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Having Cloud Native Fun with HonkCTL - Jeffrey Sica, Red Hat
In the last year, geese have come to symbolize a harbinger of chaos in the technical community. Many have taken this opportunity to post many GIFs and make many jokes. One of the jokes, is a Kubernetes-based CTF game called honkCTL. This talk will outline why having fun benefits communities, where HonkCTL came from, and will spin up a HonkCTL instance that mischievous cloud-native fowls can play at home. Included in this talk will also be a sneak peek at the next game being cooked up at HonkCI Laboratories.
https://sched.co/ekBS
A
Cloud
native
friends,
kubernetes
family,
welcome
to
the
cloud
native
circus.
With
that
said,
let's
dive
right
into
an
ocean
of
entertainment.
I
will
be
your
ringmaster
or
your
host
jeffrey
seca.
I
work
at
red
hat.
I
am
at
gfe
pretty
much
everywhere
on
the
internet
and
I
am
also
a
cloud
native
jester
for
this
talk,
not
an
ambassador.
A
I
work
in
the
kubernetes
community
in
various
capacities
and
I
happen
to
be,
and
I'm
well
known
for
being
a
goose
enthusiast,
I'm
sure
many
of
you
were
curious.
What
the
heck
this
talk
was
going
to
be
about.
Also
at
this
point
I
think
it's
expected
that
any
talk
I
do
will
have
some
geese
in
it,
so
I
may
as
well
just
lean
into
it.
A
So
first
I
want
to
discuss
and
talk
about
what
untitled
goose
game
is
and
how
it
got
into
our
community.
Then
I
want
to
talk
about
why
honk
ctl
one
of
the
projects
that
I'm
known
for
became
so
popular.
Then
I
want
to
discuss
the
idea
of
a
cloud
native
computing,
fugue
versus
cloud
native
computing,
camaraderie
and
fun,
and
when
I
say
cloud
native
fugue
I
mean
this
tech
has
a
way
of
getting
our
eyes
to
glaze
over
at
times.
It's
not
easy
at
face
value.
It's
an
onion.
A
A
For
those
of
you
that
already
know
what
untitled
goose
game
is
talk
to
the
goose
for
those
that
don't.
Let
me
explain
in
untitled
goose
game
you
play
as
a
goose,
you
were
given
a
somewhat
malicious
to-do
list
and
the
goal
is
to
complete
items
on
the
to-do
list.
This
type
of
game
format
is
somewhat
like
a
sandbox
style
game
except
the
sandbox
is
small
and
you
are
a
very
naughty
goose.
A
So
much
of
what
the
goose
does
involves.
Terrorizing
this
town,
but
there's
another
angle
to
it:
the
goose,
constantly
maneuvers
and
manipulates
the
environment
to
circumvent
rules,
boundaries
and
other
limitations.
Trying
to
keep
the
goose
in
check,
it's
no
surprise
that
this
goose
was
adopted
into
many
tech
circles,
especially
security
as
an
avatar
of
chaos.
A
Now,
with
that
out
of
the
way
I
want
to
talk
about
convergent
evolution,
it's
the
idea
that,
given
similar
environments,
things
will
evolve
in
similar
ways
to
overcome
or
optimize
their
lives
jifi.
I
hear
you
ask:
why
did
you
just
jump
from
explaining
a
video
game
to
starting
a
biology
lesson?
Well,
did
I
say
convergent
evolution?
I
meant
convergent,
meme
illusion.
A
The
idea
here
is
because
friends
on
the
internet
have
similar
sick
senses
of
humor
and
have
exposure
to
very
similar
information
streams.
Memes
and
fun
ideas
often
come
about
at
the
same
time,
from
different
people.
As
an
aside,
I
wanted
to
joke
and
say
mimi
illusion,
but
I
figured
they
would
just
not
accept
the
talk
and
fill
the
slot
with
someone
else,
but
I
still
need
to
just
toss
that
one
in
there
hollywood
has
this
problem
all
the
time.
They're
called
twin
movies,
no
relation
to
twin
peaks
note.
A
This
involves
similar
movies
that
are
released
in
close
proximity
to
one
another
that
started
production
at
almost
the
same
time
in
true
on-brand
fashion.
For
this
talk,
a
great
example
are
two
of
the
best
video
game
to
hollywood
adaptations.
The
witcher
has
nothing
on
christopher
lambert
as
raiden
in
mortal
kombat.
A
So
let's,
let's
bring
this
all
together
and
talk
about
last
year's
kubecon
n
a
2019,
as
I've
mentioned,
I
do
various
things
around
the
kubernetes
community,
one
of
which
at
the
time
was
helping
organize
the
contributor
summit.
My
best
friend
bob
killen
who's,
widely
known
in
the
community,
got
to
talking
with
me
one
morning
about
doing
a
goose
themed,
scavenger
hunt
that
spiraled
wildly
out
of
control
as
it
does
with
he
and
I,
and
it
turned
into
a
contest
to
make
a
brown
paper
bag.
Honk.
A
We
had
our
own
untitled
goose
game
to
do
list
with
various
challenges,
the
simplest
of
which
was
honk.
It
bobber
jeff.
The
bag
had
a
bluetooth
speaker
which
would
honk
based
on
tweets
or
slack
messages,
and
people
had
to
figure
out
what
triggered
the
bag
to
honk
and
trigger
it
in
front
of
us
to
be
eligible
for
either
a
patch
or
one
of
the
prized
geese.
A
We
thought
this
was
hilarious
and
good,
clean
fun
and
everyone
else
seemed
to
enjoy
it
and
throughout
kubecon
bob,
and
I
frequently
got
honked
at
little.
Did
we
know
the
patron
saint
of
honker
netties,
our
variony
and
coldwater,
planned
on
delivering
one
of
the
best,
keynotes
or
goosenotes
that
doesn't
matter?
It
was
fantastic.
A
A
A
A
A
During
his
leading
of
the
116
release,
another
cloud
native
ambassador
lockheed
became
known
as
a
breadstick
aficionado
and
general
olive
garden
enthusiast.
It
was
an
endless
barrage
of
olive
garden.
Memes
gift
cards
photos
trips
to
the
restaurant,
all
culminating
into
the
kubernetes
116
logo.
For
those
of
you
that
didn't
know
yes,
kubernetes
116
was
indeed
powered
by
and
advocated
for
unlimited
breadsticks
for
all.
A
So
prominent
is
this
meme
that,
to
this
day,
loki
is
synonymous
with
breadsticks
to
some
brandon.
You
weren't
that
far
off
another
creative
way
of
having
community-based
fun.
I've
seen
recently
is
cards
against
containers
a
play
on
cards
against
humanity
in
the
game.
One
player
draws
a
card
containing
a
phrase
with
one
or
more
blank
words.
The
rest
of
the
players
must
try
to
make
the
first
player
laugh
as
much
as
possible,
given
their
hand.
For
example,
if
I
had
the
card
blank
makes
my
job
exciting
and
someone
played
dumpster
fire.
A
A
During
the
2018
seattle
cube
con,
the
community
decided
on
twitter.
It's
not
kubecon,
it's
kubecon,
with
google's
borg
being
a
kubernetes
distant
uncle
and
other
various
star
trek
references
in
kubernetes
the
project
itself.
This
was
an
incredibly
on
brand
joke
and,
of
course,
the
meme
was
made
manifest
with
stickers.
A
Goose
stickers,
weren't
the
only
thing
that
happened
at
last
year's
contributor
summit
for
kubernetes
the
lead
of
that
summit.
Paris
pittman
bestowed
upon
her
mighty
crew,
captain's
hats
embroidered
with
the
person's
github
handle
on
it.
It
was
a
wonderful
gesture.
Mine
is
on
my
bookshelf
behind
me
and
it
also
helped
throughout
the
summit,
as
people
looked
for.
Anyone
wearing
these
hats
for
help
mission
accomplished,
and
it
was
totally
on
brand,
with
everything
in
kubernetes
being
nautical
themed
and
with
many
of
us
being
engineers
and
open
source
developers.
A
Of
course,
there
will
be
some
technical
nerdy
fun
in
the
form
of
slash
commands
throughout
the
kubernetes
repos
and
even
on
twitter.
You
can
slash
honk,
slash,
pony,
slash,
woof,
even
slash
meow
to
your
heart's
content,
there's
nothing
quite
like
seeing
some
progress
on
that
complicated
pull
request
and
deciding
to
celebrate
on
its
impending
approval,
with
a
big
ol
picture
of
a
cat.
A
A
Well,
someone
with
as
sick
a
sense
of
humor,
as
I
have
thought,
it'd,
be
a
fun
idea
to
take
doom
and
make
it
into
the
most
violent
chaos
engineering
tool
ever
it's
impractical,
but
you
can't
argue
that
it
doesn't
sound
fun
and
again,
though,
its
practicality
is
limited.
The
fact
that
someone
plumbed
this
all
the
way
through
and
probably
was
probably
driven
by
their
need
for
a
fun
project,
and
it's
these
types
of
projects
that
most
certainly
teach
lessons
along
the
way
like
fun
drives.
Innovation.
A
A
A
This
is
a
group
of
close-knit,
welcoming
and
loving
friends,
and
so
some
may
think
that
these
are
just
inside,
jokes
or
you'd
have
to
have
been
there.
That's
simply
not
true,
and
in
fact
it's
the
opposite.
Each
of
these
examples
made
the
community
more
accessible
than
it
was
before
by
embracing
the
breadsticks
lockheed
made.
A
A
A
Anyone
could
hop
onto
that
thread,
toss
out
a
pun
or
a
star,
kubernetes
joke
and
bam
welcome
to
the
community,
and
I
said
that
it
had
an
impact.
I
know
of
several
current
contributors
that
really
integrated
into
the
community
with
this
thread
being
the
catalyst
one
of
which
even
wound
up
overnighting
those
stickers
for
kubecon
valerie.
I
love
you
thank
you
for
that.
I
have
one
on
my
laptop.
A
A
A
It
evolved
quickly
in
a
short
amount
of
time,
going
from
one
night
of
hacking
with
the
twitter
api
to
the
next
night,
alex
ellis
installing
inlets
onto
my
poor,
laptop
and
finding
my
ip
address
and
asking
what
the
weather
was
in
my
state
and
actually
a
little
bit
more
narrow
than
that.
That
made
me
belly
laugh,
but
only
after
I
shut
down
the
server
and
rebooted
my
router,
because
that
was
a
little
scary
but
fun
we
iterated
fast.
A
A
A
The
later
ones
removed
a
certain
element
of
that
chaos
and
provisioned
many
clusters
for
each
participant,
and
with
that
the
game
grew
at
the
last
challenge.
We
we
ran
into
it
was
quite
literally
untitled
goose
game,
but
in
kubernetes
through
various
pivoting
through
our
back
and
service
accounts,
players
had
to
make
their
way
through
several
levels
or
namespaces
to
eventually
find
a
hidden
bell.
Many
played,
but
the
dream
team
of
sig
honk,
comprised
of
ian
brad,
geeseman
and
duffy
cooley
were
the
first
to
complete
it
and
several
others
finishing
shortly.
A
After
for
the
record,
bob
was
the
genius
behind
that
last
challenge
and
you
can
play
it
locally
by
installing
kind
and
running
the
manifest
through
the
honk
ctl
repo.
I
will
be
demoing
this
in
a
bit,
but
this
all
comes
to
just
like
all
the
other
examples
I
talked
about
with
community
fun,
honk
ctl
wasn't
just
silly
fun
or
an
inside
joke.
A
A
So
if
you
can
give
someone
like
that
sandbox
or
just
that
little
bit
of
structure
or
a
goal
to
strive
towards
it'll
help
them
learn,
and
they
won't
really
realize
how
much
they're
learning
so
with
that
I
want
to
go
over
the
last
honk
ctl
challenge.
What
does
one
of
these
games
look
like?
Well,
let's
spin
it
up
and
see
how
it
looks.
First
off
this
assumes
you
have
golang,
docker
and
git
installed.
A
So
first
we
are
going
to
get
the
latest
version
of
cube
cuddle.
These
instructions
are
on
the
kubernetes
website
and
if
you
google,
install
cube
cuddle,
you
will
get
that
just
fine,
I'm
pretty
much
just
going
to
copy
and
paste
these,
so
we've
downloaded
the
binary
next.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
we
can
execute
it
and
then
last
we
need
to
move
it.
So
it's
in
our
path.
A
A
And
then,
if
we
run
a
kind
version,
we
see
that
we
now
have
version
0.9,
though
I'm
not
going
to
go
over
this,
I
will
say
for
daily
driving
with
cube
cuddle
and
interacting
with
kubernetes
clusters,
and
especially
when
you
were
dealing
doing
the
existing
challenge,
I'm
going
to
show
the
kctx
or
cube
cuddle
context
and
kns
or
cube
cuddle.
Namespace
plugins
are
invaluable
because
you
can
do
kns
and
it'll
list
all
the
namespaces.
You
can
also
do
kctx
and
list
all
of
your
contacts
very,
very
helpful.
A
They
are
already
installed,
but
I'm
not
going
to
go
over
them.
I
just
wanted
to
shout
them
out
so
next,
what
I
said
was
we
need
to
go
and
get
the
public
version
of
the
honk
ctl
repo,
so
we'll
just
go
and
get
clone
that
this
is
a
public
repo
with
all
of
the
previous
challenges
and
notes
and
the
solution,
if
you
get
stuck
or
you
just
kind
of,
want
to
skip
the
fun
and
see
the
the
end
goal
next,
we
need
to
go
into
the.
A
A
Do
a
little
dance
watch
cube
up,
keep
cuddle
tonight.
That's
that's
all
I
had,
but
once
this
is
up,
we
need
to
apply.
There
are
three
different
folders
full
of
manifests
and
we
need
to
apply
them
in
order.
So
that's
why
it's
manifest
zero,
manifest
or
sorry
manifest
one
manifesto
two
and
manifest
o3
sweet.
So
if
we
do.
A
A
A
A
A
No
resources
are
found
in
the
garden
namespace.
So
that
is
how
you
start
the
last
challenge.
You
can
do
this
on
your
own
locally
as
I've
shown,
but
I
do
want
to
give
people
a
little
bit
of
a
hint
on
where
to
start
because,
as
I
explained
with
untitled
goose
game,
you
have
a
to-do
list
and
if
you
look
in
this
challenge,
there
are
to-do's
and
if
you
look
at
the
to
do's.
A
There
happen
to
be
some
to-do's
that
you
need
to
follow.
So,
let's
review
what
it
took
to
get
to
this
point,
so
you
can
play
around
verify
that
you
have
keep
cuddling
kind
installed,
clone
down
the
repo
and
then
these
instructions
are
also
in
the
repo
just
doing
three
cube.
Cuddle
applies
and
then
running
the
goose
script,
to
give
someone
a
sandbox,
a
game
where
they
have
to
learn
how
to
pivot
through
different
r
back
rules.
That's
not
a
low
bar
to
entry.
I
think
so.
That's
that.
A
A
A
We
just
need
to
you
know,
get
get
life
to
slow
down,
hopefully,
so,
with
all
of
that
said,
let's
brainstorm
another
game.
Let's
think
about
a
game.
That's
been
skyrocketing
in
popularity
for
the
last
couple
of
months.
It's
a
low
bar
to
entry.
The
rules
are
simple,
but
it
has
unlimited
potential
and
fun.
A
It's
something
that
we
could
build
our
next
challenge
or
teaching
tool,
or
it's
among
us.
I'm
gonna
make
a
game
based
on
among
us
now
among
us,
for
those
of
you
that
don't
know
is
a
game
much
like
mafia
or
werewolf
in
the
game.
You
and
a
team
of
others
must
run
around
and
try
to
complete
tasks
on
a
map.
Everyone
is
given
a
different
task
list,
some
overlap,
and
while
people
are
doing
tasks,
no
one
is
allowed
to
talk.
A
However,
among
you
may
be
one
or
two
evil
imposters,
whose
sole
mission
it
is
to
sow
mayhem
and
eliminate
all
the
other
crew
members
in
the
game,
the
imposters
win.
If
the
number
of
alive
impostors
becomes
equal
to
the
number
of
alive
crew
members,
the
crewmates
win,
if
they
can
complete
all
their
tasks
or
if
they
eliminate
all
the
impostors,
the
crew
can
send
people
out
the
airlock
by
voting
them
off
the
island.
So
to
speak.
A
A
So
how
can
we
turn
among
us
into
a
cloud-native-fueled
game?
Well,
let's
think
about
what,
if
you
had
to
keep
a
workload
alive
by
identifying
malicious
or
misconfigured
components
running
inside
your
cluster,
the
idea
would
involve
things
like
adding
disruption,
budgets
or
identifying
workloads
that
could
oom
and
node.
A
A
A
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
listening
to
me,
rant
and
talk
about
games
and
cloud
native
stuff.
Thank
you
for
participating
in
honk,
ctl
and
other
goosey
things
in
the
community.
Just
thank
you
because
without
you
I
wouldn't
be
having
as
much
fun
as
I
have.
I
will
be
around
on
the
internet
pretty
much
ad
nauseam.
I
should
be
around
after
this
talk
when
this
talk
is
broadcast,
feel
free
to
reach
out
to
me,
even
if
you
want
to
just
throw
an
idea.
My
way,
please,
let's,
let's
have
some
fun
together
and
thank
you.