Mayank Kumar
Architect at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Mayank is an Architect at Salesforce who is passionate about building large scale distributed systems and policy based datacenter and compute management solutions. He has previously worked at Microsoft and Cisco. He has been an active contributor and reviewer to open source projects like core Kubernetes since its early days. He drives architecture and product strategy for the Salesforce Hyperforce and HyperCompute (managed K8s) offerings. Mayank actively shares his knowledge and his work using blogs and by speaking at conferences like KubeCon, DeveloperWeek Enterprise and CloudWorld. He has spoken previously at four KubeCon sessions.
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Modernize your Enterprises software with Kubernetes on baremetal
Many Enterprises have existed long before Public cloud and Virtual Machines were a reality. They are heavily invested in their own data centers running on physical machines. They use traditional technologies to deploy software using Puppet or Ansible and they daydream about modern microservices architecture and envy the next blog post coming out of Google’s and Facebooks of the world. With Kubernetes, this has changed. We show to those enterprises, that its possible to run your software in the same infrastructure that was once only accessible to a select few companies. We also show , in the absence of VM’s and managed cloud offerings on bare metal it's still possible to manage Kubernetes on physical hardware and with a little investment in processes and monitoring, you can run a billion dollar empire and modernize your software to microservice architecture and follow modern cloud native processes like CI/CD and 12 factor app.
Recipe for doing DevOps within your Enterprise with Kubernetes
You have successfully stepped on the Kubernetes bandwagon and joined the multitude of companies who think Kubernetes will solve all their problems. But no one told you how. What kind of DevOps processes need to be build on top of Kubernetes to reap the benefits of all that was promised ? How do you do CI/CD, monitoring, On calls, upgrades, maintenance and more. More, so how do you do all this when your Enterprise runs on bare metal and machines go down and never come up for weeks ? You will leave this talk with a recipe for doing DevOps within your Enterprise using Kubernetes. You will become more confident of the exact steps you need to follow to deliver a good experience for your internal developers while still maintaining their trust and zero downtime for their applications. You will also learn about delivering software using staged manner across your data centers. All of this will be shared from a real experience of running Kubernetes clusters at Salesforce.
DeveloperWeek 2021 Sessionize Event
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