Bob is a Program Manager at the Google Open Source Programs Office with a focus on Cloud Native computing. He serves the Kubernetes project as a Steering Committee member and chair of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group and has been involved in many other cross-cutting areas of the project. Bob comes from an academic background, spending 15 years at the University of Michigan with a later focus on computational research. As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, Bob has worked towards improving High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and other research initiatives by integrating them with Cloud Native practices and tooling. He is passionate about Academic Outreach, and is an outspoken advocate of Open Source, Open Science and pets of the furry 4 legged variety.

Presentations

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Supply Chain Security Tooling

Download dependencies here: https://github.com/AbstractInfrastructure/sigstore-intro-tutorial 

You’re familiar with containers and Kubernetes, but suddenly people are talking about supply chains, and you’re pretty sure they don’t mean the Suez Canal. Join Jeffrey Sica and Bob Killen for an in-depth look at the nuts, bolts, and metaphorical shipping containers that make up modern container supply chain security. They’ll demo sigstore and show how container signing automation works with Kubernetes. You’ll leave prepared to make decisions that will keep your org unstuck.

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Workshop: Kubernetes 101

Bring a laptop to follow along with this interactive session as we learn Kubernetes basics using curl, kubectl, oc and other command-line tools. Attendees will learn to model portable, scaleable, and highly-available solutions using open source tools for cloud-native computing.

By the end of this lab, attendees will have hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and automating simple container-based distributed solutions on Kubernetes.

Participants can follow along together in room 106, or join remotely via the live broadcast.

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A peek behind the curtain: Managing the Kubernetes contributor community

The Kubernetes community is a vibrant beacon in open source. It takes a village to enable a city of contributors doing what they do best. There are a lot of fun stories and lessons to be shared from helping out the community. One lesson is taken straight from the Kubernetes project itself: declarative config management. Join us as we journey through the many bits of community automation and weigh the merits of automating every aspect of our community.

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