Gateway Software Symposium
April 5 - 6, 2024
Navigating turbulent waters—Beginning Kubernetes—Part I
Friday - Apr 5 8:45 AM CDT - MEADOWBROOK
Confused about Kubernetes? Don't know what it does? This is the session that will bring clarity for all things Kubernetes.
The orchestration wars are over, and we have a winner, namely Kubernetes. However, it's not easy to wrap your head around all the abstractions that Kubernetes uses.
In this two-part session we'll wade into the water, but quickly navigate to the deep end of Kubernetes. We'll use a demo-driven approach along with analogies and diagrams to bring clarity to understanding this massively complex, yet powerful, ubiquitous tool.
We'll cover the following:
- What is Kubernetes and why do we need such a tool?
- Kubernetes cluster architecture
- Pods, InitContainers and Sidecar containers
- ReplicaSets
- Deployments
- Volumes and PersistentVolumes
- ConfigMaps, Secrets and the Downward API
- Services
- Ingress
- StatefulSets
We'll also look into the tradeoffs of using tools like Kubernetes, and when it's appropriate, and if there are any alternatives.
Raju Gandhi
Founder, DefMacro Software
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.