Hello NYC Kubernauts!
We hope you'll join us for a fun & educational evening featuring three speakers delivering two presentations.
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Code Previews on Kubernetes
Eric Tan & Katie McKew, Software Engineers at JOOR will demonstrate how JOOR is leveraging Kubernetes during the software development process to facilitate fast deployment of code changes. With a few clicks, developers can spin up a fully functional instance of JOORs application with a unique URL to provide live demonstrations of their code for Product & Design acceptance. This helps ensure bug fixes & new features are evaluated then deployed quickly & reliably.
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kubectl is not enough: Reliable App Deployments on Kubernetes
Brendan Burns has said that Kubernetes competes mainly with bash that it is aimed at users who historically would (e.g.) scp application files to servers & then start them with ssh. Perhaps more recently they might run a Docker image instead.
But while Kubernetes has modernized this workflow, many things are still relegated to bash. This includes both simple things, like manually rolling out changes to a ConfigMap's data (since changing the data in a ConfigMap does not trigger a rollout of Pods that reference it), as well as complex things like A/B traffic splitting, staged rollouts, etc.
In this talk we present Pulumi, an OSS cloud configuration SDK, which is aimed at solving these problems. We will demonstrate the CLI interface, which proactively displays information about Kubernetes resources that fail to initialize correctly (e.g., when a Deployment rollout fails). We will then show how we can use the real languages (e.g., TypeScript, Python Go) to model these deployments in a way that is reliable & predictable, without sacrificing the ability to reason about the blast radius of a change.
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AGENDA
6:30 - 7:00 - Social
7:00 - 7:10 - Community Announcements
7:10 - 7:40 - Katie McKew & Eric Tan, JOOR
7:45 - 8:15 - Alex Clemmer, Pulumi
8:15 - 8:45 - Social / Wrap-up
SPEAKER BIOS
Katie McKew is a Software Engineer on the DevOps team at JOOR. Shes currently working on decommissioning legacy production infrastructure on EC2 in favor of Kubernetes. Formerly, Katie worked at Verizon Wireless for 3 years developing ingestion pipelines for their multi-Terabyte data warehouse on Hadoop.
Eric Tan is a Software Engineer currently rotating around the different Engineering teams at JOOR. In his role, he has assisted in the web application platform & contributed to scrapping legacy infrastructure. More recently, he is refactoring legacy code with more maintainable & performant processes. Previously, Eric worked at SocialFlow, which was a platform for publishers such as Conde Nast, TIME, etc., to publish their social media posts.
Alex works at Pulumi. He was an early employee at Heptio. Before that, he worked at Microsoft on Mesos, the Bing index core, & a large-scale stream processing system.
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