Call For Proposals
Edgecase 2023 brings together hundreds of Kubernetes enthusiasts. Do you have any lessons learned in building, breaking, and bettering edge infrastructure? An inspirational use case to share or something super exciting?
We have one 45-minute slot available, specially reserved for our call for papers. We would love to give our main stage to our community members. This can be a single or a duo presentation. Don't be shy and share your ideas and the work that you are doing with an audience full of K8s fans!
Deadline: July, 1st 2023
CFP is now closed
Get your Swag!
One of the souvenirs you can take home from our event are the awesome T-shirts! We have a broad range of sized but they're limited in availability so make sure you get yours as soon as you can :).
Presentation
Fantastic pipelines and where to run them
Presentation
The Truth about Kubernetes
By Gerrit Tamboer
Kubernetes, the game-changer revolutionizing infrastructure, has taken the world by storm. Its impact goes far beyond just the cool kids in SaaS startups; even large corporations are jumping on the bandwagon, eager to embrace its transformative potential.
But here's the catch: while Kubernetes is booming, there's still a surprising amount of resistance to innovation and a lack of maturity in its widespread adoption. So, why aren't more companies riding this wave of change?
In this presentation, Gerrit will take us on a journey through the origins of Kubernetes, explore its current state, and chart a course for the future. More importantly, he'll show us how WE—the passionate minds of today—can play a pivotal role in shaping the Cloud Native space for the better.
Join us as we uncover the truth about Kubernetes and discover how this cutting-edge technology holds immense potential for innovators. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this transformative movement!
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Chick-fil-A's Edge Architecture
By Brian Chambers
Chick-fil-A runs a fleet of Edge-deployed Kubernetes clusters across our 2.800+ Quick Service Restaurants to enable highly resilient in-restaurant application deployments. In this session you will learn about Chick-fil-A’s Edge Architecture, how it adds business value, and how we manage a large deployment in a highly constrained environment.
We’ll share about the tradeoffs that were made to keep the architecture as simple as possible. You will also learn about how we solved some of the common edge challenges such as cluster provisioning, app deployment, and observability.
Finally, we’ll share lessons learned from operating at scale in production for 4.5 years.
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Do you need to take General Relativity into consideration when measuring your elevator?
By Erwin de Keijzer
During KubeCon this talk was completely full so, because of the huge success now also at Edgecase! Erwin's house has an elevator so you might think it's an apartment, but no, it's a family home with an elevator. Ever since moving in Erwin has wanted to upgrade the elevator experience. In this talk, Erwin explains how he used open-source projects like NATS, Grafana, Prometheus and InfluxDB to measure performance.
He will show some epic dashboards with insights into the elevator performance. This talk will not feature a live demo, Erwin thought about bringing the elevator with him, but it was not accepted by his family.
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Kubernetes f*ckups, learn and laugh at our pain
By Fabian Met
In this unforgettable presentation, our witty speaker will take you on a rollercoaster ride through a series of real-life Kubernetes "f**kups."
We have gathered some beautiful blunders, epic fails, and jaw-dropping mishaps that can occur when working with this powerful container orchestration system.
All for your viewing pleasure. You animals..
From mind-boggling configuration errors to resource allocation mishaps that will make you facepalm, this talk will expose the darkest and most comical side of Kubernetes. Brace yourself for tales of scaling gone wrong, security faux pas that will make you cringe, and more eyebrow-raising adventures.
Join us at EdgeCase 2023 for a side-splitting journey through Kubernetes failures, where laughter meets enlightenment. You'll leave with a smile on your face, armed with newfound knowledge to avoid these blunders and conquer Kubernetes like a pro. Don't miss this hilariously educational experience!
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(Military) Edge Of Tomorrow
By John Stroosnijder & Stefan van Gastel
Not all edges are alike. The Dutch Ministry Of Defence (MoD) has a need for edge computing in some very special, high-demanding and constrained locations. Besides modern data centers, the MoD also requires computing power and storage in remote locations. These can be in small local data centers (aka broom closets) or abroad in (physical) containers or tents but also think of ships and vehicles that are on the move and not always connected to the network or main power grid. Running edge computing on these locations is always an issue. This asks for a new approach on edge computing, making it robust and secure with a minimal power consumption, but still easy to use. We will share our vision and work on creating an army green tainted edge, using green energy resources, mobility and modern communication methods.
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Kubernetes as a cornerstone in your Edge
By Patrick Aalders
When running your Kubernetes cluster(s) on the Edge you are bringing a part of your infrastructure to state-of-the-art. But that doesn’t mean that things are changing for the infrastructure already found on-site. Let it be machinery running at your customers all over the world or windmills scattered through Europe. Kubernetes allows you to run modern-day DevOps practices for your Kubernetes stack but what if I tell you that it can be so much more?
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AI on the K8s-Edge
By Eelko de Vos
A.I. has been exploding since 2022 and is affecting every workforce. We imagined A.I. would introduce itself through tasks like robots cooking, cleaning and driving cars and then move to more cerebral processes. But translators, photographers, designers, writers and programmers turn out to be the first true targets. How did we get here and what can cloud engineers expect in the coming years?”
In this talk we will explore the current and future possibilities of using A.I. in our field of expertise.
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Lights, Camera, Automation! From Scrap to Smart
By Marcel Claassen
Get ready to be inspired as Marcel takes you on his remarkable journey from scrap to smart home automation. With his curiosity and a touch of IT humor, he will share how he ingeniously integrated second-hand appliances into an harmonious ecosystem. With the Marktplaats App under his fingertips and the power of Kubernetes at his side, he transformed an eclectic mix of solar panels, heat pumps and camera’s into a well oiled (digital) machine. In this age of “Circular” Marcel proves how scrap can evolve into treasures at the edge.
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Sidero Labs Omni & Powerflex: Managing hundreds of clusters at the edge
By Tim Jones
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FinOps - your competitive edge to save your business and our planet
By David Sterz
In 2019, the FinOps Foundation was founded to disseminate best practices around Cloud Financial Management or Finance and DevOps, in short FinOps.
Similar to DevOps, the main focus is on collaboration between worlds.
In this talk we will go through a story of a Container Platform team that is provided to development teams, to learn why collaboration is key and how the FinOps framework can help.
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Vandebron and OnLogic: Building sustainable energy solutions
By Jesse Kastelijn
low-cost, energy-efficient platform to power their green energy balancing solution for the Dutch energy grid.
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Delivering more agile, resilient and efficient IT
By Stuart Carrison
The growing pace of digital transformation has made it difficult for business leaders to improve agility and capability while ensuring the value and resilience of their technology.
In this session, we’ll identify the culprits that cause organisations to amass technical debt and prevent them from moving faster. We’ll then explore an approach where IT can reshape the balance between speed & performance by examining how platform thinking can help reconcile innovation & efficiency.
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Sidero Labs Omni & Powerflex: Managing hundreds of clusters at the edge
By Tim Jones
A customer case study of how Powerflex uses Sidero Labs' Omni to deploy and maintain hundreds of Kubernetes clusters at edge EV charging sites all over the US ranging from inhospitable deserts to underground parking garages. Discover the flexibility of using Talos, a Kubernetes-native, API-driven, immutable operating system, to simplify the deployment and maintenance of clusters from cloud to edge and everything in between.
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Enabling Experimentation with Ephemeral Environments
By Rio Kierkels
Join our workshop where we'll examine two methods for setting up dynamic environments using ArgoCD and Kubernetes, alongside GitLab. We'll guide you through how these environments are initiated by pull requests, updated with each Git push, and automatically tidied up after merges or closures. This practical understanding of the full lifecycle of on-demand ephemeral environments will showcase the flexibility of modern DevOps workflows. By the conclusion of this session, you'll be better prepared to apply these processes in your work, fostering an environment that encourages experimentation with your DevOps practices.
Workshop
Always gonna keep you up. Never gonna let you (go) down
By Jegor van Opdorp
Ready to take control of your digital sovereignty and free yourself from the constraints of US/China legislation and the whims of big tech companies? Say goodbye to the nightmares of downtime caused by the unavailability of a single provider. Discover strategies to distribute your application's workload across multiple clusters and clouds. Join us for a workshop where we will empower you to deploy load-balanced stateful applications across multiple clusters and clouds, all while keeping everything within the European Union and without relying on big tech giants.
Gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience with the following topics:
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Configuring Inter-cluster Networking: Establish efficient and reliable communication between your application's clusters.
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Deploying Highly Scalable Databases: Discover the best practices for managing and scaling databases in a distributed environment across three clusters in an active-active setup.
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Automating Multi-cluster Application Stacks with Nova by Elotl: Automate and streamline the deployment process of your multi-cluster application stack. Learn how to leverage Nova, developed by Elotl, to simplify the orchestration and management of your distributed applications.
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Become a Cilium badass in 30 minutes
By Bas Bremer
Do you want to get started with Cilium, but don’t know where to begin?
During this workshop you will learn how to:
- Install Cilium using Helm;
- Learn how to monitor and debug with the user interface;
- Add security to deployments with the use of network policies.
This workshop is for the absolute beginners, some basic Kubernetes and Helm knowledge is needed.
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Setting up sensors at the edge and managing the OS
By Jurriën Bloemen
Bring your laptop and start building an edge device with sensors. In this workshop, we will start setting up an edge device and connect a sensor to it. We collect the data and send it to a central point to display the information.
In this way, we try to give an overview of what is possible in this space. We cannot go into much detail but for sure it will be fun!
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Bringing Persistent Kubernetes to the Edge with Portworx
By Anthony Hodson
In this hands-on session we'll get to grips with Portworx Backup SaaS service; while learning how industries from Automotive, manufacturing, Telco's, and Retail are making use of persistence at the edge with Kubernetes and Portworx.
We'll explain how to maximise Availability, Recoverability with the Portworx tooling.
Then let you loose with our tool to help with this. Best of all you'll walk away with a 1TB backup management solution free forever.
Bring your laptops.
Workshop
Managing secrets at scale
By Wolter Kamphuis
When moving from data centres to the edge most likely your number of clusters will increase. This will bring many new challenges, secret management is one of them. So how do you enable your developers to manage secret at scale at all these clusters? And how do you manage secrets whenever you don't even have permanent access to these clusters?
During this workshop, you will try two solutions for two different use cases, SOPS and the External Secret Operator. Both very powerfull and both very useful, especially combined with GitOps. Your developers will love it.
Workshop registrations
Aside from the presentations and general spaces full of activities, we have workshops at the ready! Learn about the importance of experimentation. How to set up a Cilium environment or
The workshops are free to follow. You only need to register to attend.
You will receive a separate mail to register for the workshops.
KubeClash free-roam VR
Not to be missed during our event: KubeClash free-roam VR experience! Battle against fellow engineers and rise victorious in this cops vs. robbers-style shooter🏆. With KubeClash your walking (or running) in the real world is tracked into the game so you're not stuck to anything. Hiding, ducking and jumping actually works! Come give our KubeCon hit a try!
