Talks

Past Talks

Helm + Flux: Feature Showcase & Demo Oct 2021

Martin Hickey (Helm maintainer), and Scott Rigby (Helm and Flux maintainer) present a feature showcase and demos of both Helm and Flux, reasons for the overwhelming community use of Helm for application packaging and deployment on k8s, and how Helm is extended by Flux for teams moving to GitOps. The video is available online.

Digital Developer Conference Data & AI June 2021 - Red Hat Markeplace Onboarding

IBM believes products should be able to run on multiple clouds without modification. This means buying into a Hybrid multi-cloud strategy. It’s IBM’s view that Red Hat OpenShift is the conduit or enabler for Hybrid multi-cloud. Red Hat Marketplace is the storefront for products certified for OpenShift. It is a public marketplace which simplifies the buying and managing of enterprise software. Are you going to be building and integrating with IBM Cloud Paks or IBM products? Or are you an ISV that wants to broaden your customer base in a global cloud Marketplace? Then you need to join IBM and other companies who have already onboarded their products to the Red Hat Marketplace. This talk will walk you through the process for onboarding your product. It will set you mind at ease about showcasing your product on an ecosystem to millions of potential customers and developers.

it@cork TechFest May 2021 - Panel Discussion-Open Source

Panel discussion on Open Source.

Helm Contributor Summit April 2021 - How Things Change in Helm

Helm, a CNCF graduated project, is over five years old but we’re always looking to grow our contributor community at all levels. Whether you’re new to contributing to Helm or want to learn more about what it takes to become a maintainer on a project maintained by distributed individuals and organizations, join us for a walkthrough of how the Helm organization works with our maintainers.

OpenShift Commons Sept 2020 - Helm Update

Open chat (with guests) about Helm and its current status. The video is available online.

CNCF Project Webinar June 2020 - Charting your voyage to Helm 3

Helm, a recently graduated CNCF project, has a major new version. Changing your Helm version may sound like a large undertaking; you may wonder where to start. Join Helm maintainers Matt Farina (Samsung), Martin Hickey (IBM), Adam Reese (Microsoft), and Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft) for a tactical discussion of exactly how to manage your migration from Helm 2 to Helm 3. Covers what the major differences are and how to make your change with a minimum of disruption. The aim to answer questions and help you plan for a successful migration to Helm 3. The video is available online.

Config Management Camp 2020 - Automating and Managing Clusters with Helm

Are you are one of the many people migrating their projects to Kubernetes? Have you found setting up and maintaining various app and cluster configurations an ordeal? Enter Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes. What does a package manager have to do with this? This session has the answer! A walk through some of the lessons learned about stability and migration with the recently released major version of Helm – Helm 3. It covers how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls. Will also introduce the improvements to the Helm SDK which aid the automation of your deployments in code. To wrap things up, there will be working examples of how to automate deployments and configurations.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 - Helm 3 Deep Dive

This talks covers the eagerly awaited relase of Helm, Helm 3. For many people this has been a highly anticipated release, longing for the removal of Tiller. Helm v3 however is more than just this. In this session, you will learn about the new features and the new architecture to support these features. Discusses the architecture and how the CLI and library has changed to improve usability It also looks at other features like the additions to charts and the new client security model. Worried about migration? That’s covered too! The slides and video are available online.

Helm Summit September 2019 - Library Charts

One of the challenges with Helm in prior versions was the lack of a solid reuse pattern for chart definitions. While the concept of helper templates could be used in Helm v2 to mitigate this problem, Helm v3 has added support for a new class called “library charts” which allow for sharing and reuse across all the templates in a chart or sub-chart. This talk provides clear answers to questions like “What is a library chart?”, “How do I use a library chart?” and “What are the use cases for library charts?”. This session focuses on practical guidance that will help you improve chart development by chart definition reuse. The advantages of using them are shown through this technical deep dive and demo. The slides and video are available online.

Helm Summit September 2019 - A Maintainer’s Story About Helping with Helm

As Helm becomes more commonplace in many people’s workflows, the community continues to expand. The Helm community has always been a welcoming place, but sometimes it seems hard to jump in and help, especially with how large it has become. A walk through some enlightening (and entertaining) mistakes and success to illustrate how to best contribute to Helm. Discover the various ways you can participate in the community – from documentation to writing code and everything in between. To finish, a discussion on some possible improvements for the future. The video is available online.

IBM Developer Webcast Dec 2018 - Helm 101: Tame the chaos of your Kubernetes apps with Helm charts

Helm development is backed by a strong open community in the CNCF space. It is used by many big corporations and small companies alike. This talk provides an overview of the Helm architecture, explain helm, charts and how it fits together, and demonstrate on how to deploy a Kubernetes application using Helm. The slides and video are available online.

elasticon 2017 - Localizing Kibana for the Global Language Landscape

This talk describes the key aspects of Kibana globalization from design to capability delivered, as well as some of the design journey they took to get there. It also provide the integration points for localization engineers who wish to add support for a particular language and plug-in authors adding or modifying Kibana plug-ins. The slides and video are available online.