Marko Bevc
Marko is Head of Consultancy at The Scale Factory, based in the UK. He has worked in the IT industry for more than two decades and engaged with many different technologies. He currently leads a team of experienced Consultants helping customers build and scale their SaaS platforms in the AWS Cloud. Marko is also responsible for steering Scale Factory’s technical direction based on the current industry trends. Being passionate about community diversity, equality, automation, Cloud Native and Open Source, you can also find Marko speaking and participating at DevOps, Cloud Native/Kubernetes and HashiCorp events. He’s a HashiCorp Ambassador, OpenUK Ambassador, open source contributor, problem solver and enthusiastic about emerging technologies. In his free time Marko enjoys hiking and travelling.
Sessions
Kubernetes doesn’t come with a built-in node autoscaling out of the box and as many other things it leaves it to the platform team to implement the appropriate strategy. Efficient node autoscaling is essential for ensuring that Kubernetes clusters can handle dynamic workloads and environments. In this talk, I will cover how Karpenter (an open-source node provisioning project) can be used to automate and manage Kubernetes nodes lifecycle by trying to make smarter decisions when it comes to right sizing your compute. It should result in improved resource utilization, reduced costs, and the ability to quickly and easily scale up or down based on workload demands compared to similar battle tested solutions. So does this really addresses all the scaling problems, what are still the gaps and how does it work in practice? I’ll also run a live demo to show how to use it and what to expect.