Cloud Native Computing Meetup | February 2023

Please join our February 2023 CNC meetup on Thursday, February 23rd 2023 at 16:00 CET.

Location:
ServiceNow
Cherstrasse 4
8152 Glattbrugg (ZH)

How to find us:
Take any train and hop off at Glattbrugg or Opfikon train stations; you can also take trams 10 & 12 or buses 761 & 762 until "Bahnhof Glattbrugg." The ServiceNow offices are located a few hundred meters away from it.

Agenda:
16:00 – Door Opening
16:10 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:15 – "Observability with OpenTelemetry & Distributed Traces" by Jean-François Muller & Dennis Kuipers (ServiceNow)
16:45 – 5 minutes pause
16:50 – "Protect against unknown security vulnerabilities" by Claudio Serrano (SUSE)
17:20 – 5 minutes pause
17:25 – "Introduction to K8up" by Adrian Kosmaczewski (VSHN AG)
17:55 – Final words
18:00 – Networking & apéro

Session 1: "Observability with OpenTelemetry & Distributed Traces"

Being part of the Lightstep (co-founder of OpenTelemetry) journey, we would like to share with the community the benefits of OpenTelemetry & Distributed Traces: what it changes in the world of Monitoring/Observability/Application Performance Management (APM), the new capabilities and workflows it brings illustrated by examples from our customers.

Speakers: Jean-François Muller & Dennis Kuipers are technical advisors for Lightstep in the region. Lightstep is the co-founder and a major contributor to the OpenTelemetry project. A couple of years ago, Jean-François co-founded a performance engineering consulting company in Switzerland and spent a significant amount of time helping customers improve the performance of their business-critical applications. Dennis has significant experience in both worlds (Development and Operations), he worked with multiple open-source frameworks and vendor solutions to build operation platforms that included Infrastructure/Application (APM) monitoring, event management, service management, and integrations with other systems within major financial institutions.

Session 2: "Protect against unknown security vulnerabilities"

Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy and manage your cloud-native applications, and as such security becomes a challenge in a dynamic containerised environment. It is clear that your containers should not contain vulnerabilities throughout the complete supply chain - from development through to deployment with the relevant admission controls in place. In this talk, you will be shown how the NeuVector project, the first Open-Source Cloud Native Security solution can secure the complete software development lifecycle and can even protect against unknown or unpatched vulnerabilities with its zero-trust runtime security model.

Speaker: Claudio Serrano has over 30 years of experience in IT, holding different positions as Solution Architect at Financial and Telecom Institutions & at IT companies such as HPE, BMC Software, and Microfocus. Currently, he is a Pre-Sales engineer at SUSE covering the Cloud Native portfolio for the DACH region.

Session 3: "Introduction to K8up"

K8up is an open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project, consisting of an operator providing backup services for Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters. VSHN started the project and has been using it (and updating it) continuously since 2018. The CNC has picked K8up to become a sandbox project in 2021. In this short introduction, we will explain what K8up is, how does it work, and what I can do for you.

Speaker: Adrian Kosmaczewski is a software expert with over 25 years of experience. He is a published author, trainer, and speaker. He has written many books about software development and has shipped cloud, mobile, and desktop apps since 1996. Adrian holds a Master in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool.

The event will be recorded (it will not be live-streamed!) and made available later on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv – subscribe to be notified of updates!

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you would like to talk about your cloud-native projects in the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you!