KubeCon NA 2021 + MeshCon Summary

Ashley Fernandes
10 min readOct 18, 2021

Summary of KubeCon NA 2021 + MeshCon

Key Takeaways

Trending Projects — Crossplane, Keda, cilium, otel, flux, Dapr

eBPF — (Cilium) , custom code and observability at the Kernel

solo.io Service Mesh adds GraphQL & Cilium support

Helmfile — Charts of Charts + GITOPS for Helm Charts(separate env info in charts) — What is Helmfile? | VMware Tanzu Developer Center

SPIFFEE for Multi Cloud Identity

Debug networking @kube = k8snetlook

Okta — for user based auth

Open Application Model — Focused on application rather than container or orchestrator, Open Application Model [OAM] brings modular, extensible, and portable design for modeling application deployment with higher level yet consistent API. https://oam.dev/

The Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)

ACME plugin for CoreDNS — for certs

New Exam- Cloud Native associate

Open source for API traffic visibility in K8s clusters — apiclarity.io

Sessions

mTLS 101

K8sNetlook

Open Telemetry Collector Patterns

Container Vulnerabilities

Razorpay — Dev Exp

ABAC Kube

EBPF Powers

Calico VPP

Consul

AirBnB

Extend Kubernetes

Virtual Clusters

kubectl api-resources — namespaced=true

How to Build a PAAS for an Enterprise?

Storage in Kube

SPIFFEE

Jaeger

OPA

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Ashley Fernandes

Senior engineering lead, manager & architect, proficient in solutioning complex technical challenges and building & managing modern platform product teams.