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How Chick-fil-A adopts GitOps and K3s at the Edge

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  • Presented by Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A

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Brian Chambers explains the design decisions, challenges, and architecture of running Kubernetes at the edge across Chick-fil-A restaurants.

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner interview Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A. Brian walks through some of the design decisions, challenges and architecture of how Chick-fil-A uses Kubernetes at the edge in their restaurants. Introduction Cloud Native News Interview with Madhuri Takeaways Cloud Native News: K8s 1.28 kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/ SC assignment stable- kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/#auto… Non graceful shutdown stable - kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/#gene… Ceph RBD and FS in tree deprecated Control plan and node supported version go from n-2 to n-3 Redhat Openstack services on OpenShift - redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-services-openshift-next… Alcion 21 Million funding round: techcrunch.com/2023/09/19/alcion-which-provides-backup-and-s… Veeam was major funder: techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366552363/Veeam-leads-f… Kubescape 3.0 - kubescape.io/blog/2023/09/19/introducing-kubescape-3/ GPU sharing on Amazon EKS with NVIDIA time-slicing and accelerated EC2 instances or MIG based sharing aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/gpu-sharing-on-amazon-eks-wi… aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/maximizing-gpu-utilization-w… Akuity launches Kargo - New Open Source project to automate declarative promotion of changes across multiple app environments - businesswire.com/news/home/20230918552920/en/Akuity-Launches… OpenTofu - Linux Foundations alternative to Terraform - loads of community support linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu?hss_channel=lc… CFP already open for Paris!!!! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/pro… Spectro Cloud funding round - last was Series B - so this should be series C, but doesnt say. No amount disclosed, no valuation change disclosed. businesswire.com/news/home/20230914570380/en/Spectro-Cloud-A…

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What people say. Recommended as a rock-solid approach to managing hundreds or thousands of on-premise edge Kubernetes clusters.

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I adopted chick fil a's approach and have found it to be pretty rock solid [video