Getting started with Kubernetes & Kubernetes Operator
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The DevOps Exchange is an opportunity to exchange some of the latest ideas and technologies for running online services through 2-3 short presentations by invited speakers, and a chance to chat it after over drinks/snacks with new friends.
The event features two talks:
- ManagedKube CEO & Co-founder on "Getting started with Kubernetes"
- PingCAP GM of Global Strategy & Operations on "Kubernetes Operator"
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Garland Kan - ManagedKube CEO & Co-founder
Title: Getting started with Kubernetes
Interested in how Kubernetes can help you deploy, scale, and manage your application? Wondering why Kubernetes is so great and has grown so quickly since its launch in 2015? Need help running or converting your app on Kubernetes? Come learn that and more at evening talk with Q&A, Get Started with Kubernetes, with Garland Kan!
About the speaker: Garland Kan is a DevOps software engineer that helps small to medium-sized start-ups run large-scale, reliable applications. He works with the entire development team architecting, designing, building, optimizing, and operating infrastructure in the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure).
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Kevin Xu - PingCAP GM of Global Strategy & Operations
Title: Kubernetes Operator
In this talk, Kevin Xu, will introduce the architecture of TiDB and TiKV (a CNCF project), key use cases, and the open source Operator that is being developed to run TiDB in all Kubernetes-enabled cloud environments (https://github.com/pingcap/tidb-operator).
About the speaker: Kevin Xu is the General Manager of Global Strategy and Operations at PingCAP, the team that's leading the development of TiDB, a NewSQL and MySQL-compatible distributed database. Its key-value storage layer, TiKV, is a CNCF member project. He recently talked about NewSQL databases and the Operator pattern in the follow forum:
- Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/24/tidb-distributed-newsql-with-kevin-xu/
- The New Stack: https://thenewstack.io/databases-operators-bring-stateful-workloads-to-kubernetes/
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Josh Eveleth - Kong Senior Software Engineer
Title: KIC and You: This Way to the Great Ingress
Josh's presentation will cover the benefits of using an ingress controller. There will be a brief demo of the Kubernetes Ingress Controller for Kong.
About the speaker: Josh Eveleth is a senior software engineer at Kong. He juggles his time between DevOps and backend engineering.