Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Kubernetes

Sam Newman: Introduction (5 minutes) - 8:00am PT | 11:00am ET | 3:00pm UTC/GMT

• Sam Newman welcomes you to the Infrastructure & Ops Superstream.

Michael Coté: 7 Lessons from 7 Years of Running Platforms (40 minutes) - 8:05am PT | 11:05am ET | 3:05pm UTC/GMT

• We can learn a lot from how organizations like Mercedes-Benz, JPMorgan Chase, the US Air Force, and others have built and run their platforms over recent years. Michael Coté covers seven best practices learned at these organizations, such as platform marketing and advocacy, tactics for scaling from one team to hundreds, finding developer bottlenecks, and more. You’ll get the benefit of his comprehensive real-world platform experience and learn about practical ways to get started with these best practices.
• Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business and shares what he’s learned in his books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and worked as a programmer. He also cohosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk.

Whitney Lee: What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production! (40 minutes) - 8:45am PT | 11:45am ET | 3:45pm UTC/GMT

• Feel the adrenaline of deploying to production during business hours! Whitney Lee discusses how to empower application teams to be happily productive and continuously deliver value to end users. You’ll learn how a platform built on top of Kubernetes can facilitate the creation and consumption of complex infrastructure so that developers can have the tools that they need the moment they need them. By understanding best practices around platform engineering and how a platform team can provide a beautiful developer experience, you can clear the path to production for the entire organization.
• Whitney Lee is a lovable goofball who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she recently pivoted to tech from an art-related career. She’s active in the open source community, especially around CNCF projects focused on developer productivity. You can catch her lightboard streaming show Enlightning on Tanzu.TV. She also cohosts the streaming show You Choose!, a choose-your-own-adventure-style journey through the CNCF landscape. Not only does she rock at tech but she also has literally played in the band Mutual Benefit on keyboards and vocals.
• Break (10 minutes)

Maria Ashby: Unlocking K8s Troubleshooting Best Practices with Botkube (40 minutes) - 9:35am PT | 12:35pm ET | 4:35pm UTC/GMT

• As Kubernetes becomes the go-to solution for container orchestration, and as remote work environments prevail, a new obstacle has emerged: remote collaborative troubleshooting. Overcoming the challenges of effectively managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters across distributed teams requires seamless communication, synchronized actions, and shared context. Maria Ashby unveils the power of Botkube—an innovative tool for effortless multicluster management in Kubernetes. Learn how Botkube's features and benefits can unlock the full potential of Kubernetes while streamlining your collaborative troubleshooting workflow.
• Maria is a developer advocate who works on the Botkube project at Kubeshop, creating content and hosting events around Kubernetes. Before diving into the developer advocacy role, she worked in K-12 computer science education for students in lower-income communities and worked with the National Society of Black Engineers on their executive board. Maria is passionate about lowering the barriers to entry into continuous delivery and increasing representation for black students in tech.
• Break (5 minutes)

Mikiko Bazeley: The Fun-Sized MLOps Stack from Scratch (40 minutes) - 10:20am PT | 1:20pm ET | 5:20pm UTC/GMT

• Your company may forever be not-Google scale, but if you want to continue improving data and ML maturity, Mikiko Bazeley has a realistic road map for you. She shares her experiences with "fun-sized companies" (SMBs, small startups, etc.) and tells you how to build a full-fledged MLOps platform from scratch using the best OSS tools out there. Hear about the main problems MLOps tries to remedy and get up to speed on projects and tools developed over the past few years that solve some of the pain points of previous tools.
• Mikiko Bazeley is head of MLOps at Featureform, a virtual feature store. She has worked as an engineer, data scientist, and data analyst for companies including Mailchimp (Intuit), Teladoc, Sunrun, and Autodesk, along with a handful of early stage startups.

Assaf Morag: Kubernetes Misconfigurations—Securing your Kubernetes Clusters from Known and Unknown Weaknesses (40 minutes) - 11:00am PT | 2:00pm ET | 6:00pm UTC/GMT

• Assaf Morag, lead threat intelligence analyst at Aqua Security, discusses research that found unprotected Kubernetes clusters impacting hundreds of organizations and open source projects. Learn the various misconfigurations that led to exposures, how attackers exploited these weaknesses, and the goals and flow of these campaigns as they assail servers in the wild.
• Assaf Morag is a lead data analyst on the Aqua Nautilus research team, where he focuses on supporting the data needs of the team, obtaining threat intelligence, and helping Aqua and the industry stay at the forefront of methodologies for protection against emerging threats. His work has been published in leading information security publications and journals across the globe. Most recently, he contributed to the new MITRE ATT&CK container framework.

Sam Newman: Closing Remarks (5 minutes) - 11:40am PT | 2:40pm ET | 6:40pm UTC/GMT

• Sam Newman closes out today’s event.