DoK Talks #82- What we learned from 100 Kubernetes postmortems and how to prevent them // Shimon Tolts

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK
A smart person learns from their own mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others. When launching our product, we wanted to learn as much as possible about typical pains in our ecosystem, and did so by reviewing many post-mortems (100+!) to discover the recurring patterns, anti-patterns, and root causes of typical outages in Kubernetes-based systems. In this talk we have aggregated for you the insights we gathered, and in particular will review the most obvious DON’Ts and some less obvious ones, that may help you prevent your next production outage by learning from others' real world (horror) stories.
BIO
At 15 years old, Shimon started his first company, providing web hosting on top of Linux servers in the pre-cloud era. He established and managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. Also as an AWS Community Hero, Shimon runs the largest AWS user-group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Shimon co-leads the Israeli CNCF chapter Today, Shimon is the CEO and Co-Founder at Datree, which prevents Kubernetes misconfiguration from reaching production.
KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK
How to prevent misconfiguration in Kubernetes workloads