Cloud Native London, July 2022

Hi folks!

Welcome to our July Cloud Native London meetup! Join us in person to hear from four great speakers and network with your fellow techies over food and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Rambly or Youtube!

7:00 Kick off
7:15 Hacking Kubernetes: Live Demo Marathon (Andrew Martin, ControlPlane)
7:45 Innovation and collaboration - A tour of Microsoft contributions to the CNCF (Mark Whitby, Microsoft)
8:15 Break
8:30 Let's talk Chaos Engineering with LitmusChaos (Sayan Mondal & Prithvi Raj, Harness)
9:00 Wrap up

See you soon!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Hacking Kubernetes: Live Demo Marathon (Andrew Martin, ControlPlane)
In a live evocation of the recent O’Reilly title Hacking Kubernetes (Martin, Hausenblas, 2021), this ultimate guide to threat-driven Kubernetes defence threat models and details how to attack and defend your precious clusters from nefarious adversaries. This broad and detailed appraisal of end-to-end cluster security teaches you how to attack and defend against a range of historical and current CVEs, misconfigurations, and advanced threats:
- See the historical relevance of CVEs and demonstrations of attacks against your containers, pods, supply chain, network, storage, policy, and wider organisation
- Understand when to use next-generation runtimes like gVisor, firecracker, and Kata Containers
- Delve into workload identity and advanced runtime hardening
- Consider the trust boundaries in soft- and hard-multitenant systems to appraise and limit the effects of compromise
- Learn to navigate the choppy waters of advanced Kubernetes security

Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is CEO at https://control-plane.io, @sublimino on Twitter

Innovation and collaboration - A tour of Microsoft contributions to the CNCF (Mark Whitby, Microsoft)
Microsoft is a platinum member of the CNCF and has created and contributed to multiple CNCF open source projects. In this session, I'll give you an overview of some of these projects, covering package management, working with IoT devices, event driven scripting and scaling, simplifying microservices application development, service meshes, security and more!

I'm Mark (@MarkWme) and I'm a Principal Specialist in the Global Black Belt team at Microsoft. I've been with them for over six years and my focus is on helping customers adopt cloud native technologies. Before Microsoft, I spent more time than I care to admit working in the financial services industry, primarily in banking, where I worked in various roles across operations, engineering and architecture. I love discovering new technologies and helping others to learn and skill up.

Let's talk Chaos Engineering with LitmusChaos (Sayan Mondal & Prithvi Raj, Harness)
How can Cloud-Native environments continue to run smoothly as they grow and include more services? The only constant is change. We live in a world where technology is progressing at rapid speed in every direction. With technologies like Kubernetes, apps perform considerably better in terms of performance. We don't have outages as regularly as we did five years ago. But everything comes at a cost, greater innovation brings more complexity, making it a never-ending game to stay on top of application dependability concerns.

Prithvi Raj has been leading the community efforts for LitmusChaos, the CNCF incubating project based on Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering, and has helped scale a community of 1500+ folks from scratch. He is part of the Harness team, the primary sponsor of the LitmusChaos project. He has worked on global events, conferences, and meetups such as Chaos Carnival, Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru & Chennai, CNCF Kubernetes Chaos Engineering Meetups, and more to help grow various communities in the DevOps ecosystem. He started his journey in 2020 at MayaData and has been passionately helping build the Chaos Engineering community since, being part of ChaosNative and now Harness. Twitter: @prithvi137 // Sayan Mondal is a Senior Software Engineer at Harness, the industry's first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes. He combines knowledge and know-how of LitmusChaos to deliver innovative solutions to the Chaos Engineering industry. As a former Chaos Engineer at ChaosNative, Sayan was recognized for building/improving ChaosCenter and he currently helps leadership to drive the adoption of cutting-edge solutions in Chaos Engineering.

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