Navigating Submarines and Multi-Cluster Connectivity with eBPF and Cilium

Agenda

17:00 Door open, networking, finding seats with snack and soft drinks
17:30 Cloud Native Copenhagen welcome
17:35 Host welcome
17:40 Submarine onboarding, navigation, and software companies
18:15 Break with light dinner, networking and discussion
18:50 Connecting and Securing Clusters Across Clouds with Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh
19:25 Networking and discussion
20:00 Thank you for tonight

Talk 1: Submarine onboarding, navigation and software companies

Andy will introduce us to the intricacies of a submarine, discuss what the onboarding process looks like, and how nuclear submarines navigate. Andy will then share everything software companies can learn from this, like how onboarding and value streams can transform an entire organization. When we talk about dashboards in software development, we may think the more accurate they are, the better. But what if the only data you have is an approximation that gets more confusing the longer you look at it? This is why Andy will be discussing what software development can learn from the deep blue sea - mainly about navigation and cloud-native visibility with eBPF.

Speaker bio:
Andy Allred started his career as an electronic warfare and operations specialist in fast attack submarines. After ten years there, he spent several years working in the telecoms industry, working with various providers, vendors, and cloud use cases. Currently, he is advising and helping organizations to be successful in their cloud use and DevOps journeys for Eficode.
He has worked in (and under) all corners of the globe. This vast experience has taught him to keep an open mind, look for all points of view, and find innovative solutions.
Andy speaks at conferences about DevOps and cloud native solutions, and co-hosts the DevOps Sauna podcast.

Talk 2: Connecting and Securing Clusters Across Clouds with Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh

Managing high-available cloud-native applications across multiple clusters and clouds can quickly become complex and time-consuming. However, Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh provide a streamlined and scalable solution to cross-cloud connectivity. In this session, you will learn how Cilium Cluster Mesh combined with Service Mesh provides a single networking, security, and observability solution for applications spanning multiple clusters and clouds.

We will start by demonstrating how to configure clusters across clouds and optimize application traffic using Service Mesh and topology-aware routing. You’ll learn how to implement Ingress and Gateway API resources to provide percentage-based routing or canary rollouts to a new version of your application - even across clusters. Finally, we’ll explain Multi-Cluster Cilium Network Policies for application security and how to observe service connectivity using Hubble.

You’ll leave the session with knowledge about the combined benefits of Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh for running applications across multiple clusters including applying Cilium Network Policies to secure applications independently of where they are located.

Speaker bio:
Raymond de Jong is Field CTO for EMEA at Isovalent, the originators of the Cilium project, providing networking, observability, and security for cloud-native applications using eBPF. In this role, he is supporting and enabling customers and partners to be successful with Cilium in their mission-critical environments. Leveraging almost a decade of experience in Software Defined Networking he is passionate about learning customer use-cases and designing solutions to meet their requirements. When not working, Raymond enjoys playing tennis, riding bikes, gaming, and music playing the guitar or piano.

There is also an instructor led hands-on workshop around Cilium and Security Observability & Tetragon on the same day, from 13:00 to 17:00 at the same location with limited seats: https://isovalent.com/2023-05-11-cilium-workshop-copenhagen/