04-16, 10:10–10:40 (Europe/Amsterdam), The Suite
Networking microservices in the last decade has typically involved recipes usually involves some bespoke combination of Kubernetes service abstractions, kernel NAT rules, load balancers, mesh designs, vpn tunnels and federation management together with numerous intermediate gateways and sidecars. The downside: fragility at scale, brittle microservice infrastructure and significant operational complexity.
What if there was a simpler way? That scales from very small to massively large deployments? That can be built into the platform natively? You will want to grab a front row seat for this demo, but on the way in, be sure to wipe your mind clean of historical baggage!
This talk will provide a brief review of cloud native interconnection and scaling concerns and present a simpler framework that can fulfill these requirements today in Kubernetes. After following along with our example demonstration, audience members will walk away with a high-level understanding on how to implement cloud native application service graphs using the framework and will be provided with references to the demo and other detailed examples that will enable them to continue exploring at their own pace. We aim to inspire participation from the larger community as we extend our implementation to other cloud native service platforms and will provide a preview of support for FaaS platforms.
Cody has served in multiple Kubernetes and cloud native leadership roles product management at Cisco (product managing ACI-CNI), VMware (product managing Antrea), and JP Morgan Chase (product managing container security). He has championed Kubernetes network policy approaches starting from his early tenure building Calico solutions for fintechs and other enterprises at Tigera but has always wanted to find a simpler way of building secure service graphs that focused on unifying identity management.