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Monday Nov 18, 2019 | San Diego, California
Ed Warnicke - Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems
Ed Warnicke is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems. He has been working for over a decade in many
areas of networking and Open Source. Ed is a founder of and active contributor to the Network Service Mesh project.
Ed has a masters in Physics (String Theory) from Rutgers University.
Nikolay Nikolaev - Open Source Networking Team Lead, VMware
Nikolay Nikolaev is an Open Source Networking Team Lead in the Open Source Technology Center at VMware and a core
maintainer on the Network Service Mesh project. For the last 16 years, he has been implementing networking software
ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized dataplanes. He spent some time in the
virtualization world with projects like KVM, DPDK and OpenStack.
Frederick Kautz - Head of Edge Infrastructure and Federated Learning, doc.ai
He was previously a Senior Principal SW Eng in the CTO Office at Red Hat where he focused on improving container networking. His past experiences also include building big data pipelines, complex continuous integration systems, scale-out storage, and early contributions to Docker.
The Network Service Mesh advertises itself as a novel approach to complex networking. This statement is just as intriguing as it is vague! This talk will shed light on NSM by providing clear, tangible definitions and explanations of virtual wires, network service endpoints, network services and NSM’s architecture from a network noob’s point of view. Together we shall arrive at an accurate, actionable mental model of NSM, what it is and how it works.
Dominik Tornow - Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems
Dominik is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Cisco. He focuses on systems modeling, specifically
conceptual and formal modeling, to support the design and documentation of complex software systems.
Trying to understand the service mesh strata? Brace yourself. It gets a bit meshy. Data plane, control plane, and a… management plane. What is a management plane and how is it different than a control plane?
Learn how Meshery, an open source, multi-service mesh management plane integrates with Network Service Mesh as we discuss and demonstrate their complimentary architecture. As a multi-mesh management plane, Meshery manages the lifecycle of NSM, providing insight into its CNFs while facilitating benchmarking of various configuration scenarios of Network Service Mesh.
See how these three service mesh planes combine to facilitate performance comparisons of services (applications) on and off the mesh and across different meshes. Understand the caveats of onboarding your applications onto a service mesh as Meshery validates best practices configuration of NSM and its CNFs.
Lee Calcote - Founder, Layer5
Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers with efficient
and effective solutions. As Founder of Layer5, he is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source,
advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Calcote’s tenure at SolarWinds, Seagate,
Cisco and Schneider Electric. An advisor, author, and speaker, Calcote is active in the community as a Docker Captain,
Cloud Native Ambassador and Google Summer of Code Mentor.
Girish R Ranganathan - Chief Architect, Layer5
Girish is a software technologist who has played a pivotal role in architecting and developing a variety of large
scale distributed systems on a range of platforms including microservices, service meshes and serverless. He strongly
believes that simple ideas can go a long way into building efficient, reliable, secure and scalable systems.
Prem Sankar - Director of Engineering, Lumina Networks
Prem Sankar Gopannan brings two decades of experience to bear as Lumina Networks’ Director of Engineering. At Lumina,
he leads 5G product strategy where he leverages his open source expertise. Previous to his role at Lumina, Prem
managed SDN product strategy focusing on cloud-native architecture and product delivery within cloud and networking
domains. An active evangelist of Microservices and SDN/Telco/Edge Cloud architectures, Prem is commonly found leading
Cloud Native NF and Kubernetes sessions and workshops. His engagement includes opensource summits, Opendaylight,
OPNFV, Intel SDN/NFV developer labs and Open networking summits, extends digitally through his technology
microblog: .
Telcos, ISPs, and enterprises are looking to adopt cloud-native solutions in the face of industry transitions to NFV, 5G, edge computing, IoT, and multi-cloud connectivity. Network Service Mesh facilitates the move to cloud-native by providing a toolset for containerized applications to take advantage of advanced networking capabilities. In this session, Bruce McDougall and Zia Syed will present and demonstrate an NSM solution which enables container-based applications to request their own network “Quality of Experience”. The solution itself is an integration of NSM with the team’s microservices-based SDN system nicknamed “Voltron”. The combination allows NSM to offer services such as traffic engineering, path steering, or even virtual topology creation to containerized applications with use cases spanning 5G, network slicing, and next-gen VPNs.
Bruce McDougall - Systems Architect, Cisco Systems
Bruce McDougall is a Systems Architect at Cisco where he has spent 10 years working with some of the world’s most
sophisticated Web/OTT and Telco operators on high scale network architecture, Segment Routing, MPLS, SDN, and network
automation. Prior to Cisco, Bruce spent a number of years as a network engineer and architect working in both the web
and service provider sectors. His goal is to help large scale network operators move toward centralized control planes
and common API-driven dataplanes across all transport networks, which will improve the ability to innovate on top of
the network, and lead to massive increases in operational scale.
Zia Syed - System Engineer, Cisco Systems
Zia Syed is a Software Systems Engineer at Cisco, where he has launched his career by taking on new challenges in
application and network optimization. Over the past three years, he has worked with modern tech stacks, open-source
solutions, and futuristic innovations to develop transformations in scalability, automation, and efficiency for Web
operators. Before joining Cisco, Zia graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Computer Science.
Come learn how we have integrated Tungsten Fabric and NSM to supercharge Kubernetes networking! Learn how to connect your pods to advanced network services which have been battle hardened in telecom and large enterprise environments. In addition to presenting an integration, we discuss how the technology between the two works and how both communities collaborated together to achieve a common goal. If time permits, we will also show a demo.
Sukhdev Kapur - Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of Contrail Software Development team. He is
on the TSC of Tungsten Fabric and Akraino Edge Stack (open source projects under Linux Foundation). He is also on
Technical Advisory Council of LF Edge. Sukhdev is a networking veteran with 20+ years in highly available distributed
systems, cloud computing, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads mgmt, and software defined networks. He
holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud based disaster recovery, high
availability, etc.
The NSM inter-domain feature adds the ability for NSM to create connections between clients and network service endpoints in different NSM domains, e.g. Kubernetes clusters. Building upon this capability, it’s possible to create network service endpoints that dynamically form a common private L3 routing domain to interconnect workloads hosted in multiple NSM domains. This presentation and demo will explore an example implementation of a virtual L3 network service endpoint, the NSM inter-domain deployment, and resulting dataplane connectivity details across multiple Kubernetes clusters. We will discuss the integration of existing application service mesh L4-L7 features with the virtual L3 NSE to highlight the simplifications in the application admin experience.
Tim Swanson - Senior Technical Lead, Cisco Systems
Tim is a senior technical lead engineer at Cisco in the office of the CTO for Cloud Platform & Solutions. Tim’s
current focuses are on multicloud solutions, service meshes, and contributing to related opensource c
ommunities—primarily, Istio. Previously, Tim was an active contributor to OpenStack. Prior to open-source work,
Tim was primarily involved in developing embedded features for Cisco’s physical networking products, with a focus
on manageability. His spare time consists coaching sports and generally being active with his 2 children.
John Joyce - Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems
John is a principal engineer at Cisco responsible for developing cloud infrastructure and solutions. As part of the
Cloud CTO Office, John currently focuses on contributing to the Kubernetes, Istio and Network Service Mesh
communities and building multicloud solutions. Previously, John was an active contributor to OpenStack. John has a
long history contributing to various Cisco virtual and physical networking products.
Lunch will be provided during this one hour break courtesy of our lunch sponsor
NSM effort was launched in order to address gaps in handling complicated L2 and L3 use cases. Now celebrating its 1st release, the project can be proud of a pretty stable state and a wide variety of features. It came to a point where it needs to focus on integrating solutions and increasing easy adoption and observability. Meanwhile, given that Service Mesh is a hot topic with different competing implementations on the cloud native landscape, the open source project SMI was born with broad industry support to unite all efforts in this area under a common specification. Starting with the idea to adopt SMI for the non-standard L2/L3 use cases that NSM covers, the outcome turned out to be bigger than expected, reflecting in an improvement of the traffic observability - an important step forward the project usability. In this session we will introduce details around the SMI adoption and the practical results of the community efforts in the direction of increasing monitoring capabilities.
Ivana Atanasova - Open Source Engineer, VMware
Ivana Atanasova is part of the VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She’s been contributing to OpenFaaS as a project
member and later became contributor to Network Service Mesh. Previously she has been working on Apache Brooklyn and
Brooklyn Blockstore, as well as a contractor with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences for NLP related projects. She’s been speaking to various events including KubeCon,
Open Networking Summit and Open Source Summit EU.
There are many application service mesh related projects (Istio, Linkerd, SMI, etc.). Network Service Mesh (NSM) aims to solve a slightly different problem. Used together they are immensely powerful. NSM can be used to solve microservice specific multicloud connectivity issues, but even with that connectivity, application service mesh integration doesn’t come for free. Application service mesh solutions are great in single cloud environments but become unwieldy or unusable across multiple environments. In this talk and demo we will show an NSM multicloud application connectivity solution with Istio integration to provide the control, security and observability applications require ACROSS multiple clouds. We will demo Istio service discovery working with NSM connected workloads. Envoy with form an application service mesh on top of the network mesh created by NSM. This will allow Istio to provide seamless control over microservices regardless of how they are connected.
John Joyce - Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems
John is a principal engineer at Cisco responsible for developing cloud infrastructure and solutions. As part of the
Cloud CTO Office, John currently focuses on contributing to the Kubernetes, Istio and Network Service Mesh
communities and building multicloud solutions. Previously, John was an active contributor to OpenStack. John has a
long history contributing to various Cisco virtual and physical networking products.
Tim Swanson - Senior Technical Lead, Cisco Systems
Tim is a senior technical lead engineer at Cisco in the office of the CTO for Cloud Platform & Solutions. Tim’s
current focuses are on multicloud solutions, service meshes, and contributing to related opensource c
ommunities—primarily, Istio. Previously, Tim was an active contributor to OpenStack. Prior to open-source work,
Tim was primarily involved in developing embedded features for Cisco’s physical networking products, with a focus
on manageability. His spare time consists coaching sports and generally being active with his 2 children.
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Tamas Zsiros - Expert end-to-end systems archtecture, Ericsson
Tamas Zsiros is an engineer, architect and technical leader in Ericsson AB with more than 19 years of professional
experience in the cloud, IP and telecommunications areas, living in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently driving
digitalization and cloud native transformation for Business Area Digital Services applications including telco VNFs,
OSS and BSS. He has played a key role in platform shifts of telecom applications from monolithic architectures
through component driven development to microservice-based cloud native architecture, coordinating evolution of
applications and cloud infrastructure. He is an experienced speaker and has extensive multicultural experience
gained through living and working around the globe.
Henrik Persson - Expert, Chief Architect, Ericsson
Henrik Saavedra Persson has a master’s degree in software engineering. Joined Ericsson back in 2006 and has since
then been taken on different roles within the company. He has been part of the company transition towards the use of
open source since 2009. His current role is chief architect for the company wide architecture for cloud native.
The CNF Testbed initiative provides a vendor-neutral space to explore and evaluate open source networking technologies and their interoperability, in addition to fostering collaboration between the various projects and communities.
A multi-gateway use case which demonstrates access to physical ports as well as multiple network paths for service chains will be shown. NSM is used to stitch all of the connections together from each container (using different interface types) all the way through the gateways where traffic exits the cluster.
Taylor Carpenter - Partner / Senior Factotum, Vulk Coop
Partner at Vulk Cooperative - http://vulk.coop | Project Lead cncf.ci + CNF Testbed. OpenSource advocate, using
Linux since 1994 with the 1.0 release and gnu tools on other unix systems before that. OpsDev geek. Elixir and
Ruby programmer. Proponent of improving user experience (UX) in all endeavors including group collaboration,
end-user applications, developer tools, APIs. Taylor has helped companies (startups to enterprise) with integrations
and modernizing their platforms for over 18 years. This covers many domains such as networking, security and
financial with companies including Nortel Networks, Bank of America, and IBM. He’s also helped design and
run the technology needs of organizations such as Lonestar Ruby Conference.
Nikolay Nikolaev - Open Source Networking Team Lead, VMware
Open Source Networking Team Lead in the Open Source Technology Center at VMware and a core maintainer on the Network Service Mesh project. For the last 16 years, he has been implementing networking software ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized dataplanes. He spent some time in the virtualization world with projects like KVM, DPDK and OpenStack.
With the advent of Edge Computing, Cloud Native network transformation and evolution towards In-Network Computing, NSM combined with network programming concepts of SRv6 can provide a highly efficient framework to design large scale services.
Daniel Bernier - Senior Technical Architect, Bell Canada
Daniel is a Senior Architect in the Network Strategy team at Bell Canada involved in research and development of
disruptive technologies transforming the Telco space. He is currently working on the edge cloud strategy and
cloud-native transformation leveraging optimized CP/UP separation and advances in network and hardware
programming for cost effectiveness. He is involved in various open source community projects such as FD.io,
Network Service Mesh and P4.org. He is also participating at the IETF, co-authoring and collaborating on various
drafts for SPRING based service-programming and SFC.
Are you running workloads in multiple clusters? Across multiple clouds: on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, or public cloud? Do they need to interact with legacy workloads running in less “cloudy” environments? Network Service Mesh (NSM) ties them all together, at the granularity of individual workloads, not cluster/VPCs/data centers.
NSM is a community-driven CNCF Sandbox project that is rapidly gaining momentum because of its ability to simplify connectivity between workloads, independent of where they are running. It extends an IP reachability domain to workloads running in multiple clusters, legacy environments, on-premises, or in a public cloud, communicating with the protocols they are currently using.
NSM does this at the granularity of individual workloads. Your workloads have connectivity to just the workloads they need nothing more, nothing less. NSM brings the useful features of a Service Mesh from the lofty heights of HTTP all the way down to IP itself. Applications and Application Service Meshes, such as Istio, run unaltered on top, leaving the hybrid/multicloud IP connectivity to NSM.
The project emerged organically as a community project to solve these problems by applying the Service Mesh thought process all the way down to IP with the global peering mentality of the Internet itself – without breaking your existing environment.
Join the people building and using NSM at Network Service Mesh Con for a day of tutorials, deep dives, and use cases to learn how NSM works, what it can do for you, and, most importantly, what’s coming next.
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