Whitney Lee
CNCF Ambassador, Developer Advocate at Broadcom
Austin, Texas, United States
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Whitney is a lovable goofball and a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV, and she also co-hosts the streaming show You Choose! - a 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure'-style journey through the CNCF landscape alongside Viktor Farcic.
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What a RUSH! Let's Deploy Straight to Production
Feel the adrenaline of deploying to production during business hours! Join Whitney as she discusses how to empower application teams to be happily productive, and to enable them to continuously deliver value to end users. Learn how a platform built on top of Kubernetes can facilitate the creation and consumption of complex infrastructure so that developers can have the tools that they need at the moment that they need them. By understanding best practices around platform engineering and how a platform team can provide a beautiful developer experience, you can pave the path to production for the entire organization.
Watch a live demo showing tools including CNCF projects Crossplane, Helm, vcluster, Knative, and ArgoCD to gain a practical understanding of how to adopt, integrate and glue different tools together to build a platform that your application development teams will love.
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Struggle for Security
Our hero, a running application in a Kubernetes production environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They are serving end users, but currently, they are also endangering those users, the system, and themselves! But the struggle for security is HARD, filled with system design choices concerning secrets management; cluster-level, runtime, and network policies; and image scanning and signing.
It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from a vulnerable, unprotected application to their final form⎯an app that is secure against invasion. In their third ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they try to protect themselves against every kind of exploit. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero app's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects to safeguard our app, system, and users against attack before the session time elapses?
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Perilous Passage to Production
Our hero, a running application in a Kubernetes development environment, knows that they are destined for greater things! They long to be living in production, serving end users! However, the journey from dev to prod is hard, filled with system design choices concerning cluster provisioning, GitOps, traffic routing, app config, and production-grade backing services. And who knows what unseen forces lurk in the shadows! One wrong step could be catastrophic.
It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from an app in development to their final form⎯an app running in production. In their second KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they try to find their way to production. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero app's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and avoid dead-ends to get our app to production before the session time elapses?
Security Showdown: The Overconfident Operator vs the Nefarious Ne’er-Do-Well
Ozzie the Overconfident Operator has secured their cluster! They have done it all: role-based access control, encryption at rest, TLS…and as they congratulate themself on a job well done, Nova the Nefarious Ne’er-do-well watches from around the corner, drooling with anticipation. Spoiler alert⎯Ozzie is about to get HACKED.
In this talk, the speakers play the characters of Ozzie and Nova and playfully demo cluster security as Nefarious Nova exploits each of Ozzie’s security decisions. What can Overconfident Ozzie do when Nova gets the upper hand? How can Ozzie proactively keep Nova’s threats at bay?
Take security beyond the firewall and discover cloud native security concepts such as identity management, container image scanning and signing, creating and implementing policies, runtime security, and secrets management.
Learn security basics alongside Overconfident Ozzie, who is sure the cluster is COMPLETELY secure this time. There is nothing Nova can do to break… uh-oh. Not again!
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Treacherous Trek to Production
From the moment of their inception as source code on the developer’s laptop, our hero knows that they are destined for great things. They long to be a real, running application, living in production, serving end users! But the epic journey to production is an arduous one, filled with cascading choices—choices concerning app design, testing, security, container image building, deployment strategy, and observability, to name a few. And who knows what other unseen forces lurk in the shadows! One wrong step could be catastrophic.
It is up to us, the audience, to guide our hero; and to help them grow from source code to container image, to their final form as a running application in production. In this ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present a linear view of all of the choices that an anthropomorphized application must make as they try to find their way to the fabled land of production. Throughout the presentation, the audience will use a voting app to choose which path our hero application will take. Can we navigate CNCF projects and avoid pitfalls and dead-ends to get our application to production before the session time elapses?
Join us if you dare! This talk is not for the faint of heart!
Who Should Use Kubernetes?
Who should use Kubernetes? Like, who is Kubernetes for? Kubernetes can be difficult to install and complicated to use and manage. What are the benefits of Kubernetes, and at what point do these benefits outweigh the operational complexity?
Join Whitney for a fun and fast-paced talk about the benefits and drawbacks of Kubernetes, and why the main advantage of Kubernetes adoption is not what you think!
Knative Core Concepts! And Spiders!
Although Knative has been community-maintained since 2018, there has been buzz around the project lately because Knative has recently been accepted to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubating project.
Cool! But what is Knative, exactly?
Simply put, Knative is a technology that streamlines and enhances the way that applications run on Kubernetes.
This talk is for people who are excited about this value proposition and want to dig deeper. How does it work? What components are at play? In what ways is running an app on Knative superior to running it directly on Kubernetes?
Instead of presenting slides, Whitney will diagram the fundamental concepts of Knative, explaining how they work in simple, relatable terms. She will then drive deeper understanding with a live coding demo that gives context to the main points. With spiders and rainbows. You know, a real-life, straightforward, run-of-the-mill use case.
Attend this talk to gain a high-level understanding of Knative, its main components, and how it simplifies and improves the way that apps run on Kubernetes.
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Whitney Lee
CNCF Ambassador, Developer Advocate at Broadcom
Austin, Texas, United States
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