Cloud Native London, December 2023

Hi folks!

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

6:00 Food and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 From Zero to Hero: How to Build the Ansible Pilot Community (Luca Berton)
7:15 A quick guide to AWS Observability Accelerator for CDK (Nagaraju Basavaraju, AWS)
7:45 Break
8:00 Via negativa Cloud (Octavian Tuchila)
8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

From Zero to Hero: How to Build the Ansible Pilot Community (Luca Berton)
In this presentation, I empower creative professionals in Automation, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, System Administration, and IT to excel with Ansible Technology, enabling them to automate more efficiently day by day. Join me as I share intriguing insights, accolades, behind-the-scenes stories, and valuable lessons learned from establishing the Ansible Pilot Community. Discover the journey to success through Ansible automation and how I published the Ansible for VMware by Examples and Ansible for Kubernetes by Examples best-seller of the Ansible By Example(s) practical book series.

Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Expert who has been working with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and previously worked with the Red Hat Hat Ansible Engineer Team for three years. Published author of the Ansible for VMware by Examples and Ansible for Kubernetes by Examples best-seller of the Ansible By Example(s) practical book series and creator of the Ansible Pilot project. With over 15 years of experience as a System Administrator, he has strong expertise in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation. Enthusiast of the Open Source supports the community, sharing his knowledge in different public access events. Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora, of course.

A quick guide to AWS Observability Accelerator for CDK (Nagaraju Basavaraju, AWS)
The AWS Observability Accelerator is a set of opinionated Terraform modules and CDK patterns to help customers set up observability for their AWS environments with AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and AWS X-Ray. Customers using the AWS Observability Accelerator can get started in minutes with an automated experience — curated metrics, logs, traces collection, alerting rules and Grafana dashboards for their EKS infrastructure, Java/JMX, NGINX based workloads and custom applications.

Nagaraju is a seasoned DevOps Architect at AWS, London. He specializes in assisting customers in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient hybrid and cloud-native solutions. With a profound passion for cloud infrastructure and automation, Nagaraju is also an avid contributor to Open-Source Systems. Find him at github.com/nrajb and github.com/KuberDriver

Via negativa Cloud (Octavian Tuchila)
This talk will investigate how human ‘experts’ can differentiate themselves in the era of LLMs. I believe humans can develop simple heuristics for where to be more risk averse and where to have bias. We'll walk through some cloud projects to illustrate the concepts.

I'm working on my own finance project after previously working for Google and Amazon. Most interested in probabilities. Find me at https://twitter.com/ursusArctos23

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.