Kubernetes Edinburgh November 2019

Welcome to the November edition of the Kubernetes Edinburgh Meetup! Thanks again to Codebase for hosting, and our main sponsor for the evening is Kong: https://konghq.com

We'll have two talks, and the running order will be as follows:

6:30pm - Food and drink sponsored by Kong
7:00pm - Welcome
7:15pm - Distributed microservices abstraction layers with Kong (Thijs Schreijer, Kong)
8:00pm - Break
8:15pm - Extending Kubernetes - multi-network and VMs (Peter White, Metaswitch)
9:00pm - Wrap up, pub (probably)

· Distributed microservices abstraction layers with Kong (Thijs Schreijer, Kong)

Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Made available as an open-source project in 2015, its core values are high performance and extensibility.

During this talk we’ll give an introduction to what Kong can do, and do a short demonstration of the Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.

Thijs Schreijer has been working in IT for almost 25 years. He had many different roles from management consultant to service manager to software engineer, in just as many disciplines, infrastructure, outsourcing, testing and software development. He joined the startup Kong Inc in 2015 and is currently holding the position of Solutions Architect at Kong Inc where he helps clients in making the transition to microservices.

· Extending Kubernetes - multi-network and VMs (Peter White, Metaswitch)

Traditional Kubernetes allows you to orchestrate container workloads in a very simple network environment. One of our products is a Session Border Controller (SIP firewall and router) based on a five year old OS with a massively modified kernel that requires interfaces on at least three separate networks, and yes it now runs in Kubernetes. This talk covers the two most interesting parts of that demo: multiple networks using the Multus CNI plugin; and VMs in Kubernetes using theKubeVirt project.

Peter is in the architecture team at Metaswitch, a company that develops and sells software to phone companies. He mostly works on getting their existing products to run in Kubernetes for technology demos, some of which might eventually turn into real products.