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In regulated enterprises, thousands of physical servers sit idle overnight, capacity paid for but unused. We built a spot scheduler that reclaims this donated infrastructure, turning idle bare-metal into ephemeral Kubernetes clusters using Cluster API and k0smotron. Each cluster runs Kata Containers and Confidential Containers (CoCo) for workload isolation and attestation, essential when running on hardware you don't permanently own.
Ephemeral clusters create an ephemeral DNS problem. As spot clusters spin up and down nightly, services must be discoverable without manual intervention. Bindy — an open-source, Rust-based Kubernetes operator for BIND9, closes the loop, automatically managing DNS records as clusters materialize and dissolve.
This talk covers the spot scheduler architecture, why CoCo and Kata are essential for multi-tenant spot workloads, and how bindy provides DNS lifecycle automation for ephemeral infrastructure.
Director - Head of Kubernetes Platform Engineering, RBC Capital Markets
Erick Bourgeois is a platform engineering specialist focused on Kubernetes operators and infrastructure automation for regulated industries. Creator of Bindy, an open-source DNS controller built in Rust, Erick brings expertise in cloud-native architecture, compliance frameworks (SOX... Read More →
