Two days at the KCD Suisse Romande

The 4th and 5th december, I attended KCD Suisse Romande in Geneva. It was a great event in a great place with great people. I really enjoyed the talks and the workshops.

First Day: the workshops

After a meeting at the entrance of the CERN, we went to attend the workshops:

20000 issues sous les mers – Moving Like a Fish in a Tempestuous Sea

A very interesting workshop reproducing a possible real use case:

We are given a Kubernetes infrastructure, we only have one Kubeconfig, we need to discover, debug, and fix the problems on the cluster.

A good exercise very close to real life !

Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Secure the Software Supply Chain, Empower the Developer

Apart from the somewhat misleading title (nothing about AI in the workshop), a good overview of the possibilities of Openshift to build a self-service catalog, deploy and provision applications.

The visit of the CERN

At the end of the day a visit of one facility of the CERN was organized. For my part, I visited the Antimatter Factory. A great experience to know more about antimatter.

Second Day: the talks

The second day at the CERN auditorium was dedicated to talks.

After the keynote, we followed various talks that allowed us to learn about real life scenario of Kubernetes implementations in different environments, such as public structures, pension funds, banks, etc.

One talk focused on building an AI platform based on Kubernetes, which was very interesting. How to build a scalable and efficient infrastructure for AI workloads and how to scale up pods quickly was a very interesting subject.

Conclusion

Overall, the KCD Suisse Romande was a great event, the location at the CERN was incredible. Both workshops and talks were very interesting and confirmed that Kubernetes is now a key technology in the IT world. For a first edition of the KCD Suisse Romande, it was a great success, and I look forward to the next edition!