Kubernetes - Going Beyond the Basics

This talk builds on Kubernetes fundamentals and uses demos to explore pod scheduling, admission controllers, custom resources and operators, virtual nodes, and service meshes including Istio.

Syllabus

Intro
Scheduling pods
Why influence pod scheduling placement?
Approaches to influencing pod scheduling
Node selector
Node affinity/anti-affinity
Specifying demand for node
Taints & Tolerations
Taints vs Node affinity
Pod distribution
Custom scheduler
Taking more control...
Admissions controllers
API request lifecycle
Admission Webhooks
Custom Resource Definitions (CRDS)
Creating a Foo resource
Custom controllers
Writing your own operator?
Virtual Kubelet implementations
Bursting load using virtual node
Virtual node public preview
Virtual node recap
Improving service to service communications
What is a Service mesh?
Istio service mesh