Join us for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on August 29, 2024!🎉

We have two special guests Devdatta Kulkarni from CloudARK, and Rafael Brito from StormForge.

Before founding CloudARK, Devdatta worked at Rackspace, leading the team that built PaaS for OpenStack. He has earned PhD in Computer Science (Distributed Systems) from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Besides CloudARK, Devdatta teaches courses on Cloud Computing and Modern Web Applications in the Computer Science department at UT Austin.

Rafa Brito has over 30 years of industry experience, primarily designing and building systems involving distributed computing, Kubernetes, Cloud, grid/HPC, and high-frequency trading infrastructure (HFT). Rafa is a Staff Engineer at StormForge, obsessed with providing Kubernetes optimization and scalability to customers. Before StormForge, Rafa was at VMware as an inventor of a Kubernetes migrator to move workloads across different Kubernetes distributions. Before VMware, Rafa worked at multiple financial organizations, Citigroup being the last, where he was the Global Engineer Lead in Containers and Grid computing. When not working with Kubernetes, you will find Rafa running the Ladybird Trail in Austin, TX.

GETTING TO THE EVENT

We will be meeting at Capital Factory! The address is 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. We'll be in the "Padawan Room" on the 5th Floor. 

Park in the Onmi garage for just $8.00! Street parking will still be an option. More information on parking here: https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking/

Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring Kubernetes Austin. Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Capital Factory membership, click here.

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Multi-instance Multi-tenancy on Kubernetes by Devdatta Kulkarni

This talk will present the Multi-instance Multi-tenancy pattern in Kubernetes which leverages Kubernetes namespaces to deploy separate application instances per tenant on a Kubernetes cluster. The typical adopters of this pattern are application hosting providers, platform engineering teams, and B2B software vendors. We will present the open-source KubePlus Operator (https://github.com/cloud-ark/kubeplus) that provides a turn-key solution to deploy and manage applications using this pattern on Kubernetes.

Kubernetes Autoscaling: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All by Rafael Brito

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to Kubernetes autoscaling. Putting the right pieces together requires a deep understanding of the various autoscaling dimensions and the open-source projects that can be used to meet specific use cases.

This session will explore the three key dimensions: cluster, horizontal, and vertical. We’ll start with the tools built into Kubernetes before moving on to the more advanced open-source projects—Karpenter and KEDA, which enhance flexibility and efficiency for each.

Attendees will learn:

Strategies for cluster, horizontal, and vertical autoscaling, their challenges, and solutions that improve on or replace them

How to assess workload requirements to choose the right mix of autoscaling tailored to specific app needs

Best practices to optimize deployments for peak performance and cost-efficiency for dynamic workloads