KubeCon&CloudNativeCon EU 2024 巴黎站平台工程相关主题回顾

KubeCon & CloudNativeCon & OSS EU @Paris 已经正式结束了，来自 Humanitec 的 Mathieu Benoit（同时也是 CNCF 大使）发布博文总结了他对于平台工程相关主题的记录和回顾。

原文链接：https://medium.com/@mabenoit/platform-engineering-kubecon-paris-2024-1da02e6247e2 (opens in a new tab)

活动预告

CNCF 在 8 月在香港即将召开一系列同场活动：

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 聚集了来自领先的开源和云原生社区的采用者和技术人员。加入我们当前的毕业、孵化和沙盒项目，随着社区的聚集，进一步推动云原生计算的教育和发展。
Open Source Summit 是开源开发者、技术专家和社区领袖的首要活动，他们可以合作、分享信息、解决问题、获取知识，推动开源创新，确保可持续的开源生态系统。这是开源代码和社区贡献者的聚集地。
AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit 是一个汇聚开发者的中心，他们深入探索开源生成式人工智能和机器学习的复杂领域。这个活动的核心信念是开源是推动人工智能创新的引擎。通过汇集来自世界各地最优秀的开发者，我们的目标是激发讨论，促进合作，并塑造开源人工智能的发展轨迹。

活动日期：

CFP截止日期：中国标准时间（UTC +8），5 月 5 日星期日晚上 11:59 pm
CFP通知：星期一，6 月 10 日
日程公告：6 月 12 日（星期三） 0 幻灯片上传截止日期至Sched.com：星期三，8 月 14 日
活动日期：2024 年 8 月 21 日至 23 日

回顾要点

TAG App Delivery 和 WG 平台在促进社区合作和知识共享方面做了出色的工作。
第一届 PE 日取得了巨大成功。
平台工程不仅在 PE 日期间被提及，而且还在其他不同活动中被提及。
PE 讲座不再只是关于工具和构建模块，社区正在围绕平台即产品PaaP、平台的用户体验等方面的最佳实践提升讨论。
毫无意外，平台工程再次成为 KubeCon Paris 2024 期间讨论的热门话题。当然，AI/ML 也无处不在，但两者并不冲突！:)

开发人员的同理心至关重要！我们需要努力让云原生更好地为数据科学家服务。CNCF 内部强烈希望朝这个方向前进。

—— 阿伦·古普塔

与之前的 KubeCon Chicago 2023 相比，我看到关于平台构建模块的讨论和讨论较少，相反，KubeCon Paris 2024 更多关注的是平台的功能和接口。重点更多的是围绕平台即产品和用户体验的客户故事和最佳实践。我非常欣赏这一点！

Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! — Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware：https://sched.co/1YFdf (opens in a new tab)

如果您想进一步了解什么是 TAG、什么是 WG、TAG 应用交付的内容和工作、平台 WG 的内容和工作、如何参与等。我们邀请您观看这两场会议：

平台工程相关分享主题

在众多与平台工程相关的讲座中，我重点介绍其中 8 个我非常喜欢的讲座：

主题演讲：10年的轮回：容器化世界中应用交付的未来 — Solomon Hykes, Dagger.io (opens in a new tab) 视频回放 (opens in a new tab) — What became Docker was created 16 years ago, in Paris, wow! Solomon is keeping the Kubernetes and CNCF community honest, reminding us that there is a lot more to do to improve the Developer Experience. “Behind every great product there is a factory, and every factory is unique”.
How Spotify Re-Created Our Entire Backend Without Skipping a Beat — Cluster migration planning as Product Manager: “who’s using the platform?” and “what is our impact to our business?”. Support to kind of Developers: “I don’t want to do Kubernetes, I want to deal with an abstraction” versus “I want a cluster-as-a-service to keep control”. Principles and strategy: take the pain with zero developer interaction.
Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! — Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware — Key success criterias of your Platform: Autonomy, Contextual distance and Capabilities versus Interfaces.
AI-powered, paved road platform at Intuit. Application centric runtime (simplified workload specification), Traffic management and Developer friendly (debuggability tools — right in time debugging ephemeral container).
Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms. Design is about how it works (Steve Jobs). Build an onboarding user journey map. Think about simple users as well as advanced users.
Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking. Product centricity: Value (why we do that? right thing to do? outcomes?) + Viability (who are our customers? will they use it? Empowered product person: Tech+UX+Eng with customer empathy. Developers have different context, incentives and needs.
Panel: Navigating the Path to Platform Engineering Excellence: A Comprehensive Guide — Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop; William Rizzo, SUSE; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Areti Panou, SAP SE; Aparna Subramanian, Shopify
Product Market Misfit: Adventures in User Empathy — User empathy is key. Ask your users, you’ll see assumptions versus reality results/learnings. Dog food your own work, shared perspectives comes from proximity. Never stop listening and learning from your users, invite critical feedback. 注：这些主题大部分都有视频回放或者公开PPT，请点击“阅读原文”查看。

Platform Engineering Day 平台工程日完整议程 (opens in a new tab)

平台即产品 ——Ritchie Brothers. Removing Developer frictions is the higher priority.
释放创新：NatWest银行如何通过云原生工具交付平台即产品
黄金路径：自管理、自编排、自服务 “定制化是敌人”。
向 K8S 及更高目标迈进—— 推进你的平台工程计划成熟度 — Nicki Watt, OpenCredo — A great and detailed walkthrough of the Platform Maturity Model of the CNCF WG Platforms. 4 maturity levels for 5 aspects to consider in order to check your own limitations and opportunities for improvement.

AppDeveloperCon

应用现代化：从概念到 K8S — George Hantzaras, MongoDB — App modernization journey, how platform engineering could help modernize your apps along with your infrastructure.
Deploying Your Apps to Kubernetes Without the Boilerplate — Marc Nuri & Roland Huß, Red Hat — Simplification of the Developers inner and outer loops. A Developer’s dilemna with Kuberentes: “From YAML FTW to WTF…”. Cross-language (helm, odo, tilt, scaffold) versus language specific (ko, jib, jkube) developer tools.
Unleashing the Power of Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative, Crossplane, Dapr, KEDA, and Friends — Viktor Farcic, Upbound — A combination of Dapr and OpenFunction could simplify the interface of your Platform for your Developers.
Dapr and Wasm; a Symbiosis for Polyglot Application Development — Sven Pfennig & Christoph Voigt, Liquid Reply GmbH — Another combination of Dapr and Wasm to simplify the interface of your Platform for your Developers.

ArgoCon

Argo生态的平台工程：Elastic 案例的故事 — To simplify the Dev experience, abstracting the applicationsets with a custom configuration layer in CUE and proposing a custom proper promotion tool.

BackstageCon

注：Backstage 项目刚刚庆祝完4岁生日！

Let’s Go Backstage: End to End IDP Tips & Tricks for Platform Engineers — Oshrat Nir & Guy Menahem —Implementing Backstage still needs to invest time and a dedicated team. The outcomes could really improve the quality of your engineering: less context switching and increase docs reach and usage. The good news is that the new plugins system will simplify how to create and maintain your own Backstage instance.
How Did Backstage Make 500+ Developers Happy in a Highly Regulated Enterprise — Thomas Grønbæk, Bankdata A/S — Improving and investing in DevEx is possible, even in an highly regulated enterprise. 5 core values: Enhance discoverability, enforce self service, minimize cognitive load, reduce wait time and high availability tool stacks. “If you create a cool plugin that solves bad DevEx in a compliance process you got a potential killer app”.

Multi-TenancyCon

Multi-Tenant vs. Micro-Clusters in Kubernetes-Driven Platform Engineering at Adobe — Project Ethos for the Adobe Experience Platform providing a Namespace profile as a Service to onboard internal Developers/customers in a muti-tenant projects and clusters setup.

Cloud Native StartupFest 云原生创业节

注：这个部分对我来说非常重要，我很高兴看到专门为此举办同场活动。First*, Open Source (OSS) won’t be there if companies were not making business and money on top that. We are seeing a lot of Startup struggling on making money on top of OSS, and recently we have seen a lot of products changing their licensing (Terraform, Linkerd, Redis). We shouldn’t avoid such discussions.* Second*, the Startup world is very inspiring for any Platform Engineering initiative out there: Product Market Fit, Funding, Marketing, Sales, etc.*

Startup Lessons from 25 Years and Five Startups — Tim Enwall, Fermyon Technologies, Inc. — Product Market fit, “Customers cash is 1000% better than Investors cash”, “You are always fundraising”, co-founders values alignment, build the best workplace ever (“amazing teams deliver outrageous results”), two essential traits: irrational belief + intimacy with fear and failure.
Panel: Venture Capital and Open Source, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Kelsey Hightower; Aneel Lakhani, Crane Venture Partners, Megan Reynolds, Vertex & Michael Yamnitsky, Insight Partners — True validation of a Product Market fit: “validating a real problem + find the first customer willing to fund/pay you for that”. “From being a tech person, you need to become a sales person as co-founder”. Be transparent about what not working today, and show that you are learning, solving real problems, etc.
Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower and Alex Polvi, CEO, CoreOS, Inc — Wow! This one is amazing. I’m a big fan of Kelsey. He always mentions his time at CoreOS, that’s where now I understand how his own pivotal moment happened at CoreOS with Alex. Just listened and watched this one, if you want to know more.
Is Your OSS Project Ready to Spin off Into a Company? — Arsh Sharma & Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto; Idit Levine, Solo.io; Madhuri Yechuri, Elotl Inc.; Shauli Rozen, ARMO —” Is your project really used and getting feedbac from real customers (instead of just having GitHub stars)?”

OpenShift 社区聚会

案例分享：Bechtle IDP — Bechtle’s IDP and OpenShift workloads in an Air-Gapped environment using Score and Humanitec Orchestrator
从平台工程到开发者成功

KubeCon

注：Kubernetes 刚刚满10周年了！哇哦，时光飞逝！

简化内外部云原生开发者的反馈循环 — Dapr and TestContainers as 2 layers of abstraction to simplify the Developer experience.
State of Platform Maturity in the Norwegian Public Sector — Great overview of different initiative to accelerate innovation in the public sector in Norway, with Platform Engineering best practice. One example is with nais.io.
Platform Engineering with Project Bedrock at OVO Energy — The need to build an internal developer platform to increase Developers productivity at scale.
Developers Demand UX for K8s! — Walkthrough of the results of a 16 questions surveys confirming that authoring Kubernetes manifests and debugging in Kuberentes are hard. Developers need an abstraction layer.
Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make It Better — The Platform challenges around the 3 main personas: Platform Owner, Service Provider and User.
Keeping the Bricks Flowing: The LEGO Group’s Approach to Platform Engineering for Manufacturing — Product focus across the Organisation is a super power. User adoption is not a given, it must be earned. Engage with your end-users early. Stick to the 80/20 rule — save ambitions for later.
Navigating the Depth of App Delivery Through Memes — Great overview of what’s a CNCF TAG, the TAG App Delivery (including the Platforms WG) and also talking about a potential new TAG App Development.
Rapid IDP Capability Development and Automated Testing at Autodesk — How to deploy your IDP stack based on CNOE locally with a Kind cluster.
Cultural Shifts: Fostering a Chaos First Mindset in Platform Engineering — Conducting chaos engineering experiments, to gain insights into how the platform behaves during unexpected events.

CNCF | KubeCon Paris 2024 为期4天的每日总结

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 第1天：同场活动与公告回顾 | CNCF (opens in a new tab) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 第2天：云原生如何推动人工智能运动（及其他新闻）| CNCF (opens in a new tab) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 第3天：可持续计算的力量 | CNCF (opens in a new tab) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 第4天：Kubernetes 过去回顾与未来（及其他新闻) | CNCF (opens in a new tab)

关于 KubeCon Paris 2024的更多参会总结与回顾

KubeCon Europe 2024 | by Ryan Gough and Majid Attar | JYSK Tech
KubeConEu 2024 Recap and Highligts by Dinant Paardenkooper
KubeCon EU 2024 🥳🤯 (salaboy.com)
What a fantastic #KubeConParis2024! by Shweta Vohra
KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways by Daniel Bryant
See how Azure is empowering cloud-native development and AI innovation with Kubernetes at KubeCon Europe 2024 — Microsoft Open Source Blog
KubeCon Europe 2024 Wrap-Up — Isovalent → You’ll learn here where the French quote from Solomon is coming from ;)
KubeCon Europe: WebAssembly, eBPF Are Huge for Cloud Native — The New Stack
KubeCon 2024 Insights: Spotlight on Platform Engineering, Large Language Models, and WebAssembly | by Torsten Volk | Mar, 2024 | Medium
Récap du premier jour de Kubecon Europe 2024 — Mardi — colocated events (zwindler.fr)
Backstage in Paris: Wrapping up BackstageCon and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 | Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform
Team Nirmata at KubeCon EU 2024: Modern Security for Modern Apps | Nirmata
Fresh from Paris: Platform engineering wisdom from KubeCon — Spot.io
KubeCon EU 2024: Highlights from Paris | Docker
KubeCon EU Paris: The (Re)Emergence of Platform as a Product (syntasso.io)
KubeCon Paris 2024 — Artificial Intelligence with Kubernetes and the Future of Cloud Native — Sokube
KubeCon Paris, recap
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 Recap: Highlights and Takeaways | by Maryam Tavakkoli | Women in Technology | Apr, 2024 | Medium

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