Docker Budapest CRAFT Conf Special

Docker Community Budapest in cooperation with Craft Conf 2022 will organize a Meetup event on 1st June at Emarsys HQ.

The meetup will be an in-person event kindly hosted by Emarsys Budapest with some beers and pizzas. We're also streaming via Zoom webinar on the following address: https://emarsys.zoom.us/j/91729961967?pwd=SmV3QTBCNXBrb1NzbmdvTWtBdTdGQT09

AGENDA
17:45 - 18:10 Gathering & Welcome (beers & pizza)
18:10 - 18:15 Intro
18:15 - 19:00 Buildpacks vs. Dockerfile – FIGHT! (Bence Ivady)
19:00 - 19:10 Break
19:10 - 20:00 The Future Is Above Clouds (Viktor Farcic)
20:00 - 20:10 Break
20:10 - 21:00 ClickOps over GitOps (Laszlo Fogas)
21:00 - Networking, open discussion

The Future Is Above Clouds (Viktor Farcic):
Now that most of us moved at least part of the workload to the cloud, the logical question is, "what's next?" We are almost certainly adopting the multi-cloud strategy to leverage innovation from multiple sources, reduce the dependency on a single provider, and, overall, pick the right service for the job. However, that opens a whole new set of issues. How do we manage infrastructure, services, and applications in such a heterogeneous setup? How do we make it easy and transparent at the same time? How do we deal with many different APIs and control planes enforced by all the cloud vendors we use? How do we rise above the clouds?
The answer to those questions, as well as a glimpse of what's coming, is in a universal control plane. We need a mechanism that will enable us to create our own platforms by picking the services we need, composing new ones that fit our needs and manage all that through a control plane that is not tied to a specific set of tasks or a specific vendor.
We need an open-source universal control plane that will set the standard of how cloud vendors operate and how their services can be mixed and modeled to our specific needs. Crossplane (an open-source project) might be such a solution.
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About Viktor:
Docker Captain, author of the DevOps Paradox book, creator of the DevOps Paradox podcast and YouTube channel and DevOps Toolkit YouTube channel, followed by thousands of developers worldwide is a DevOps ambassador, big enthusiast of Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He continuously experiments with new technologies in software build & delivery and also shares his findings and learnings and best practices along the way.

ClickOps over GitOps (Laszlo Fogas):
Corey Quinn is an industry analyst(?) who has witty insights about AWS and cloud in general. According to his recent blogpost the
fourth and final stage of managing cloud infrastructure is "clicking around in the web console, then lying about it."
Which is a nice joke, but maybe just a half one as he ends his blog post with a vision of "a world in which I can set things up in the AWS console [..] via the magic of clicking things. The provider captures what I set up and renders it into code or configuration somewhere, similar to the way that the Console Recorder browser extension does."
Reading his blog post I realized that ultimately this is what we do at Gimlet.io. We package gitops best practices into an opinionated layer over industry standard tooling: Flux & Helm. And GUIs are the next frontier.
In this talk you will see how you can create a developer platform - with the usual components Cert-Manager, Nginx Ingress etc, and with deployment tooling for developers - with only clicking on a dashboard. You will also see behind the curtains that all Gimlet does is writing yaml into a git repository. ClickOps.. over GitOps.
Besides the Gimlet demo, you will learn about the latest trends in platform building over Kubernetes, plus the talk will be a great starting point for lengthy debates over gitops repo structures, which is the favorite pastime for many of us ;)
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About Laszlo:
He is the founder of https://gimlet.io, a gitops based developer platform made in 💙 Szeged, Hungary. Prior to that, Laszlo spent 5 years consulting, and building dev platforms on Kubernetes for mid-sized SaaS businnesses of the Nordics region.

Buildpacks vs. Dockerfile – FIGHT! (Bence Ivady):
Buildpacks are around for long time, but did not get that much attention before the Cloud Native Buildpacks project was accepted to CNCF. They provide an easy way to deploy your application to the cloud without a Dockerfile. Let's see how they work and especially how the results compare to plain old Docker builds.
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About Bence:
Docker Commuinty Leader, Software Developer at Emarsys (SAP) with a DevOps focus and love for containers.