Karol Szwaj
Senior Software Engineer @ Kubermatic
Gdańsk, Poland
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Karol is a senior software engineer at Kubermatic, a maintainer of the Envoy Gateway and kube-bind projects, and is currently working on kcp. He specialises in open-source technologies, distributed systems, and networking, and brings a telecommunications background from university. Karol is an active contributor to the open-source ecosystem, with involvement in projects such as Kyma, Kubermatic, and several CNCF initiatives, including Istio, Envoy Gateway, Kube-OVN, kcp, and Kubernetes SIGs.
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Enabling Multi-Cluster Load Balancing with Gateway API and Envoy Gateway
Provisioning and managing load balancers in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can become a hassle. Kubernetes does not offer any implementation for service Load Balancers and the reliance on cloud-provider implementations imposes various limitations across diverse environments, especially for the bare metal clusters.
This presentation will showcase a new approach to managing your Kubernetes Load Balancers across different clusters using a GatewayAPI implementation and setting up a dedicated Load Balancer cluster with a centralized management plane, demonstrating the pros and cons of managing multiple Envoy Gateways in a multi-cluster setup and leveraging Gateway API, which has emerged as a new standard for managing both L4 and L7 traffic in the Kubernetes clusters.
Join this session and we will share our experience of how GatewayAPI with some additional Kubernetes controllers sauce can help end-users redefine application Load Balancing in hybrid and multi-cluster environments.
Seamless AI-as-a-Service across Kubernetes Clusters With Envoy AI Gateway and kube-bind
As organizations scale their AI initiatives, they face a recurring nightmare: fragmented API keys, inconsistent model access, and "shadow AI" across multiple Kubernetes clusters. How do you provide a centralized, high-performance AI platform to dozens of remote teams without the overhead of complex Service Meshes or manual credential rotation?
In this session, we explore two powerful open source ecosystem tools: kube-bind and Envoy AI Gateway. We will demonstrate a "Provider-Consumer" architecture where a central GPU-enabled cluster acts as an AI Hub.
Envoy Today: What’s New In Managing Cloud-native And AI Workload Traffic?
Learn about improvements that make Envoy faster, easier to operate, and more adaptable—especially for teams building modern cloud-native and AI-driven systems, which impose a set of new requirements on the networking traffic management.
We will share highlights from the Envoy project ecosystem, new features from recent releases and important news from the whole community.
Lastly, we’ll touch on where the project is headed and how these changes reinforce Envoy’s role as a reliable, flexible data plane for the next generation of applications, together with Envoy AI Gateway and Envoy Gateway.
kcp: From Zero To Your First Pull Request
kcp, a CNCF Sandbox project, is a control plane for serving Kubernetes-style APIs, built on top of Kubernetes core libraries with a strong focus on multitenancy. Getting started with, and contributing to, multi-tenant systems can be a daunting experience. There are many moving parts, but we’re here to go through it with you.
Join kcp maintainers on this unique journey and become a kcp contributor! We’ll start with a deep dive into the kcp architecture and codebase, then show how to set up a development environment for building and testing different parts of the project. Finally, we’ll pick up an issue from a curated list and work through it together, starting with analysis, identifying the relevant code, and discussing how to implement and test a solution.
Whether you’re into code, documentation, or community work, this session is a hands-on way to contribute, learn new skills, and shape the project’s future together.
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