The journey to multi-tenancy//Building platforms with vcluster and Knative

Welcome everyone to our first-ever European meetup in London. We are happy to host Daniel Finneran, VP of Marketing at Loft Labs, and Mauricio Salatino, Staff Software Engineer at VMWare.

Agenda:

• [05:30 PM - 06:10 PM] - Welcome & Networking Session
• [06:10 PM - 06:15 PM] - Opening notes by Host
• [06:15 PM - 06:45 PM] - The journey to multi-tenancy - A chequered past By Daniel
• [06:50 PM - 07:00 PM] - 10 minutes break
• [07:00 PM - 07:30 PM] - Building Platforms with vcluster and Knative By Mauricio
• [07:35 PM - 07:40 PM] - Thank You & Closing Notes by Host
• [07:40 PM - 08:00 PM] - Post event networking session

Each talk is followed by 5 minute Q&A session.

Talk Details:

"The journey to multi-tenancy - A chequered past" - Daniel Finneran

Talk Abstract: This session will reach into the past to look at multi-tenancy (in systems long gone), we will examine how time and time again new systems/platforms and Operating Systems have forgotten the lessons of the past and had to bolt or fudge functionality together in order to meet the demands of multiple users. Brings us all the way to the present and the multi-tenancy problems we face with modern distributed systems (cough cough Kubernetes) and how we can solve these multi-tenancy issues today.

"Building Platforms with vcluster and Knative" - Mauricio Salatino

Talk Abstract: If you are tasked to build an internal developer platform conformed by multiple Kubernetes Clusters you will quickly realize that there are tools that can be shared across all these clusters. Looking at tools like Knative and Cert Manager which are commonly used to provide cluster wide capabilities (TLS and Serverless features) this presentation will show how by using vcluster plugins a single installation of these components can be shared to save on resources and management.

About Speakers:

Daniel Finneran, VP of Marketing at Loft Labs

Dan Finneran is the VP of Marketing for Loft Labs Inc. His journey to today has included bare-metal, jails, zones, vms and containers where he is currently enjoying the fast-paced ride in the cloud native space. He also created & maintains a popular Open-Source load-balancer for Kubernetes and contributes to upstream Kubernetes. He’s also been fortunate to present at events ranging from the British computing society, HPE Technical solutions summit to DockerCon and KubeCon amongst others.

Mauricio Salatino, Staff Software Engineer at VMWare

Mauricio is currently working at the Knative OSS Project as part of the VMWare MAPBU team. He is the author of the Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes book for Manning and he is passionate about Open Source, Cloud Native and Kubernetes.