Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester

Cloud Native April

Wed, Apr 15 · 6:00 PM BST

Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street, M3 4AP, Manchester, GB

Please RSVP via https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-manchester-presents-cloud-native-april/.

We have to ensure we meet a minimum number of events and people at each one to keep being an "official" CNCF group.

We are back at Bonded Warehouse, thanks to Morson-Edge for hosting again and NScale for feeding us!

To help you find the venue, the what3words location is hooks.decreased.universally. Make sure to come past the Crystal Maze side and ring the bell for reception.

Whether you are a seasoned developer, a cloud computing enthusiast, or simply curious about the scene, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals in Manchester.

# Agenda

6:00 pm - Networking with food and drinks
7:00 pm - DBOS: making reliable cloud workflows - Afzal Muhammad
7:30 pm - Break
8:00 pm - Agents, Kubernetes, and Tailscale: What My Home Lab Looks Like in 2026 - Thomas Riley

## DBOS: making reliable cloud workflows

DBOS (https://www.dbos.dev/) is a new framework to develop reliable workflows (or durable executions) on the cloud in a very easy way.
To build a reliable workflow we usually need a mixture of idempotency, restart exactly from failure point, exactly-once processing, observable queues, and other features. Using traditional methods like AWS Lambda or Step Functions can get you only so far, before your system starts to become very complex and costly!
DBOS provides all these features through a system design innovation done at MIT which keep complexity at bay and cost to only what you use. I am a software engineer with over 7 years of experience in the industry.
I've mostly worked in the serverless world and I have kept thinking ever since that building serverless workflows should be easier compared to what the cloud providers are offering to us. I started following the DBOS project and I've been building side projects with it ever since. I also actively contribute to their open source SDK ( https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang ).
Now, I want to share my learning with the community :)

## Agents, Kubernetes, and Tailscale: What My Home Lab Looks Like in 2026

Agentic development is changing how we build software — but most of the conversation stops at the editor. What happens when you pair the agent with .NET Aspire so it can actually see what it's building?

In this talk, I'll share what I've learned from building and shipping a full-stack application I'd wanted for years but never had the time to write — until an agent unlocked it for me.

From there, the story moves out of the editor and onto my home Kubernetes cluster, and into the piece that ties it all together: Tailscale.

I'll show how Tailscale reshapes what a home lab can do — turning a private cluster into something I can reach securely from anywhere in the world, with automatic HTTPS, no public IPs, no traditional VPN client, and no port-forwarding. We'll look at the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator as a replacement for traditional ingress, how it changes the security model for personal and household software, and why it pairs so naturally with an agent-built, self-hosted workflow.

Expect live demos, honest lessons, and a look at my home lab in 2026 — when an agent can help you build the thing, ship the thing, and a mesh network lets you reach it from anywhere.