Cloud Native Computing Meetup | May 2022

Please join our May 2022 CNC meetup on Thursday, May 12th 2022 at 18:00 CEST.

Agenda:

18.00 – Door Opening
18:15 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcement
18:30 – Session 1: "Introduction to Harvester" by Christian Pfenninger (SUSE Software Solutions Schweiz AG)
19:15 – Session 2: "Infrastructure Operator: Easy and scalable way of deploying OpenShift on Bare Metal" by Mateusz Kowalski (Red Hat)
20:00 – Session 3: "Identity Management for XaaS Devs and CISOs" by Florian Forster and Fabienne Gerschwiler (CAOS)
20:45 – Final words, networking & apéro!

Session 1: "Introduction to Harvester"

This talk will provide an introduction to Harvester, and how it helps you to easily provide compute resources for your container and VM workloads, as well as deploy, run, and manage them together on the same infrastructure, all from a single GUI. Harvester is a modern open source hyperconverged infrastructure solution that is built on cloud native solutions including Kubernetes, Longhorn and Kubevirt.
You will learn how Harvester helps you to fulfill the high demand for compute resources for developer teams who don't want to be bothered with infrastructure, Kubernetes, or anything else than their applications.

Christian Pfenninger has worked over 30 years in IT, in different positions as Pre-Sales Engineer, Project Manager and Technical Account Manager at international IT infrastructure companies like NCR, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, and VMware. Currently at SUSE Software Solutions (Schweiz) AG as Sr. Pre-Sales Engineer ALPS region covering all SUSE products.

Session 2: "Infrastructure Operator: Easy and scalable way of deploying OpenShift on Bare Metal"

There has been a growing interest for containers on Bare Metal lately. HPC workloads, AI / ML, Telco customers deploying their workload in the Edge are good examples of valid use cases that require a reduced overhead. For a long time, whenever we needed to combine container orchestration with specialized hardware (whether GPUs or high performance network interfaces), there was always a shortage of solutions that would easily scale. In the end, clusters shouldn’t be pets, they should be cattle. The need for an easy orchestration of OpenShift clusters on Bare Metal is what drove the development of the Infrastructure Operator, giving a fast and admin-friendly way of defining a pool of Bare Metal hosts and even friendlier way of installing OCP (and lately OKD) clusters on them. In this session, you will see the Infrastructure Operator (aka. Assisted Installer) in the whole journey of defining a pool of servers and installing an OpenShift cluster on them. Whether you prefer a simple web UI or love YAML and Kubernetes CRDs, we have it all.

Mateusz Kowalski, Software Engineer at Red Hat, focuses on scalable installations of OpenShift clusters. During his career, Mat spent several years working on OpenStack on Bare Metal as well as Software Defined Networks and security, always evolving around large-scale architectures.

Session 3: "Identity Management for XaaS Devs and CISOs"

With SaaS/IaaS providers in mind, we have been building an open source identity made for developers and CISOs. ZITADEL is open source and offers besides B2B multi-tenancy an in-context audit trail. In this talk we want to share some experiences in building an Open Source-SaaS service and show you how you can start building today.

Fabienne Gerschwiler is founder and Head of Product, has 7+ years experience in software engineering in the field of Identity & Access Management and eGovernment. She leads product innovation and development for ZITADEL.
Florian Forster is founder and CEO of CAOS, an IT security fanatic with extensive knowledge of electronic identities. Florian participated in the IAM workgroup of eCH, is a member of the OpenID Foundation.

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