HUG #5: Terraforge and Consul Service Mesh

Hi everyone,
it's our pleasure to introduce the agenda for the fifth Zurich HashiCorp User Group Meetup event.

18:00 - 18:10: Networking

18:10 - 18:15: Host's/Organizer's welcome messages

18:15 - 19:00: Using Terraforge to provision cloud services
by Andreas Gehrig, co-founder of Terraforge.io

Terraforge.io is a fully managed DevOps platform to define and deploy infrastructure-as-code.
This talk covers

• experiences with customers writing infrastructure-as-code
• challenges of using Terraform in a DevOps environment
• how Terraforge accelerates cloud engineering
• architecture and internals of Terraforge
• lessons learned from a productivity focused startup

19:00 - 19:15: Break, networking, drinks

19:15 - 20:00 : Introduction to Consul Service Mesh
by Christoph Puhl, Consul Technology Specialist(Field CTO Office) HashiCorp Germany

Consul is a service networking solution to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.
In this talk we will discuss the basic concepts of how Consul Service Mesh is helping to secure service to service communications and how to interconnect various different cloud and runtime environments. We will discuss the recently announced L7 traffic management and Mesh Gateway features of Consul. At the end of the talk we will see a live-demo of Consul Service Mesh interconnecting and securing services spread across multiple clouds (GCP, AWS and Azure) and multiple runtimes (VMs and Kubernetes).

20:00 - : networking, apero.

Speakers:
Andreas Gehrig
Andreas is the co-founder of Terraforge.io, passionated software developer, DevOps evangelist and co-founder of meshTec.io
His focus is to combine modern methodologies and technologies like Kotlin + Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Go to gain productivity and drive innovation

Christoph Puhl
Christoph is working at HashiCorp as Consul Technology Specialist for the DACH region. Before joining HashiCorp Christoph worked at VMware in a european team of networking specialists with a focus on VMware NSX integration into Kubernetes and additionally focussing on all security related topics within the VMware portfolio. Over the last 10 years his technical focus was all about datacenter networking, network virtualization and network automation and he still owns an active CCIE certification.

Host/Apero sponsor:
The event will take place in the new stylish offices of the Talent Partner phase2 (https://www.linkedin.com/company/phase2-gmbh/), with mind-blowing view on the Limmat.
After the presentation and Q&A session, you are all invited to stay and enjoy some refreshments, courtesy of our host.