OS Licenses and Biz Models + Intro to Kubernetes + Book & Swag Giveways

We've updated the meetup, and it's going to be a good one!

We'll focus on two topics that are of great interest to those in the open source space, and we'll feature two world-class speakers.

The topics: Open Source Software Licenses and Business Models and An Introduction to Kubernetes and Continuous Delivery Fundamentals.

In addition to the talks, there will be networking, a Jobs Board, drinks and snacks, and we're giving away swag and at least 5 copies of Brad Topol's book - Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes.

The location of this event will be The Carolina Theater in downtown Durham, NC - 309 W Morgan St, Durham, NC 27701. We'll be in Cinema 1, which is extremely nice and will allow for plenty of distancing.

Doors will open at 6:00 pm, live programming will begin at 6:30 pm ET sharp. *FREE swag from All Things Open and sponsors / partners will be available, as always.

SPONSORS:

We thank the world-class sponsors making this event possible..
Camunda - https://camunda.com/
Fidelity Investments - https://www.fidelity.com/
AlmaLinux - https://almalinux.org/

Speaker #1
Peter Zaitzev - CEO & Co-founder, Percona

Bio:
Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on Open Source strategy and databases optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at Open Source, Databases and related conferences.

Talk Title:
Open Source Software Licenses and Business Models Explained

Abstract:
There are many business models and licenses surrounding Open Source Software. In this presentation, we will look into these business models and licenses impact the business and community. We will cover Services based models, Dual License, OpenSaaS, Open Core, and other business models.

Speaker #2:
Brad Topol, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Bio:
Dr. Brad Topol is an IBM Distinguished Engineer leading efforts focused on Open Technologies and Developer Advocacy. In his current role, Brad leads a development team with responsibility for contributing to and improving Kubernetes and several other cloud native open source projects. Brad is a Kubernetes contributor, serves as a member of the Kubernetes Conformance Workgroup, and is a Kubernetes Documentation Maintainer. He also serves as Chair of the Kubernetes SIG Docs Localization Subgroup. He is a co-author of Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2021. In addition, he is a co-author of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2018. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998.

Talk Title:
An Introduction to Kubernetes and Continuous Delivery Fundamentals

Talk Abstract:
Kubernetes is a cloud infrastructure that has emerged as the de facto standard platform for managing, orchestrating, and provisioning container-based cloud native computing applications. Cloud native computing applications are built from a collection of smaller services and take advantage of the speed of development and scalability cloud computing environments provide. In this talk, we provide an overview of the fundamentals of Kubernetes. We begin with a short introduction to the concept of containers and describe the Kubernetes architecture. We then present several core features provided by Kubernetes such as Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Service objects, and autoscaling capabilities. We conclude with a discussion of Kubernetes continuous delivery fundamentals and tools, including how to do small batch changes, source control, and developer access to production-like environments.