Speaker: Musalannagari Manoj Kumar | Description: In the cloud-native ecosystem, integrating third-party APIs into your Kubernetes workloads introduces both opportunities and challenges. Security vulnerabilities and unexpected costs are two of the most common pitfalls faced by organizations when consuming external APIs. This talk will explore how to leverage Kong, a robust API gateway, and Kubeshark, a Kubernetes-native network observability tool, to address these challenges effectively.

We’ll dive into securing API traffic with Kong’s advanced features, including authentication, rate limiting, and custom plugins, ensuring compliance with organizational policies. Simultaneously, we’ll showcase Kubeshark’s real-time traffic analysis capabilities, which provide visibility into API usage patterns, help identify misconfigurations, and uncover potential cost drivers.

Whether you are a DevOps engineer, a security professional, or a developer navigating the complexities of API consumption, this talk will provide insights to fortify your Kubernetes workloads and avoid costly pitfalls.

Speaker: Praveen Kumar S | Description: Korifi Cloud Foundry simplifies the deployment and management of cloud-native applications, offering a powerful solution for developers and organizations alike. By the end of this session, whether you're a cloud engineer or a DevOps engineer, you will have a clear and comprehensive understanding of how to deploy applications effectively using Korifi Cloud Foundry on your Kubernetes cluster. You'll also be able to start reaping the benefits of a cloud-native development platform. This session is designed with a foundational understanding in mind, making it accessible for everyone to grasp the key insights and concepts with ease.

Speaker: Indradhanush Gupta | Description: Do you want to run your ephemeral workloads in Kubernetes without the overhead of managing the clusters? Rackspace Spot brings fully managed Kubernetes clusters. You choose your worker nodes and bid for the servers. Bid against the market price and you've got yourself a cluster for as long as you want in your bid range. Using spare capacity from Rackspace's data centers, we built Rackspace Spot - managed control plane for your ideas and experimentation and for your ephemeral production workloads. Some customers are also using it for persistent applications.

In this talk, learn about the architecture of Rackspace Spot and how you can take advantage of it to have access to a low-cost managed Kubernetes cluster, where all you need to worry about (literally and monetarily) is your worker nodes.