Kubernetes & Cloud Native Berlin Meetup New Year Edition

Happy New Year! Kubernetes & Cloud Native Berlin Meetup is happy to host Bastian Hofmann, Field Engineer at SUSE, and Stephane Karagulmez, Senior Solution Architect at Isovalent, for it's first meet up in 2023!

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SCHEDULE:

[17:00 onwards] Doors open

[18:00 - 18:30] Bastian Hofmann, "Protect against unknown security vulnerabilities"

[19:00 - 19:30] Stephane Karagulmez, "Connecting Clusters on the Edge with Cilium Cluster Mesh"

Both talks will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A round and time for networking with pizza and other refreshments.

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TALK DETAILS:

"Protect against unknown security vulnerabilities" Bastian Hofmann

Abstract: Learn how to protect your containerized applications against known as well as unknown security vulnerabilities.

Description: Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy, manage and monitor your cloud native applications. Security can be a challenge in such a dynamic, containerized environment, though. Ensuring that your containers are not containing vulnerabilities is vital throughout the complete supply chain, from development and CI through deployment and admission controls to security at runtime.

But there will always be vulnerabilities in your containers that you don't know about yet, or that you are unable to patch right now. A zero-Trust runtime security strategy can help you here by limiting what an attacker can do, even if they manage to get inside of a container. Furthermore, Kubernetes itself is becoming more and more of a target, making it more important than ever to secure and configure your clusters consistently. In this talk, you will see how open-source tools can help you to create and maintain a secure Kubernetes environment and software supply chain.

"Connecting Clusters on the Edge with Cilium Cluster Mesh" Stephane Karagulmez

Abstract: Edge computing can require connecting hundreds of clusters across disparate locations and infrastructures. Without a networking solution to manage this scale and complexity, you will have a bunch of computers talking to themselves rather than each other and your customers.

In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage Cilium Cluster Mesh to provide connectivity for load-balancing, observability, and security between nodes across multiple clusters, enabling simple, high-performance cross-cluster connectivity at the edge. We’ll explore how Cluster Mesh allows endpoints in connected clusters to communicate while providing complete security policy enforcement. The audience will walk away with an appreciation for how eBPF can help solve their networking challenges at the edge.

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SPEAKER BIOS:

Bastian is a Field Engineer at SUSE. There he focuses on Containers, Kubernetes and especially Rancher, the leading solution to manage Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments, on premise, in the cloud and at the edge.

About Stephane Karagulmez: Kubernetes passionate, I spend four years at Google as a practice lead for the DACH region. During that time, I had the chance to work with the most significant Kubernetes users. I am now a Solution Architect at Isovalent, working on Cilium and eBPF to make Kubernetes Networking better, more accessible, and more robust.