Kubernetes at Optimal Value

Kubernetes is undeniably changing the IT world at rocket speed. We will start the day with an overview of what Kubernetes is, why it exists, and Gerrit will explain why Kubernetes by itself is not enough to go to production with.

Traditional network silos are collapsing in the cloud-native era. Typical mechanisms used by Enterprises and telcos to achieve networking, security, and observability don’t work in the world of Kubernetes. Once an organization starts deploying business-critical workloads from multiple tenants onto Kubernetes, these gaps are impossible to be ignored. Every single deployed point-solution ranging from Ingress/Egress, Load balancing, Networking, Service Mesh, and Security is making the route to production or achieving innovation more complicated.

Join Batu’s talk to learn how Cilium with eBPF helps Platform, Application and Security teams to achieve the capabilities required for business critical workloads in Kubernetes with an integrated data plane while providing the highest performance and lowest cost.

Discover how Kubernetes applications are built, what risks exist in their lifecycle, and how to mitigate these risks from Code to Cluster. We will explain risks like insecure Infrastructure as Code, Vulnerabilities, Compliance & Governance among others and we will show you how the 4C model helps to create a well-defined security strategy for your Kubernetes environments.

Kubernetes has changed the way we package software and deliver it to production. Fabian is sharing his knowledge about package managers, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and other buzzwords. At the end of the talk, you will be able to understand the differences between several strategies and what their distinctive features are.

In this session we will explore typical challenges surrounding the monitoring of cloud-native infrastructure, such as Kubernetes, that is powering the applications that are driving the business forward. In addition, we will demonstrate what a typical customer journey to Unified Observability looks like and what the key success criteria are that provide business value to your organization, customers and end-users. 

As you have learned over the past few presentations, Kubernetes itself is only 10% of the full stack of Kubernetes in production. How do you blueprint, deploy and manage the full stack — especially when your stack and your workloads are ever-changing?

Today, the Kubernetes stack is not only in one place. It's in multiple clouds, DCs, edge, bare metal. How do you manage these consistently and securely? And how do you do all this when your team is stretched? K8s is complex (especially in the full stack), and you have multiple development teams to serve, each with their own urgent demands.

Kubernetes is compelling, and most organizations are on the path to adopting it company-wide. But if you’re to be successful, you need answers to all these questions. 

Join Spectro Cloud to walk through the keys to success on your Kubernetes journey. We’ll share:

• Findings from our unique research into production Kubernetes: how it’s used today, what benefits it’s delivering — and what challenges it presents
• The typical maturity stages that Kubernetes users go through as they move into production and what changes as you start to use K8s “at scale”
• How to approach the challenges of consistently managing the full stack, across multiple environments, and through the whole cluster lifecycle
• The solution to balancing the need for developer flexibility and operations control without burnout
• Important considerations around openness and vendor lock-in

The (Kasten by Veeam) session will discuss the rise seen of Kubernetes in the market and the importance of having a Data Management solution in place that can protect any application, running on any distribution, including application transformation possibilities with protection against possible ransomware attacks.