Cloud Native Computing Meetup | August 2022

Please join our August 2022 CNC meetup on Thursday, August 25th 2022 at 18:00 CEST.

Location:
Isovalent GmbH
Hönggerstrasse 65
8037 Zürich

Agenda:

18:00 – Doors opening
18:20 – Welcome & Intro
18:30 – Session 1: "Open Policy Agent, what's new and what's ahead?" by Anders Eknert (Styra)
19:15 – Session 2: "eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement with Cilium Tetragon" by Raphaël Pinson (Isovalent)
20:00 – Session 3: "Simplifying Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter" by Simone Pomata and Scott Gerring (AWS)
20:45 – Final words, networking and apéro!

Session 1: "Open Policy Agent, what's new and what's ahead?"
2021 saw the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project graduate in the CNCF. This sparked a boom both in interest and in activity in the project. In this session, Anders Eknert of Styra will guide you through some of the most exciting recent updates, as well as some of the things to look forward to in 2022.

Speaker: Anders Eknert is Developer Advocate and a member of the Open Policy Agent team at Styra, with a long background in software development, security and identity systems in primarily distributed environments. When not in front of his computer he enjoys watching football, cooking, and Belgian beers.

Session 2: "eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement with Cilium Tetragon"
eBPF is used in several cloud native security tools. In this talk we’ll dive into demos and code to explore how eBPF can be used for the next generation of security enforcement tooling. This talk will cover:
- Why enforcing NetworkPolicy with eBPF has been in place for years, but preventive security for applications has taken longer.
- How Phantom attacks can compromise the use of basic system call hooks.
- How other eBPF attachment points, such as BPF LSM, can be used for preventive security.

Speaker: Raphaël Pinson is a Solutions Architect with Cloud Native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. He works on Cilium, Hubble & Tetragon and the future of Cloud-Native networking & security using eBPF. An early adept of the DevOps principles, he has been a practitioner of Configuration Management and Agile principles in Operations for many years, with a special involvement in the Puppet and Terraform communities over the years.

Session 3: "Simplifying Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter"
The session would dive into different strategies for managing Kubernetes capacity on AWS. We will learn about the different mechanisms to provide compute to Kubernetes on AWS, and how Karpenter can be used to automatically provision the right compute resources to handle your cluster’s applications at the right time, helping you to take full advantage of the cloud with fast and simple Kubernetes cluster provisioning.

Speakers: Scott Gerring is a Solutions Architect at AWS, working with digital native customers in Zürich, Switzerland. He has extensive experience building on the cloud, and is passionate about empowering developers through modern tools and architectures.
Simone Pomata is Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. He has worked enthusiastically in the tech industry for more than 10 years. At AWS, he helps customers succeed in building new technologies every day.

The event will be live-streamed, recorded, and made available later on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv – subscribe to be notified of updates!

Live-stream URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pL4pIM87dQ

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you would like to talk about your cloud-native projects in the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you!