in between. Robert... FULL PROFILE