Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2017

Cloud Foundry Diego Update - Eric Malm, Pivotal

Do you love how simple and easy it is to push your application to Cloud Foundry but want to know what really happens to your app instances under the hood? Do you operate a Cloud Foundry deployment and need to understand how all its different components work together to keep applications running?

After years of development, Diego has now replaced the previous DEA system as the official container runtime at the heart of Cloud Foundry, capable of managing even the largest CF deployments. In this talk, the project lead for the Diego team will survey how the Diego components interact inside of CF to run application instances and tasks and then dive into how those interactions have evolved over the past year to improve system stability, security, and scale. This talk will also review how recent work in Diego supports powerful platform features such as isolation segments, zero-downtime application updates, and application-identity TLS certificates, how to use tooling such as the CF Diego Operator Toolkit ("cfdot") to inspect the app instances and CF components in a deployment, and other features that the core Cloud Foundry teams are working on or considering for development today.

After attending this talk, you'll be ready to operate your Diego-supported CF deployment with confidence and to take advantage of the powerful features it provides for your users and their applications.

About Eric Malm
Eric works at Pivotal Software as the Product Manager for the CF Diego team, and prior to that was a software engineer on the Diego and CF Runtime teams. He has presented at several previous Cloud Foundry Summit events as well as at many national and international academic conferences in mathematics, and is an award-winning teacher and lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: Accelerate Rapid Software Innovation with Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service - Jeff Tomer, Virtustream

Today’s enterprises are effectively using software innovation to gain competitive advantage, and in some cases, to change industries and disrupt business models. Supporting this focus on software innovation demands a platform that enables rapid application development and delivery while insulating developers from the daily operational complexities. Attend this session to learn how Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service empowers DevOps with an enterprise-class and full managed cloud-native application development platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to drive enterprise software innovation.

About Jeff Tomer
Jeff Tomer is a member of the Cloud Architecture team at Virtustream. Jeff has a breadth of experience that includes scientific computing, enterprise support, service architecture, and bicycle maintenance. The success of others and simplifying complexity motivate Jeff in his work.

Accelerating Enterprise IoT at the Edge - Barton George, Dell Technologies

IoT is delivering significant business value by improving efficiencies and increasing revenue through automation and analytics, but widespread fragmentation and the lack of a common IoT solution framework are hindering broad adoption and stalling market growth.

Hosted by The Linux Foundation, EdgeX Foundry is a new open source project that is accelerating enterprise IoT deployments by unifying the marketplace around a common IoT edge framework and an ecosystem of interoperable components.

Barton George, Senior Architect in the office of CTO, will provide an overview of EdgeX Foundry and discuss how the EdgeX framework makes it easy for enterprises to quickly create IoT edge solutions that have the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs.

About Barton George
Barton is a senior architect in the office of CTO, focusing on Dell EMC’s efforts in the Cloud Native, developer and DevOps space as well as the open source community. He is also the founder and lead of Project Sputnik, an Linux-based laptop for developers, now in its sixth generation. Besides working with developers, customers, analysts and press he is a regular blogger.

Prior to Dell Barton spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles from manufacturing to product and corporate marketing. He spent his last three years there as an Open Source evangelist, avid blogger, and driver of Sun’s GNU/Linux strategy and relationships.

Barton began his professional career out of college with a four year stint in Tokyo at Sony working with ISVs for Sony’s UNIX-based “NEWS” workstation.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barton headed east for higher education and attended Williams College and Harvard Business School. He happily resides with his three children in Austin, TX.

Adding Sidecars to Cloud Foundry - Gabriel Rosenhouse & Angela Chin, Pivotal

Do your developers want service discovery, client-side load-balancing and mutual TLS security in your polyglot microservices but don't want to code all of that themselves? Then you may be interested in using a Sidecar. Sidecars are a new model for providing modern "glue" features to your microservice constellation, using a mesh of separate process running alongside your apps.

In recent months, Cloud Foundry community members have been investigating how to integrate such systems into CF.

This talk will introduce sidecar systems, show what benefits they provide to your apps, and illustrate how they can be integrated into Cloud Foundry.

About Angela Chin
Angela Chin, software engineer at Pivotal, currently works on the CF-Container-Networking team. Previously, Angela was a member of the CF-Infrastructure team, which is in charge of BOSH-Bootloader.

About Gabriel Rosenhouse
Gabe is a software engineer at the Pivotal office in Santa Monica, California. He has been working on Cloud Foundry for 3 years with a focus on networking and security. He co-presented on the Container Networking project at CF Summit North America last year. In past lives, Gabe wrote software for low-cost 3D-printers and high-speed fluorescence microscopes.

Advanced Vulnerability Management in Cloud Foundry - Molly Crowther & Stephen Levine, Pivotal

Forbes Insights reported in 2016 that 44% of all data breaches are caused by known software vulnerabilities. The Security Triage and Automation team is helping to secure Cloud Foundry by building the next level of automated vulnerability management tools and processes that allow Enterprise customers to patch against vulnerabilities early and often. This session will cover the CF security philosophy, background of security management for Cloud Foundry, and a demo of how the team has automated the process from data ingestion through to publicized fix information. Molly and Stephen will talk about how their unique team is changing how OSS projects secure against known vulnerabilities.

About Molly Crowther
Molly Crowther is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. She works primarily with the Security Triage team to determine the impact of vulnerabilities reported for Cloud Foundry. She also works with the CF Foundation to improve security processes. This is her first time speaking at CF Summit.

About Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine is a Pivotal CF Product Manager on Buildpacks team. He’s been known to leave unsuspecting coworkers’ keyboards set to Dvorak.

An Introduction to BUCC (BOSH, UAA, Credhub and Concourse) - Ruben Koster & Ramon Makkelie, Stark & Wayne

The benefits of using BUCC (BOSH, UAA, Credhub and Concourse) will be demonstrated, by creating a real world concourse pipeline to deploy a production Cloud Foundry, using the cf-deployment repository. Topics which will be discussed include: cloud-config, config-server, credhub, Concourse Credhub integration, variables in deployment manifests.

About Ruben Koster
Ruben Koster is a Cloud Foundry / BOSH veteran and has been an active in the community for more then 5 years. As the first employee of Stark & Wayne he has given customer training, spoken at the S&W academy and meetup presentations.

Some of his recent project are:
- https://github.com/starkandwayne/bucc
- https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh2-errand-resource
- https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/credhub-resource

About Ramon Makkelie
Ramon Makkelie is a Cloud Foundry / BOSH expert and has been active in the community for more then 5 years. used Cloudfoundry from day 1 and have used this knowledge to setup Cloudfoundry/BOSH at a mayor airliner Some of his recent project are: - https://github.com/starkandwayne/bucc - https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/habitat-boshrelease

An Introduction to Cloud Foundry Core Development - Jen Spinney & Luan Santos, SUSE

Welcome to the Cloud Foundry community! This talk is designed for people who are new to the Cloud Foundry community or existing community members who haven't come in contact with core developers and the development practices of Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry is proudly open source, and our open source contribution model is a little different from most other open source projects. In this talk, you'll learn about how the Cloud Foundry teams are structured, how they operate, and what a day in the life of a Cloud Foundry core developer looks like. Even if you don't plan to get involved with core development yourself, this talk will help you understand the perspective and terminology of the developers and product managers you may be interacting with. If you do plan on getting involved with core development, this talk will serve as an overview and introduction of what to expect when joining a team or making a pull request.

About Luan Santos
Luan Santos is a Pivotal developer and core contributor to the Cloud Foundry platform. He is a member of the Diego team, located in San Francisco, CA. He also spoke at the CF Summit 2015 in Santa Clara, CA about the Cloud Foundry API.

About Jennifer Spinney
Jen Spinney is a Software Engineer at SUSE, who’s worked on core Cloud Foundry teams for over two years, including Diego and CAPI. Previously, she worked for Microsoft for 3 years developing standards and tooling for implementations of REST. She’s given several talks at previous Cloud Foundry Summits.

An IoT App's Journey to the Cloud: From localhost to PCF Dev and Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Beibei Yang, Dell EMC

Modern factories have implemented a multitude of IoT devices generating streaming data with different formats and capacity. We will explore how to aggregate streaming data from these devices to feed into dashboard apps and how to migrate these apps from localhost to PCF Dev and finally Pivotal Cloud Foundry. We will discuss some of the challenges we ran into and how to address them.

About Beibei Yang
Beibei Yang is a senior advisor from the Converged Platforms and Solutions at Dell EMC that supports cloud and big data solutions. With Ph.D. in Computer Science and 9 years in IT industry, her experience spans Software Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning and Cloud. Beibei has spoken at conferences in both academia and industry and she holds multiple patents.

Banking on Cloud Foundry Platform: A Case Study of Digital Business Banking Applications of Royal Bank of Canada - Surya V Duggirala, IBM & Milorad Stefanovic, Royal Bank of Canada

As Cloud Foundry is becoming the Cloud Platform of choice for deploying critical Banking applications, it is essential to understand the architecture and performance of these applications. This session explains the architecture and design choices considered while migrating these applications from on premise to Cloud. This session also covers some of the specific performance challenges encountered and a prescriptive guidance to resolve them which will be applicable for many other Banking applications.

About Surya V Duggirala
Surya Duggirala is IBM STSM responsible for Architecture and Performance of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. He directs a globally distributed team responsible for IBM Cloud performance engineering. He also leads Cloud Architecture Solution Engineering performance workgroup focused on various industry domain architectures. His special interests include designing microservices applications using scripting and cognitive technologies targeted for cloud. As a Global Technical Ambassador (GTA), he works with many customers, partners and ISVs across the world on cloud, application integration, performance and architecture. He is a frequent speaker at many industry conferences and spoke recently at CF Summit in Santa Clara in June 2017.

About Milorad Stefanovic
Senior Director, Digital Business Channels, Royal Bank of Canada

Beyond Buzzwords: Riding the Wave to Turn Trends into Profit - Duncan Winn, Keith Strini & Sean Keery, Pivotal

We the Cloud Foundry community have spent a considerable time understanding and unpacking buzzword terms like Agile, Devops, Microservices and Cloud Native. This presentation goes beyond simply unpacking trends and terminology. It will bring you tangible real world examples - from several industries - on how companies have embraced and adopted essential IT trends through leveraging Cloud Foundry to realise substantial increases in profits.

About Sean Keery
Sean Keery (Pivotal) began hacking obscure video game systems at the age of 13. Sean then developed interpersonal skills while teaching snowboarding. Nowadays we've got Cloud Foundry, choreography, containers and plenty of io. Cluster deployments, IaaS independence and his studies for a Masters in Data Science keep Sean occupied. The daily commute is filled with podcasts and chipmunk bunny hops. Some family time, spicy food, a good book and wrecking the latest toys keep Sean busy at home. @zgrinch

About Keith Strini
Keith Strini is Federal Practice Lead and Cloud Foundry Advisory Solutions Architect at Pivotal, implementing Cloud Foundry solutions across a wide variety of customer environments both in the Federal and Commercial space. Keith recently presented "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cloud Foundry Summit - Frankfurt 2016 Conference and at IC DevCon "Mission Driven Design" and "Mean Time Between Fielding". He also served as a technology analyst for the US Department of Defense and Intelligence communities. He has helped architect, develop and field information systems across the Joint Services both CONUS and OCONUS (Korea, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East) and NATO.

About Duncan Winn
Duncan has been working on Cloud Foundry for Pivotal since Pivotal formed in 2013. Currently Duncan works in Pivotal's Platform Architecture Team to help companies install and configure hardened Cloud Foundry environments and related services so they get the most out of Cloud Foundry in an enterprise setting. Prior to moving to the US he was the EMEA Cloud Foundry developer advocate for Pivotal and ran Pivotal's Platform Architecture Team in London. He is actively involved in the Cloud Foundry community blogging, running meetups and writing books.

Bottom Up Enterprise Transformation - Kyle Campos, CSAA Insurance

Many of us have heard the stories of successful Cloud Foundry journeys in enterprises that all begin at the top with a strong sense of shared commitment and vision. These stories can be met with equal measure of appreciation and jealousy by some of us as we feel that it's not exactly a realistic approach in our particular enterprise. This is a different kind of story with different origins, a story of a successful enterprise Cloud Foundry journey with a more complicated path filled with roadblocks, challenge and disbelief. When confronted with shared disbelief like "the world you describe doesn't exist" sometimes the only way to make believers is to build the "fantasy" and let the work speak for itself. Our DevOps transformation and PCF platform leader, Kyle Campos, will share this CSAA Insurance enterprise journey, how we turned skeptics into believers and how we gathered buy in through the doing.

About Kyle Campos
Technology Operations Manager, CSAA Insurance

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: Broadening the Base: Increasing Options for Deploying Cloud Foundry - Troy Topnik, SUSE

The Cloud Foundry community has relied on a single Linux distribution since its inception. SUSE is building a new Cloud Foundry distribution and working with the Foundation to bring SUSE-based stemcells and stacks to the community. Learn about the new directions explored in this distribution, and how increasing the deployment options available for Cloud Foundry could broaden its user base and adoption.

About Troy Topnik
Troy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. He began working with Cloud Foundry shortly after its open source debut in 2011, and has been a technical writer, instructor, and product manager with the ActiveState and HPE Helion Stackato teams.

Building Data-Driven IoT Apps on Cloud Foundry - Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

On the other end of every connected device is an application. Actually, many applications. But what about the data? One of the most pressing challenges in the Internet of Things is the flood of streaming data. How do we build applications that can make use of that data? What do we need to change about how we process and analyze that data?

Whoa, whoa, whoa - hang on a minute. Is this about Cloud Foundry or data? It couldn't possibly be both.

Or could it?

Believe it or not, Cloud Foundry has a valuable role to play in supporting *data-driven* IoT applications. In this talk, Dormain Drewitz will provide a model for building IoT applications and illustrate how Cloud Foundry fits in. When combined with Cloud Foundry, projects like Spring Cloud Stream are changing the game for IoT apps.

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. She’s presented at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit; Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley; MuleSoft CONNECT; and more. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Building Resilient Microservices with .NET Core and Steeltoe - Zach Brown & Matt Horan, Pivotal

The cloud encourages a set of design principles that, at first, may seem a little foreign to .NET developers. There are 12-factor apps, microservices, and patterns like service discovery, shared config management, and circuit breakers.

To make their apps run and scale well on Cloud Foundry, developers need to explicitly declare all dependencies, externalize configuration, store session state out of process, and avoid accessing the registry, the GAC, or the local file system.

This session is for developers and architects who want to leverage cloud-native architectures with their .NET apps on Cloud Foundry. The speakers will demonstrate cloud-native development patterns using .NET Core and Steeltoe (https://steeltoe.io), a new project aimed at cloud-native .NET.

About Zach Brown
Zach Brown starting building web sites in the 90s using Netscape-optimized HTML, cgi, and lots of Photoshop lens flares. He spent many years as an enterprise software developer in the Microsoft ecosystem, and now works at Pivotal in San Francisco as a customer-facing Product Owner for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Steeltoe.

About Matthew Horan
Matthew Horan has spent over a decade developing Web applications. Before becoming a developer, he worked as a systems administrator at various startups and hosting providers. Having worked with just about every configuration management tool, and being a developer by trade, he was naturally drawn to Cloud Foundry. He has focused on .NET due to a desire to bring the best practices of Pivotal's Cloud Foundry platform to a wider audience.

Building Security In: Using Cloud Foundry to Secure CF Apps - Guy Podjarny, Snyk

Security is a hot topic in Cloud Foundry world, but most CF security conversations revolve around the platform itself – from updating Stemcells to blocking SSH access. What about securing the apps that run on top of CF?

This talk focuses on how you can use Cloud Foundry to build central controls that enforce application security practices on CF apps, resolve issues automatically, and make security controls easy and accessible to apps, allowing them to do the right thing. Investing in such security mechanisms can help prevent problems before they reach production, and continue saving your developers precious time.

Guy will show how the right use of buildpacks, services and external APIs can help handle secret management and rotation, managing vulnerable libraries, encryption handling and more.

About Guy Podjarny
Guy Podjarny (@guypod) is a cofounder at Snyk.io, focusing on securing open source code. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai following their acquisition of his startup, Blaze.io, and worked on the first web app firewall & security code analyzer. Guy is a frequent conference speaker, the author of "Responsive & Fast”, “High Performance Images” and the upcoming “Securing Open Source Libraries”.

Burning Down the House: How to Plan for and Deal with Disaster Recovery in CF - Therese Stowell & Henry Stanley, Pivotal

People make mistakes. Hardware fails. Hurricanes, volcanoes, acts of God. You’ve installed Cloud Foundry and are running 1000 mission-critical apps. You’re the operator and the health of CF is on your head, how do you sleep at night?

Backups? But.. is backup an outdated term in a cloud native world? What does it mean to back up Cloud Foundry? What components are involved? What about data services?

In this talk Therese and Henry will dig into CF internals to map out what’s required to make reliable backups of Cloud Foundry and app data. They will talk through the challenges of engineering a robust b+r solution that works across IaaSs. They will look at different tools and approaches in use now, and discuss issues like downtime and consistency across multiple components. Finally they will present their proposed BOSH-based framework for backup and recovery plus other potential solutions, from disk imaging to event streams, while considering potential modifications to CF to make it more backup-able.

About Henry Stanley
Software Engineer, Backup & Restore, Pivotal

About Therese Stowell
Therese Stowell is Product Manager at Pivotal. She has worked in the software industry for 20+ years as programmer, interface designer, and product manager. She worked on Windows, developing the command line environment, founded a successful social enterprise, and was part of a startup team to win a Nesta Open Data Institute £40,000 prize. She also has an MA in Fine Art. She has extensive speaking experience, most recently presenting at CF Summit 2017 in Santa Clara, moderating a panel on implicit bias in technology and speaking about metrics in Cloud Foundry at the PaaS LOPUG.

CF + Kubo: Choosing the Right Platform for the Job - Meaghan Kjelland, Google & Fred Melo, Pivotal

There’s a lot of excitement from the CloudFoundry (CF) community around Kubo - Pivotal’s and Google’s engineering project for Kubernetes (K8s) clusters managed by BOSH. While Kubo was just accepted as a CF Incubator project, there’s still a lot of confusion around CloudFoundry x Kubernetes use cases and best usage scenarios for services and cloud applications.

This session led by Pivotal and Google will introduce Kubo and compare it with Cloud Foundry - from use case and architecture perspectives. Attendees will learn what are the main differences between CF and Kubernetes, what kinds of workloads are most suitable for each, and how Kubo helps you combine them for a complete cloud native solution. The session will also feature a live demo using both CF and Kubernetes integrated as a single platform.

About Meaghan Kjelland
Meaghan is a Software Engineer at Google taking the steam out of proprietary software by building the future in open source. She is currently working with Pivotal and VMware to make Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths complement Cloud Foundry applications.

About Fred Melo
Fred has been in the software industry for +15 years. Currently working as a Director of Product Management and Tech Marketing for Pivotal, his job is to help customers from all industries build business-relevant Big Data, Fast Data, Mobile and IoT solutions. In recent past, he led the Pivotal Cloud Foundry specialists pre-sales group. Before Pivotal, he started up the VMware vFabric business in Latam, lead a pre-sales engineering team for Red Hat and worked for IBM, Ericsson and HP. nHe is a very experienced presenter of several important conferences such as QCon Rio, OSCON, ApacheCon NA and Europe, SpringOne, Red Hat Summit, Gartner Summit and JavaOne.

CF Networking: All Your Packets Belong to Us - Usha Ramachandran & Angela Chin, Pivotal

Is your network admin losing sleep over whitelisting your entire deployment? Worried about public routes to your backend apps? Can’t tell which application is hammering your production database?

Worry no more! Cloud Foundry has a brand new container networking stack, that enables application level policies and direct container-to-container communication. Join us for an overview of the new feature set and the use cases it solves. See it how it works through a demonstration and learn about where we plan to go next.

About Angela Chin
Angela Chin, software engineer at Pivotal, currently works on the CF-Container-Networking team. Previously, Angela was a member of the CF-Infrastructure team, which is in charge of BOSH-Bootloader.

About Usha Ramachandran
Usha Ramachandran is a Product Manager at Pivotal and the the Product Lead for CF Networking. She has over 15 years of networking experience, having worked at Cisco, Alcatel and Ericsson. She has worn several hats throughout her career including software engineer, technical marketing engineer and product manager. A seasoned conference speaker, she has spoken at Cisco Live! and VMworld over multiple years and at CF Summit in 2016.

Closing Remarks from Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Cloud Foundry AutoScaler Service: Features, Design and Roadmap - Ying Liu, IBM

Auto-Scaling helps you ensure the optimized number of application instances available to handle your workload so as to maintain the service quality and optimize the usage of your cloud resource for cost savings.

Cloud Foundry AutoScaler service is a Cloud Foundry incubation project that provides application auto-scaling capability as a cloud foundry service. This project was started one year ago and is now ready for trial in your Cloud Foundry deployment. In this talk, we will firstly have an overview of the features we have right now for both dynamic scaling and scheduled scaling, and then give a walk through of how to deploy the service with BOSH as well as deploy the service as Cloud Foundry applications. We will also show how to define scaling policy and enable auto-scaling by simply create and bind the service to your application. The second part of the talk with focus on the design of the several micro services that AutoScaler service consist of. We will introduce how the micro-services interact with each other and with other subsystems of Cloud Foundry. We will also address the reliability, scalability and security aspects of the design. The last part of the talk will discuss the upcoming features that the team are actively working on and exploring.

After this talk, the attendees will know the key concepts of auto-scaling, and being able to deploy, operate and use the AutoScaler service in a Cloud Foundry environment.

About Ying Liu
Senior software engineer, International Business Machine

Cloud Foundry Runtime PMC Overview - Dieu Cao, Pivotal

Do you want to learn more about the Cloud Foundry Runtime PMC? Dieu will give an overview of the 17 projects in the PMC, and briefly describe how they coordinate to ship compatible combinations of releases underlying the core of Cloud Foundry. Additionally, Dieu will give an overview of recent accomplishments and upcoming areas of investment in Developer Happiness, Security, Performance, and Stability.

About Dieu Cao
Director of Product Management, CFF Runtime PMC Lead, Pivotal
Dieu Cao is responsible for the strategic direction of Pivotal's Elastic Runtime product. Dieu is also the PMC Lead for the Cloud Foundry Foundation's Runtime Project Management Committee. Dieu previously spoke at CF Summit EU 2016.

Coming Soon to a Cloud Near You: Multiple Buildpack Support - Keaty Gross & Stephen Levine, Pivotal

The Buildpacks Team just wrapped work on multiple buildpack support and we want to share the good news!

This latest Cloud Foundry feature allows applications to leverage a mixture of different technologies in one `push`, permitting strategic use of multiple languages in one app or app-embedded additional processes. This will come as welcome news to users interested in building apps of this type in the future, or to users who already have but had to switch to Docker containers or custom buildpacks to achieve these ends.

Attend this talk if you’d like to learn more about what multi-buildpacks do under the hood, how they differ from their predecessor the multi-buildpack buildpack, or where this feature might come in handy in the future. As an added bonus for the uninitiated, we’ll even provide a bit of insight into what exactly happens when you `cf push`. Appropriate for all experience levels.

About Keaty Gross
Keaty Gross is a Pivotal CF Engineering Manager, currently enjoying allocation to the Buildpacks team. She has given talks about (P)CF products at CF Summit in Santa Clara and Shanghai, as well as SpringOne Platform in Las Vegas.

About Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine is a Pivotal CF Product Manager on Buildpacks team. He’s been known to leave unsuspecting coworkers’ keyboards set to Dvorak.

Connecting Things Together, an IoT Data Protocol Story - Dave McAllister, Solace

The Internet of Things is rapidly becoming the Internet of Everything. And with that comes massive scale up in data and in messages being generated and delivered for analysis and machine learning. Such scale issues require an understanding of the various wire protocols in use for IoT and for the applications being fed. Without data movement, IoT is meaningless.

So, how do you deal with moving IoT messages into Cloud Foundry?

Dave will help you understand the pros and cons of relevant protocols by demonstrating a simple IoT scenario: A particulate sensor connected to an Arduino Uno that sends MQTT messages into a message router that passes them along to Pivotal Cloud Foundry using REST.

From there, he’ll look at the protocol requirements of a microservices architecture within Cloud Foundry, including considerations of JMS and AMQP. Dave will finish up with a discussion on the emerging multi-cloud and hybrid cloud (public to private to datacenter) architectures and why your data needs to flow where you need it when you need it, in the form that best fits the use case.

About Dave McAllister
Dave McAllister has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux, through open distributed file systems like XFS, GFS and GlusterFS to today’s world of clouds and containers. In his current role, Dave is working with messaging/streaming developers and architects to promote the use of open standard data movement protocols and APIs to solve large-scale distributed systems challenges. Dave sits on the Linux Journal Reader Advisory Board, won a Golden Penguin in 2002 and was recently named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review. Talk to Dave about photography, cats, food and wine.

Continuous Delivery to Cloud Foundry: Why Your Junior Devs Will Love It! - Robert Summers, Armakuni

How can you take junior developers, hand them the keys to the kingdom, and trust them to deliver features to production for your clients without micromanaging every line of code they push? The answer is easy if you are using tools like Concourse and Cloud Foundry.

Concourse is a tool that allows for automated continuous delivery which also happens to work extremely well with deploying apps to Cloud Foundry.

Speaker Robert Summers recently underwent this journey. He abandoned his career to become a developer through Europe’s leading Web Developer bootcamp and joined Armakuni, a consultancy specialising in cloud-native solutions.

Robert will share some of the challenges that come with entering such a technical field and provide tips for shepherding novices like them into the world of Continuous Delivery and Cloud Foundry.

About Robert Summers
Robert Summers worked in the insurance industry for over twelve years before changing careers to application development. This has made him fully versed in how things work on the ‘other-side’ of development. Robert works for Armakuni, delivering cloud based solutions for clients, as well as training developers how to use Cloud Foundry.

Conversation with Dr. Andreas Häberli, CTO, Dormakaba & Marcel Walker, Head of Network & Cloud, Swisscom

Conversation with Dr. Nic Williams, CEO, Stark & Wayne

About Dr. Nic Williams
Stark & Wayne
CEO
Brisbane, Australia
Facebook Message Websitestarkandwayne.com
Dr Nic Williams is one of the foremost open source developers and evangelists in the Cloud Foundry and BOSH ecosystems. Dr Nic discovered Cloud Foundry and BOSH in April 2011 and has been contributing to it, extensions, BOSH releases, tutorials, and blog posts ever since.

Dr Nic is also the founder and CEO of Stark & Wayne - the premier consultancy for Cloud Foundry operations and development - with over 30 staff in USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia. We love that Cloud Foundry makes people happy.

Conversation with Fareed Ahmed, KONE Corporation

About Fareed Ahmed
Fareed has more than 17 years of experience in software design and development. He is currently working on KONE IoT Platform based on IBM Bluemix to enable connectivity for the field equipment like elevators, escalators and automatic doors. Additionally, he maintains the IoT Platform architecture that supports to deliver maintenance applications for field technicians and residential services for end users. Fareed is based in Espoo, Finland.

Conversation with Julian Fischer, CEO, anynines

About Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of anynines. As an expert for digital transformation he has been attending hundreds of IT conferences and speaking at dozens including several Cloud Foundry events. His passion for Cloud Foundry was the motivation to found anynines, a startup entirely focused on cloud-native software development and operations. anynines has been the first Cloud Foundry based public PaaS and is entirely operated under German jurisdiction. With more than three years of Cloud Foundry operation experience anynines has established in CF related enterprise operations and consulting for central europe. More than that anynines does significant groundwork in the field of highly available, self-provisioning, infrastructure agnostic Cloud Foundry services.

Conversation with Keaty Gross, Software Engineer, Pivotal

About Keaty Gross
Keaty Gross is a Pivotal CF Engineering Manager, currently enjoying allocation to the Buildpacks team. She has given talks about (P)CF products at CF Summit in Santa Clara and Shanghai, as well as SpringOne Platform in Las Vegas.

Conversation with Marc Geall, Senior Vice President, General Manager, SAP Cloud Platform Partner Innovation

About Marc Geall
Marc Geall is a member of the executive leadership team within SAP’s Global Channel & General Business Organization. In this role he has responsibility for partner adoption of SAP’s strategic platforms including HANA and HANA Cloud Platform. The team has recruited over 1,300 build partners that are innovating on SAP’s platforms and manages the recruitment, onboarding, enablement, commercialization and support of partner IP on the platform.Marc has split his career between industry, enterprise software, and financial services. Until 2012 he was a Managing Director heading up Technology, Media and Telecoms Equity Research at Deutsche Bank. Prior to this, he was head of Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Investor Relations at Autonomy, a role that incorporated being CEO of Virage the Rich Media subsidiary of Autonomy. Other relevant roles have included head of Software and IT Services Research at Citi, and senior application engineer at PTC in the product lifecycle management (PLM) space.Marc has a Master's degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, specializing in Aerodynamics and Aeronautics and started his career at Rolls Royce (Aerospace Division).

Conversation with Mark Thienpont, Lead Expert BI/HANA Consultant, Delaware Consulting

About Mark Thienpont
Based on a solid and in-depth knowledge of SAP-BW/BO and SAP-HANA, combined with experience in organizations, project-handling, and business-processes, and an eagerness to continuously learn, I combine technical advice and implementation work with training (internal or external), and various exploration and discovery activities in context of Business Intelligence/Analytics.
SAP's strategic roadmap concerning its HANA-platform, enabling advanced embedded analytics on BigData scale, and S/4 as premium ERP offer, keeps on inspiring me to bring functional business IT to a next level. I also strongly believe that the current evolution on artificial intelligence will drive this evolution even more.

Conversation with Michael Miller, President, Strategy, Alliances & Marketing & Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO, SUSE; Moderator, Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch

About Frederic Lardinois
Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).

About Thomas Di Giacomo
As Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo drives the rapid innovation and growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to software-defined solutions such as the OpenStack cloud infrastructure, Ceph-based storage, and software-defined networking solutions. He engages customers, partners, and open source communities to share and define SUSE’s technological vision.

Di Giacomo has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various global leadership roles in engineering and product innovation, with expertise in open source platforms, development, and support of global information systems and technologies applied to various industries such as telecommunication, hospitality, and healthcare.

Di Giacomo holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva where he was a senior software developer & researcher involved in both academic work and joint corporate projects with international leading enterprises.

About Michael Miller
Looking forward to CF Summit and talking about SUSE Cloud Application Platform and how we are combining the power of Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry to create a powerful and flexible solution for development, deployment and lifecycle of both legacy and cloud native applications!

Conversation with Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source Strategy for GCP, Google

About Sarah Novotny
Sarah Novotny is head of Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. She co-founded Blue Gecko and launched a free-to-play game platform supporting HAWKEN. She is a program chair emeritus for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON.
Novotny talks obsessively about people, technology infrastructure and geek lifestyle.

Crucible: Towards a Safer and Consistent BOSH Job Interface - James Myers & Aram Price, Pivotal

Crucible is a project to provide a declarative interface for defining BOSH jobs and executing them in a secure and consistent environment.

Crucible takes advantage of containerization via RunC to isolate BOSH jobs on a host to provide improvements for release developers as well as operators. The declarative configuration simplifies the release author experience, and Crucible will handle many of the hand-rolled BOSH-job housekeeping tasks such as managing PID files, log redirection, and directory creation. For the operator Crucible provides better security since jobs will not have unrestricted access to the host VM.

In this talk, James Myers and Aram Price will discuss the development and design of Crucible.
They will cover the improvements to the release developer's experience, and the security and stability benefits for operators.

Topics will include:
An in depth look at how Crucible utilizes RunC to provide release authors and operators with isolated execution environments by default.

A detailed comparisons between the existing BOSH release interface and Crucible's simplified declarative interface,
Examples of how to convert existing bosh releases to use Crucible and the various benefits it provides currently.
The possibilities that Crucible enables for the future.

About James Myers
James Myers is a software engineer for Pivotal Software and a core contributor to the Cloud Foundry project. James is currently working on security related projects around Cloud Foundry and BOSH. Previously, James has worked extensively on the core open source Cloud Foundry teams, including the Diego and CF Runtime teams for over 3 years.

About Aram Price
Pivotal

Defining Service Level Objectives for Loggregator - Adam Hevenor, Pivotal

This session will highlight how to apply Site Reliability Engineering practices to operating the Loggregator system. In addition to promoting a new Loggregator playbook (work in progress) this presentation will walk through the process the Loggregator team used to define and measure service level indicators. It will also build on Adam's previous talk about improving message reliability and help Operators define Service Level Objectives for their development teams that makes sense.

About Adam Hevenor
Adam Hevenor joined the Cloud Foundry in 2016 as Product Manager for the Loggregator team. Adam previously worked for Pivotal Labs, and enjoys applying scientific method and economics principals to computer science problems. Adam works and lives in Denver, Colorado.

Delivering a CF Platform for Data Protection Services at Gemalto - Dan Young, EngineerBetter & Vincenzo Edoardo Martino, Gemalto

Gemalto are using Cloud Foundry as the product delivery mechanism for a new marketplace of data protection services. Dan will explain how EngineerBetter have worked with Gemalto to iterate on their platform, build their team and shape their working process. Then Vincenzo will guide the audience through the platform architecture, showing how CF on public cloud has been integrated with physical datacentres to deliver the service. The audience will learn:

- How Gemalto have made unique use of Cloud Foundry’s features to support their go-to-market aims

- Continuous deployment and testing of CF, using Concourse to promote change across multiple environments

- Practical examples of how to build high performance platform teams who have a product mindset

About Vincenzo Martino
Vincenzo covered a wide spectrum of roles in the last 12 years, from development to system integration and project management. He is passionate about learning and trying new technologies. Vincenzo is currently automation architect at Gemalto where he designs the architecture of Gemalto Cloud based SaaS solutions.

About Dan Young
Dan has worn a variety of hats over the last 15 years, spanning engineering, presales and product management and is passionate about seeking to understand and resolve organisational friction. He is currently CEO of the UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter, who have worked with software teams in enterprises across global banking, wealth management, FTSE 100 retail and software vendors.

Demo with Emamurho Ugherughe, Software Engineer, SAP

About Emamurho Ugherughe
Emamurho Ugherughe is a Software Engineer at SAP SE. As part of the Machine Learning team, she contributes substantially to the design and build of SAP Cloud infrastructure which hosts and trains machine learning models. She loves traveling and meeting people.

Demo with Julz Friedman, Product Manager, Software Engineer, IBM

About Julz Friedman
Julian Friedman (julz) is an IBMer and the project lead for Cloud Foundy's low-level container engine ("Garden") and the Application Autoscaler component. Over a long career he has worked on early cloud environments, Map/Reduce, performance optimisation for AI systems and, of course, most currently and importantly, building container engines for fantastic multi-tenant platforms as a service. If you have several free hours and enjoy the sound of a rant delivered in a British accent, ask him whether he thinks pushing mongodb to a cloud platform is a good idea.

Demo with Meaghan Kjelland - Software Engineer, Google

About Meaghan Kjelland
Meaghan is a Software Engineer at Google taking the steam out of proprietary software by building the future in open source. She is currently working with Pivotal and VMware to make Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths complement Cloud Foundry applications.

Demystifying the CATs - Michael Xu & Timothy Hausler, Pivotal

If you've ever deployed your own Cloud Foundry, you may have run the CATs (CF Acceptance Tests) to check that your environment is working correctly. Or, you may have needed to run the CATs in order to submit a PR to CAPI or another core CF team. This talk will present an overview of how these tests are structured, what's needed in order to run them, and how to debug them when they fail. You'll also learn how to add new CATs if you're writing a new component or piece of functionality for Cloud Foundry.

About Tim Hausler
Tim Hausler is a contributor to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem, working for Pivotal Software. He has previously worked on the Cloud Controller and BOSH.

About Michael Xu
Michael Xu is a recent UC Berkeley graduate who has joined CF as a Software Engineer in 2016. He has contributed to Cloud Foundry for a year now and was a core contributor in CAPI’s track to simplify the CC-bridge.

Deploying Cloud Foundry with BBL, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment - Angela Chin & Christian Ang, Pivotal

Have you ever spent all day trying to deploy open source Cloud Foundry and thought there must be a better way? Want to deploy Cloud Foundry from scratch in no time as the core development teams do? Core CF teams have been enjoying a new world where they don’t have to waste days figuring out how to manually deploy BOSH and CF. Now Christian and Angela want to share it with you! In the past year, major inroads have been made to create new tools that automate much of the process of deploying BOSH and CF. Using new tools, BOSH-Bootloader, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment, developed and used by core Cloud Foundry teams, attendees will learn how to deploy Cloud Foundry in an automated, reproducible, and user-friendly way!

About Christian Ang
Christian Ang, software engineer at Pivotal. Core contributor to Cloud Foundry.

About Angela Chin
Angela Chin, software engineer at Pivotal, currently works on the CF-Container-Networking team. Previously, Angela was a member of the CF-Infrastructure team, which is in charge of BOSH-Bootloader.

Have you ever spent all day trying to deploy open source Cloud Foundry and thought there must be a better way? Want to deploy Cloud Foundry from scratch in no time as the core development teams do? Core CF teams have been enjoying a new world where they don’t have to waste days figuring out how to manually deploy BOSH and CF. Now Christian and Angela want to share it with you! In the past year, major inroads have been made to create new tools that automate much of the process of deploying BOSH and CF. Using new tools, BOSH-Bootloader, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment, developed and used by core Cloud Foundry teams, attendees will learn how to deploy Cloud Foundry in an automated, reproducible, and user-friendly way!

Distributed Service Bundles for Cloud Foundry - Krishanu Biswas, SAP

Distributed Service Bundle is a mechanism to define a group of services whose lifecycle and operations are controlled as a single unit. This means parts of the bundle are deployed, un-deployed, updated, operated and monitored together. Cloud Foundry provides well-defined model for application to service communication via the service binding. While this model works well for majority of the use cases, there are use cases where a managed service needs to communicate with other managed services. For example – connecting the Jobs in a managed Spark to Topics in a managed Kafka. Cloud Foundry doesn’t inherently have a notion of service to service binding. To address the above scenarios we need a way to deploy services together with dependencies injected via the environment variables similar to the way CF applications use the VCAP environment variables. In this session, we will explain the need for distributed service bundles and show how such a distributed bundle can be realised via a generic implementation of Cloud Foundry Service Broker.

About Krishanu Biswas
Krishanu Biswas is a Product & Engineering Manager at SAP building server technologies and distributed systems over a decade. As a lead product expert, he helps define product requirements around key platform core services and backing services in SAP Cloud Platform based on Cloud Foundry. Krishanu comes with over 14 years of industry experience across the technology board of application servers, web development & enterprise software development. Cloud computing, cloud platforms, containers are his key areas of interest. Being an engineering manager, he also drives the execution & delivery of SAP Cloud Platform together with an assembly of highly talented engineers spanning across several teams. He has been a regular speaker at many SAP Internal events like DKOM and external events like SAP TechED, CF Summit.

Distributed Tracing of Microservices - Neil Stevenson, Hazelcast

Microservices are generally perceived as a better application style than monolithic code, and
certainly this is a style that sits nicely within Cloud Foundry.

However, it’s not all good news. One of the drawbacks to such decomposition is it can be
very difficult to identify bottlenecks.

In this presentation, Neil will show how it’s easy this can solved for Spring Boot users. A few
beans and dependencies can activate tracing, and with Hazelcast as a service, trace information
can be centrally captured from to a fault-tolerant scalable in-memory repository.

Trace analysis can then be distributed across multiple service instances, without the performance bottleneck of a unclustered disk based resource.

Diversity Lunch & Panel: How Women in Tech are Chasing Grace - Sponsored by Google & IBM - Introduction by Caitlyn O'Connell, Marketing Communications Manager, Cloud Foundry Foundation - Keaty Gross, Swetha Repakula, Abby Kearns, Sarah Novotny, Emamurho Ugherughe

The tech industry is the place to be for creative, strategic thinkers who want to be at the forefront of technological change. Open source in particular is a home to progressive, collaborative strategists -- so why do women in these industries continue to face adversities their male counterparts are blind to or simply refuse to acknowledge as problematic? Former VP of communications at the Linux Foundation and long-time open source professional Jennifer Cloer delved into this question in her new documentary series The Chasing Grace Project. At today’s luncheon, we will show the trailer for the series, share how you can get involved, and interview a variety of panelists working in open source about topics related to each of the series' six episodes. If you are interested in finding out how to be a better male ally, hearing your colleagues’ stories, and joining the conversation around how we can work together to retain valuable employees in tech, please join us.

About Caitlyn O'Connell
Caitlyn O’Connell runs content for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, including the blog, white papers, messaging and more. She spearheaded a diversity and inclusivity initiative for the Foundation in 2017 and created the Junior Ambassador program to enable young women aspiring towards a career in STEM to attend Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley. Caitlyn is dedicated to supporting women and other underrepresented communities in open source and the tech industry at large, and telling their stories.

About Keaty Gross
Keaty Gross is a Pivotal CF Engineering Manager, currently enjoying allocation to the Buildpacks team. She has given talks about (P)CF products at CF Summit in Santa Clara and Shanghai, as well as SpringOne Platform in Las Vegas.

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

About Sarah Novotny
Sarah Novotny is head of Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. She co-founded Blue Gecko and launched a free-to-play game platform supporting HAWKEN. She is a program chair emeritus for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON.
Novotny talks obsessively about people, technology infrastructure and geek lifestyle.

About Swetha Repakula
Swetha Repakula gradated from UC Berkeley 2 years ago and started working at IBM in their open source team. Since then she has been a full time open source contributor for Cloud Foundry primarily using Go.

About Emamurho Ugherughe
Emamurho Ugherughe is a Software Engineer at SAP SE. As part of the Machine Learning team, she contributes substantially to the design and build of SAP Cloud infrastructure which hosts and trains machine learning models. She loves traveling and meeting people.

Don’t Fly Blind! - Christoph Eichhorn and Christian Duefel, SAP

When running a cloud application that serves many different customers, keeping track of what is going on can quickly turn into a challenging and “cloudy” endeavor. Especially when unexpected and difficult-to-reproduce issues show up, you need to rely on a toolset, that provides timely insights and allows you to quickly find relevant information to solve that issue. In this presentation, Christoph Eichhorn and Christian Duefel will show how to leverage the SAP-Logging-Pipeline in order to obtain out of the box insights on performance, usage and other events, as well as metrics and the correlation of all these. Parts of the pipeline have already been put under Open Source. The SAP-Logging-Pipeline for Cloud Foundry enables you to gain visual flight conditions in the cloud.

About Christian Düfel
SAP SE

About Christoph Eichhorn
Developer, SAP
Working at SAP since 2012 on different topics related to the SAP Cloud Platform

Dualing Platforms: Building Services for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Using the Open Service Broker API - Alex Ley & Matt McNeeney, Pivotal

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. The Open Service Broker API working group brings together experts from Google, RedHat, Pivotal, SAP and IBM in order to demolish barriers in the adoption of cloud-native services, with a user-centric approach focused on delivering features based exclusively in real world use cases.

After providing an introduction to cloud-native applications and the need for stateful services, we will explain how the Open Service Broker API project can help developers build a variety of services that can be deployed once and consumed anywhere.

We will then run a live side-by-side demo where we build and deploy a service broker and then consume it from applications running in two different platforms: Cloud Foundry and Kubo (BOSH-powered Kubernetes).

About Alex Ley
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Alex is a Product Manager for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform and is focused on enabling multi-cloud services using Cloud Foundry and BOSH. Previously, Alex was a committer to the container engine Garden Linux, used by Cloud Foundry, and worked in London's FinTech startup scene. Alex is also contributing to the Open Service Broker API initiative as a member of the project management committee. You can regularly find Alex talking about Cloud Native technologies and agile working practices at conferences around Europe and the US.

About Matt McNeeney
Senior Product Manager, Pivotal
Matt is a Senior Product Manager at Pivotal who works on the Open Service Broker API and the developer user experience using services within Cloud Foundry.

Embracing OCI and CNI Open Container Standards Between Garden & Friends - George Lestaris & Gabriel Rosenhouse, Pivotal, & Konstantinos Karampogias, Swisscom

Cloud Foundry supports a rich ecosystem of plugins and extension points at various levels of the stack. This modularity enables rapid development and deployment of new features. Garden-runC, the Linux container engine used by Cloud Foundry, adopted this kind of modular philosophy by introducing new exciting forms of extensibility in its core.

In this talk, members of three core engineering teams (Garden, GrootFS, and Container Networking) will introduce the APIs that enable pluggable filesystems and networking stacks, including support for the industry-standard Open Container Initiative (OCI) image format and the Container Networking Interface (CNI) specification. With these extension points, Cloud Foundry users and operators gain access to a rapidly-growing ecosystem of 3rd party features which can enable new use cases for the platform.

About Konstantinos Karampogias
Konstantinos has been working at Swisscom for the past two years as Software Engineer. He is currently a member of the Cloud Foundry Garden team in London, and before that he had a CF Dojo with the Container Networking team in Santa Monica.

About George Lestaris
George Lestaris is the product manager of the Cloud Foundry GrootFS team, working at Pivotal in London. GrootFS is building tools to manage the container image lifecycle for Garden, CF's container engine. Before Pivotal, George spent some time with web programming, high throughput computing and cloud computing research. He has given talks before in CHEP 2013, PyCon UK 2015, CF Summit NA 2016, ContainerCamp LDN 2016 and Open Source Summit Japan 2017.

About Gabriel Rosenhouse
Gabe is a software engineer at the Pivotal office in Santa Monica, California. He has been working on Cloud Foundry for 3 years with a focus on networking and security. He co-presented on the Container Networking project at CF Summit North America last year. In past lives, Gabe wrote software for low-cost 3D-printers and high-speed fluorescence microscopes.

Extending the Reach of Cloud Foundry: A New Stack and Supported OS - Cornelius Schumacher & Mario Manno, SUSE

In this talk the presenters will walk you through the different layers that make up a running Cloud Foundry deployment: hosts, stemcells and application stacks.

This is the first top-to-bottom alternative to Ubuntu in the Cloud Foundry arena, and it's all supported by SUSE.

With the new stemcell builder repo it's now easier than ever to create a custom stemcell. We added openSUSE as a completely new OS to the builder, but it can also be used to just modify existing stemcells.

A demo of a highly-available deployment SCF will show the product in action. The talk will also walk the audience through the changes that were required to support the new stack and the benefits that come with it.

About Mario Manno
Mario works as software specialist in the cloud and systems management department at SUSE Linux. After visiting the Pivotal Dojo he joined the BOSH OpenStack CPI team. In his free time Mario contributes to several open source projects and helps bringing video recordings of community conferences online. In the past he’s been giving talks in Germany about different topics, like IT security, Open Source and software development.

About Cornelius Schumacher
Cornelius is a distinguished engineer and engineering manager at SUSE Linux. He works on SUSE's Cloud Foundry product and the technology around it. Passionate about open source and community Cornelius is a long time contributor to many open source projects for more than a decade, such as KDE, openSUSE, the Open Build Service, or BOSH. Cornelius is a regular speaker at international Linux and open source events.

Getting a Handle on Your Microservices: Istio and the Open Source Broker API - Christopher M Luciano & Morgan Bauer, IBM

Istio provides a proxy to load balance, control traffic behavior, and distribute access controls between services. The Kubernetes Service Catalog, an Open Service Broker implementation, provisions services that are consumed by applications within a cluster. This presentation will demonstrate how Istio can be utilized to proxy communication between a Kubernetes-hosted application and a Service Catalog provisioned database.

The demonstration will start with two applications bound to the same service broker provided service. We will then leverage Istio to direct traffic between the applications from the web and show the metrics that it is collecting. This will demonstrate how Istio can provide value without any modifications to an application.

About Morgan Bauer
Morgan Bauer works on open source at IBM in San Jose as part of the cloud division. Morgan is a maintainer on Docker and is now looking into Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies.

About Christopher M Luciano
Christopher M Luciano is an Advisory Software Developer for IBM Digital Business group. He currently works full-time on Kubernetes and other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects. Prior to IBM DBG, Christopher was the lead on the Watson container runtime squad. He has previously spoken at Pittsburgh based meetup (Code and Supply) and Kubernetes Days on infrastructure and software operations.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: Let a 1000 Flowers Bloom - Dr. Michael Maximilien, IBM

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) has never been more relevant than it is today. The release of various alternative platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm are proof positive that users and enterprises want an operating system for the cloud that can help them manage their containers and cloud resources. Cloud Foundry (CF) was at the forefront of PaaS and is easily the most adopted cloud platform on the market. However, it faces the classic innovator's dilemma problems that a successful leader experiences, as alternative platforms become viable. To continue to maintain its lead, we believe CF must aggressively innovate, improve, extend and embrace, so that a 1000 cloud innovative "flowers" bloom. The CF-Extensions PMC and projects are aiming at exactly that. Come hear the latest status of this new PMC and also how you can contribute your own innovative ideas to this growing garden.

About Michael (aka dr.max) Maximilien
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: Monitoring Your Cloud Foundry Cluster with Datadog - Greg Meyer, Datadog

We rely on our monitoring to tell us when our services, Applications, or infrastructure diverge from “normal.” However, Orchestrators like Cloud Foundry and cloud providers have created a new world of dynamic infrastructure where normal is changing constantly, making it quite difficult to define. Join us as we share how Datadog's open source integrations with Cloud Foundry and help you see your cluster's health and performance.

About Greg Meyer
Greg is a Software Engineer at Datadog based in Brooklyn, NY. He primarily focuses Datadog's open source agent and its integrations. From orchestrators like Cloud Foundry to databases like Redis, Greg enjoys diving into and instrumenting new technologies.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: People First, Tech Second - Kim Bannerman, Google

About Kim Bannerman
Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry leading diverse teams and working with enterprise customers. She is passionate about the people behind the technology, especially in the open source community. For the past six years, she has transformed her love of learning and community into organizing multiple user groups. In addition to founding the Seattle Cloud Foundry Meetup and the Seattle Chapter of the Startup Chicks Foundation, Kim serves as a Cloud Foundry Ambassador. Her interest in cloud technologies is longstanding, evidenced by her roles as Director of Cloud Evangelism at CenturyLink and Program Director of Technical Advocacy at IBM BlueBox, where she focused in part on Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and OpenStack. Most recently, Kim joined Google in Developer Relations where she heads up their worldwide Technical Customer Engagement programs for Google Cloud Platform. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: The Future of Container Storage: CSI and Cloud Foundry - Julian Hjortshoj, Dell EMC

In early 2017, representatives from Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker convened a working group to create a common Container Storage Interface. The intent of this interface is to provide a standard API that will allow a storage provider to write a single plugin that can attach their storage to any of the major container orchestrators.

In this talk, we will cover the design and logical flow of the Container Storage Interface, discuss its integration into Cloud Foundry, and look at some initial examples of storage plugin implementations.

About Julian Hjortshoj
Julian is the PM of the Diego Persistence team, and a 12 year veteran at Dell EMC. | In his spare time, Julian enjoys traveling, cooking, sporadic exercise, and building stuff that isn’t software.

Hell Freezes Over: The New Reality of Open Cloud Services and the OSBAPI - Josh McKenty, Pivotal

There are many options when it comes to choosing a cloud platform. How do you know you picked the right one? Each has it's own advantages. What if you want to use more than one? As many of us know, Cloud Foundry provides this multi-cloud portability.

But what about services? There are so many available services and like Pokemon, you want to catch, err use, them all. How do we bring portability to cloud services across industries and across vendors?

In his presentation, Josh will talk about the impact of the Open Service Broker API project. The project provides a simple way to deliver services on cloud native platforms. Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes are initial adopters. Contributors include individuals from Pivotal, IBM, Google, RedHat, and more.

About Josh McKenty
Entrepreneur and technologist Joshua McKenty works with Fortune 100 customers who seek to transition to a cloud native architecture, and with Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry team to bring new features and functionality to Cloud Foundry-based products, the industry-standard enterprise platform for the cloud era. A San Francisco Business Times 40-Under-40 Leader and NASA Ames Honor Award recipient, McKenty has been instrumental in defining and bringing cloud solutions to market. He co-founded OpenStack, the definitive open cloud solution for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and Piston (acquired by Cisco), which provides OpenStack-based private cloud solutions for marquee enterprises across industries. As the founding Chief Architect, McKenty led the development of NASA Nebula, the Federal Government's first cloud computing platform. Joshua has over two decades of experience in software engineering, architecture, engineering management and entrepreneurship. He was the team lead for the development of Netscape 8 as well as AOL’s IE AIM toolbar, and Joint CTO at Mercurial Communications. More recently, Joshua led the IT efforts and successful first release of OpenQuake, an open source software application allowing users to compute seismic hazard, seismic risk (exposure/vulnerability) and the socio-economic impact of earthquakes. In his spare time, Joshua has crafted a handmade violin and banjo, fathered two children, and invented his own juggling trick, the McKenty Madness.

Highly Available Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes - Vlad Iovanov, SUSE

In this talk the presenters will present how SUSE Cloud Foundry is deployed and configured to run in a highly available fashion. We will show how we avoid SPOFs using Kubernetes features like stateful sets, readiness and liveness probes, etc. Furthermore, we will show how the end user of SCF can deploy applications without worrying about downtime. The presentation will include a demo of a disruptive agent simulating failures across the Kubernetes nodes and containers, while user applications are still live and healthy.

About Vlad Iovanov
Vlad Iovanov is currently working as a Technical Lead on the SUSE Cloud Foundry project at SUSE. He has given various talks in industry for topics ranging from Container technologies, Windows framework and Best practices for Application Development.

How to Facilitate the Cloud Foundry Adoption with Object Storage - Denis Jannot, Dell EMC

Cloud Foundry is accelerating the adoption of micro services architecture and is impacting the way the unstructured content is accessed. An instance of a service can be started anywhere and scaled on demand, so using traditional file shares is not the solution anymore. Object storage can be accessed from anywhere and is becoming a De Facto standard for cloud native applications. But object storage can also be used to simplify the modernization of existing applications. This session provides an in-depth discussion about why object storage vs file storage and what best practices should be followed to ensure the applications will scale easily. Scalability is crucial for applications targeting the consumer market and for IoT use cases. It will be ended by a demo of a web application developed following those best practices.

About Denis Jannot
I'm working on object storage since 7 years.
I'm passionate about new technologies and I've been adopting Cloud Foundry since several years.
I'm also developing many web applications to demonstrate the benefits of object storage and I have created several blog posts on why object storage with Cloud Foundry since few years.

Identity: From Legacy to Microservices - Tian Wang, Pivotal

Your applications are moving to Cloud Foundry, so why shouldn't your identities? As part of the application re-platforming journey, enterprises often realize the need to build robust and scalable identity infrastructure to underpin their changing application ecosystem. Old legacy architectures no longer suffice in the distributed and federated world of microservices, and customers look towards Cloud Foundry to guide them through their transition.

In this talk, we explore cloud-native security built on top of open standards (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect), UAA, and the Spring Boot framework. Tian and Sree from the Pivotal identity team will discuss several customer case studies, and highlight how they leveraged Cloud Foundry's identity capabilities to accelerate their journey towards agile and cloud-native.

About Tian Wang
Tian Wang is the Product Manager for the SSO (Single Sign-On) Service tile at Pivotal. He recently joined and works closely with the identity team for UAA (User Account and Authentication Service) on Open Source Cloud Foundry. Prior to joining Pivotal, he worked as a security consultant for identity and access management, assisting Global and Fortune 500 companies with their identity strategies, roadmaps, and implementations. He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration and Bachelors of Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction to the Cloud Foundry at Scale Track - Julian Fischer, anynines & Matthias Steiner, SAP

About Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of anynines. As an expert for digital transformation he has been attending hundreds of IT conferences and speaking at dozens including several Cloud Foundry events. His passion for Cloud Foundry was the motivation to found anynines, a startup entirely focused on cloud-native software development and operations. anynines has been the first Cloud Foundry based public PaaS and is entirely operated under German jurisdiction. With more than three years of Cloud Foundry operation experience anynines has established in CF related enterprise operations and consulting for central europe. More than that anynines does significant groundwork in the field of highly available, self-provisioning, infrastructure agnostic Cloud Foundry services.

About Matthias Steiner
Matthias Steiner works as cloud platform evangelist at SAP. He's a Cloud Foundry Ambassador and SAP Mentor Alumnus and regular (keynote) speaker at international technology and developer conferences. He also co-presented a session at the first CF Summit in Europe in 2015. Matthias has more than 15 years of experience leading large-scale enterprise development projects.

Introduction to the Cloud-Native Microservices Track - Alex Ley, Pivotal & Christian Brinker, evoila

About Christian Brinker
As long-standing member of the evoila Automation and Technology team and Automation Engineer Christian Brinker is well experienced in the automation of cloud environments. His focus is the development of software architectures in customized XaaS solutions. He developed many solutions in and for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem, like service brokers or complex billing systems for Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. On the CF Summit Europe 2016 he presented his teams work on a service broker framework. Additionally he gained broad experience as a data scientist resulting in publications and presentations on international conferences. Christian Brinker works at an agile, German-based cloud engineering and consulting company. The evoila GmbH develops cloud strategies and engineers tools for cloud enablement and improvement. Their customers are small companies, global players and the public sector.

About Alex Ley
Alex is a Product Manager for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform and is focused on enabling multi-cloud services using Cloud Foundry and BOSH. Previously, Alex was a committer to the container engine Garden Linux, used by Cloud Foundry, and worked in London's FinTech startup scene. Alex is also contributing to the Open Service Broker API initiative as a member of the project management committee. You can regularly find Alex talking about Cloud Native technologies and agile working practices at conferences around Europe and the US.

Is Bootstrapping BOSH Incredibly Simple Yet? - Dr. Nic, Stark & Wayne

This talk will introduce the BOSH team’s latest and greatest tool for bootstrapping BOSH to any target infrastructure - bosh-deployment - and will ask the perennially toughest question once more: is bootstrapping BOSH incredibly simple yet?

About Dr. Nic
Dr Nic Williams is one of the foremost open source developers and evangelists in the Cloud Foundry and BOSH ecosystems. Dr Nic discovered Cloud Foundry and BOSH in April 2011 and has been contributing to it, extensions, BOSH releases, tutorials, and blog posts ever since.

Dr Nic is also the founder and CEO of Stark & Wayne - the premier consultancy for Cloud Foundry operations and development - with over 30 staff in USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia. We love that Cloud Foundry makes people happy.

Keeping your Cutting Edge Platform Cutting Edge: Continuous Delivery of Cloud Foundry - Cora Iberkleid & Kartik Lunkad, Pivotal

So you’ve set up Cloud Foundry. Awesome. Your devs have speed, self-service, agility, no downtime. Great! But wait, there's a platform update? How do you know? It's critical? Hurry and download that file, go patch that dev environment! Good? Great! Now patch your other four environments. Nice job! Time for coffee.

Oh wait - there’s another update? Better get back to your workstation…

Patching and upgrading your Cloud Foundry platform, be it the buildpack, a stemcell, a tile, or Ops Manager itself, is still a manual process. An operator must become aware of new updates, download the files from Pivotal Network, and initiate each update through Ops Manager. Rinse and repeat for each of your foundations. Manual processes are inefficient, cumbersome, and often postponed, leading to risk as potentially important updates are delayed or ignored.

Taking a lesson from the app dev community, we can use the principles and practices of Continuous Delivery to alleviate these challenges. Join us to see how you can set up Concourse pipelines to automate the patching and upgrading of Cloud Foundry itself, such that new releases on Pivotal Network trigger the automated application of updates to all of your foundations. Cuz everyone can use an extra coffee break.

About Cora Iberkleid
Cora Iberkleid is a Senior Cloud Application and Platform Architect at Pivotal, where she helps enterprises leverage modern technologies like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud in order to deliver better quality software faster. Prior to joining Pivotal, she spent nearly a decade designing and building enterprise integration applications as part of the Professional Services organizations at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. She has previously spoken at Meetup events, including Cloud Native New York and New York City Spring User Group.

About Kartik Kushal Raj Lunkad
Kartik Lunkad is a Platform Architect at Pivotal Software Inc. and is currently focused on helping Pivotal’s top Fortune 100 enterprise customers increase their business agility by educating and transforming their technology teams to deliver software quicker with the help of cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry. Prior to joining Pivotal, he had a varied experience in building software pipelines as well as streamlining IT operations. Kartik also obtained his graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon in the field of cloud computing.

Kubo - Your Gateway Drug to Cloud-Native - Cornelia Davis, Pivotal

You’re at the Cloud Foundry Summit, which means you are by definition a cloud-native enthusiast. There’s no question that building apps in this architectural style will produce resilient, scalable software in an agile manner, and allow you to operate it far more efficiently than you’ve been able to in the past. But you’ve also got a whole lot of software in your company’s portfolio that isn’t there yet. Do you have to resign yourself to the pains of managing those applications the old way until you can finally refactor them to be cloud-native? Kubo to the rescue.

You can run legacy applications on Kubo without significant refactoring – pure and simple. As an added bonus, it allows you to satisfy the CIO mandate of running containers (check). But it’s far more than that – running those workloads on Kubo offers advantages over running them on traditional virtualized infrastructure. This session covers those advantages –resource consolidation, health management, multi-cloud and more. It will also present the abstractions in Kubernetes, things like pods and stateful sets, that support running legacy workloads in the cloud environments that are far more distributed and changing than they have been in the past. It’s a first step to cloud-native.

About Cornelia Davis
Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is working on ways to bring the various cloud-computing models of Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service, Container as a Service and Function as a Service together into a comprehensive offering that allows IT organizations to function at the highest levels. She is the author of the book “Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software” by Manning Publications (https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native).

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.

When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

Landscape Gardener: Keep n CF Landscapes Blooming Continuously - Andreas Heix & Martin Schröder, SAP

It's not an easy task to keep one CF landscape up and updated all the time. Doing this with several landscapes with varying BOMs (bill of material) on different IaaS in parallel does not make it easier. In this session, Martin and Andreas will give an overview on how they organize as a multinational, 3-time-zone team of landscape gardeners trying to keep the landscapes blooming. They will share details on the collaboration with the development organizations. Judge for yourself where this fits your idea of "DevOps" or "SRE". A larger section will be dedicated to the alerting and monitoring approach which focus on the customers' scenarios as main health indicator. Not all flowers bloom and thrive all the time –Andreas and Martin will also share some of the challenges they have with their own stuff and also with the concepts of CloudFoundry.

About Andreas Heix
Andreas Heix works as PO for the operational parts of SAP’s CF for two years. The mix of customers, CF, used IaaS-es, the processes and the teams are his focus. Prior to this, he was running the CI-Infrastructure for Mobile App development within SAP. Andreas gives demos and speeches and moderates workshops within SAP or with customers. He prefers cycling, football and cooking anytime over a livesite-down call.

About Martin Schroeder
Martin Schroeder works as a ProductOwner for the CloudFoundry Landscape Operations team at SAP. Topics like Monitoring and handling of multiple landscapes in parallel are of specific interest for him. During his 18 years of working for SAP, Martin worked in several roles in software engineering.

Lightning Talk: CF CLI-Plugins for Fun and Profit - Johannes Tuchscherer, Pivotal

CLI plugins are one of the most underutilized features in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. It allows anyone to extend the existing feature set of the platform in an unobtrusive and easy fashion. Enterprises can leverage plugins to deliver environment specific features to users; They can be used to either integrate Cloud Foundry better into your development workflow or environment or to uncover information provided by the platform that is not easily available otherwise.

Come to our session to learn how to use and write a plugin for the Cloud Foundry CLI. We will highlight some existing plugins and show how to easily create your own plugin including hands-on examples. We will cover some tricks and tips that will jumpstart your journey into CF CLI plugins.

About Johannes Tuchscherer
Johannes is currently working as a Solutions Architect for Pivotal in Munich where he helps several Cloud Foundry users to get the most out of their investment into the platform. He is one of the organizers of the Cloud Foundry Meetup Munich and spoke about Cloud Foundry at several past occasions.

Lightning Talk: Cloud Foundry Monitoring: How to Never Leave Your Deployment Unattended - Anton Soroko, Altoros

It wasn’t that long ago when, to enable end-to-end monitoring of Cloud Foundry deployments for our clients, we had to set up and configure a complex combination of several monitoring tools. An idea would not leave our heads that there had to be a one-stop solution to handle monitoring at all levels of the deployment, including VM instances, Cloud Foundry’s internal and external components, BOSH, services and applications. Unable to find such a tool, we built one ourselves. During the talk, Anton is going to provide two real-life stories how we managed to avoid an early-stage disaster and saved the client's deployment with an all-in-one highly available and multitenant monitoring stack developed by Altoros for Cloud Foundry.

About Anton Soroko
Altoros
Cloud Foundry Engineer
Belarus
LinkedIn Connect Websitehttps://altoros.com/
Anton Soroko is a Cloud Foundry/DevOps Engineer at Altoros with a strong background in SRE activities. He has 2 years of experience in maintaining distributed monitoring systems for a high-load cluster, with over 35 000 hosts in the largest cluster monitored and controlled. Currently, Anton specializes in full-stack monitoring solutions for Cloud Foundry deployments.

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Application Management with the Stratos Console UI - Neil MacDougall & Richard Cox, SUSE

In this talk we introduce the Stratos UI for Cloud Foundry. This innovative open-source user interface allows application developers and system administrators alike to manage their Cloud Foundry instances and applications through an easy-to-use web-based interface.

We present the architecture of the UI, covering both the front-end (AngularJS) web-based application and the supporting back-end (Go) API server. We will outline how the architecture allows new components to be added to extend the capabilities of the UI as well as to modify its appearance and branding.

We will talk further about how the back-end API Server handles user token management and integrates with the Cloud Foundry UAA to automatically refresh access tokens and proxy API requests to the Cloud Foundry APIs. We will also discuss how our design can support other APIs and endpoint types in the future.

Our goal with this talk is to both introduce the UI that we have built over the last 12 months in order that others can start to use it but more importantly to engage with the open-source community to work with us to contribute and build out its capabilities.

About Richard Cox
Software Developer, SUSE

About Neil MacDougall
SUSE

Lightning Talk: Getting Started with the bucc cli - Ramon Makkelie & Ruben Koster, Stark & Wayne

The benefits of using BUCC (BOSH, UAA, Credhub and Concourse) will be demonstrated, by creating a real world concourse pipeline to deploy a production Cloud Foundry, using the cf-deployment repository. Topics which will be discussed include: cloud-config, config-server, credhub, Concourse Credhub integration, variables in deployment manifests.

About Ruben Koster
Stark & Wayne
Cloud Architect
Ruben Koster is a Cloud Foundry / BOSH veteran and has been an active in the community for more then 5 years. As the first employee of Stark & Wayne he has given customer training, spoken at the S&W academy and meetup presentations.

Some of his recent project are:
- https://github.com/starkandwayne/bucc
- https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh2-errand-resource
- https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/credhub-resource

Lightning Talk: Kubo: A Tale of Three Products - Kira Boyle, Pivotal

About Kira Boyle
Software Engineer, Pivotal

Lightning Talk: Multi-Buildpack Hacks - Topher Bullock, Pivotal

Are you feeling restricted by having to choose only *ONE* buildpack to compile a droplet for your app? Looking to run more than just a boring single-language app on CF? Want to deploy a binary that uses a virtual X Window server then stream that virtual display to Twitch?

Topher will be your guide into the wonderful world that multi-buildpack support unlocks, and show how you can use the CloudFoundry Incubator project to make all of your droplet dreams come true! Attendees will learn how to compose together multiple buildpacks on a single staging container, and use this new power for fun, and (maybe) profit.

About Topher Bullock
Topher is a senior software engineer at Pivotal and is based out of the Toronto, Canada office. On the Pivotal Cloud R&D team he has experience working on distributed systems, infrastructure automation, Concourse, Cloud Foundry, Service Broker APIs, and Mobile Apps. Topher was recently selected as one of Canada's Software Developer Top 30 Under 30.

Lightning Talk: Multi-Datacenter Strategies for Data Services - Julian Fischer, anynines

As multi-datacenter setups with Cloud Foundry become more popular it’s worth looking at the most common multi-DC and multi-region scenarios. See how these common scenarios can be classified and how the resulting architectures affect the build pipeline, infrastructure platform and most importantly data service automation.

A walkthrough common data services in the context of different multi-DC scenarios will illustrate do’s and don’ts during the automation for the use at large scale. From data services with inherent multi-DC capabilities to those without, an outline of specific and more generic integration strategies will be presented.

At the end of this talk you will consider multi-datacenter automation of data services more differentiated and have gained a basic understanding of problems and potential solutions.

About Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of anynines. As an expert for digital transformation he has been attending hundreds of IT conferences and speaking at dozens including several Cloud Foundry events. His passion for Cloud Foundry was the motivation to found anynines, a startup entirely focused on cloud-native software development and operations. anynines has been the first Cloud Foundry based public PaaS and is entirely operated under German jurisdiction. With more than three years of Cloud Foundry operation experience anynines has established in CF related enterprise operations and consulting for central europe. More than that anynines does significant groundwork in the field of highly available, self-provisioning, infrastructure agnostic Cloud Foundry services.

Lightning Talk: Providing Service Access with Service Keys Using HAProxy and Floating IPs - Christian Brinker, evoila GmbH

Service brokers provide a well-proven way to manage services in Cloud Foundry. This way applications can be easily connected to services like databases or message queues. But there are situations where direct access to a service is required. For this scenario Cloud Foundry provides the concept of generating service keys that hold credentials that allow access to a service instance.

But what about situations in which the service is deployed in a private network that is only accessible from Cloud Foundry? In this talk the speakers Sebastian Böing and Christian Brinker present a solution to achieve this with Floating IPs within OpenStack. Furthermore they provide an approach that uses a remote mechanism for configuring HAProxy for accessing multiple different service clusters at the same time while only requiring at least one Floating IP.

About Christian Brinker
As long-standing member of the evoila Automation and Technology team and Automation Engineer Christian Brinker is well experienced in the automation of cloud environments. His focus is the development of software architectures in customized XaaS solutions. He developed many solutions in and for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem, like service brokers or complex billing systems for Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. On the CF Summit Europe 2016 he presented his teams work on a service broker framework. Additionally he gained broad experience as a data scientist resulting in publications and presentations on international conferences. Christian Brinker works at an agile, German-based cloud engineering and consulting company. The evoila GmbH develops cloud strategies and engineers tools for cloud enablement and improvement. Their customers are small companies, global players and the public sector.

Live Production Debugging with Cloud Foundry and Stackdriver in 3 Easy Steps - Colleen Briant, Google

Your new feature was just pushed to prod, but before you can celebrate, a monitoring alarm fires about increased latency for users. This didn't happen in your dev and QA environments! To debug, do you need to figure out how to better simulate live load? Nah! You can just debug your code live using the Stackdriver Debugger! You may not know, but your Java buildpack already has this feature ready to go! Check out this talk and we'll show you how easy it is to debug your code live in prod with shareable breakpoints and dynamic log statements.

About Colleen Briant
Colleen is a Software Engineer at Google. She keeps Cloud Foundry developers and operators on the cutting edge of Google Services with the GCP Service Broker and other open source integrations. She has previously spoken at CF Summit Europe 2016 and CF Summit Santa Clara 2017.

Making a Mesh: A Primer on Istio Running on KuBo - Ramiro Salas, Pivotal

The concept of a service mesh represents a paradigm shift on application connectivity for distributed systems, with wide implications for analytics, policy and extensibility. In this talk, we will explain what a service mesh is, the power it brings to microservices, and its impact on Cloud Foundry and K8s, both separately and together. We will also discuss the implications for the traditional network infrastructure, and the shifting of responsibilities from L3/4 to L7.

About Ramiro Salas
Ramiro Salas is Product Lead for Networking at Pivotal R&D. He has 30 years in the industry, with 9 of them in the Telecom space. Ramiro was CTO of the first privately owned ISP in Chile, and has worked at renowned telecom equipment vendors like Ascend, Lucent and CoSine Communications having done business in 31 countries and lived in 4. He was NetSec & NFV Specialist at VMware, where he worked for 10 years. He also serves in the board of advisors at startups in related fields, and he’s a regular presenter at conferences and meetups.

Manage Distributed Secrets in Applications on Cloud Foundry With Spring Cloud Vault - Andreas Falk, NovaTec Consulting GmbH

Running multiple instances of spring boot based microservices on CloudFoundry is widely adopted these days. But what about your secrets? Do you spread all values using application local property files? Do you still store secrets in clear text? In case you are encrypting passwords where do you store the key to decrypt these? Do you already rotate database credentials regularly? In this session you will learn how to externalize your configuration and store your secrets safely using the recently released Spring Cloud Vault project. After a general introduction into Vault, Andreas will show how spring cloud vault facilitates the integration of vault into your application running on CloudFoundry platform. After this session you will be well prepared using externalized configuration and storing any secrets in a secure way.

About Andreas Falk
Andreas Falk (@andifalk) has been working in enterprise application development projects for more than twenty years. He is working as managing consultant for NovaTec Consulting GmbH in Germany since five years.
In various projects, he has since been around as consultant, architect, coach, developer and tester. His ongoing project is about implementing a cloud native application (angular frontend with spring boot microservices) on a private cloud platform (based on CloudFoundry). His focus is on the agile development of cloud native applications using the complete Spring platform. As an OWASP member, he has a closer look on all aspects of application security as well.
Andreas is a frequent speaker on conferences like Spring I/O, JAX, OOP and OWASP AppSecEU (see http://lanyrd.com/profile/andifalk/sessions).

Managing the Complexity of Microservices Deployments - Prithpal Bhogill, Google & Kenny Bastini, Pivotal

The transition to microservices can be an exciting change of pace for many developers. But for organizations, the path to success with microservices is not without embracing a major cultural shift in the process of how companies build and deliver software.

To rapidly deliver microservices to production, organizations are turning to infrastructure automation provided by a cloud-native platform, like Cloud Foundry. With a platform in place, every microservice team will have what they need to create a CI/CD pipeline that safely delivers applications to a production environment. The final ingredient for success is knowing the right patterns for connecting microservices together over HTTP using REST APIs.

In this session, Kenny Bastani from Pivotal and Prithpal Bhogill from Apigee will dive into a reference architecture that demonstrates the patterns and practices for securely connecting microservices together.

This session will cover:

- The basics for building cloud-native applications as microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Services
- The patterns and practices that are enabling small autonomous microservice teams to provision backing services for their applications
- How to securely expose microservices over HTTP using Apigee Edge for PCF
- How to ensure that APIs are readily and securely consumable by application developers
- How to get instant, end-to-end visibility into the performance and adoption of your API program
- How to thrive in the API economy by leveraging microservices and cloud-native application architectures

About Kenny Bastani
Kenny Bastani works at Pivotal as a Spring Developer Advocate. As an open source contributor and blogger, Kenny engages a community of passionate developers on topics ranging from graph databases to microservices. He is also a co-author of O’Reilly’s Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry.

About Prithpal Bhogill
Prithpal is responsible for Edge API Management platform as a Product Manager in the Google Cloud Platform team. Prior to Google, Prithpal held various roles in Product Management, Pre-Sales, Architecture for companies including Apigee, Salesforce, Oracle and BEA. Prithpal earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Pune and a graduate diploma in Business Systems from Monash University. Prithpal is a frequent speaker at tech forums, industry/tech conferences has presented various webcasts and contributes technology blogs.

Multi-Cloud with Cloud Foundry: Making It Real - Dmitry Bakaleinik, SAP & Sean McKenna, Microsoft

In this session jointly presented by Microsoft and SAP, Sean and Dmitry will share their experiences and lessons learned from working on adding SAP Cloud Platform as a fully-managed public cloud offering on Microsoft Azure. We’ll present SAP’s multi-cloud strategy and Cloud Foundry’s role herein, how the team implemented it on Azure and the challenges encountered along the way. We’ll wrap up by providing an outlook on the next steps and plans for the future.

About Sean McKenna
Sean is a member of the Microsoft Azure Compute group and is responsible Cloud Foundry on Azure. He works closely with partners like Pivotal, GE, and SAP to make CF-based platforms sing on the Azure cloud. He regularly speaks at major Microsoft conferences including //build and Ignite, and smaller events like the CF Meetup in Seattle.

About Dmitry Bakaleinik
Cloud Engineer, SAP

On-Demand Data Services with Cloud Foundry - Maria Ntalla & Simon Jones, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry services are a big part of what makes the platform so incredibly powerful; they allow developers to perform self-service provisioning of databases, message queues and anything else that can provide data to their applications.

The ability to create services entirely on demand was one of Cloud Foundry’s most anticipated features. When the feature was added to Cloud Foundry, an exciting new era began for service authors and users alike.

In this talk Maria and Simon will show how BOSH and the on-demand-broker are used to enable application developers to do self-service provision of services with configuration tailored to the application’s use case. They will also give an overview of how to develop an on-demand service, best practices and challenges they have seen during their experience with developing on demand service offerings.

About Simon Jones
Simon works as technical lead for the team that develops Pivotal's On Demand Service Broker. He has previously been a service author for Redis, Cassandra and RabbitMQ, and has a wealth of experience in deploying platforms and services with Cloud Foundry operators from a number of large companies. Simon has previously spoken at local PaaS user group meetups, and provided training to new Cloud Foundry users.

About Maria Ntalla
Maria is a software engineer at Pivotal. She was on the team that developed the on-demand service broker and SDK and is now developing the Redis service broker for Cloud Foundry. She has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016, London PaaS Users Group and Women Who Go sessions.

One Year Later: Update on Volkswagens Cloud Program - Carsten Schade, Volkswagen AG

In 2015 the Volkswagen Group started with a small team to built an on-premises private Cloud. Today the Group IT Cloud is the base layer of Volkswagens digitalisation strategy. Last year at the european summit Roy and Carsten gave an overview of Volkswagens way to change the companies way to create software. In this talk they will give an overview of the different project phases, what happened meanwhile and how Cloud Foundry helps Volkswagen to become a leading mobility provider.

About Carsten Schade
Carsten Schade studied maths before he started at Volkswagen. Since then he had different roles in IT and business departments of Volkswagen before he became Head of Group IT Integration Technologies in 2015. As member of the Group IT Cloud program management team his main topic is PaaS with CloudFoundry.

Opening Remarks - Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Chip Childers
Chip has spent more than 18 years in large-scale computing and open source software. In 2015, he became the co-founder of the Cloud Foundry Foundation as Technology Chief of Staff. He was the first VP of Apache Cloudstack, a platform he helped drive while leading Enterprise Cloud Services at SunGard and then as VP Product Strategy at Cumulogic. Prior to SunGard, he led the rebuild of mission-critical applications for organizations including IRS.gov, USMint.gov, Merrill Lynch and SEI Investments. Chip is an experienced speaker at events like OSCON, LinuxCon North America, LC Japan, LC EU, ApacheCon, O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, and many more. In his free time, Chip loves trail hiking with his black lab, sailing catamarans and sunfish, and trying to keep up with his young daughter.

Operations From Scratch to Production at Orange - Fabien Guichard, ORANGE

Orange, with more than 263 millions customers worldwide, is a leading company in the telco market.
Within Orange, the “Digital Factory” division particularly focuses on the Orange France marketing needs, with over 40 millions retail customers. It is now offering an on-premise multi data centers OSS Cloudfoundry service. How did we leverage OSS technologies to that end ? How did we first migrate retail applications teams from legacy infrastructure to cloud-ready ? How do we currently operate Cloudfoundry at that scale ? What challenges are we still facing ? Let's join and go together along the path of the business transformation, fuelled up by OSS & community.

About Fabien Guichard
Fabien Guichard is a PaaS Technical Leader & Manager for PaaS Operations at Orange. He led the production of the first on-prem multi-site PaaS platform for Orange Digital Factory, based on Bosh and Cloud Foundry
and is hosting services such as musique.orange.fr and cinema.orange.fr.

In his previous position, he has been part of the Greenwich project (http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/actualites/lire-orange-installe-a-val-de-reuil-un-datacenter-de-nouvelle-generation-26530.html), as an technical operations leader.

Rapid Application Development with Cloud Foundry - Nick Ford, Mendix & Riley Rainey, SAP

For many organizations, low-code development is a critical part of digital transformation programs, as it allows for capturing fast-moving opportunities in time and differentiating with stunning software applications. In this session, you will learn how SAP, in partnership with Mendix, is providing tooling to develop enterprise-grade cloud applications at an unprecedented speed by combining the powerful capabilities of SAP Cloud Platform with visual model-driven development, business-IT collaboration, full application lifecycle management and one-click deployment to a cloud infrastructure of your choice.

About Nick Ford
Nick Ford is Chief Technology Evangelist at Mendix, leading a team of experts in low code development chartered to inspire the world with the art of possible in Mendix. Nick is a low code veteran with a strong software development background and served Mendix as Sr. Director Product Marketing and Director Sales Engineering prior to establishing the evangelist team. Nick’s passion is to explore cutting edge technologies and apply them building Mendix apps. His blogs are amongst the best read in the Mendix Community.

About Riley Rainey
Riley Rainey is a seasoned software engineering and services professional. Riley has been involved in open source software for over twenty-five years. In the early 1990’s, he authored the first open source distributed air combat simulation, called ACM. That software is still part of many popular Linux distributions today. Since joining SAP in 2013, Riley’s worked first in SAP Mobility, and now with SAP Cloud Platform as a Service. Riley is a designated SAP Mentor. SAP Mentors are the top community influencers in the SAP ecosystem.

Roundtable discussion with Allianz Deutschland - Sarah Heldt, Product Owner; Simon Neusser, Software Engineer; & Denis Kostic, Design-Generalist

About Sarah Heldt
A product owner who has experienced digitalisation in three different industries: media, telecommunication, and finance. Mega trends as the accelerating technological change and mobile internet demand enterprises to be as fast and flexible as start-ups when developing customer centric products. My purpose is to help companies to leverage a team's potential, build useful and easy to use services and products, and to create fulfilling career paths as part of their digital transformation because I believe it takes passionate employees to master the challenges of the Silicon Age.

About Denis Kostic
Design-Generalist, Allianz Deutschland AG

About Simon Neusser
Software Engineer, Allianz Deutschland AG

SOD Microservices - Daniel Jones, EngineerBetter

In the clamour to deploy all the things as microservices, the development community seems to have forgotten about Service-Oriented Design - an architectural code style that allows systems to start as monoliths, and be easily broken into microservices only when required. We’ll look at what exactly Service-Oriented Design is, how to apply Service-Oriented Design in Java Spring apps, and discuss how a forward-looking monolith-first approach can save engineering time and effort.

About Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is CTO of UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter, who have been improving value-delivery at the world’s largest banks, global wealth management firms, FTSE 100 retailers, governments and non-profit organizations. Previously Daniel was a member of the Pivotal CF London Services team, and also worked with Europe's leading CF consultancy CloudCredo. Daniel has delivered keynotes and talks at three Cloud Foundry Summits, the London PaaS User Group, as well as numerous video games industry conferences. He once even stormed the stage at a music festival to interrupt the performing act and challenge their alleged bribe-taking!

Secure Your Cloud with the IPsec BOSH Release - Stefan Lay, SAP

Customers using your cloud need to have trust that their data is safe. This is especially true for enterprises running critical businesses on top of Cloud Foundry. Even if communication from the client to the router or load-balancer is secured, the traffic inside Cloud Foundry and the connections to backing services are unencrypted by default. On a public cloud code of different customers runs on the same resources. Malicious developers could use a security hole to break out of their application or staging containers and sniff network traffic containing packets of other customers.

We therefore use IPsec in order to provide transport level encryption. We will give a brief introduction to IPsec and the IPsec BOSH release. We then show how we use it to secure traffic from Cloud Foundry to a backing service which provides connections to the SAP systems at the customer site.

About Stefan Lay
Dr. Stefan is working as a software developer and scrum master at SAP SE. For about three years he has been taking part in SAP's endeavour to offer SAP's customers a modern PaaS based on Cloud Foundry. He has an open source background as eclipse committer and he frequently gave presentations and tutorials at international conferences.

Setting up a Multi-Cloud, Enterprise-Grade Cloud Foundry Installation: Bridging Infrastructure Differences with HAProxy - Jürgen Graf, SAP

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc. why choose when you can have them all? Give your users the freedom to decide which infrastructure perfectly suits their needs!

We share our experience with the SAP multi-cloud platform and show how to setup an enterprise-grade Cloud Foundry that supports high performance SSL termination, advanced access control for embargoed countries and restricted development environments, enhanced logging capabilities and many other features. With HAProxy you can achieve all of that not only with one, but with all major IaaS providers.

Every infrastructure has its unique set of powerful features and minor shortcomings. Each has its own way of handling incoming traffic. HAProxy sits right behind the IaaS specific load-balancer. It adds missing features and works around infrastructure differences in order to provide a seamless multi-cloud interface to the endpoints of Cloud Foundry and a streamlined experience to the user. No matter what IaaS provider was chosen.

The best part is: You can start building right now. All features have already been integrated into the haproxy-boshrelease of the cloundfoundry-incubator organization on GitHub.

About Jürgen Graf
I like motorcycles, barbecues and hiking. I also enjoy basically anything related to programming. Especially stuff about compilers and security.

Skilling Up: How to Effectively Grow a Cloud Foundry Organization - Steve Greenberg, Resilient Scale

Cloud Foundry is a large and complex ecosystem. Coupled with modern, cloud-native development approaches, the amount of information a developer (or operator) must learn is staggering. Because of this, enterprises face significant challenges when growing teams and capabilities at scale. The old methods simply do not work.This talk will help enterprises understand how to best skill up teams to be effective cloud native developers and/or operators on Cloud Foundry. This talk does not focus on the specific tasks or curriculum, but rather the approach and methodology to building effective organizations. We will discuss the challenge, the shortcomings of traditional approaches, and how to best build lasting and scalable competency in Cloud Foundry and cloud-native.

About Steve Greenberg
Steve Greenberg is the Founder and CEO of Resilient Scale, a consultancy focused on building capabilities through collaboration, training and mentoring. He is a long time application developer and architect and a proponent of Spring & Cloud Foundry. Steve has been working with Cloud Foundry since March of 2012, was one of the first Pivotal Engineers to complete the Cloud Foundry Dojo, and built (and donated to the community) the Spring Cloud Service Broker. He lives in the mountains of Colorado and spends his free time skiing, mountain biking, fly fishing and making things in his workshop.

Steve spoke at CF Summit in Santa Clara in 2017 and lead the microservices training in 2016, as well as at various meetups.

Supercharging Development of Cloud Foundry - Vlad Iovanov, SUSE

In this talk the presenters will describe the software development lifecycle used at SUSE for building SCF.
SUSE has built a containerized Cloud Foundry distro. This means that the developers engineered tools for developing, building and testing Cloud Foundry that are based on Docker. We will demonstrate tooling that allows Cloud Foundry contributors to quickly develop and test new functionality for Cloud Foundry. We will also compare this containerized workflow with BOSH-lite, the community standard for developing on Cloud Foundry.

About Vlad Iovanov
Vlad Iovanov is currently working as a Technical Lead on the SUSE Cloud Foundry project at SUSE. He has given various talks in industry for topics ranging from Container technologies, Windows framework and Best practices for Application Development.

The New Way to BOSH Deploy - Urvashi Reddy, Pivotal

Before BOSH 2.0, curating deployments required a great deal of orchestration from experienced users of BOSH. Often this was in the form of complex and fragile manifest generation scripts. BOSH 2.0 introduced a simple yet powerful feature for deploying: operations files. In this talk, we will take a deep dive into how to use operations files effectively and utilize them to create a variety of BOSH deployments with ease. Attendees will gain insight on best practices for authoring ops-files, as well as how they fit into a typical deployment workflow.

About Urvashi Reddy
Urvashi Reddy is a Software Engineer at Pivotal. She is currently the anchor for the Dedicated MySQL team. This team is responsible for creating and maintaining Version 2 of MySQL for PCF which provides on demand service instances. Urvashi was a speaker at both the Berlin and Frankfurt Cloud Foundry Summits.

The Rocket Science of Deploying Cloud Foundry in Multi-Cloud Environments - Andrea Aymon & Fabio Berchtold, Swisscom

In this session Andrea and Fabio will give you a big picture on how a multi-cloud architecture at Swisscom looks like and how to deploy Cloud Foundry on top of it. They'll share their experience and knowledge about multi-cloud BOSH deployments, how to enable continuous deployments within them, where you should pay attention to and - last but not least - how it was engineered. One of the biggest challenges was the connectivity engineering part - at Swisscom we have Cloud Foundry and BOSH deployments stretched over different OpenStack and VMware installations spread across several data centers. This architecture provides a maximum of failure tolerance and high availability as demanded by our customers. We're going to look over the general architecture, operations and continuous deployment of the Swisscom Application Cloud which is based on the open-source Cloud Foundry distribution.You'll also get an overview about how the integration and migration between the different infrastructures can work and take advantage of BOSH's powerful multi-CPI feature and Concourse pipelines to do so. After attending this talk you should know about how to get rid of the most painful challenges in setting up a multi-cloud environment.

About Andrea Aymon
Andrea Aymon is working for more than one year at Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd as a Cloud Engineer on the Swisscom Application Cloud project. She was responsible for the infrastructure engineering part based on OpenStack and contributed greatly to the software defined networking setup used by Swisscom for all of the Application Clouds networking connectivity and is an expert on it's inner workings and operational aspects. She had the main lead in engineering and building up the new multi-cloud stacks from an infrastructure side - which consists of setting up the OpenStack installations and their networking connectivity which enabled the spanning of BOSH deployments like Cloud Foundry over multiple data centers in the first place. Her current work effort is mainly focused on the migration of Swisscom Application Cloud onto VMware infrastructure - this includes setting up continuous deployments and connectivity engineering between the old OpenStack based multi-cloud environments and the new VMware based setup. Last but not least, this also means a lot of effort in development of all the tooling involved - mainly written in Golang.

About Fabio Berchtold
Fabio Berchtold is working since 13 years at Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd as an Application Engineer, and for more than 2 years on the Swisscom Application Cloud project. He is Swisscom's foremost expert on all things regarding the Cloud Foundry runtime, BOSH and Concourse. He was the main responsible for engineering and introducing the Swisscom Application Cloud's continuous integration and deployment pipelines through Concourse, the main engineering effort in integrating the Diego runtime, and responsible for many of Swisscom's different Application Cloud environments and BOSH installations. He is also a passionate Golang developer and contributor to various Cloud Foundry projects including Diego and BOSH and has a habit of developing entirely new BOSH releases as a hobby. His previous speaking experience includes webinars and community talks about Docker, Cloud Foundry, BOSH and Concourse at various Docker and Cloud Foundry meetups in Switzerland, and on company internal trainings and onboardings for his fellow developers onto the Swisscom Application Cloud. His current work effort is mainly focused on the migration of Swisscom Application Cloud onto VMware infrastructure.

To Kill a Monolith: Slaying the Demons of a Monolith with Node.js Microservices on CloudFoundry - Tony Erwin, IBM

The Bluemix UI (which runs on CloudFoundry) is the front-end to Bluemix, IBM’s open cloud hosting platform. The original implementation as a single-page, monolithic Java web app brought with it many demons, such as poor performance, lack of scalability, inability to push small updates, and difficulty for other teams to contribute code. Over the last 2 years, the team has been on a mission to slay these demons by embracing cloud native principles and splitting the monolith into smaller Node.js microservices. The effort to migrate to a more modern and scalable architecture has paid large dividends, but has also left behind a few battle scars from wrestling with the added complexity cloud native can bring. The team had to tackle problems in a wide variety of areas, including: large-scale deployments, continuous integration, monitoring, problem determination, high availability, and security. Tony Erwin will discuss the advantages of microservice architectures, ways that Node.js has increased developer productivity, approaches to phasing microservices into a live product, and real-life lessons learned in the deployment and management of Node.js microservices across multiple CloudFoundry environments. His war stories will prepare you to wage your own battles against monoliths everywhere -- happy slaying!

About Tony Erwin
Tony Erwin is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM and currently the Lead Architect for the IBM Bluemix UI. He's been with IBM for 18 years and has extensive full-stack experience building UIs using a wide variety of technologies. Current interests include cloud, Node.js, microservices, reliability, and performance. In addition, he's a semi-regular blogger on Bluemix and CloudFoundry-related topics.

To Refactor or Not: How to Systematically Modernize Your Java Applications - Kamala Dasika, Pivotal & Michael Villiger, Dynatrace

Although Cloud Native Apps are the future, most modern enterprises actually consist of a heterogeneous mix of workloads. Enterprises are now looking beyond just new applications as part of their modernization strategy in order to to reduce technical debt, redesign and re-platform their monolithic java applications to a cloud-native architecture.

With such projects increasingly receiving executive attention, initiatives like this begin with big questions - where do I start, what applications make sense to refactor, and what is the user impact?

In this talk we will take you step-by-step and provide a structured framework for:
x Choosing the right candidate apps for modernization
x Uncovering the seams in your monolith you that you can carve off
x Discovering dependencies to reduce cohesion and coupling
x Minimizing customer impact during migration

About Kamala Dasika
Kamala Dasika has been working in Cloud Foundry product team since 2011 and has previously held various product or engineering positions at VMware, Tibco, SAP, and Applied Biosystems. Kamala started her software career 17 years ago with a transformative technology – the first fully automated, high throughput instrument used to sequence the Human Genome. She believes she is working with another transformative team at Pivotal that will change the way software is delivered and deployed. Kamala holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering and an M.B.A., Marketing Management.

Previous conference talks include:
1. Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (2016): How Open Source Cloud Platforms are Changing Development and Deployment Patterns in Enterprises
2. Cloud Foundry Summit (2017): Securing Cloud Native Applications

About Michael Villiger
Mike has spent the last 19 years occupying various engineering positions surrounding web-scale performance, architecture, and operations before joining Dynatrace in 2014. At Dynatrace Mike has specialized in assisting customers implementing Application Performance Management technologies and processes in the worlds of Public/Private Cloud, DevOps, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Mike has constructed many of the technical integrations partners utilize to deploy and utilize Dynatrace on their platforms.

Transforming the Retail Experience with Cloud Foundry and Machine Learning - Michael Goddard & Scott Truitt, Pivotal

A superior customer experience is now a competitive advantage, as Amazon so deftly demonstrates through its effective combination of software and data. We explore how traditional retailers can thrive in this new landscape by delivering a more compelling, personalized experience for their customers.

Starting with personas "modern customer" and "clothing retailer", we demo a microservices-based experimental solution which combines Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Dataflow, cloud-based machine learning, and a mobile app.

The result: better engage with the customer, understand her, and deliver compelling offers that retain her loyalty.

The demo code is available under an Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/pivotal-cf/oss-pcf-gcp-retail-demo

About Michael Goddard
Mr. Goddard is a solution architect at Pivotal, working with Pivotal's system integrator and cloud partners. His software development experience dates back to 1994, when he discovered Linux while working on physics simulations; ever since that time, he has been hooked. That morphed into some work with large-ish Beowulf clusters, parallel MPICH FORTRAN codes for weather forecasting, followed by more traditional corporate IT development projects in Perl and Java. More recently, he has done work with the Greenplum (GPDB) MPP database, Hadoop and, now, Cloud Foundry, with a healthy dose of Spring Boot and Python. His current project involves creating a set of Spring Boot starter and autoconfiguration classes to simplify consumption of the Google Cloud Platform services provided by the GCP Service Broker, and this work appears within the proposed talk. He has presented on big data and Hadoop at EMC World events, but has primarily presented educational workshops ranging from a couple of hours to a week in duration, on big data related topics. A few of his e-learning presentations have been made available via YouTube and Pluralsight:

https://youtu.be/dLdn1xWn4UY
https://youtu.be/5HYX9SlK80o
https://youtu.be/YKQmnkPNnUA
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/greenplum-developer-pivotal

About Scott Truitt
Scott Truitt is product manager on the Data Innovation Lab team at Pivotal. He works with data scientists, data engineers, designers, developers, and customers to bring user-centered, data-driven projects to life. He is passionate about using data to build better and more meaningful user experiences.

UAA Project Updates and Roadmap - Sree Tummidi, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry UAA has been continually expanding its horizons to secure not just the core CF platform but also Apps and APIs running on and off the platform. In this talk we will start off with a brief overview of UAA in the CF ecosystem followed by feature highlights including:

OpenID Connect Enhancements:
Multiple enhancements around OpenID Connect have been introduced for UAA as an Identity Provider and Relying Party including support for discovery profile, custom user claims in id_token and /userinfo , account chooser, authentication method reference and much more.

Keys and Secrets Rotation:
At last year’s CF Summit Justin Smith introduced his vision for Cloud Native Security with three R’s(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXpz0Dni50). Now UAA supports canary style rotation of signing keys and OAuth clients secrets and will soon add support for rotation of SAML Keys.

Opaque Tokens:
UAA since its inception has supported JSON Web Tokens which has the advantage of offline validation. However with the the addition of stateful opaque tokens UAA now supports on-demand token revocation.

In addition to this we will also provide a sneak peek of the UAA roadmap with features like Multi-Factor Authentication, additional token exchange flows and fine grained authorization support.

About Sree Tummidi
Sree Tummidi is the Product Manager for UAA (User Account and Authentication Service) on Open Source Cloud Foundry since the past 3 Years and drives the Identity and Access Management products for Pivotal. She brings in more than 12 years of experience in the security domain. Prior to joining Pivotal she held multiple Product Management & Engineering positions at CA Technologies. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Boston University & Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. She has spoken at multiple sales & customer conferences about Identity & Access Management related topics and products. Most recently she spoke at Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 (http://bit.ly/2sWjlst) and Spring One Platform 2016 about UAA and Cloud Identity (http://bit.ly/2kD1WNB)

Using CredHub to Increase the Security of Your Platform - Dan Jahner, Pivotal

CredHub is a Cloud Foundry incubator product focused on credential management. It aims to centralize and secure credential generation, storage, lifecycle management and access control in Cloud Foundry.

In this session, Dan will demonstrate how to implement CredHub in an environment and describe the resulting change in security posture after making these changes. He will also review work in progress and future goals of the product.

About Dan Jahner
Dan is a Senior Product Manager at Pivotal where he currently manages CredHub, an open source Cloud Foundry Foundation product focused on credential management. He has a passion for increasing security without negatively affecting user experience.

Welcome Remarks - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

What's Happening in CF-Extensions - Michael (dr. max) Maximilien, IBM

"As CloudFoundry gains more mainstream acceptance as the one stop shop Cloud Operating System for enterprises, the evolution of the platform is shifting away from re-engineering, or innovating on core components, to rather investing in enabling a vibrant ecosystem of extensions. With that aim, late in 2016, the Program Committee Council (PMC) which controls the direction of the platform, voted to create a separate, distinct, committee responsible to seeing the evolution of all extensions in CloudFoundry: called the CF-Extensions PMC with Michael Maximilien (aka Dr.Max) of IBM as its first leader.

In this talk Dr.Max will provide a summary (including statistics) of what has happened in the CF-Extensions PMC in 2017, including technical summary of the hot new projects, and those that are about to graduate from incubation to core projects. Additionally, Dr.Max will unveil the CF-Extensions PMC project on GitHub that help summarize the ever growing current pipeline of proposed and incubating projects and where each is in the process. Finally, looking forward to 2018, Dr.Max will also share where he and the community (those voicing their opinions) would like to see the platform evolve towards."

Windows Server Containers for Cloud Foundry - Matthew Horan & Sunjay Bhatia, Pivotal

The Garden Windows team has been working hard to bring Windows Server Containers to Cloud Foundry. We'll be providing an update on our progress in implementing Windows Server Containers support, and discuss the architecture of this implementation. We'll assess the new file-system and network isolation provided by Windows Server Containers, and cover some of the differences between Windows Server 2012R2 "containers" and the Windows Server Containers offered in Windows Server 2016. We'll also touch on the concept of HyperV isolation, which is new in Windows Server 2016.

About Sunjay Bhatia
Software Engineer, Pivotal Software, Inc.

About Matthew Horan
Matthew Horan has spent over a decade developing Web applications. Before becoming a developer, he worked as a systems administrator at various startups and hosting providers. Having worked with just about every configuration management tool, and being a developer by trade, he was naturally drawn to Cloud Foundry. He has focused on .NET due to a desire to bring the best practices of Pivotal's Cloud Foundry platform to a wider audience.

CF^3 - Using Kubernetes as the Cloud Foundry IaaS - Sandy Cash & Monika Illgner-Kurz, IBM

Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry are usually seen as alternatives to one another. But Sandy and Monika believe they can not only coexist, they can be leveraged to exploit each other's strengths. They describe how they deployed Cloud Foundry as a set of containers running on a Kuberntes cluster. They describe the design and development of a Kubernetes CPI for Bosh, including both advantages and limitations of the approach. They also discuss planned enhancements to the CPI, such as using k8s Replication Sets and Ingress Controllers to provide deployment and operational flexibility, and which can bring some decided advantages for deploying Cloud Foundry. They also discuss some of the performance and runtime concerns, including nested containerization.

About Sandy Cash
Senior Software Engineer for IBM. Broad experience in development, architecture, and operations. Currently a core member of the Cloud Foundry RuntimeOG team, doing development on the legacy runtime and on IBM BlueMix public Cloud Foundry offering.

About Monika Illgner-Kurz
Monika Illgner-Kurz is a Senior IT Architect with IBM, where she has worked for 29 years. She has worked on cloud projects for the last 10 years, focusing on multi-tenant managed public offerings. Her areas of focus include server, storage, and network configuration operational management. She has spent the last three years with IBM BlueMix and currently works on DevOps. She has presented multiple times on customer related projects, briefing sessions and conferences.

Completely Isolate your App's Traffic: Isolation Segments at the Routing Tier - Swetha Repakula, IBM

Are you reluctant to share traffic across your applications? Is compute layer isolation not enough? Cloud Foundry’s newest feature, routing isolation segments are here to protect your apps.

Swetha and Shash will demonstrate how to secure apps' traffic through routing isolation segments and better guide operators on how to effectively set up their preferred IAAS to completely isolate application traffic. They will demonstrate how this feature will guard against header spoofing and other attacks.

About Swetha Repakula
Swetha Repakula gradated from UC Berkeley 2 years ago and started working at IBM in their open source team. Since then she has been a full time open source contributor for Cloud Foundry primarily using Go.

Introduction to the Core Project Updates Track - Dieu Cao, Pivotal & Lukas Lehmann, Swisscom

About Dieu Cao
Dieu Cao is responsible for the strategic direction of Pivotal's Elastic Runtime product. Dieu is also the PMC Lead for the Cloud Foundry Foundation's Runtime Project Management Committee. Dieu previously spoke at CF Summit EU 2016.

Lightning Talk: As an App Developer I Want to Instantly Update my App in Cloud Foundry - Xiwen Cheng, Mendix

The command "cf push” updates or creates an app in Cloud Foundry. In practice this action takes over a minute to complete. This is acceptable as being part of a CI/CD pipeline. However, while you are actively changing source codes during your development phase this becomes a major waste of time. With “cf fastpush” your app is updated in seconds. Now you can use Cloud Foundry as a development environment leveraging Cloud Foundry’s automation and rich services marketplace.

After attending this talk, you’re ready to use “cf fastpush” to speed up your app development time substantially.

About Xiwen Cheng
Tech Lead Cloud, Mendix
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Lightning Talk: Love at First Sight, Unik & Serverless - Peter Blum, Pivotal

Unikernels - small, secure, minimal software packages
Serverless - small, functional, minimal software packages

It's as if Unik and Serverless were nagging us to try and build a solution to run software functions as unikernels utilizing the CF platform. So that's what we did.

Come to this talk if you want to see how all these buzz words can work together to provide a simple, cost effective route for running Function as a Service (FaaS) workloads on CloudFoundry.

About Peter Blum
Peter is a Platform Architect at Pivotal, helping Cloud Foundry Operators and Developers orchestrate applications within the cloud. He is a leader that focus' on making things happen and shipping software, with emphasis on making people smile.

Monetizing Your Applications Using Cloud Foundry Abacus and Billing Engines - Pankaj Kumar, SAP

This session will demonstrate how CF Abacus is used for metering your applications. Based on this we can monetize on various attributes like API Calls, Resources consumed etc. This session will include an end to end scenario of enabling metering for an existing application. Followed by pushing the metered data into a rating and billing system there by triggering an invoice to the customer. The demo will use the knowledge and experience we have gathered at SAP in monetizing some of our cloud solutions using Cloud Foundry.

About Pankaj Kumar
Pankaj Kumar is part of the product management for SAP Cloud Platform where he focuses on commercialization aspects of the various platform resources and services. He has been a speaker at various Industry events like SAP TechEd, ASUG etc.

SPA and BFF for Cloud Foundry - Sokichi Fujita, FUJITSU

As your cloud native web application on Cloud Foundry, which application architecture do you choose?

In this session, Sokichi will show how Single Page Application (SPA) and Backend For Frontends (BFF) pattern is suitable for applications on Cloud Foundry. This architecture will kill a monolith, make backend composable with microservices, and make frontend development fun.

FUJITSU also loves this architecture, and so launch a new service called K5 Playground (which runs on Cloud Foundry) that creates modern SPA and BFF applications based on React/Flux and Node.js for Cloud Foundry. Furthuremore, all Cloud Foundry developers can use it! It will let you enable to create various cloud native applications that use microservices immediately even if you aren't familiar with the pattern.

Audience will learn how to develope SPA and BFF with a lot of examples and how Node.js/React/OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) ecosystems support it.

About Sokichi Fujita
Sokichi Fujita is a product manager of K5 Playground. He has been working at FUJITSU for 10 years. He had spoken on WebAPI, Cloud and frontend area. | | Feel free to ask me anything.

Solving Clientelling for Luxury Goods - Mark Williment, Keytree

Keytree have developed a suite of instore technologies for retailers, initially delivered to a UK Luxury Goods Company. The full suite includes mobile apps, connected devices and machine learning. The solution needs to be flexible to fit with differing retailers’ IT landscapes, provide a consumer-grade experience, and enterprise reliability. Learn how to use Cloud Foundry services to rapidly deliver the required innovation, flexibility and scalability in luxury retail.

About Mark Williment
Mark has spent more than 20 years in the IT sector, working as a Solution Architect for the past decade and has extensive experience delivering complex secure applications to large organisations.
His core skills include large-scale application architecture, and core IT engineering principles such as configuration, build and release management and software development methodologies. Mark is focused on innovative new technologies including mobile, big data and cloud – he’s also a passionate conference speaker and technical representative on the global SAP Cloud Platform Partner Advisory Council for Innovation.

Services Exchange on CloudFoundry - Shawn Brodersen, HCL

HCL has built a Services Exchange allowing CIOs to manage their hybrid cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities). This was initially built on IBM Bluemix and HCL has ported this so as also be deployed on SAP CP CF. Understand how the benefits of portability and the Open Service Broker API helps ecosystem members maximise ROI by leveraging multi-cloud characteristics.