Cloud Native Computing Meetup | November 2023

Please join our November 2023 CNC meetup on Thursday, November 23rd 2023 at 16:00 CET.

Location:
Amazon Switzerland
Marsstrasse 2
8002 Zurich

Time
Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 – 16:00 to 19:00 CET

How to find us:
Take any train (S2, S8, S24, IR 15 or RE) or tram (6, 7, 8, or 13) to Zurich Enge and walk 600m; or take buses 161 or 165 and tram 5 to Rentenanstalt and walk 200m.

Agenda:
16:00 – Door Opening
16:05 – Intro & KubeCon Chicago Updates by Annie Talvasto (VSHN)
16:20 – Session 1: "An introduction to Helm: A better way to manage your Kubernetes applications" by Fabrizio Lazzaretti (Q_PERIOR)
17:00 – 5 minutes pause
17:05 – Session 2: "Cost Monitoring on EKS with Kubecost" by Patrick Madec (AWS Switzerland)
17:45 – 5 minutes pause
17:50 – Session 3: "Technical Design and Operation of the Harbor Container Registry SaaS on AWS EKS" by Vadim Bauer (8gears)
18:30 – Final words, networking & apéro!

Session 1: "An introduction to Helm: A better way to manage your Kubernetes applications" by Fabrizio Lazzaretti (Q_PERIOR)

In this talk, we will explore Helm 3, a graduated CNCF project, and its capabilities. We will show how to work with it, best practices, how to avoid common pitfalls, how you can publish your own charts, and how to integrate it into your development workflow. At the end, we also take a look at helmfile and how it can improve your helm and Kubernetes experience even more.

Fabrizio Lazzaretti is a business-oriented and motivated software engineer with over ten years of experience. He is an effective team player and leader in software development, architecture, and Scrum, with the ability to operate in fast-paced environments.

Session 2: "Cost monitoring on EKS with Kubecost" by Patrick Madec (AWS Switzerland)

AWS and Kubecost collaborated to offer a customized version of Kubecost at no additional charge on Amazon EKS. Learn how to use it to monitor your Kubernetes costs.

Patrick is an ISV solutions architect at AWS Switzerland. He helps Swiss companies to get the best benefits from the cloud technologies.

Session 3: "Technical Design and Operation of the Harbor Container Registry SaaS on AWS EKS" by Vadim Bauer (8gears)

The 8gears Container Registry is a Harbor-based CNCF graduated open-source container registry as a service offering that is operated by the project's maintainer and contributors. In this talk, Vadim will walk you through our journey on running our SaaS Stack on AWS EKS and other K8s offerings, how we manage deploy and operate our SaaS and our Kubernetes cluster fleet. Our good decisions, bad decisions and rework and adoption effort.

Vadim Bauer is a Container Silverback with over a decade of experience in running containers in production. As a maintainer of the CNCF project Harbor, he focuses on extending the boundaries of OCI artifact management, adoption, and developer experience. At 8gears, Vadim helps cloud providers, ISVs and enterprises adopt Harbor and use OCI capabilities.

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

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!