Analyst highlights at KubeCon conference, Chicago 6-9 Nov 2023, including dynamic resource allocation (DRA) for GPUs and LF Telecom initiative between LF Networking and CNCF for addressing the needs of the telecoms industry such as multi-networking capabilities in Kubernetes.

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Summary

The KubeCon conference in Chicago, November 6–9, 2023, saw continued growth in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects and graduated projects. Themes for this event included addressing missing elements or enhancing existing features in the Kubernetes platform, such as dynamic resource allocation (DRA). A significant development is the Linux Foundation (LF) Telecom initiative between LF Networking (LFN) and CNCF for addressing the needs of the telecoms industry, such as multi-networking capabilities in Kubernetes. CNCF continues to grow, hosting 173 projects, involving over 219,000 contributors, across 190 countries. Four projects graduated in 2023: Cilium; Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) to enable using Open Container Initiative (OCI), which is known as CRI-O; Istio; and Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA). This report covers some of the highlights of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023.

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The CNCF has introduced an end user technical advisory board (TAB) to help end users adopt CNCF projects. This is the second major initiative by the CNCF to go beyond the maintainer (developers who contribute to CNCF projects) focus at KubeCon. The first was the launch at KubeCon of a parallel track, Cloud Native Executive Summit, for executive end users who are leading the adoption of CNCF projects in their organizations. One of the TAB’s missions is to review, approve, and publish reference architectures for cloud native technologies. This is an opportunity to address some misconceptions about suitable software architectures for cloud native computing. An Amazon Prime Video blog in March 2023, was taken by some developers as “proof” that microservices architecture was not good (in this story a microservices architecture was scrapped in favor of a monolith that reduced costs by 90%).

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