Autoscaling clusters with Karpenter + Multi-cluster Networking + Data Protection

OK guys, we have more experts lined up to share their K8s knowledge, and an update/learnings from our little website project idea that we floated last time.

We'll have food and drinks again (thank you KSOC!), but please RSVP so I get an accurate headcount. Same as before: shoot me your real name for Google office entry if it doesn't match your meetup handle and you haven't done it before.

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Agenda
6:00 pm: food / drink / networking
6:10 pm: Talk #1: Autoscaling clusters with Karpenter, w Dhirendra Kumar
6:40 pm: Who's hiring?
7:00 pm: Talk #2: K8s backup, w Bhavin Shah
7:50 pm: Talk #3: Multi-cluster networking, w Simon Green
8:30 pm: Finish (or head to bar for beers)

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Speakers & topics

Autoscaling clusters with Karpenter, w Dhirendra Kumar

Dhirendra Kumar is a Kubernetes architect with Medidata.

Karpenter is and open source tool that automatically launches just the right compute resources to handle your cluster's applications. It is designed to let you take full advantage of the cloud with fast and simple compute provisioning for Kubernetes clusters.

K8s backup, w Bhavin Shah

Bhavin Shah is host of the popular podcast Kubernetes Bytes.

In Bhavin's day job, he's a Product Manager at Portworx. He's the perfect person to give us an overview of some of the technical things you should be aware of when it comes to Kubernetes data protection.

Multi-cluster networking, w Simon Green

Simon Green is a Solution Architect at Solo.io. If you're confused by Service Mesh and Kubernetes networking, then this talk is for you. Solo.io have tons of resources to learn about service mesh and application level networking, and Simon is going to share this with the community.

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Hybrid/Remote option
Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!