Cloud Native and Kubernetes Edinburgh July 2023

We're back in July to welcome an international guest - none other than CNCF Ambassador Alessandro Vozza - with sponsorship and support from Solo.io.

Here's the agenda for the night:

6:00pm - Food and drink, networking sponsored by Solo.io
6:30pm - Look Ma, no sidecars! - Alessandro Vozza, Solo.io
7:15pm - Break
7:30pm - Abstracting your apps with KubeVela and the Open Application Model - William Taylor, OVO Energy
8:15pm - Wrap up

· Look Ma, no sidecars! (Alessandro Vozza)

The sidecar model of delivering service mesh to applications in a cluster has drawbacks that limited adoption at scale and performance; a new model introduced in the ambient mode of Istio aims at reducing complexity and overhead and delivering secure application networking at both L4 and L7 with zero changes needed at the pod level.

· Abstracting your apps with KubeVela and the Open Application Model (William Taylor)
A demo on how we utilise KubeVela at OVO to create an opinionated abstraction over the deployment of cloud native applications.