Kubernetes Forum Delhi 2020

What can Minecraft teach us about the adoption of cloud native technologies?

Kubernetes is being hailed as the next big thing for managing cloud-native environments. What is it about Kubernetes that has triggered large scale adoption? Is it the architecture? Is it the community? How do they affect each other?

In this talk, we will explore some of the basic concepts quickly and try to understand where we are and how we got here. We will go over some of the landmarks in the timeline and how decisions were made to shape the project and community to where it is today.

The Kubeflow project makes deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. Kubeflow comes with Jupyter notebook, training and inference using Tensorflow, hyperparameter tuning using Katib, end-to-end automated deployment pipelines using Argo, hyperparameter tuning using Katib, and much more. This talk will explain why and how Kubernetes is well suited for single- and multi-node distributed training, training your models, and deploying your models for inference in production. Specifically it will show how to use KubeFlow and TensorFlow for your machine learning needs. We will also show to setup machine learning pipelines and set up visualization tools like TensorBoard for monitoring. We will also discuss distributed training using Horovod.

An increasing number of applications and workloads are being migrated to and are being built for Kubernetes. It has been sufficiently established that Kubernetes is the platform of the future.

However, drilling down will reveal that the most successful of these workloads are stateless, and that the database/storage layers have mostly remained outside. This begs the question: What will it take to run everything in Kubernetes? What are the risks and benefits?

In this respect, Vitess has a unique background. Due to the fact that it was built to run on Borg, it was ready for Kubernetes from day one. The best part of this is that many leading-edge adopters ran with Vitess very early on; this resulted in a diverse group of Vitess deployments on Kubernetes, from tiny Vitess installations all the way to JD’s colossal clusters.

Organizations that have adopted this approach are reaping many unique benefits such as no vendor lock-in, unified management of infrastructure, and self-service based automations.

We will cover all these use cases and go over the details of how these organizations benefited by going all in with Kubernetes.

Do you use kubectl? How efficiently do you use kubernetes? In this talk, I will give you a tour of some of the most powerful, interesting and less-known features of kubernetes command line i.e kubectl. While preparing for CKA(Certified Kubernetes Administrator), I found some of the commands very interesting and worth sharing with a wider audience.

These tricks will help the audience to learn new things about kubectl which will improve their productivity with kubectl. The talk will involve things like how you can set editor of your choice for kubectl, how to know about kubernetes resources using kubectl only and a lot more cool stuff.

We will also discuss extending kubectl using plugins and an awesome new tool.

Nikhita Raghunath, a Steering Committee member and a core contributor to Kubernetes; and Ihor Dvoretskyi, a long-term Kubernetes contributor, now a Developer Advocate at the Cloud Native Foundation, the largest open source foundation in the world, will share their insights on becoming a contributor and an active community member in the world of open source. Also, they will highlight the opportunities for those who are about to make their first steps in the open source contributions, including the programs as Google Summer of Code, Community Bridge by The Linux Foundation, Outreachy and others.