►
From YouTube: COVID Tracker - Testing & Contact Tracing: How Ireland is Battling COVID-19 - Gar Mac Críosta
Description
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles, CA from October 12-15. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
COVID Tracker - Testing & Contact Tracing: How Ireland is Battling COVID-19 - Gar Mac Críosta, HSE Lead, Covid Tracker App, Ireland
A
Good
morning,
good
afternoon
or
good
evening,
wherever
you
are
so
welcome
to
this
session
of
kubecon,
I
am
garma
krista.
I
am
the
hse
lead.
The
hc
is
the
health
service
executive
in
ireland
that
the
organization
tasked
with
both
fighting
covenant
19,
but
also
delivering
health
services
to
every
citizen
in
ireland,
and
I'm
the
lead
for
the
covent
tracker
app,
which
is
our
digital
contact
racing
solution.
I'm
also
chair
of
the
linux
foundation,
public
health
advisory
committee.
A
So
this
is
a
story
that
happened
that
started
over
a
year
ago.
For
me,
it's
a
story
about
cover
19.
I
think
we
all
know
what
this
is
at
that
time.
So
back
in
march
of
last
year,
we
could
see
so
it
was
like
glimpsing
into
the
future.
We
could
see
what
was
happening
in
china.
We
could
see
what
was
happening
in
in
italy.
A
We
could
and
we're
now
seeing
what's
happening
still
and
it's
it's
awful
to
watch
what's
happening
in
india
at
the
moment,
but
we're
seeing
health
systems
come
under
huge,
intense
demand
and
dealing
with
the
capacity,
so
you've
got
to
find
a
capacity
when
you're
faced
with
something
like
covet
19
and
a
challenge
like
that.
It's
how
you
deal
with
something
like
that.
A
Another
guy
called
harrison
were
kind
of
at
the
heart
of
this,
but
it
was
developing
for
trying
to
understand
where
we'd
use
technology
to
to
help
the
fight
against
kobe
19,
in
particular
with
the
in
the
area
of
contact
racing.
So
caster
wins
back
to
this
time.
Last
year
we
didn't
know
about
apps.
We
didn't
know
about
bluetooth-based
detection
of
contacts.
None
of
that
stuff
existed,
it's
all
new.
A
A
So
it
was
a
very
intense,
very
short
period,
and
I
think
the
reason
I
use
it
is
because
it
sets
the
context
for
just
the
intensity,
because
you
could
see
this
mounting
mounting
mounting
and
we
actually
thought
that
we
didn't
get
something
done
really
quickly
that
this
would
be
over
and
it
would
be
pointless
doing
the
things
that
we
were
doing
now.
It
turns
out
that
we
were
wrong,
that
this
has
gone
on
an
awful
lot
longer
than
most
people
expected.
A
I
think
it's
it's
met
my
expectations
anyway,
so
the
challenge
that
we
were
set
ultimately
was
once
we
defined
what
the
problem
was
was
trying
to
find
two
people
who
were
too
close
for
too
long
where
one
of
them
had
tested
positive
for
for
coping
19.,
so
we're
subject
to
guidelines
from
the
european
center
for
disease
control.
They
had
to
find
too
close
to
two
meters
and
too
long
is
15
minutes.
A
This
is
obviously
all
been
thrown
out
the
window
with
new
variants
p1107,
which
seems
to
have
no
respect
for
these
guidelines
that
were
that
were
given
out
by
the
european
center
for
disease
control
and
seems
to
want
to
go
at
further
distances
and
shorter
time
frames.
But
at
that
time
that
was
what
we
were
working
towards,
so
neil
and
fred.
If
neil
has
covert
and
fred
is
too
close,
we
want
to
identify
fred
and
then
get
fred
tested
to
figure
out.
A
Obviously,
there's
limitations
with
gps
in
terms
of
what
you
can
do.
With
that
we
looked
at
identifiers.
We
looked
at
kind
of
other
location-based
technologies.
We
looked
at
cold
data
records
from
telcos.
We
had
social
media
data,
we
looked
at
beacons.
We
looked
at
getting
people
to
scan
in
with
qr
codes,
et
cetera,
et
cetera,
et
cetera,
so
it
was
a
and
it
was
a
big
team
and
we're
all
running
in
parallel,
trying
to
coordinate
and
trying
to
run
as
fast
as
we
could.
A
So
this
is
the
team
and
it
was
a
multi-agency.
Wasn't
just
the
hse
said
the
team
included
people
from
the
department
of
health
people
from
the
hse
people
from
so
central
governments,
the
guy
in
the
middle
of
the
top.
There
is
the
cio
for
for
irish
government.
We
also
had
tim
willoughby
from
the
police
force,
andrew
sullivan
from
the
police
force.
We
had.
We
had
the
defense
forces
involved
with
central
statistics
office,
organ
survey,
you
name
it
anybody
who
could
help,
did
help
in
this
effort
and
it
all
came
together
very
quickly.
A
Most
of
us
have
never
worked
together
before
so.
For
anybody
who's
been
in
that
situation,
the
usual
forming
storming
norming
happened
at
an
incredible
rate
as
people
trying
to
figure
we're
trying
to
figure
out
how
do
they
help
each
other
and
how
they
work
together.
So
also
what
was
happening
is
around
the
world.
Everybody
else
was
trying
to
solve
a
similar
problem,
and
singapore
were
ahead
of
the
game
because
they
could
see
this
happening.
They'd
been
through
situations
like
this
before
they
activated
their
their
digital
government
team
and
a
guy
called
jason.
A
They
led
a
team
that
released
trace
together,
which
was
the
first
and
I
I
guess
it's
the
first
bluetooth
proximity
based
contact
detection
system
is
born,
so
it
comes
up
and
it's
using
bluetooth
as
an
estimation
for
distance,
and
then
I'm
recording
time
so
have
I
seen
this
phone.
Have
I
seen
this
phone
again?
Have
I
seen
this
phone
enough
times
within
a
15
minute
period,
to
count
like
to
call
it
a
valid
close
contact
and
for
anybody
who's
familiar
with
the
bluetooth
stack?
A
That's
not
a
great
it's!
It's
not
specifically
designed
for
something
like
that.
So
a
lot
of
the
work
that's
been
going
on
has
really
been
in
terms
of
trying
to
understand
what
it
can
do,
where
it
can't
do
its
abilities
in
different
phones
if
you've
got
different
antenna,
arrays
and
different
phones,
there's
different
signal
strengths
coming
off
it,
so
the
transmission
power
comes
into
play.
A
Another
piece
that
happened
at
that
time
as
well
was
this
debate
was
raging
around
centralization
versus
decentralization.
So
this
is
the
idea
that
I'm
collecting
information
about
the
people
you've
met,
or
am
I
collecting
information
about
you
and
making
that
available
to
the
people
you've
met,
should
should
one
or
either
of
you
text
positive,
and
it
became
this
good
versus
evil
debate.
But
actually,
if
you
look
at
how
public
health
works
and
how
content
tracing
works,
contact
tracing
works
by
developing
graphs
and
networks
of
people,
so
it's
knowing
who
the
index
patient
is
who's.
A
The
person
who's
tested,
positive
and
tracing
it
through
to
other
people
in
that
chain
and
trying
to
follow
that
around
and
if
you
try
and
have
a
conversation
with
heads
of
public
health,
which
I
did
and
explain
to
them.
How
we're
going
to
do
this
and
not
have
an
index
patient
there?
Is
this
baffled?
Look
as
they've
never
considered
a
world
without
an
index
patient,
because
it's
not
the
way
they
think.
However,
there
are
concerns
around.
A
If
I'm
developing
this
massive
graph
of
every
connection
with
every
person,
then
what
are
the
impacts
of
that,
and
what
does
that
mean,
because,
obviously
it
has
privacy
implications
as
well
and
a
breach
in
a
system
like
that
would
be
chronic.
So
this
whole
thing,
this
whole
episode
was
a
series
of
trade-offs.
It
was
a
series
of
proofs
and
again
from
from
operating
inside
of
government,
a
lot
of
things.
A
Some
things
take
time
like
government
is
actually
quite
good
in
situations
in
crisis
in
terms
of
responding
quickly,
but
usually
the
default
is
we'll
take
our
time.
We'll
do
the
analysis
we'll
work
through
this
and
seeing
is
believing
so
our
first
working
prototypes
were
within
a
couple
of
days
of
us
starting,
so
we
were
showing
people
the
whole
way
through
and
just
making
sure
and
bringing
them
on
that
journey
and
building
confidence
that
we
could
actually
do
this,
because
it
was
a
novel
technology
in
a
novel
space
under
incredible
pressure.
A
So
how
do
we
do
something
like
that?
And
the
critics
define
the
meme
space,
so
the
meme
space
is
kind
of
the
stories
that
were
kind
of
going
around
in
the
media.
At
that
time,
the
screamers,
the
superstars
the
concerned
idealists
the
uber
experts.
They
were
all
there
and
this
was
going
to
be
the
end
of
days.
A
So
we
hit
a
point
where
we
could
not
get
bluetooth
working
in
the
background
it
just
didn't.
Work
didn't
work
reliably
on
apple.
There
was
challenges
on
android
as
well,
and
you
can
kind
of
either
face
into
a
and
keep
fighting
and
keep
fighting
fighting
fighting
or
you
can
decide
you're
going
to
take
a
different
path
and
see
if
you
can
do
it
in
a
different
way,
and
we
were
constantly
so
all
that
the
options
that
we
were
exploring
earlier.
We
kept
all
of
those
options
on
the
board.
A
It
wasn't
like
we
doubled
down.
We
were
kind
of
committed
to
building
a
like
a
bluetooth-based
content
tracing
app,
but
we
were
also
keeping
other
options
open
and
making
sure
that
we
have
that
optionality
as
part
of
our
the
landscape
for
us,
so
google
and
apple
then
stepped
in
this
was
kind
of
april
of
last
year
and
announced
that
they
were
releasing
this
google,
google
apple.
Google,
google
apple
exposure
notification
system.
Now
that
had
two
things
for
us
one.
A
The
other
side
of
this
was
that,
and
we
actually
went
from
centralized
to
decentralized
which
pleased
the
privacy
people,
but
at
the
same
time
we
don't
have
the
trade-off
for
the
public
health
people
to
explain
to
them
that
you're
losing
an
index
patient.
You
will
no
longer
have
that
connection
that
hard
strong
connection
between
the
two
people,
one
who
infected
another
person,
then
understanding
how
that
works.
Inside
of
a
contact
racing
system,
that's
designed
around
index
patients
that
becomes
a
challenge
as
well.
A
So
we
were
revealing
this
really
fast.
Amazon
were
helping
us
with
a
dev
team
called
near
form
and
who
were
like
building
the
building
the
tech
they're
a
major
contributor
into
node.
They
work
in
these
kind
of
crazy
insane
projects
all
of
the
time,
so
we
were
kind
of
working
with
them
testing
from
explio.
We
had
security
and
privacy,
guys
from
a
company
called
isas,
plus
all
this
government
help
working
in
different
directions,
but
amazon
were
there
as
well.
A
So
we
were
working
with
amazon
to
help
define
this
and
get
there
as
quickly
as
we
could.
So
we
committed
early
on
to
use
native
services,
and
that
was
a
commitment
at
that
point
in
time
and
it
was
really
driven
by
the
time
constraints
and
just
making
sure
that
we
could
make
this
thing
work
day,
one
out
of
the
box
and
we
subsequently
built
an
interoperability
architecture
which
allowed
us
to.
So
we
were
the
first
country
to
deliver
interoperability
anywhere
globally,
and
that
was
between
us
and
northern
ireland.
A
So
we've
got
a
shared
border
on
the
island
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
people
can
travel
over
and
back
across
that
border
with
ease,
and
that
was
in
terms
of
opening
up
movement
and
travel.
And
then
subsequently,
we
were
part
of
the
first
group,
the
first
wave
as
we
were
opening
up
and
interoperating
with
europe.
So
that
then
became
another
program
as
we
went
through
it.
A
But
meanwhile,
in
other
news,
so
we
weren't
the
only
show
in
town.
So
you,
I
think,
we've
seen
probably
more
transformation
and
more
more
incredible
work
going
on
inside
of
government
in
this
country
and
governments
around
the
world
in
the
past
12
months
then,
like
it's
just
been
incredible
in
terms
of
the
pace
of
change
but
covert.
19
was
just
impacting
all
over
the
place
and
that's
where
kubernetes
came
into
the
round
to
the
rescue.
So
it's
underpinning
clinical
information
systems.
A
A
So
110
days
later,
so
we
had
the
app
in
the
app
store
after
100
days
like
ready
to
go
in
the
app
store
in
the
play
store.
We
were
then
without
government
because
we
had
an
election
earlier
on
this
year
or
only
around
last
year.
It
all
the
time
gets
compressed
during
covert.
So
we
have
this.
We
had
an
election
that
had
been
run
covet
hit.
We
got
stuck.
It
was
determined
that
this
recorded
cabinet
decision
to
go
live
because
it
was
seen
as
putting
health
in
everybody's
pocket.
So
it
was
a
big
decision.
A
So
this
was
the
first
decision
that
this
new
government
that
we
have
now
made
was
to
go
live
with
this
app.
So
we
went
live
on
the
7th
of
july.
It's
a
fully
integrated
content
pricing
solutions,
so
it
integrates
into
the
core
manual
contact
tracing
piece,
that's
there,
and
so
it's
an
end-to-end.
So
it's
seamless,
it's
not
just
a
piece,
a
piece
of
technology
that
sits
on
its
own
and
does
its
own
thing.
It's
it's
integrated
into
the
entire
system,
so
7th
of
july
we
went
live
today.
A
We've
got
right
now:
we've
got
1.3
million
people
on
the
platform
we've
had
15
000
people,
who've,
tested
positive
and
uploaded
their
their
diagnosis,
keys.
We've
notified
over
30
000
people,
most
of
them
are
contactable,
but
we
have
a
symptom
checking
feature
in
the
app
and
we've
had
60
million
check-ins
on
the
symptom
checker
we're
interoperable
with
europe,
we're
interoperable
with
northern
ireland,
10
plus
releases.
A
At
this
point,
but
the
code
we
contributed
the
code
into
the
linux
foundation,
public
health
project
and
it's
now
being
used
in
wholerain
part
in
10,
10,
implementations
and
there's
more
coming
so
and
it's
working
in
that
it's
doing
its
job.
It's
doing
what
it's
meant
to
do
could
work
better
absolutely,
but
as
we
learn
about
this
technology,
we're
constantly
tweaking
and
tuning
and
understanding
as
our
google
and
apple.
So
we're
kind
of
working
on
this
to
try
and
understand
how
it
works
better.
A
So
I
think
you're
never
going
to
please
anybody,
but
one
of
the
things
that
happened
was
that
the
approach
we
had
taken,
the
open
sourcing
and
the
transparency
around
what
we
were
doing
actually
went
over
a
lot
of
privacy.
Well,
people
who
would
typically
be
critical
of
these
kind
of
moves
were
actually
won
over
in
terms
of
this
is
a
model
for
how
we
do
things
like
this
into
the
future.
A
The
next
steps.
Well,
it's
a
global
impact
thing.
So,
as
I
said
it's
in
ten
different
implementations,
we
gave
it
into
the
linux
foundation
public
health
project
as
a
contribution
in
there
we're
actively
participating
in
that
group
with
other
public
health
authorities,
trying
to
figure
out
different
ways,
not
just
to
solve
problems
of
covert
19,
but
also
to
look
at
preparing
for
a
future.
So
what
happens
post
pandemic
response
toolkits?
What
do
they
look
like
and
then
other
broader
public
health
issues
that
we
face?
A
So
I
guess
for
many
of
you-
and
I
know
this
is
an
audience
from
around
the
world.
This
will
mean
nothing
but
there's
a
satirical
newspaper
in
ireland
called
watford
whispers
that
is
usually
skewing.
Anything
that's
done
by
government.
Anything!
That's
done
by
public
figures.
Anything
that's
done
by
celebrities
usually
gets
secured
on
the
front
of
it.
A
Is
me
if
you
want
to
find
out
about
covert
green,
the
link
to
the
to
the
open
source
repository
is
there
welcome
anybody
who
wants
to
ask
any
questions?
Welcome
anybody
who
wants
to
come
in
and
join
the
community
as
well
and
help,
because
I
think
what
we're
trying
to
do
with
the
linux
foundation.
Public
health
project
is
really
bring
some
of
this
stuff
together
and
bring
some
of
the
the
the
enthusiasm
the
minds
and
that
that
open
source
community
thing,
which
is
for
ireland.