A software sextuplet for KubeCon Americas 2024
KubeCon and Cloud Native Con Americas 2024 runs this month with the usual fanfare and (some would say fight) for share of voice over and above the central messages emanating from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself.
With this year’s event held in Utah’s exceedingly pleasant capital, Salt Lake City will play host to so many partner practitioner protagonists that it only makes sense to cover off some of the more vocal players now with a six-pack selection as we have done before.
Buoyant
Buoyant, creator of the Linkerd service mesh, will be attending with 11 Linkerd-related talks and a hands-on workshop, attendees will have plenty of service mesh content to choose from — from deep dives on Linkerd’s latest features to discussions on the future of open source. Highlights include Linkerd’s project update session; a panel discussion exploring the evolving landscape of open source; a hands-on Gateway API v1.2 tutorial, among others. Not to be missed is also Linkerd’s keynote project update video with Buoyant CEO William Morgan and Linkerd mascot Linky.
Additionally, Buoyant and SUSE have teamed up to tackle edge deployments while keeping things simple and secure.
Beyond sessions and meeting the team, attendees might notice some of Buoyant’s head of marketing and CNCF deaf and hard of hearing working group facilitator Catherine Paganini’s work. Over the past year, Catherine has worked with the Linux Foundation events team to make KubeCon accessible to deaf and hard of hearing attendees and speakers, raising awareness about accessibility. From interpreters at the keynotes to deaf speakers to various community activities, attendees will be able to meet and learn from their deaf and hard of hearing peers.
Pulumi
Pulumi will showcase a new vision for its technology, going beyond Infrastructure-as-Code to is wider product suite. Pulumi’s platform now consists of three core products:
- Pulumi IaC is open source infrastructure as code in any programming language;
- Pulumi ESC is centralised secrets management that scales;
- Pulumi Insights delivers visibility, intelligence and control over all of infrastructure.
Additionally, Pulumi also recently announced its External Secrets Operator is now integrated with Pulumi ESC, providing a secure and efficient solution for cloud-native secret management. It will also demo the recently released Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0 – a cloud-native way to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure using Pulumi from within a Kubernetes environment. Finally, Pulumi EKS Provider Version 3.0.0 is now available to enhance users’ Kubernetes experience on AWS.
Engin Diri, Pulumi senior solutions architect, will be giving a lightning talk about Progressive Infrastructure Delivery Using Kargo and Argo CD.
Lightbend
Lightbend is coming to KubeCon Salt Lake City to showcase Akka, a toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications that are scalable, efficient and resilient.
CEO Tyler Jewell will be included as a panellist of startup founders, project maintainers and others in the thick of the struggle between commercialization and open source, between paying maintainers and appealing to the open source titled “Startups with Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?”.
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry, the customizable open source platform as a service (PaaS), is attending KubeCon Salt Lake City to announce a marketplace for its Korifi project. Korifi preserves the classic Cloud Foundry experience of being able to deploy apps written in any language or framework with a single (cf push) command, bringing the best developer and operator experiences to Kubernetes.
The Marketplace enables users to discover and deploy pre-built applications and essential services, similar to the capabilities offered by Cloud Foundry’s traditional marketplace but now integrated into Kubernetes through Korifi.
Mirantis
Mirantis provides organizations with total control over their strategic infrastructure using open source software. The company will showcase its new approach to Kubernetes, cloud-native and multi-cloud management, all with open source. It will also introduce its next Kubernetes distribution.
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) provides enterprises with a central point of collaboration for developers and operations to build, run and scale cloud-native applications. MKE has been adopted across various industries, particularly in finance, government, military and manufacturing, with over 350,000 nodes currently running in production globally.
Diagrid
Diagrid is provider of tools and services to build secure, reliable and portable applications using open source Dapr (distributed application runtime). The company is is attending KubeCon Salt Lake City to preview the imminent release of Dapr, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project maintained by Diagrid, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba and others.
Dapr 1.15 introduces new features that bring workflows to production-ready status and a new Conversational Application Programming Interface (API), simplifying and securing the development of Large Language Model (LLM) applications.
Yaron Schneider, co-founder and CTO of Diagrid and co-creator of Dapr, will be presenting “Dapr’s Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means for Your Platform” on Wednesday, November 13. There are two other talks from Diagrid engineers that day: “Scale Job Triggering with a Distributed Scheduler” with Cassie Coyle & Artur Souza and “Taming Your Application’s Environments” with Mauricio Salatino.
Also at the event, Diagrid is teaming up with Upbound to celebrate the pending graduations of their respective CNCF projects, Dapr and Crossplane.
