Are you as excited as we are for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024? We can’t wait and hope you’ll join us for some awesome Microsoft Azure KubeCon + CloudNativeCon related events and activities happening in Salt Lake City. 

Azure Kubernetes Service Day (November 12):  

Join us to learn best practices for building cloud-native apps and intelligent apps with Kubernetes on Azure!  

Morning – Presentations: Start the day by learning about the latest on AKS. Learn how AKS streamlines the deployment and management intelligent applications, and gain insights into the best practices across key areas.  

Afternoon – AKS Lab:  Get hands-on with an instructor-led AKS lab and put some of the concepts and ideas from the morning session to practice.  

Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis, so sign up for Azure Day with Kubernetes- North America 2024 as soon as possible.  

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Nov 13-15): 

Don’t miss the Microsoft keynote on Thursday November 14, 9:40AM to learn how to secure your software supply chain 

Check out sessions by Microsoft engineers on diverse topics including LLM Performance, Eraser, Notary, handling GPU Failures, OpenCost, Gateway API, WebAssembly (Wasm), CNI, Karpenter,  eBPF, OpenTelemetry and more! 

Brendan Burns, Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft CVP, will share his thoughts on the latest developments and key Microsoft announcements related to cloud-native intelligent application development in his KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 blog on November 12. 

And of course, swing by our Microsoft Azure booth #C4 from November 13-15! We’ll have short sessions and demos on all things cloud native and AI, and some sweet swag. Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Brendan Burn’s latest Kubernetes Best Practices book and get it signed by him at the Microsoft booth during KubeCrawl on Wednesday! 

See below for full details on our KubeCon sessions and booth theater presentations. 

Sponsored Keynote 

Date: Thu November 14, 2024  

Start Time: 9:40AM 

Room: Hall DE 

Title: A Developer’s Guide to Securing Your Software Supply Chain 

Speaker: Toddy Mladenov 

Abstract: Container images, AI weights, WebAssembly modules, and software packages – what’s the link? They are all examples of some of the many artifacts found throughout a software supply chain. With so many different artifacts, the real question becomes, “Is your software supply chain as secure as your production environment?”  

In this keynote, we will navigate the journey of these artifacts from source to production, and showcase how to secure your software at each step of the supply chain using cloud native open-source tooling. With the help of key CNCF projects like in-toto, Notary Project, Ratify, and Copa, you will learn how to ensure your software is secure, consistent, and reliably delivered to production. 

KubeCon Sessions with Microsoft Speakers 

Microsoft Speaker 

Session 

Toddy Mladenov 

Keynote: A developer’s guide to securing your software supply chain  

Liudmila Molkova 

Optimizing LLM Performance in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry – Ashok Chandrasekar, Google & Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft  

Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan 

Detecting and Overcoming GPU Failures During ML Training – Sarah Belghiti, Wayve & Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Microsoft  

Kaysie Yu, Ally Ford 

Divide and Conquer: Master GPU Partitioning and Visualize Savings with OpenCost – Kaysie Yu & Ally Ford, Microsoft  

Ryan Nowak 

The Maintainer Monologues – Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Karen Chu, Fermyon; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft  

Mitch Connors 

Scratching the Surface: Simulating K8s in MIT Scratch – Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Jude Connors, Independent     

Keith Mattix 

How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle – Keith Mattix, Microsoft  

Niranjan Shankar 

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Networking 101 – Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft & Ram Vennam, Solo.io        

Mauricio Vásquez Bernal &  Jose Blanquicet 

🚨 Contribfest: Enhancing Kubernetes Debugging and Observability with Inspektor Gadget – Mauricio Vásquez Bernal &  Jose Blanquicet, Microsoft  

Joaquim Rocha, René Dudfield 

🚨 Contribfest: Hop Aboard and Contribute to Headlamp 

Jiaxiao Zhou 

Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads – Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft  

Nilekh Chaudhari 

⚡ Lightning Talk: Future-Proofing Kubernetes: Impact of Storage Version Migration and Meaning of Resource Version (RV) – Nilekh Chaudhari, Microsoft 

Ashna Mehrotra 

Eraser: Cleaning up Vulnerable Images from Kubernetes Nodes | Project Lightning Talk 

Ashna Mehrotra 

Copa: Project Copacetic – Directly Patch Container Image Vulnerabilities | Project Lightning Talk 

Ryan Nowak 

Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You – Mauricio “Salaboy” Salatino, Diagrid; Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft; Abby Bangser, Syntasso  

Kirtana Ashok 

What’s Going on in the Containerd Neighborhood? – Phil Estes, AWS; Samuel Karp, Google; Akihiro Suda, NTT; Michael Brown, IBM; Kirtana Ashok, Microsoft  

Jeremy Rickard 

Meet the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee – Bill Mulligan & Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft  

Toddy Mladenov 

Using Notary Project to Ensure Authenticity and Integrity of Artifacts Within the Enterprise – Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Tjark Rasche, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH  

Ryan Zhang 

SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive – Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat  

Keith Mattix 

Life of a Packet: Ambient Edition – John Howard, Solo.io & Keith Mattix, Microsoft      

Michael Zappa 

CNI Updates and Direction! – Michael Zappa, Microsoft  

Jack Francis 

SIG Autoscaling Projects Update – Jack Francis, Microsoft  

Ciprian Hacman 

Bare Metal Kubernetes with KOps: Gathering Community Wisdom – Justin Santa Barbara, Google & Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft  

Wei Fu 

Scaling and Safeguarding the Heart of Kubernetes: Deep Dive Into etcd – Wenjia Zhang & Marek Siarkowicz, Google; James Blair, Red Hat; Ivan Valdes Castillo, Aki Technologies; Wei Fu, Microsoft  

Mark Rossetti 

What’s New in SIG-Windows – Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Softdrive  

Rita Zhang & Jeremy Rickard 

Working Together to Improve Security Visibility in Kubernetes – Rita Zhang & Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft  

Doug Davis 

XRegistry – Looking Beyond CloudEvents – Doug Davis, Microsoft  

Bridget Kromhout 

Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing – Michael McCune, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft  

Mo Khan, Rita Zhang 

Pushing Authorization Further: CEL, Selectors and Maybe RBAC++ – Mo Khan & Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Jordan Liggitt, Google  

Haoran Qiu 

The State of Kubernetes Optimization and the Role of AI – James Wilson, nOps; Haoran Qiu, Microsoft; Katie Gamanji, Apple; Jasmine James, Square; Josh Cypher, Sonos  

Tina Wu & Shaheed Chagani 

🪧 Poster Session: Revolutionizing Windows Container Startup Performance – Tina Wu & Shaheed Chagani, Microsoft  

Ryan Zhang 

One Inventory to Rule Them All: Standardizing Multicluster Management – Corentin Debains, Google & Ryan Zhang, Microsoft  

Justin Davies 

Tutorial: Kubernetes Smart Scaling: Getting Started with Karpenter – Changsu Lee & Raj Saha, AWS; Justin Davies & Charlie McBride, Microsoft; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon  

Jack Xue 

🪧 Poster Session: Optimizing Pod Affinity in Kubernetes: A Mathematical Approach to Workload Placement – Jack Xue, Microsoft  

Mike Morris 

Tutorial: Live with Gateway API V1.2 – Flynn, Buoyant & Mike Morris, Microsoft  

Anish Ramasekar 

CEL-Ebrating Simplicity: Mastering Kubernetes Policy Enforcement – Kevin Conner, Getup Cloud & Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft  

Jeremy Rickard 

It’s Dangerous to Build It Alone, Take This. – Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft  

Anish Ramasekar 

Rogue No More: Securing Kubernetes with Node-Specific Restrictions – Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft & James Munnelly, Apple  

 
Suraj Deshmukh, Archana Choudhary 

Tutorial: Confidential Containers 101: A Hands-on Workshop – Archana Choudhary & Suraj Deshmukh, Microsoft  

Will Tsai & Ryan Nowak 

Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications 

Anubhab Majumdar & Mathew Merrick 

Hubble Beyond Cilium 

Maya Singh 

Exploring eBPF Use Cases in Cloud-Native Security 

Dor Serero 

Reinventing Seccomp for Fun and Profiles 

Mitch Connors 

Vanishing Point: Reimagining the Meaning of a Mesh 

Keith Mattix & Mitch Connors 

Navigating the Trough of Disillusionment 

Yu Jin Kim 

From sensors to Servers: Efficient Edge Computing with Akri and WebAssembly 

Liudmila Molkova 

Enhancing Asynchronous Communication Observability with OpenTelemetry 

Microsoft Booth Theatre Sessions 

Wed 11/13 

Enhance the Security of your Container Images with Continuous Patching  

Unlocking Binary Drift Detection  

Accelerated GenAI on Azure with Canonical’s Managed Kubeflow 

Securing your Microservices in AKS using eBPF and Istio 

What’s new for Windows on AKS 

Introduction to Reliability Best Practices on AKS and beyond 

OpenTelemetry on Azure 

Cloud-Agnostic Network Observability for Kubernetes: Empowering Azure Workloads with Retina 

Amplify the Security of AKS Deployments Using Ratify and Gatekeeper  

Wiz Container security for AI workloads on AKS 

Thu 11/14 

Fine-Tuning Open-Source Models made easy with KAITO 

Full-stack K8S monitoring with Azure Monitor 

Divide and Conquer: Master GPU Partitioning and Visualize Savings 

Managing Kubernetes with Azure Linux 

Increased performance capabilities with Azure Container Storage 

AKS Networking Best Practices 

Harnessing AI with Redis: Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes 

Friday 11/15 

How to Move from Ingress to Gateway Api with Minimal Hassle 

Cloud storage best practices for containers with scale out analytics and AI workloads 

Enhancing Application Resiliency with Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager 

We look forward to seeing you at KubeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City! 

- Microsoft Azure team 

Psst. Local or coming in to Salt Lake City early? You can also catch the Microsoft team at Cloud Native Rejekts on November 10-11!

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