Cloud Native London, May 2023

Hi folks!

Welcome to our May Cloud Native London meetup, join us to hear from our four great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Is OpenSource Enterprise APM a reality? (Andrey Kozichev, MetaOps)
7:15 Cert-manager can do SPIFFE? Solving multi-cloud workload identity using a de facto standard tool (Thomas Meadows, Jetstack, & Josh van Leeuwen, Diagrid)
7:45 Break
8:00 Building fundraising software using cloud-native and event-driven architectures (David Adegbiyi, Cancer Research UK)
8:30 Wrap up

See you soon!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Is OpenSource Enterprise APM a reality? (Andrey Kozichev, MetaOps)
In this session, we will be conducting a thorough exploration of Skywalking, an open-source APM solution, to assess its readiness for enterprise customers. Additionally, we will be diving into real-life troubleshooting scenarios to gain practical insights.

Andrey is an Infrastructure Architect with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. As part of MetaOps team he helps businesses to build observability into the core of their platforms. In the free time he enjoys cycling and kitesurfing. Find him on Twitter: @akozichev

Cert-manager can do SPIFFE? Solving multi-cloud workload identity using a de facto standard tool (Thomas Meadows & Josh van Leeuwen, Jetstack)
If you’re like me, your Kubernetes journey started well. Booting up a cluster and deploying a demo application, and then finding the dreaded “Your connection is not private” message in your web browser. Attackers could be stealing your information, your credit cards and passwords? Frankly, your sock shopping addiction should be nobody's business. Then I found the cert-manager project. As if by magic, this clever little controller made my security woes fold away. But what about secrets? API Keys, service account credentials. This long-lived and highly sensitive data must be bolted to your pod to ensure that it can access databases, api-servers and more. After a couple of accidental commits of raw secrets to Github (nobody got time for that), I grew tired. I crawled away into the wonders of Google Cloud Workload Identity. But wait? Have I given up on the wonder of Kubernetes? If only identity could come batteries included, leaving me free to leverage the power of multi-cloud. As an encore in the machine identity management space, cert-manager now leverages SPIFFE to solve this problem. Pods are empowered to enter the VIP lounge of their choice in whatever cloud, provided they are on the guest list. Don't believe me? Call me on my bluff. Join me as I explore how this industry problem has been solved using the same magic that gave us TLS on Kubernetes only a few short years ago.

Tom is an engineer who works for Jetstack as a Kubernetes and Cloud Native consultant. After becoming intrigued by the space, he decided to dive into the world of supply-chain security (mostly software, but also some strange food analogies). By being enabled by initiatives like the OpenSSF, Sigstore and SLSA, he hopes to continue learning in the wider security space and help shape the way forward for the open-source and customers.
Josh is a software engineer working at Diagrid. For the past 5 years he has worked on open source software in the Kubernetes ecosystem, including cert-manager and more recently Dapr. He is most interested in securing distributed systems and workload identities.

Building fundraising software using cloud-native and event-driven architectures (David Adegbiyi, Cancer Research UK)
Technology underpins everything we do at Cancer Research UK, and we’ve been able to utilise the cloud to optimise our fundraising capability through better performance, increased income generation and cost saving. Let’s explore how where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’d like to be on our cloud journey.

David is Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Cancer Research UK.

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