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#KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest
Wednesday, November 13
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Solutions Showcase
Thank you to our sponsor!
Join the community and our sponsors from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM in Halls A-C + 1-5 for an incredible gathering of local food favorites, beverages, games, and other activities including:
- Build It Zone: Let your imagination run wild! Build and race Lego cars down the zipline or team up to create a working amusement park ride with K’nex!
- Classic Games Zone: Step into nostalgia with Mario Kart, PacMan, and timeless arcade games!
- Winter Game Zone: Try curling, snowboarding, skiing, or snowmobiling – winter thrills await! Check out the jugglers, magicians, and balloon twisters.
- Create It Zone: Snap a ski lift photo, get a robot-drawn portrait, share Kubernetes memories, or relax by the fire with live guitar music, puzzles, and fun with friends!
- Pickleball Court: Game on! Grab some friends and enjoy a friendly (or competitive!) round of pickleball.
- Back by popular demand, don’t miss out on the ClashLoopBackOff challenge! (Located in the Project Pavilion.)
- SIG Social: Visit this alcohol-free zone during the event for boba.
To redeem your drink tickets during the party, visit an Info Desk after the keynote for an ID check and a
21+ wristband.
Activation Zones
Wednesday, November 13 – Friday, November 15
Location: Solutions Showcase
Malware vs. Vulnerability powered by Sonatype
Can you differentiate between intentionally malicious components and those with vulnerabilities? Your organization’s response, urgency, and defense strategies to these threats must be distinct.
Stop by to test your knowledge and grab some SWAG. Try our jelly bean tasting — but make sure to pick the right one otherwise you might get bean boozled. If jelly beans aren’t your thing, pick one of our surprise boxes — just like your repository, there’s a 50-50 chance you’ll find malware.
The OpenTelemetry Observatory Powered by Splunk
Take a moment to come relax in the community lounge to meet up with users and contributors to the OpenTelemetry project. Our space will have comfortable seating, power, and opportunities to connect and share knowledge in an open and inclusive environment.
SUSE Activation Zone
Attendees will be able to experience an up close look at one of the most popular electric vehicles available in the market while also learning how Rivian uses SUSE Rancher for container management and Portworx as a Kubernetes data service platform. In addition to the Rivian customer story, we will have a fun trivia game that attendees can participate in. Attendees will be able to compete against each other in the trivia game and win fun prizes and bragging rights over their friends.
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Thank you to our sponsor!
Keep Cloud Native Well
Keeping Cloud Native well is a top priority for our community throughout the conference. Below are some resources and activities we’re offering onsite to help keep Cloud Native well.
Wellbeing Coach – Colleen Passard
Colleen Passard is the Ombudsperson and Mediator for this event. She is also a Wellbeing Coach and available onsite to offer assistance to those seeking support with wellbeing while attending the conference.
Learn more about her experience and how to connect with her onsite. You can book time with her directly through this Calendly link.
Self-Led Morning Run
Wednesday, November 13
7:00 – 8:00 am
Friday, November 15
7:00 – 8:00 am
Location: Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City
Thank you to our sponsor!
Meet up with a group of like-minded exercise enthusiasts for a morning pick-me-up before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon kicks off! This self-led morning run will be a leisurely way to get your morning off to a great start! Suggested routes will be provided. Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City at 6:50 AM. Look for the Morning Run sign!
Pet-a-Pup
Wednesday, November 13
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Thursday, November 14
12:00 – 3:00 pm & 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Location: 252 Foyer across from Grab & Go
Thank you to our sponsor!
Come meet some of Utah’s cutest and most loveable therapy dogs!
Relaxation Station
Wednesday, November 13
10:45 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday, November 14
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, November 15
10:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location: Solutions Showcase
Chair Massages
Whether it’s a disruptive email or an unplanned meeting, we all have stressful days. Take a few minutes to unwind with a 10-minute chair massage to help stimulate blood circulation and relaxation. Appointments available on-site.
Oxygen Bar
Recharge your mind and body with pure oxygen.
Zen Zone
Need some space and quiet time? We’ve got you covered! Visit the Zen Zone and check out a pair of noise-canceling headphones or a yoga mat for some extra relaxation.
Project Pavilion Daily Tours
Wednesday, november 13 – Friday, November 15
Location: Solutions Showcase, Project Pavilion
Explore the Project Pavilion, a hub of innovation and discovery! Take part in daily tours, interact with project maintainers at their kiosks, gain insights on community engagement and KCD event organization, and learn more about certification opportunities to showcase your expertise.
Join cloud veteran Jorge Castro and CNCF Ambassadors on a guided tour of our cloud native projects. This tour will include an introduction to the Pavilion, making introductions, interacting with maintainers, and ensuring you end up talking to the right projects!
Capture The Flag
Introductory Workshop
Wednesday, November 13 | 12:10 – 12:45 PM & 2:30 – 3:05 PM
Capture The Flag Experience
Thursday, November 14 | 11:00 AM – 5:05 PM
Location: Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255A
The Capture The Flag (CTF) experience runs concurrently to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024!
Delve deeper into the dark and mysterious world of cloud native security! Exploit a supply chain attack and start your journey deep inside the target infrastructure, utilize your position to hunt and collect the flags, and hopefully learn something new and wryly amusing along the way!
Attendees can play three increasingly treacherous and demanding scenarios to bushwhack their way through the dense jungle of cloud native security. Everybody is welcome, from beginner to seasoned veterans, as we venture amongst the low-hanging fruits of insecure configuration and scale the lofty peaks of cluster compromise! Want to know more about the CTF? Learn more.
CNCF End User Reception
Wednesday, November 13
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Broadcast Lounge
The CNCF End User Reception brings together cloud native users for food, beverages, networking, and a casual setting to discuss best practices and lessons learned. Join us to meet peers and learn helpful tactics to help navigate the cloud native community!
Note: This event is reserved exclusively for active or applying CNCF end user members.
CLBO: ClashLoopBackOff
Wednesday, November 13
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Thursday, November 14
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Friday, November 15
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Solutions Showcase, Project Pavilion
Come and watch a competition of two people using their technical ingenuity and creativity to solve a challenge put forth by the Scheduler (host). Time is limited and stakes are high, as this isn’t just a “live demo” for the masses. Over the course of twenty minutes, competitors will attempt to resolve a broken cluster, or deploy a service to production. At the end of the time, entries will be judged on four categories. Each category will be rated on Stability, Resiliency, Flexibility, and Observability.
Participants won’t know what challenge they’ll be given ahead of time but will be informed whether certain cloud resources or APIs will need to be enabled and available. Pre-creating any helpful scripts, code, or cloud resources is strictly prohibited. During the competition, the Scheduler will bounce between the participants’ screens, engage with the audience, and ask questions of the participants live.
Join us, root for our competitors, and feel free to engage live!
Kubernetes Sig Meet and Greet Lunch and Learn
Thursday, November 14
Time: 12:30 – 2:30 PM
Location: Solutions Showcase, Project Pavilion
Grab your lunch and come join the Kubernetes SIG Meet and Greet! This event is for SIGs and WGs, new and experienced contributors. We will have representatives from each SIG / WG to answer questions and talk more about how to get involved. The Kubernetes M&G is for both:
Experienced Kubernetes contributors who are interested in expanding their involvement in new SIGs / WGs.
New contributors, many of whom have extensive experience from other projects and are excited to get started in Kubernetes after attending a New Contributor Workshop.
CNCF Public Sector User Group BoF
Thursday, November 14
Time: 4:30 – 5:05 PM
Location: Salt Palace | Level 2 | 253AB
This BoF Session of CNCF Public Sector User Group members will discuss the challenges and solutions to improve Software Supply Chains that span multiple entities, networks, and security levels. The CNCF Public Sector User Group is developing a white paper proposing a framework for using open-source projects like Sigstore and in-toto to meet global government needs while ensuring cost-effective software supply chain solutions.
This panel will discuss the challenges of managing multiple roots of trust for Sigstore, establishing policy across public and privately accessible attestations, and meeting SLSA compliance for private infrastructure.
LF Education Learning Lounge
Wednesday, november 13 – Friday, November 15
Location: Solutions Showcase, Learning Lounge
Meet directly with subject matter experts, course authors & certification developers. Get help determining your next training & certification steps to make your career profile stand out. Find us near the Cloud Native Corner Store in the Solutions Showcase. View the schedule for daily sessions taking place within the lounge.
Inside Argo: A Documentary Film World Premiere
Thursday, November 14
Time: 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Location: Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254
Join us for the world premiere of “Inside Argo: Automating the Future,” a thought-provoking documentary film that chronicles the journey of a groundbreaking open source innovation that revolutionized Kubernetes workflows. Set in 2017, we follow the project teams as they develop and launch Argo and the suite of tools designed to simplify and automate Kubernetes deployments. The film unveils how Argo grows from a single workflow engine to a powerful collection of tools—Argo Workflows, CD, Rollouts, and Events—and captures the spirit of innovation and collaboration in the open source community. We hear from the leading voices from Akuity, CNCF, CodeFresh by Octopus Deploy, Intuit, Red Hat and the early founders to the modern-day maintainers to experience the full story behind Argo’s origins, meteoric rise, and transformative impact on modern cloud native development.
