Cloud Native Computing Switzerland

Agenda:
Would you like to speak at this event? Contact us at https://cnc-meetup.ch! Guidelines:

• All sessions are in English.
• No product or sales pitches are allowed.
• All projects showcased should be open source.
• We cannot cover travel costs but welcome speakers from other regions.
• We're seeking more diversity among our speakers: underrepresented groups are welcome!

15:30 – Door Opening
16:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:05 – Porting Legacy Applications to Kubernetes: How and Why (Carole Hamer)
16:45 – 5 minutes pause
16:50 – Managing Geospatial Open Data Serverlessly: paddelbuch.ch (Chris Bingham)
17:30 – 5 minutes pause
17:35 – Session 3
18:15 – Final words, networking & apéro

Porting Legacy Applications to Kubernetes: How and Why
Dr. Carole Hamer, D-INFK, ETHZ

Kubernetes is quickly becoming the industry standard for server operations. New software projects today are typically designed to be cloud-native. However, much of the software still running in the wild predates Kubernetes and containerization. This talk is a practical discussion with real-life examples of deciding whether to port a legacy application to Kubernetes and how to avoid common pitfalls once you've decided to do it.

Dr. Carole Hamer has worked as an IT engineer since 1999, beginning in Software Engineering and gradually moving towards DevOps as the ideas and practices of DevOps developed. Over the past 25 years, she has worked at various firms in France, the US, and Switzerland and has learned important lessons from every one of them. She blogs at https://startup2scalable.com and works in DevOps and System Engineering for the Department of Informatik at ETHZ.

Managing Geospatial Open Data Serverlessly: paddelbuch.ch
Chris Bingham, cloudypandas.ch

Over the last few years, I've built paddelbuch.ch, an open-source, open-data project that publishes mapping data for the Swiss paddle sports community.
With the goal of a zero-ops, (nearly) zero-cost system, serverless was the apparent technology approach. However, this was not without its ups and downs!
Let's journey together through the technical successes, service issues, and open-source perils that have made up the paddelbuch.ch story.

Chris Bingham was among the earliest AWS-certified Solution Architects and has worked exclusively on cloud projects for 12 years, with a focus on cloud architecture and consulting engagements for the last decade. In the previous 23 years, he's worked on technology projects for large firms in a diverse range of industries across Europe. He currently volunteers with Swiss Canoe as a member of Fachkommision Seekajak.

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We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you want to share your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events or sponsor future events, send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch. We look forward to hearing from you!

Agenda:
Would you like to speak at this event? Contact us at https://cnc-meetup.ch! Guidelines:

• All sessions are held in English.
• No product or sales pitches are allowed.
• All projects showcased should be open source.
• We cannot cover travel costs but welcome speakers from other regions.
• We're seeking more diversity among our speakers: underrepresented groups are welcome!

15:30 - Doors open
16:00 - Welcome
16:05 - KubeVirt, Running and managing VMs on Kubernetes (Christof Lüthi, Thomas Philipona Tim&Koko AG)
16:35 - short break
16:40 - Cloud-native application packaging and management: Crossplane the open-source CNCF project (Aarno Aukia, VSHN AG)
17:10 - short break
17:15 - 3rd talk
17:45 - short break
17:50 - 4th talk
18:20 - Closing, Networking & Aperitif

Session 1: KubeVirt, Running and managing VMs on Kubernetes
Running virtual machines on Kubernetes might sound counterintuitive at first glance. How can traditional workloads fully leverage the benefits of cloud-native principles? Even though cloud computing is widely spread today and the de facto standard for many use cases, there are still needs for running workloads in one's own data center. Together, over the next 40 minutes, we will explore how KubeVirt seems to be revolutionizing the world of virtual machines in this niche.
In this talk, we'll explore the use cases and benefits of using KubeVirt in Kubernetes. We'll start by exploring the topic and concepts in more detail and demonstrating them with a live demo. Then, we'll move to the next level and see the specific opportunities that VMs on Kubernetes offer and how containers and VMs can work together and be managed seamlessly.

Session 2: Cloud-native application packaging and management: Crossplane the open-source CNCF project
Managing services like databases, feature deployments, and infrastructure becomes critical to ensuring reliability and performance. Technologies like Docker, Helm, and Crossplane have grown from their early experimental days to become trusted tools within the upstream community, offering mature, well-integrated solutions. This talk explores how adopting open standards like Helm and Crossplane enables platform engineering teams to simplify service provisioning, automate external service management, and deliver feature branch deployments without the complexities of Terraform. Learn how your team can provide consistent, production-ready APIs for software engineers, implement best practices, and offload operational burdens with powerful tooling already proven in real-world deployments.

The event will be recorded and later made available on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv. Subscribe to be notified of updates!

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you want to share your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events or sponsor future events, send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch. We look forward to hearing from you!

Agenda:
Would you like to speak at this event? Contact us at https://cnc-meetup.ch! Guidelines:

• All sessions are held in English.
• No product or sales pitches are allowed.
• All projects showcased should be open source.
• We cannot cover travel costs but welcome speakers from other regions.
• We're seeking more diversity among our speakers: underrepresented groups are welcome!

15:30 – Door Opening
16:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:05 – Session 1
16:45 – 5 minutes pause
16:50 – Session 2
17:30 – 5 minutes pause
17:35 – Session 3
18:15 – Final words, networking & apéro

The event will be recorded and made available later on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv – subscribe to be notified of updates!

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you would like to share your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events or sponsor future events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch. We look forward to hearing from you!