# KubeCon NA 2021 Call for Proposal [Proposal Information ](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/cfp/) ### Dates to remember * CFP Opens: Monday, March 1, 2021 * CFP Closes: **Sunday, May 23 at 11:59 pm PDT** * CFP Notifications: Monday, August 2, 2021 * Schedule Announcement: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 * Event Dates: October 12-15, 2021 ### 1. Submission format * Dual Presenter ### 2. CNCF Related Projects * K3s * Akri ### 3. Topic * Customizing & Extending Kubernetes (including KubeVirt, Volcano, CNI-Genie, KUDO, Artifact Hub, Crossplane, Cloud Custodian, Contour, k3s, Tremor, metal3-io, & OpenYurt) ### 4. Talk Description Title: Incorporating Industrial IoT devices into your Kubernetes Cluster using K3s and Akri As industrial IoT solutions grow more complex, the need for managing and orchestrating IoT devices grows stronger and stronger. Unlike the cloud however, on the edge there are constrained requirements on the physical nodes that limit the amount of resources that can be devoted to orchestration. Not only that, on the edge, there is also a diversity of devices that might not be able to support Kubernetes directly, but would benefit from being connected to a cluster. In this talk, we'll dive into how K3s can be used to create a lightweight compute fabric on the edge and how Akri can be used on top of that to discover IoT devices and advertise them as a resource into your cluster. We'll demonstrate how the two projects can come together to onobard and integrate industrial IoT devices into an application. ### 5. Benefits to the Ecosystem K3s is an official CNCF sandbox project that delivers a lightweight yet powerful certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads across resource-restrained, remote locations or on IoT devices. Akri(https://github.com/deislabs/akri) empowers the edge by exposing IoT devices to clusters as Kubernetes resources. A user can simply apply an Akri Configuration and the work of discoverying, using, and monitoring the availability of the devices is abstracted away from the the user. Akri currently supports udev, OPC UA, and IP Camera discovery, but its extensible architecture allows anyone to create Discovery Handlers for their specific devices. Akri is currently applying to be a Sandbox Project in the CNCF. ### 6. Biography of Speakers Edrick is a Program Manager at Microsoft. He spends most of his bringing Kubernetes to smaller devices and making the edge a little bit more pleasent to work with. Basil drives strategy and management of SUSE Rancher cloud-native products. Working with the SUSE global customer base, he is also driving development of cloud-native edge solutions that encompass cluster management, industrial IOT adoption, heterogeneous architectures, and zero-trust security approaches at scale. ### 7. Resources * Akri(https://github.com/deislabs/akri) * k3s (https://www.k3s.io/)