Cloud Native London, July 2026

Hi folks!

Welcome to our July 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 or LinkedIn!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Hossein Kakavand, Luther Systems (Talk TBC)
7:15 Putting Open GitOps to the test (Steve Fenton, Octopus Deploy)
7:45 Break
8:00 Srivalsan Mannoor, Amazon (Talk TBC)
8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Putting Open GitOps to the test (Steve Fenton, Octopus Deploy)
The Open GitOps principles sound plausible, but the world is full of surprising realities. Join Steve Fenton and explore the GitOps research to see whether GitOps delivers on its promises, based on an analysis of over 600 perspectives from roles like DevOps engineers, developers, platform engineers, and cloud infrastructure engineers.

Steve Fenton researches the socio-technical systems behind software delivery; how organizations, people, and technology actually work together (or don’t). At Octopus Deploy, he explores GitOps, Platform Engineering, Continuous Delivery, and compliance through a lens shaped by punk history, psychology, and the kind of genre fiction that asks uncomfortable questions about systems and society.
He’s an eight-time Microsoft MVP (DevOps), a DORA Community Guide, a CD Foundation Governing Board member, and a contributor to the CNCF Platform Engineering Community Group. He’s written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring, and occasionally writes horror fiction.
*https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefenton/*
https://mastodon.social/@stevefenton
*https://bsky.app/profile/stevefenton.co.uk*

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