Cloud Native Glasgow December

In December we round out the year with our final Glasgow Cloud Native community meetup.

Kubernetes For The Little Guy: Real Workloads Without a Hyperscaler Budget
We've all seen the hyperscale clusters powering the AI boom, with thousands of nodes, tens of thousands of GPUs, and enough power usage to rival most nations. Plenty of us have a homelab quietly humming away on second-hand enterprise tin or an old laptop. But what about the bit in between? Can a small shop get genuinely useful, genuinely demanding work out of affordable(ish) hardware? And how can we ensure that any compute is shared fairly? At AmberWolf, one modest cluster earns its keep supporting our offensive security capabilities: AI inferencing and agentic workflows, CI runners and payload generation for our internal tooling, and GPU-backed password cracking. None of it is mass-scale, and the budget was a very real driver. Join us for a tour of how we make that work in practice: scheduling GPU jobs so expensive silicon never sits idle, leveraging on-premises compute for nested virtualisation, and keeping inferencing (and the data it touches) inside our own walls instead of someone else's API. We'll discuss times existing technology was or wasn't a great fit, and the things that bit us along the way: GPU scheduling to handle a team's demands, limitations of storage, and where we cheerfully chose pragmatism over purity.

Speakers: Iain Smart & Daniel Wilkinson

YAML Ain’t Managing Kubernetes​
The war stories and real-life-learnings from deploying the cloud-native platforms that underpin Scottish NHS services. Scaling from COVID to mycare.scot. And some funky tech choices.​

Speaker: Tadhg Davey
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Huge thanks to Morgan Stanley for hosting us!

Schedule:
5.30pm - Doors open, food and drink courtesy of Morgan Stanley
6.00pm - Talks
7.45pm - Wrap Up

Please note that you must RSVP via Meetup.com at least 24 hours prior in order to attend this event!

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