2017 Suggested Presentation Topics:

Suggested KubeCon Topics:

• Advanced scheduling use cases

• Complicated networking at scale

• Cool new tech and how it can be used with Kubernetes

• Cutting-edge technical use cases

• Deploying and using Kubernetes in production in the enterprise

• Developer workflows using git push-to-service in production

• Kubernetes + IoT

• Load balancing

• Managing persistence storage in Kubernetes

• Orchestrating multi-host, multi-container, distributed applications

• Running multi-site, hybrid, distributed applications

• Unique use cases and how Kubernetes helped your team/company

• Using Kubernetes to manage and secure your application infrastructure

• Using Kubernetes with configuration management

• Using Kubernetes with continuous integration, testing and continuous deployment

• Using Kubernetes with software defined networking

Suggested CloudNativeCon Topics:

• Cloud native technology in production

• Containers: Use-cases, using containers in production, developing with containers

• Developer workflows using containers and cloud native technology

• Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, Nomad)

• Stateful cloud native applications

• Unique cloud native technology use cases

• Microservices in production (e.g., gRPC)

• Using cloud native technology to manage your infrastructure

• Cloud native logging

Suggested Fluentd Topics:

• Log aggregation patterns

• Distributed logging in Production

• Use cases of Fluentd or Fluent Bit

• Best practices for better performance on logging

• Fluentd internals and core development

• Extending Fluentd or Fluent Bit

• Log forwarding

• Security

Suggested Prometheus Topics:

• Integrating with Prometheus

• Prometheus use case reports

• Prometheus fundamentals and philosophy

• Prometheus internals and core development

• Using Prometheus

Suggested OpenTracing Topics:

• Distributed tracing in production

• Distributed tracing via OpenTracing and proxies like Envoy/linkerd

• Going beyond single transactions: how to understand distributed traces in the aggregate

• Tracer implementations (e.g., Zipkin, Appdash, Jaeger)

• Tracing into web/mobile clients

• Transparent tracing across user – container/kernel boundary (e.g., Sysdig)

• Experiences / war stories with instrumentation of large existing codebases

• Experiences with substantial OSS OpenTracing integrations (RPC frameworks, clients)

Suggested gRPC Topics:

• Monitoring and Tracing of gRPC services

• Large polyglot gRPC deployment experience

• gRPC + IOT

• REST and gRPC together with gateways

• Use of streaming grpc apis

• gRPC and load balancing: Experience with proxy based/client side lb and service discovery

• Forward and Backward compatibility of APIs
   

Suggested Linkerd Topics:

• Linkerd in production! Use cases, user stories, war stories

• CNCF project glue! Linkerd + Prometheus, Linkerd + Kubernetes, Linkerd + Zipkin, Linkerd + Fluentd, Linkerd + gRPC

• Linkerd for security! Cross-service TLS and cert management

• Linkerd for integration! Bridge Kubernetes, Mesos, Amazon ECS, OpenStack, ZooKeeper, etc

• Linkerd with Istio! Using Istio APIs to drive a Linkerd fleet

• Linkerd everywhere: Ingress, egress, and intra-cluster traffic

• Ultramodern system design: Linkerd, Kubernetes, and gRPC

• Cloud smash: hybrid cloud, multi cloud, and failover-to-cloud with Linkerd

Suggested CoreDNS Topics:

• Experience with production deployments of CoreDNS:

• For Kubernetes service discovery

• As a Kubernetes federation DNS provider

• In non-Kubernetes environments

• Use cases for CoreDNS in K8s and other Cloud Native environments

• Discussions of use cases for specialized middleware

• How to Build a CoreDNS Middleware

• CoreDNS integration with Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC and other CNCF projects

Suggested Containerd Topics:

• Using containerd directly to manage containers

• How containerd is used in Docker

• How containerd is used in Kubernetes via CRI

• Building specialized container based systems with containerd, Moby and LinuxKit

Suggested rkt Topics:

• pod-native patterns and production workloads reports

• Kubernetes and rkt: rktnetes, CRI and other sig-node topics

• rkt internals, architecture and design analysis

• rkt beyond namespaces (KVM, Xen, etc.)

• integrating rkt with external supervisors and orchestrators

• Linux containers security aspects (seccomp, selinux, virtualization, etc.)

Reminder: This is a community conference — so let's try to avoid blatant product and/or vendor sales pitches.