Co-chairs: Melissa Logan and Adam Durr
November 12, 2024
Salt Lake City, Utah
Organizations like Etsy, Grab, Dish Network, and Chick-fil-A have standardized on Kubernetes and shared best practices for running different types of stateful workloads. Our aim for the Data on Kubernetes Day event is to bring you the resources you need to get started or advance on your DoK journey.
Running data workloads on Kubernetes was once unthinkable, but the technology has matured significantly in the past few years to safely support data and stateful workloads such as databases, streaming, AI/ML, analytics, and CICD. Read more in this recent six-part series in Computer Weekly.
Data on Kubernetes Day started as a virtual event in 2021 hosted by the Data on Kubernetes Community to coincide with KubeCon in Europe and North America, and became an official colocated event in 2023. You can stream all content from the DoK Events playlist.
Who will get the most out of attending this event?
If you manage databases, AI/ML apps, big data, streaming apps on Kubernetes – this event will help you see how others are managing stateful workloads and pitfalls to avoid. You’ll hear technical best practices, as well as interesting ideas like using Kubernetes as your DBA. We also made space for an intriguing panel on Kubernetes and GPU trends for AI in financial services – with a stellar lineup of panelists from The Hartford, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
DoKC community members will also be hosting a panel at KubeCon on day one: The Future of DBaaS on Kubernetes.
What is new and different this year?
This year we added DBaaS content, which is an increasingly hot topic in the Kubernetes space. And, while we’ve always featured AI/ML talks, this year we saw a surge in AI/ML-related submissions and added a couple to the roster. We were also thrilled to receive so many submissions from women and people of color. This is the most diverse group of submissions and selected speakers we’ve had the privilege to organize.
What will the day look like?
You can see the schedule here. To kick off the event, we’ll share new data from the 2024 Data on Kubernetes survey that’s being fielded now. (Learn more and take the survey here.)
DoKC Ambassadors will be onsite and would love to answer your questions.
And we will be giving away brand new DoK t-shirts at the end; stickers will be available for all attendees. Our current shirt is an homage to one of our favorite 80s hip hop groups Run DMC (the shirt says “RUN DOK”). In keeping with our musical swag theme, this year we’ve gone from rap to rock.
Should I do any homework first?
If you’re just learning about stateful workloads, check out last year’s Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes: A Deep Dive video to get oriented. DoKC also collaborated with the CNCF Storage TAG to create the Database Patterns – Data on Kubernetes Whitepaper (GitHub). Those are great starting points for newbies.
The DoK Special Interest Group also recently started a new project – the Getting Started Guide. It’s a work in progress, but has a few great resources to help people get started. If you want to contribute, join the DoK Slack #dok-sig channel.
Find your community!
The Data on Kubernetes Community is a welcoming, inclusive community that anyone can join. We host monthly virtual meetups, a Slack channel, maintain a resource library, host Data on Kubernetes Days and meetups, and other activities. We hope to see you on the Slack!
Submitted by the co-chairs.Don’t forget to register for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.