Automation of the setup of K8s labs for Falco/Sysdig with multipass and MicroK8s

We are pleased to have Jason Umiker as a speaker in our office hours.

Talk abstract: When I started at Sysdig, the first thing I did was try to set up a lab at home to experiment with Sysdig as well as our opensource project Falco. I found that there was no consistent and automated approach for how to do that. Half our staff are on Mac, and half are on Windows – and I had both an M1 Macbook and a Windows Desktop and wanted the solution I came up with to work on both. After some experimentation, I settled on the combination of multipass and MicroK8s – and got to a place where, with the same script, I could provision new lab environments quickly and consistently on both platforms. I have shared it with my colleagues - and it has become the standard way for people to build and rebuild their own labs quickly for many. And I have also now shared it with the public for those looking to experiment with Falco - https://github.com/jasonumiker-sysdig/kubernetes-security-demos. In this talk, I’ll describe what I built and some of my challenges.

Bio: Jason Umiker is Sysdig’s Sales Engineer for Australia. Sysdig makes both Secure to secure Kubernetes and Monitor to monitor it – and has contributed the core of Secure’s agent, Falco, to the CNCF. Before that, he spent five years as a solutions architect at AWS as their local container specialist (covering ECS and EKS).