Cloud Native Computing Foundation / KCD Africa

Priyanka Sharma is the General Manager of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Edidiong Asikpo is a Developer Advocate at Hashnode.

As resilience use-cases proliferate, Chaos Engineering has become a compelling practice for enhancing your application resilience in production. If you’ve ever gone through the pain and anxiety of responding to an unexpected failure in your production system, then Chaos Engineering is the right fit for you.

Whether you want to run chaos manually or through CI/CD! Litmus brings together configurable environments to trigger chaos experiments automatically with the change in application states. Chaos on the Edge with Litmus brings together thought leaders, technologies, and customers across the entire Kubernetes community to share their knowledge and insight. If Chaos Engineering is on your radar, this is a talk you won’t want to miss!

In this session, we will first understand basic gaming architecture and then quickly deploy running real-time, session-based multiplayer dedicated game servers on Kubernetes clusters. We will be using the public cloud to spin up a Kubernetes cluster and understand how easy it is to quickly deploy, scale and run a dedicated gaming server.

KC Ayyagari (Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari) currently works for Google as a Senior Customer Engineer and he specializes in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization. Based out of New York, in his role, he focuses on Google Cloud technologies and works for enterprise sales teams. Prior to Google, KC worked for Microsoft, IBM, Thomas Reuters, Infosys and he has over 13 years of industry experience. A startup mentor, program manager and a trained architect, he has been active in the space of cloud computing for over 10 years and had experience in building large scale startup programs and designing technical solutions for some of the largest companies as well as Governments. He had experience working with and mentoring startups from all over the world. He is an active startup mentor for many accelerators including the United Nations (UN) and Google Launchpad.

Contributing to Kubernetes can be outright daunting. At the time I am writing this, there are over a thousand pull requests on the main Kubernetes repository. Where do you start? What’s a SIG? Do you need to have deployed something on Kubernetes? What if you don’t write code?! Don’t panic! This talk aims to make it easier for a beginner to get in the first pull requests in the Kubernetes community. It explains the different parts of the Kubernetes community and the various ways one can contribute.
In this talk, we will go over why you might want to contribute to Kubernetes, the different ways you can get involved(even if you don’t write code), how to get help when it is needed, what the different group in Kubernetes are and how they function together and how to get the first pull request merged!


Somtochi is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks where she primarily works on Flux. She is interested in open source, infrastructure and very recently cryptocurrency. You can always find her hanging around the Kubernetes community.

Uchechukwu Obasi is a software engineer with Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador

Using Ansible to install, setup, and configure a Google Kubernetes Cluster (GKE) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is paramount to maintain consistency across different environments. IaC resolves the environment drift issue where each environment has unique configurations that are not reproducible automatically. Ansible is the tool of choice to implement this tutorial. It helps us to create the necessary code to provision a basic Kubernetes cluster on GCP (GKE) automation.

The talk will be based on deploying a .NET Core App in Azure Kubernetes. The demo will illustrate how to do the following:
1) Creating a simple .NET Core App
2) Creating a Docker Image
3) Creating an Azure Container Registry
4) Pushing the Docker Image To ACR
5) Creating a Kubernetes Cluster and
6) Deploying your Application.

Busayo Amowe is a .NET core developer by day and a HashiCorp Ambassador.

“The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed” - William Gibson

We’d like to announce our latest open-source project: Racklet. It’s a fully-integrated, Raspberry Pi form-factor server rack and software stack that aims to be a scale model of hyperscaler datacenters. All layers of the stack are 100% OSS/OSH, and will be developed together with the community. It’s reproducible through open PCB designs, 3D printed casing, and commodity, off-the-shelf hardware.

We want to lower the barrier of entry for becoming cloud native. Racklet aims to inspire users to explore how modern server architectures work, in a tangible and educational way. Emphasis is put on security, knowledge sharing, extensibility, and portability.

The goal is to conceptually map to real environments and provide an accessible and well-documented path to welcome future talents to the world of cloud native.

Every company is a data company nowadays. Ruslan will present how he has migrated Bolt from batch data workloads and synchronous processing to real-time data streaming and asynchronous processing.
He will talk about the problems he faced along the way and the lessons team has learned from this migration. Ruslan will also focus on the unleashed value real-time data provided to the company.

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Shedrack Akitayo is a Senior Developer Advocate at Cloud Foundry

Brendan is a board member of the CNCF and a Senior Developer Evangelist for GitLab who connects with developers, contributes to open source projects, and shares his work with about cutting-edge technologies on conference panels, meetups, in contributed articles and on blogs.

Mmadu Manasseh is a software Engineer at Deimos Cloud, based out of South Africa.

Attackers always get better with new attack techniques, so our threat modelling and defense mechanisms need to level up.

The aim of the presentation is to demonstrate the kind of attacks that are possible due to
misconfigurations. In particular, through the use of multiple examples, I will explain scenarios
such as how misconfigured cluster privileges can lead to backdooring cloud environments,
avoid detection by manipulating logging controls and access sensitive information and trade
secrets due to IAM, pod security policy and webhook misconfigurations. The presentation
will also include the demonstration of the tool, Kubestriker which is designed to perform
automatic checks and scans to detect various misconfigurations and mitigate such
consequences.


Vasant is a security enthusiast speaker and currently serves as a Security Architect, DevSecOps Practitioner/learner and working towards securing cloud and cloud native in a Continuous Deployment world at mx51.

He is Passionate about Cloud Security, Cloud Native and containerisation Technology, DevSecOps and Security automation and acts as a security advisor for small medium and large scale businesses.

Always a Learner and currently ramping up DevOps skills to bridge the gap between the security and DevOps teams.

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL through sharding. By enabling shard-routing logic, Vitess allows application code and database queries to remain agnostic to data distribution onto multiple shards. With Vitess, you can split, merge, and migrate shards as your needs grow. With its compatibility with development frameworks and integration to open-source tools, Vitess has been a core component of several high-traffic OLTP sites worldwide and serves data across different platforms.

Alkin Tezuysal has extensive experience in enterprise relational databases, working in various sectors for large corporations. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has acquired skills for managing large projects from the ground up to production. For the past decade, he's been focused on e-commerce, SaaS, and MySQL technologies. Alkin has managed and architected database topologies for high-volume sites at eBay Intl. He has several years of experience in 24X7 support and operational tasks and improving database systems for major companies. He has led global operations teams on Tier 1/2/3 support for MySQL customers.
In late 2020, he joined PlanetScale's expert engineering team over Vitess.

Emmanuel Bakare is a DevOps Engineer with effective skills in Containers, Virtualisation and Linux administration.
He also stands as an effective community manager having put together communities like GDG UNILAG and currently manages the Google Cloud Community in Lagos which facilitates the first ever recurring Linux meetup in Nigeria.
Asides code, community and work, he is also an avid traveller who enjoys every bit of a new experience. From paragliding off the mountains of CapeTown to future skydiving attempts off the altitudes of this planet, he also speaks French (kinda, vous comprends?!) and enjoys visiting countries and conferences, like the ones he is speaking at when you accept his talk.