The State of Package Management on Kubernetes

Hi Everyone,

Right before easter we are happy to announce our first meetup 2024 at the good folks of SQUER and our very first cooperation with the Vienna DevOps Meetup as well as with Glasskube!

This is the on-premises event. For the online event, see following link: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-vienna-presents-the-state-of-package-management-on-kubernetes/

The State of Package Management on Kubernetes – An in-depth Comparison of Helm, Timoni and Glasskube
Package Management on Kubernetes is one of the most pressing issues in the Cloud Native community. A concept which is widely known from other ecosystems like desktop and mobile computing has not yet been realized for cloud computing.
In this session, we will learn about the different possibilities for deploying cloud-native applications into a Kubernetes cluster and its configuration options, dependency management, upgrade possibilities, and backups.
We will take a look at the inner workings of Helm from both a distributor and user perspective. How can a distributor create a package and distribute it, and how can a user install and use the packages?
In addition to Helm, we will provide a brief overview of Timoni, which uses OCI images as package bundles, and compare the advantages and shortcomings of this approach.
We will also introduce https://glasskube.dev – a newly created package manager that is already part of the CNCF Landscape that is designed as a cloud-native application itself and features real dependency management, automated updates, and a GUI.
During a live demo we will explore the possibilities of using Glasskube in combination with Argo CD.

Agenda
17:00 - Welcome
17:15 - Open News
17:20 - Ten minutes dive
17:30 - The State of Package Management on Kubernetes
18:15 - Open Discussion
18:45 - End-of-Event Socialising

Speaker
Philip Miglinci - Co-founder of Glasskube and active community member of the DevOps ecosystem in Vienna, Austria.
Philip holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from the Vienna University of Technology and a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, for which he built a PCR test automation platform as his master's thesis, together with the Austrian Institute of Technology (Pre-COVID when nobody knew what a PCR test was). Before working on Glasskube, Philip helped build up the alerting infrastructure for firefighting organizations in Austria and Germany as CTO.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmigat/

Happy to see you soon!
Malte