Hi folks!

Welcome to our July Cloud Native London meetup! Join us on Rambly to hear from our two fantastic speakers and network with your fellow techies.

6:45 Kick off
7:15 Making Logs Work for you with Fluentd (Phil Wilkins, Capgemini UK)
7:45 Scalable Confidential Computing on Kubernetes with Marblerun (Felix Schuster, Edgeless Systems)
8:15 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

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Making Logs Work for you with Fluentd (Phil Wilkins, Capgemini UK)
Understanding what is happening with a distributed solution can be challenging. Whilst the solution space for monitoring and application log management is mature, there is a tendency for organizations to end up with multiple tools that overlap in this space to meet different team needs – result multiple agents/probes on every server. Many of these tools work by bulk central analysis rather than enabling events of interest to be spotted as they’re logged. Fluentd presents us with a means to simplify the monitoring landscape, address challenges of hyper-distribution occurring with microservice solutions, allowing different tools needing log data to help in their different way. Without imposing a specific analysis tool on relevant teams. In this session, we’ll explore the challenges of modern log management. We’ll look at how Fluentd works and what it can bring to making both development and ops activities easier. To do this we’ll explore and demos some examples of Fluentd and how it makes life easier & more efficient.

Phil Wilkins has spent over 25 years in the software industry. He started out as a developer on real-time mission-critical solutions and has worked his way up through technical and development leadership roles primarily in Java-based environments. Phil now works for Capgemini as a Technology Evangelist specializing in cloud integration, API, and related technologies. Outside of his daily commitments, he actively works to support the developer community as a co-organizer of a London Oracle Developer Meetup and presenter at conferences both in the UK and around the world. Phil has previously co-written two books for Packt on Oracle PaaS and is currently completing the book 'Logging in Action, with Fluentd, Kubernetes, and more'. Phil is an active blogger and writing articles for user group journals.

Scalable Confidential Computing on Kubernetes with Marblerun (Felix Schuster, Edgeless Systems)
Confidential computing (CC) is a new and somewhat hyped security paradigm. It enables the always encrypted and verifiable processing of data on potentially untrusted hosts, e.g., the cloud or maybe even your local cluster. We believe that cloud-native and CC will inevitably grow together. In this talk, we give a brief intro to CC and the corresponding hardware foundations from Intel and AMD. We discuss the particular challenges that arise when you deploy CC-enabled workloads on K8s. We give an intro to our Marblerun project, which we built to addresses these. We’ll demo how to CC-fy a cloud-native app and run it with K8s+Linkerd+Marblerun. Marblerun is licensed under MPL-2.0 and written in Go.

Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work four years on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing, before co-founding Edgeless Systems. The startup’s vision is to build an open-source stack for cloud-native Confidential Computing. Throughout his career, Felix has frequently given technical talks at top-tier conferences, including Usenix Security Symposium, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, and ACM CCS. His 2015 paper on the “VC3” system is believed by some to have coined the term Confidential Computing. Find him on Twitter: @flxflx

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