CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Since containers are just fancy linux processes, we can shove anything in there, right?!? It turns out: Yeah, pretty much! The presenter has been exploring what you can do when you shove more interesting components (such as X11 and Pulse Audio) into containers. While it might feel like fitting a square peg in a round hole, it turns out this allows us to run kiosks and other HID workloads within Kubernetes! More importantly, it allows for maintaining host/workload decoupling and integrating into the CNCF ecosystem.

By containerizing your kiosk, you can:

• Manage all of your devices with the same toolchain 
• Share extra resources on HID computers 
• Write GUI applications in any language or framework 
• Mitigate security issues (e.g. no shelling out from a print dialog) 
• Shrink update size All of this is open source using open source components at github.com/agracey/kiosk

Join the speaker for a deep dive into shenanigans required, lessons they learned, a demo, and how to get involved!

Edge computing is revolutionizing the shipping & logistics industry, enabling real-time insights & decision-making & providing a more seamless customer experience. This session shares the story of a Global F500 shipping company who turned to a Kubernetes-based packet core app to support their connected device strategy. Yet running K8s in the ocean, where you may have thousands of 3-node clusters vs a few 1,000-node clusters, requires a different approach. Distributed environments, with variables such as intermittent connectivity, security concerns & IT resources on the shore miles away, complicate these projects. Learn how they addressed these challenges with a scalable architecture across the entire fleet. This session will also provide an intro to EVE, developed within LF Edge from the Linux Foundation. EVE provides the ideal infrastructure for deploying K8s at the edge by addressing needs in areas like security, autonomy & scale for compute resources outside of secure data centers.

Kubernetes just turned 10 and it’s already driving a paradigm shift for modern multi-environment infrastructure. With the vast majority of organizations putting it at the epicenter of their long-term strategy, more than one third are deploying at the edge, with the adoption steadily growing year on year. As use cases across various industries increase, so do the stakes in the form of challenges; security, day 2 ops, cost, that require a new breed of solutions that are born for Kubernetes at the edge. In this session, Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud's CTO and co-founder will walk us through the latest trends and data from our biggest ever research, combined with the lessons learned from working with customers in product projects.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is an essential business mandate in our increasingly complex and interconnected world. While Risk Management Frameworks specify security requirements and posture required for an authorization to operate, this is just the first step. The creation of security artifacts, a tedious and time-consuming process, could take anywhere from 9-12 months. By creating a library of Risk Management Frameworks, organizations get ahead of the curve. In this session we review how treating compliance and policy as code can securely prepare enterprises for the future.

When we think about scale we usually think about handling more traffic and throughput. But when it comes to the edge we’re talking about a horizontal scaling and minimizing footprint with clarity at scale. Octopus Deploy has been helping teams deploy Kubernetes at edge scale and we’ll share what separates successful teams from teams that struggle.

Embracing machine learning on edge devices brings unprecedented challenges, particularly in enhancing models over time while safeguarding data privacy. Enter Federated Machine Learning, a paradigm enabling model training across multiple edge devices or servers without data exchange. This talk elucidates the fundamentals of ML on decentralized data and highlights the disparities in conventional approaches. Leveraging Kubernetes, we demonstrate how to orchestrate Federated Machine Learning at scale, facilitating ML model training and diverse computations. A live demo showcases image classification, showcasing lower latency, reduced power consumption, and enhanced privacy—all achievable at scale with Kubernetes. Join us to revolutionize model development with privacy-preserving, Kubernetes-powered Federated Machine Learning.

Have you ever considered having over 50% power savings for edge data centers with inter-container orchestration? Our session introduces a K8s-compatible Workload Allocation Optimizer (WAO) that utilizes a generic power consumption model for optimal deployment and scalability across cloud, edge, and MEC orchestration. WAO is designed to continuously process thousands of operational telemetry and adapt to changing conditions, and its optimization process significantly reduces energy consumption at the edge. The presentation will highlight a proof-of-concept case study featuring a real-world deployment of over 200+ servers. It will show how WAO's scalable cloud/edge orchestration capabilities and its efficacy as an energy-saving solution for various edge computing environments. Explore our GitHub repository to implement sustainable data center operations and know that the K8s-WAO can boost your energy efficiency while maintaining optimal performance in green edge computing.

At the edge, thousands of sensors publish data. Servers on the edge must discover these devices and then continually process new data from them. Akri and SpinKube are open source projects that address these challenges, providing a seamless experience for connecting IoT devices to Kubernetes clusters at the edge. Akri discovers these devices and automatically deploys Pods to consume their data. SpinKube runs serverless WebAssembly (Wasm) applications as Pods on Kubernetes. Since Wasm has small binary sizes and sub-millisecond start up times, it's the ideal application type for resource constrained servers at the edge. This presentation will conclude with a demo of using Akri to discover MQTT-based devices and automatically deploy Wasm applications to the cluster. The deployed applications will be event-driven and triggered by new MQTT messages, ensuring precise resource usage. By the end of the talk, you'll have the tools to run efficient data processing applications at the edge.

When it comes to IoT, many engineers encounter challenges in automating infrastructure provisioning, deploying IoT applications across multiple sites, and managing thousands of IoT devices spread across different geographic locations. The complexity and dynamic nature of IoT ecosystems, characterized by diverse protocols and ever-changing statuses, makes it overwhelming. Imagine an automated approach that seamlessly deploys and configures these devices in real-time. GitOps has emerged as a leading trend to facilitate collaboration, configuration, and deployment of intricate and dynamic applications. Join us for this session where we present our solution for deploying dynamic IoT applications over a Private 5G network in a hybrid cloud environment. This session will give details on how the integration of CNCF projects such as Nephio, and Akri can transform your IoT management through the adoption of GitOps principles.

This presentation will introduces a solution for "gradually" migrating retail web front ends and other retail workloads from centralized clouds to the K8s platform on the edge using KubeSlice, a migration tool specifically tailored for "seamless and gradual migrations." This innovative approach addresses key retail enterprise concerns:

• How to keep the connectivity with managed services in hyperscaler clouds and move retail workloads to he edge that need the highest performance 
• Seamless multicloud migration framework requiring no code changes, minimizing downtime 
• Immediate start of the migration process 
• Leveraging edge compute alongside CDN for faster page loads and reduced latency and the best performance

Join us at KubeCon to explore how the future of retail edge is being defined with K8s on the edge, compute , a CDN network and a multicloud connectivity tool.

Join us onsite for drinks and appetizers with fellow co-located attendees from Tuesday's CNCF-hosted Co-located Events.

Attendees from all CNCF Co-located Events are welcome.