Cloud Native London, April 2022

Hi folks!

Welcome to our April Cloud Native London meetup, coming up to the Easter break! Join us on Rambly to hear from our three fantastic speakers and network with your fellow techies.

6:45 Kick off
7:15 Hermod: Messenger of Kubernetes Deployments (Suraj Narwade, RVU)
7:45 Kubernetes native policy management with Kyverno (Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata, and Sambhav Kothari, Bloomberg)
8:15 Break
8:30 Kubernetes security and governance made easy using Otomi (Abhimanyu Selvan, Red Kubes)
9:00 Wrap up

See you soon!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Hermod: Messenger of Kubernetes Deployments (Suraj Narwade, RVU)
In this session, I will be sharing the pain points of our engineering teams while debugging their applications deployed on Kubernetes. I’ll also share how we came up with the Hermod project, which we recently developed & open-sourced, to overcome these problems. Hermod is a simple Kubernetes controller which tracks deployments as they roll out and posts useful status updates into Slack. These updates can be a success as well as a failure. In case of failure, Any errors during the deployment rollout are captured and included in the Slack message (see example below). This can be very useful to help quickly debug a failing deployment. https://github.com/uswitch/hermod#readme has relevant screenshots

Suraj Narwade works as a Senior Platform Engineer at RVU, London. In his day to day work, he works around Cloud-Native technologies like Kubernetes, Golang, Prometheus, etc. He is an Open-Source & Cloud-native enthusiast who contributes to Open Source in every possible way. He is CNCF Ambassador. Before moving to London, he was an active member of the local container-centric meetups in Bangalore and Pune, India. He has presented his work at the Kubernetes Community Days 2020, RootConf 2019, FOSSASIA 2018 & 2019, DevOps Day 2017 and local meetups. He also shares his learnings via his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/surajincloud

Kubernetes native policy management with Kyverno (Sambhav Kothari, Bloomberg)
Kyverno is an open source policy engine designed for Kubernetes. With Kyverno, policies are managed as Kubernetes resources and no new language is required to write policies. This allows for the use of familiar tools such as kubectl, git, and kustomize to manage policies. Kyverno policies can validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources. The Kyverno CLI can be used to test policies and validate resources as part of a CI/CD pipeline. In this talk, Kyverno co-creator Jim Bugwadia and project maintainer Sambhav Kothari will give an introduction and walk through this CNCF Sandbox Project.

Sambhav Kothari is an ML Platform Engineer in the Data Science Platform team at Bloomberg, focusing on building better container integrations for machine learning workflows. He is deeply interested in improving the Cloud Native Supply Chain landscape. He is a maintainer for Cloud Native Buildpacks - a secure and modular source-to-image project and Kyverno - a Kubernetes-native policy engine. He is also a contributor to syft, grype and cosign.

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernertes governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as a co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy WG and a lead in the Multi-Tenancy WG. Jim is also a maintainer and one of the founders of Kyverno.

Kubernetes security and governance made easy using Otomi (Abhimanyu Selvan, Red Kubes)
Otomi is an open-source, cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes application configuration and automation platform. Under the hood, Otomi leverages several OSS and CNCF projects like Calico, OPA Gatekeeper, Istio, Harbor to enhance security.
In this talk, we will demonstrate how teams can use Otomi to enforce container and network security policies. We will walk you through a couple of scenarios that showcase the possibilities to reduce the attack surface using Otomi.

Abhimanyu Selvan (twitter: @diabhey) is the Developer Advocate at Red Kubes. Abhi is a hands-on technologist who has worked in several fields such as aerospace, robotics, e-health and has landed in the cloud-native realm exploring the digital troposphere. His focus lies in the intersection of developer productivity and business interests. He is an open-source enthusiast and is driven towards building an inclusive community.

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