Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2sdJPXm. Kris Nova talks about Kubicorn, an open source Go project. She discusses the reasoning behind the project and how the core of the tool is developed strictly for cloud native application. She identifies the problem space with existing infrastructure tooling and discusses how Kubicorn satisfies new patterns that can be vendored into control loops and operators. Filmed at qconsf.com. Kris Nova is a Senior Developer Advocate for Microsoft with an emphasis in containers and the Linux operating system. She has a deep technical background in the Go programming language, and has authored many successful tools in Go. She is a Kubernetes maintainer, and the creator of Kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool.

1. Cloud Native Infrastructure
with Kubicorn
Kris Nova

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4. About Me

5. Kris Nova

6. Kris Nova

7. Kris Nova

8. Kris Nova

9. Kris Nova

10. Kris Nova

11. What is Cloud
Native
Infrastructure?

12. Infrastructure

13. 1. All the things you don’t want to deal with
Infrastructure

14. Infrastructure

15. Application
Presentation
Session
Transport
Network
Data link
Physical
The OSI Reference Model

16. Software
Software
Software
Software
Software
Software
Physical
The NEW OSI Reference Model

17. Cloud Native

18. Cloud Native
1. Offloading workloads to a cloud

19. Cloud Native
1. Offloading workloads to a cloud… via HTTP(s)

20. Cloud Native

21. Cloud Native Infrastructure
+

22. Managing Cloud Native Infrastructure…?

23. Managing Cloud Native Infrastructure

24. What is Kubicorn?

25. What is Kubicorn?
Kubernetes Infrastructure
Management

26. How does it work?
Kubicorn
API
Reconciler
Resource
Resource
Resource

27. Where did it come
from?

28. The History of Kubicorn
Terraform

29. The History of Kubicorn
Kubernetes Kops

30. The History of Kubicorn
I wanted a library

31. The History of Kubicorn
I wanted a controller

32. The History of Kubicorn
I wanted out of core

33. I wanted all the clouds

34. I wanted it to be pretty

35. I was afraid to open source it

36. GopherCon 2017

37. I was number 1 on GitHub!

38. Deep Dive

39. Kubicorn
API

40. State
Kubicorn
API

41. State
Reconciler
Kubicorn
API

42. State
ReconcilerResource
Kubicorn
API

43. State
Resource
Bootstrap
ReconcilerResource
Kubicorn
API

44. The API
Key: Value

45. The API
Data structure that represents a cluster

46. The API
Going to demo the “new” API at Kubecon

48. The Reconciler Pattern
API Reconciler
Resource
Resource
Resource

49. The Reconciler Pattern
GetActual()
GetExpected()
Reconcile(actual, expected)
Destroy(actual)

50. The Resource Model
Resource
Resource
Resource
Kubicorn
API

51. The Resource Model

52. The Reconciler

53. Bootstrap Scripts
Cloud Init
cat API to disk /etc/kubicorn
No templating!
No bindata!

54. Bootstrap Scripts

55. The Kubernetes Stack
Apps
Components
Infrastructure

56. The Kubernetes Stack
Kubernetes
Kubeadm
Kubicorn

57. Go Interfaces

58. The Pattern
Interface
Implementation
Implementation
Implementation

59. Cloud Example
Cloud
AWS
Digital
Ocean
Google

60. The Future

61. Orchestrator
Cloud Native Applications
Container
My Application

62. Kubernetes Controller
● Runs in a container
● Loops indefinitely
● Reconciles something

63. Reconcile Infrastructure with a Controller
for {
// Reconcile loop
}

64. Running Kubicorn as a controller
CLI Cluster

65. Running Kubicorn as a controller
CLI Cluster
Kubicorn
Controller

66. Running Kubicorn as a controller
Cluster
Kubicorn
Controller

67. Running Kubicorn as a controller
Cluster
Kubicorn
Controller
Kubicorn
API
Client

68. Questions?

69. Demo!

70. Thank You
Kris Nova
@kris__nova

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