Time: 3:40pm - 4:15pm

Where: Skagit 2 @ TCC The Conference Center (TCC) - Separate from WSCC building

Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a novel approach solving L2/L3 network use cases in Kubernetes that are tricky to address with the existing Kubernetes Network Model. Inspired by Istio, Network Service Mesh maps the concept of a service mesh to L2/L3 payloads. Network Service Mesh enables a variety of types of Use Cases such as:

- Connecting Pods to VPN Gateways

- Non-Kubernetes virtual bridge domains  

- The right physical NIC or SR-IOV VF for their needs

- Multiple-interfaces

- Cloud-native NFV use cases

Network Service Mesh controls the L2/L3 data planes to deliver these types of use cases. Network Service Mesh enables users to express the context of their network needs in a Cloud Native manner, rather than manually stringing together disjoint interfaces, IPAM, and subnets. Finally, we discuss how audience members can get involved and help drive the direction and development of NSM.

Time: 4:30pm - 5:05pm

Where: Ballroom 6C

This presentation will demonstrate how to deploy one or more containerized, multi-node Kubernetes clusters on a single host. Each cluster runs in its own container, providing an easy, reliable, and repeatable method for spinning up one or more clusters on a host, and cleaning up when done. All dependencies are included in the container image, so all you need is Docker and a sense of adventure to spin up virtual clusters.

This methodology is based on the Kubeadm DinD Cluster (K-D-C) project, and spins up each K-D-C cluster in a Docker-in-Docker-in-Docker (DinDinD) configuration.

This presentation will demonstrate:

- Deployment of a multi-node cluster in a container
- Support for IPv6 clusters
- Multi-cluster Istio application on a single host

Time: 4:30pm - 5:05pm

Where: 611-614

What happens when your application outgrows a single cluster? How do you scale from one cluster to dozens without sacrificing high availability or performance? How do you structure your application to actually take advantage of multi-cluster environments?

In this session, you'll learn about multi-cluster topologies: different options for structuring your application architecture to naturally benefit from multiple Kubernetes environments. 

Whether you're building a new application from scratch or scaling up an existing deployment, this session will equip you with best practices, rules of thumb, and the right mental model for successfully using Multi-Cluster Kubernetes.

Time: 1:45pm - 2:20pm

Where: 611-614

Time: 10:50am - 11:25am

Where: Skagit 2 @ TCC The Conference Center (TCC) - Separate from WSCC building

In this talk, you will learn about some of the Advanced Network Application Design Patterns that Network Service Mesh enables. Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are tricky to address with the existing Kubernetes Network Model. Inspired by Istio, Network Service Mesh maps the concept of a service mesh to L2/L3 payloads. The NSM architecture can be naturally extended to allow interaction of the NSM with the physical network enabling cloud providers to offer value-add services like: Connecting a customers Pod(s) to a network egress specific to that customer Introspecting the Network Service Mesh control messaging to adapt the physical network to serve customer needs better. Allowing customers to request specific physical network services. The NSM community has developed several design patterns for solving problems in K8s that may be of utility to others working in other problem domains in K8s. This talk discusses those design patterns and their benefits.