This is part 2 of the updates on KubeCon, you can find the part 1
here
Day zero & one of the KubeCon US 2019 was filled with some interesting
updates and sessions. We continued
our conversations with our customers/partners and at the various booths
with exciting products and solutions to new and emerging problems. Here
is our view of the last two days of the conference.
Clusters are the new Cattle!
As organizations are managing more than just one cluster, the patterns
of “multi-cluster” and emerging. One such Tweet from a talk I found
emphasizes the fact that cluster should be things that can be
automatically reproduced easily. Also, note the OPA for validation and
mention of multi-cluster ingress – another pattern for operating
multiple clusters.
Words of wisdom.
#KubeCon
pic.twitter.com/dM4QTJwZU2
— Kevin Stewart (@kstewart)
November 21, 2019
Pack Cluster+Apps for Air-Gapped Environment
One of the interesting projects that I have been following for a while
was Gravity. It solves the
problem of deploying a cluster and all that is running in the cluster in
an air-gapped environment in a unique way. The company
announced that
it has closed series A and it will be interesting to see the space.
Flux & Argo CD Join hands for GitOps
GitOps has become quite popular as a way to do CD, especially in the
Kubernetes world. Two of the popular projects in the community were Flux
and Argo CD. The two projects are going to
collaborate and
work on a joint solution so that end users can work with a single
toolchain. This is a great and exciting development for the community
and users.
MicroVMs – exciting future
One of the most exciting projects which are not mainstream
Kubernetes/CNCF projects for me was the AWS
Firecracker and a
layer on top of that – Ignite.
It would be interesting to see the use cases & development of managing
MicroVMs using Kubernetes. On that note – I also maintain a repo for
all resources related to
MicroVMs, send a PR if
you find anything interesting.
@MarkEmeis on
MacOS with VMWare + nested virt using
@weaveworks
ignite creating 5 VMs of different OS’ in 2.8 seconds.
pic.twitter.com/iyehxbt7po
— Chris Hein (@christopherhein)
November 21, 2019
Logs & observability – new perspectives
Anyone who has operated non-trivial clusters knows how hard the whole
monitoring, logging, and observability can be. People have stories about
how hard it is to manage an ElasticSearch cluster at scale. It is also
why you see so many new companies that offer managed log management as a
service. One interesting development in this space is a new log platform
called Loki – which aims for
“operational simplicity” has hit 1.0
milestone. The
company behind Loki has been running the Loki in production for some
time now and that gives them confidence in the stability. It will be
interesting to see the convergence of monitoring, logging and tracing in
the coming year!
KubeCon Videos are ready
For the sessions that you missed out or if you did not make it to
KubeCon, the videos are already out
there.
I am going to watch some of them in transit on way back home 🙂 I am sure
there are many more things that I missed in the conference – hopefully,
I can do another post after watching some sessions that wanted to
checkout!
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