All Things KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Seattle 2018

It’s the second time the conference was hosted in Seattle. This time it was huge!

Highlights:

• Kubernetes dominates
• Kubernetes is hard and complex for application developers and there’s a need for a higher level abstraction
• Knative is trying to provide a higher level serverless abstraction for Kubernetes
• GitOps is gaining more traction
• Service Mesh is everywhere (and Envoy is the king)
• Service Mesh is not ‘fire and forget’ (be prepared to deal with its complexities and problems)
• Unifying metrics, logging and distributed tracing (Grafana and OpenCensus with slightly different focus)
• Grafana is adding support for logging (and tracing)
• Debugging distributed container and Kubernetes based applications is getting easier (thanks to Telepresence, eBPF, VS Kubernetes extension/draft connect, Squash and other tools)
• Distributed tracing is going mainstream, but it’s still too fragmented (Expedia made things even more confusing with Haystack :-))
• Jaegar is adding new features to make distributed tracing for large scale systems more usable
• NATS is maturing its cloud-native messaging capabilities
• Rook is trying to address the cloud-native storage needs in Kubernetes
• Prometheus scalability, high availability and long term storage is still tricky with multiple competing solutions (Cortex, Thanos, M3)
• Kubernetes Operators and CRDs are hot (allow extending Kubernetes)
• Kubernetes security is getting more visibility (especially after the recent Kubernetes vulnerability)
• Kubernetes autoscaling is still maturing (cluster autoscaling and pod autoscaling with VPA/HPA)

Take a look at the schedule to see the slides and videos. There’s also a YouTube playlist. It will take a while to see everything though :-)

There are quite a few interesting post-conference blog posts. Read them first if you are not sure where you want to start exploring the conference talks.

• KubeKhan, KubeCon, AWS Container Roadmap, etcd, More Weird Licenses, Securing Kubernetes, JFrog Go Registry, and More! (by DevOps’ish)
• My KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recap (by Chris Short, who also wrote the DevOps’ish post)
• KubeCon Seattle 2018: Post-Game Recap (by Diamanti)
• Notes from KubeCon 2018 US (by Jerome Petazzoni)
• KubeCon NA 2018 Wrap Up: Docker and Kubernetes Community (by Docker)
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle 2018 — Recap (by Oracle)
• KubeCon 2018 reCap: Navigating Kubernetes Security (by Onica)
• [Podcast] PodCTL — Reviewing KubeCon Seattle 2018 (by OpenShift)
• KubeCon Seattle 2018 Recap (by AWS)
• Observability in the fog of Seattle (by Dynatrace)
• KubeCon & CloudNativeCon NA 2018: Stability, CI/CD, Debugging Microservices, and Envoy Proxy (all the things!) (by Datawire)
• KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 Summary: Kubernetes 1.13, Envoy Update, and New Hosted Projects (by Daniel Bryant)
• My Reflection on KubeCon 2018 (by Jeff Gensler)
• KubeCon 2018 Day One / Two / Three Recap (by Adam Margherio)
• Highlights from KubeCon 2018 (by Dave Wakeman)