Show me Kubernetes!

A warm welcome to all Cloud Native enthusiasts.

The next Meetup will take place at SolarWinds’ offices, 7 Exchange Crescent EH3 8RD, 3rd floor. It’s located next to All Bar One on Lothian Road.
Reception closes at 18:00 and after that the main doors get locked.

We will have someone by the main entrance to let you in between 18:00 and 18:20 - make sure to be here on time.

We aim to start at 18:30 and finish by 21:15. SolarWinds will be providing pizza and beer.

We want to hear your Cloud Native experience, no matter how far you are on the journey. Talks, demos, or discussions - please come forward and we will help you get setup.

Agenda:

18:30 - 18:40 : [Alex Ouzounis] Warm welcome by the organisers. Set agenda and any items for discussion later.

18:40 - 19:00 : We will be doing the round of introductions were everyone will say a few words about them selves. Food and Drinks provided by SolarWinds

19:00 - 19:35 : [Santiago Lizardo] Docker fundamentals. Crash course on Docker usage and its internals.

19:40 - 20:40: [Miguel Santiago] Show me Kubernetes!

20:40 - 21:10: Open ended discussions as set in the Agenda above. If we have time, Alex will go through key announcements from the previous week’s KubeCon

Speakers:

Santiago Lizardo: Santiago is a Software Engineering Manager who has remained hands-on. As a Software Engineer he enjoys writing low-level code and learning about new and old computer science ideas. He has been learning and using Docker for a number of years, and is keen to share his findings with the rest of the world.

Alex Ouzounis: Alex is a Cloud Native visionary at heart. He tends to get lost in conversations around TOC and highly autonomous performant teams. Alex has written data processing software for the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission, done CI/CD at small startups and worked hard to get highly autonomous performant teams using Cloud Native technologies in big US Nasdaq 100B businesses. Ouzounis holds a BA in Business Administration, an MSc in Software Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, an MSc in Distributed Scientific Computing from Edinburgh University, and retains a list of industry certifications.

Code of Conduct:

This Meetup is governed by CNCF’s code of conduct; see https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md for more details.