Hands-on with Cluster API

Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that aims to commoditise the creation, upgrading, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters. So if you’ve ever thought “I wish I could use Kubernetes to get some Kubernetes”, today’s your lucky day.

Supported by every major cloud provider, CAPI's CRD approach to delivering production grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP, Azure, and even bare metal, brings industry best practices from the brightest minds in Kubernetes to every team and org in the world.

In this talk, we’ll get spin up a CAPI cluster on bare metal, with a highly available control plane, configurable worker nodes, and walk through a rolling upgrade of the entire cluster.

📍 Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2:00pm PST

Agenda:
🔺 2:00 - 2:10 Introductions
🔺 2:10 - 2:40 Presentation
🔺 2:40 - 3:00 Q&A

Speakers:
🔶 David McKay, Senior Developer Advocate (Equinix)
David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal, CNCF Ambassador, Influx Ace, Pulumi Puluminary, and a member of the Kubernetes org and release team.
As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.
With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways; currently focusing on #RawkodeLive, a live stream for learning the technologies across the cloud native landscape.

🔶 Kevin Hoffman, Distinguished Engineer (Capital One)
Kevin is a highly respected Distinguished Engineer, Author, and Builder of Things. A sampling of his accomplishments includes having written or co-written 20 books on Rust, Go, C#, .NET Core, the .NET Framework, Cocoa, SharePoint, iOS, and more. Presented at KubeCon Shanghai (2019), KubeCon EU (2020). Presented at Redisconf, QCon, O'Reilly SACon London, Cloud Native London, T11 Beijing, and has guest lectured at Columbia University on iOS development.