Name: From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform - Ahmet Alp Balkan & Ronak Nathani, LinkedIn
Start: 2025-04-03T17:30:00+0100
End: 2025-04-03T18:00:00+0100

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1-4 April 2025
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Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

What does it take to design a Kubernetes-based fleet management stack that bridges the gap between bare-metal servers in data centers and a platform capable of hosting thousands of microservices, large-scale stateful applications, and a GPU fleet running AI workloads?

At LinkedIn, we use Kubernetes as a foundational primitive in our compute platform. We run thousands of microservices, manage large stateful applications with our custom scheduler, manage a large fleet of GPUs –all while performing regular maintenance on the bare metal hosts with no downtime or manual intervention.

In this talk, we’ll talk about how we architected and built an API-driven, Kubernetes-based compute stack with a large-scale microservices platform, a workload-agnostic stateful scheduler, and a multi-tenant ML/batch jobs platform. We’ll share insights on scaling Kubernetes for diverse workloads while maintaining tenant isolation, resilience, flexibility, and ease of use for developers.

Speakers

Ahmet Alp Balkan

Sr.Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Ahmet is working on building LinkedIn's next generation compute cluster management stack using Kubernetes. In the open source he maintains projects like Krew (kubectl plugin manager), and kubectx.

Ronak Nathani

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Ronak leads the Kubernetes team at LinkedIn, spearheading the company's transition to Kubernetes over the past few years. Prior to this role, he contributed to the development and management of LinkedIn's home-grown scheduler and internal private cloud. In addition to his day job... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Ahmet Alp Balkan

Ronak Nathani

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