Kubernetes Day India 2019

Neependra and Karthik have Kubernetes 101 courses on edX and lynda.com that are very popular and have had over 200,000 views. Over time, they’ve received many questions from folks who are new to K8s, after taking the courses, or in training. They want to spend some time elaborating on the most common questions we’ve received, and answer them once in for all!

They’ll cover the following faq’s they get over and over again:
- What kind of services should I use for my applications?
- Shouldn’t I be using Istio instead of K8s now? What does K8s buy me when I can use istio?
- How can we do capacity planning in K8s?
- Why there is a high learning curve in K8s? Isn’t K8s too complicated?
- What is the best way to set a development environment with K8s?
- and many more

You’ll leave with a much better understanding of K8s, the ecosystem, and have the knowledge to take on the cloud native world.

Becoming a Kubernetes Certified Application Developer is a great achievement. By passing the exam it demonstrates a core understanding of Kubernetes and how it can be applied to different application architectures and problems. However, before you can pass, you need to deploy applications and manage a Kubernetes cluster.

With live demonstrations, Ben will cover the foundations of what it takes to start deploying applications on top of Kubernetes. Ben will take you from creating your first Kubernetes cluster, to deploying a scaled out a web application, managing the lifecycle and identifying the cause of potential problems with the application or cluster.

This talk will leave you a strong foundation to continue your learning towards becoming a Kubernetes Application Developer with take away material available for you on Katacoda.com.

Extend Kubernetes to write custom abstractions effectively in Go language, starting with basic CRUD operations and then leading into advanced features like informers, listers watchers etc. to build robust and scalable apps.

In this session, Arun Gupta will discuss how to package a multicontainer Java application using Kubernetes. You’ll learn the basic concepts underpinning Kubernetes before diving into packaging a multicontainer application using Kubernetes, scaling your application, deploying your Java application to Kubernetes using Maven, and then monitoring it. Along the way, Arun will explore service discovery, load balancing, persistent volumes, and health check concepts with live examples.

Building a real-world robot enabled solution is challenging. Access to limitless compute and storage facilitates smarter, cheaper, and agile robots. Cloud robotics has different considerations than a typical web application.The session aims to dive into architecting a PaaS for robotics atop Kubernetes. More specifically - Lessons learned and benefits accrued migrating from the pre-docker era. Discuss abstractions necessary to appeal to a roboticist and challenges running ROS[1] middleware in the cloud-native world. Our extensions to sig-catalog and the OSB Spec. Ideas unifying declarative runtimes across the cloud and remote heterogeneous devices. Describe adaptations to Helm, Fluent, and other cloud-based infrastructure tools to manage and debug distributed robotic applications. In conclusion, the session will touch upon future directions and discuss community participation.

Do you want to contribute to Kubernetes? Not sure how or where to begin? It can be overwhelming! But fear not - you can join the thousands of successful contributors too!

In this talk we’ll explore the different parts of Kubernetes and how they work, see how the various components are related, discuss the skills you need to get started and learn the best ways to get your first Pull Request accepted.

You don’t have to be an expert; even mere mortals like us can make contributions. This talk will also walk through how I implemented my Google Summer of Code project even though I was completely new to Kubernetes. Once you see how easy it is, you’ll want to do it too!