WKSctl: GitOps Management of Kubernetes Clusters
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 10/03/2020

Wksctl supports the creation and GitOps management of Kubernetes clusters on any set of machines with an SSH key. Jerry Jackson from the wksctl engineering team will discuss various aspects of wksctl including:
- its architecture and implementation
- how to use it to create clusters
- its relationship to flux and how to work with it using a GitOps model
- how to combine it with footloose for easy use in development environments
- how it enables consistent environments across the spectrum from development to production

Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/weaveworks/wksctl-gitops-management-of-kubernetes-clusters

For more information on Footloose, watch our Introduction to Footloose: https://youtu.be/pamjQw6e9qM

To learn more about GitOps, check out: The Practical Guide to GitOps (eBook): http://bit.ly/gitops_guide

Speaker: Jerry Jackson, Software Engineer, Weaveworks
Bio: Jerry is an expert developer and architect of infrastructure and backend systems. For the last 15 years, his main work has been in the areas of system and cluster management, for which he has received over a dozen patents. Most recently, Jerry has worked on the automated construction of Kubernetes clusters and generation of Kubernetes application definitions from graphical models and Docker compose files.
Over his 30+ year career, he has developed firmware, compilers, database mapping tools, and a cluster management expert system. Jerry is the author of “Java by Example”, one of the first books available about Java.
When he isn’t working, Jerry loves to run and read science fiction.

Host: Tamao Nakahara, Head of Developer Experience, Weaveworks
Bio: Tamao is passionate about Developer Experience and co-organizes devxcon.com. She has over 20 years of DevEx, ecosystem alliances, and event experience, including as Director of Developer Relations at New Relic, running open source community programs at VMware and Pivotal for Cloud Foundry, Spring, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, and Redis, and helping customers with Oracle virtualization at VMware.