Calum Murray
CNCF Ambassador and Software Engineer at Red Hat
Toronto, Canada
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I am a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I work on Applied AI projects with a focus on MCP and Agents. I also work on Serverless with the Knative community.
I am a CNCF ambassador, where I present about new and exciting technologies in the AI/Serverless as well as mentor new contributors.
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LLM-Driven Applications: Intro to LLM Agents in Kubernetes
Over the past year, there has been a lot of important work and discussions around how to run Large Language Models (LLMs) on top of Kubernetes. But what happens once you have your LLM running in your cluster? How can you build an application around your LLM, where the LLM can act as an agent and call out to various services you have deployed in your cluster to solve complex tasks that would otherwise cause the LLM to hallucinate? Is there a way to do this without making changes to the services and deployments already in your cluster?
In this talk I will be exploring what an LLM agent is and how you build an agent that will call out to your services. I will show this with a demo of an LLM agent running in a kubernetes cluster that is able to automatically detect new tools and agents deployed to the cluster and coordinate them to complete complex tasks in a conversation with the user.
Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project
Have you ever struggled to explain what a Cloud Native project does? One of the challenges many cloud native projects face is that the abstractions they provide are not intuitive for new users. Since cloud technologies are often built on top of each other and use domain specific language, this problem compounds. Luckily, educational games can be made to help communicate these abstract concepts in a fun and engaging format! In this talk, we will explore how you can build an educational game for your project through the example of a game that the Knative community has built to teach Knative Eventing. We will walk through the steps other open source projects can follow to design their own educational game, including brainstorming strategies for deciding on key concepts and which metaphors/symbols to use to represent these concepts. These information design strategies can also be applied to create more understandable educational cloud native content in general!
Building the Future of your Project: How to Engage Students into Open Source
One of the keys to a healthy open source project is a thriving contributor base. Many students are interested in contributing and are motivated to learn about cloud technologies. However, the initial learning curve can be steep, especially for individuals with limited work experience. So how can we help students become long-term, high impact contributors? In this panel, educators and mentors from Valencia College, OCAD University, University of Toronto and Red Hat will share their student engagement strategies. These include: having open source contributions built-in to course projects, pairing students with mentors, creating an open source student club and holding weekly beginner-friendly meetings where students can work on tasks. Through sharing our experiences, we hope to inspire more mutually beneficial partnerships between CNCF projects looking to grow their contributor base and learning institutions looking to provide more hands-on training opportunities for students!
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