PyConFR 2019 - Everything You Want to Know About Kubernetes - Guillaume Gelin
Channel: Association Francophone Python
Date: 2020-03-12

PyConFR 2019 - Everything You Want to Know About Kubernetes (Preferably Before Using It) - Guillaume Gelin


There is a lot of hype about Kubernetes those days, but do you know what Kubernetes really gives you, out of the box? Not as much as you might expect.

« Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. It's a better place to start; not the endgame. » Kelsey Hightower (Developer Advocate at Google)

In this talk, I will present my experience as a software engineer who started building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster without much knowledge in networking or other low-level infrastructure concepts, but with a developer background and mindset that ended up being quite useful.

- Chapter I. The Origins
  - Where we are coming from
  - Kubernetes overview
  - Why Kubernetes
- Chapter II. Minimum Viable Cluster
  - Requirements we settled on
  - Choices we made
  - What you get (or miss) at this point
- Chapter III. Going Further
  - A few more choices
  - Tools we decided to use
  - Tools we developed ourselves
- Chapter IV. Nowadays
  - Live demo (maybe)
  - Current platform status
  - Next steps
- Chapter V. Step Back
  - Our opinion on Kubernetes
  - Recommendations