Service Mesh Benchmarks // Lokomotive Kubernetes

Cloud Native Computing Meetup Berlin is happy to feature Kinvolk's Director of Engineering, Thilo Fromm, who will be diving into service mesh benchmarks and Software Engineer, Rodrigo Campos, who will give an introduction to Lokomotive Kubernetes.

Food and drinks will be sponsored by CNCF & space will be provided by Kinvolk.

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SCHEDULE:

[18:30- 19:00] Arrive and mingle

[19:00 - 19:45] Thilo Fromm, “Service Mesh Benchmarks"

[20:00 - 20:45] Rodrigo Campos, "Lokomotive Kubernetes: Filling the gap between secure, cutting-edge and production-grade clusters"

[20:45 - 21:00] Mingle time

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TALK DETAILS:

“Service Mesh Benchmarks”, Thilo Fromm
Abstract: Benchmarking system performance in a repeatable, reproducible way can be a difficult task, both technologically as well as philosophically - doubly so for as complex a system as a service mesh. However, the cost of adding new technology to a stack can be critical in making a decision about adoption - and repeated, reproducible benchmarks can help the service mesh communities to meet, and improve on, their respective quality bar. This talk benefits the ecosystem by not only characterizing the cost of various service mesh implementations in numeric terms, but also by describing what “cost” means in this context, and by introducing an open source framework for running these tests that can be used by anyone in the world to reproduce results.

"Lokomotive Kubernetes: Filling the gap between secure, cutting-edge and production-grade clusters", Rodrigo Campos
Abstract: This talk will introduce Lokomotive Kubernetes, an open source Kubernetes distribution inspired by CoreOS Tectonic and built to run on Flatcar Container Linux. The new kid in town runs a self-hosted control-plane, is designed with security in mind (using PSPs too, not GA on GKE yet!), has support for experimental kernel features using the Flatcar Container Linux Edge channel and provides a solid base to run your production clusters as it is already handling hundreds of thousands requests per second of business-critical traffic. This talk will give a technical overview of the distribution, the supported platforms and a demo on how to deploy it.

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SPEAKER BIOS:

Thilo Fromm, Director of Engineering at Kinvolk - While Thilo started his professional life with hardware and OS engineering for embedded systems, he eventually switched to Linux kernel and plumbing level work around virtualisation, networking, and storage. In more recent years, Thilo ventured into data centers spanning systems, working with Amazon AWS’ EC2 team in Dresden for more than 3 years. This January, Thilo joined Kinvolk, entering the world of cloud-native systems and software. Thilo’s main focus - besides managing Kinvolk’s engineering team - remains on technical tasks that start on a low level and cross many layers of abstraction.

Rodrigo Campos, Software Engineer at Kinvolk - Rodrigo studied Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and has a particular interest in backend and low level programming, concurrent and distributed systems and solving large scale problems. He always worked either as a software engineer or as a system administration and is often trying to slip in some contributions to open source projects as part of his job or on his spare time (kubernetes, debian, lighttpd, php, gzip, util-linux, etc.).