Cloud Native Computing Switzerland

 
 
 

Please join our May 2023 CNC meetup on Thursday, May 25th 2023 at 16:00 CEST, with an event entirely dedicated to Cloud Native security topics!

Location:
Ergon Informatik AG
Merkurstrasse[masked] Zürich
Switzerland

How to find us:
Take tram 8 or 11 or the S18 train to Kreuzplatz, and walk down Zeltweg towards Merkurstrasse. Or take the S-Bahn train to Stadelhofen, and walk along Kreuzbühlstrasse and Merkurstrasse (10 minutes). Or take buses 31 or 33 to Sprecherstrasse and walk down Zeltweg towards Merkurstrasse.

Agenda:
16:00 – Door Opening
16:10 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:15 – Session 1: "Bypassing Security Controls" by Philippe Bogaerts (Fortinet)
16:45 – 5 minutes pause
16:50 – Session 2: "Constellation - The first always encrypted Kubernetes" by Moritz Eckert (Edgeless Systems)
17:20 – 5 minutes pause
17:25 – Session 3: "Web application security in a DevOps environment" by Stefan Dietiker (Ergon Informatik AG)
17:55 – Final words
18:00 – Networking & apéro

Session 1: "Bypassing Security Controls" by Philippe Bogaerts (Fortinet)
Adopting a DevSecOps approach will ensure security from the moment code is produced until deployed in production. Let’s discuss some pitfalls based on personal research as well as some solutions to ensure peace of mind.

Philippe brings more than 20+ years of experience in security. Being a pioneer in firewall, reverse proxy, and load-balancing, Philippe specialized in web application security with a focus on penetration testing and web application firewalling. Today, Philippe contributes mostly by writing blog posts, talking at meetups as well as co-organizing a renowned security conference. Philippe is a cloud solution engineer at Fortinet.

Session 2: "Constellation - The first always encrypted Kubernetes" by Moritz Eckert (Edgeless Systems)
Confidential computing allows one to keep workloads encrypted and isolated in memory during processing. Constellation is an open-source K8s distro/engine that applies the confidential-computing concept to entire K8s clusters. In this talk, Moritz will introduce confidential computing, discuss the motivation behind Constellation, give an overview of its architecture, and show a live demo.

Moritz Eckert is a passionate cybersecurity expert. He was a software security researcher at EURECOM and UC Santa Barbara. He joined Edgeless Systems in 2020, where he now leads product development. Moritz has presented at top-tier cybersecurity conferences, including Usenix Security Symposium and RSA Conference.

Session 3: "Web application security in a DevOps environment" by Stefan Dietiker (Ergon Informatik AG)

In a DevOps world, developers want to release often and quickly. Centralized application firewalls can slow down this continuous delivery process. The delay is caused by the coordination between firewall operators and app owners to apply the correct changes in security rules. Stefan explains how this pain point can be eliminated with decentralization. So-called micro gateways allow application security to be included in the DevOps process. This shifts the ownership of application security rules to the application team. This increased autonomy restores the short delivery times and also improves security.

Stefan Dietiker has been working in application security for more than ten years. He is a security engineer and is familiar with customers' issues. Since 2021, he has been the product manager of Airlock Microgateway.

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 talk about your cloud-native projects in the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you!

 
 
 

Date and Time
Thursday, June 1st, 2023, 18:00–22:00 CEST

Location
Red Hat
Europaallee 41
1st floor
8021 Zürich

Agenda

1. Talk by Isovalent (TBD)
2. Talk by Red Hat (TBD)
3. Talk by Adfinis (TBD)

 
 
 

The Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup goes places! We're starting a new initiative of hosting CNC CH meetups in various cities of Switzerland, to meet and learn from Cloud Native experts all over the country.

The first of these events will happen in Basel, at the Helvetia HVC LAB, on June 29th at 16:00 CEST. Join us!

Location
HVC LAB Basel
St. Alban-Tal[masked] Basel

Time
Thursday, June 29th, 2023 – 16:00 to 18:30 CEST

How to get there
From Basel SBB: 15 minutes walk through the city and along the Rhine or in 5 minutes with Tram 1 and hop off at "Kunstmuseum", or tram 3 to "St. Alban-Tor", tram 8 to "Aeschenplatz", and tram 14 to "Hardstrasse". The HVC LAB Basel is just a short walk away from each of these stations.

Agenda
- Session 1: Helvetia (TBA)
- Session 2: Available!
- Session 3: Available!

There will be an "apéro" at the end of the event.

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 in the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you.

 
 
 

Please join our August 2023 CNC meetup on Thursday, August 24th 2023 at 16:00 CEST.

Location:
VMware Switzerland GmbH
Baslerpark – Room “Matterhorn”
Baslerstrasse[masked] Zürich

How to find us:
Using public transportation: take trams 2, 3, and 4 and hop off at "Kappeli"; buses 89 and 83 and hop off at "Letzipark West;" bus 31 and hop off at "Letzipark;" or take the train and hop off at Zürich Altstetten and walk 15 minutes. If you come by car, use the “Letzipark Parking” just a one-minute walk from the venue.

Agenda:
16:00 – Door Opening
16:05 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:15 – "Spawn – the Actor Mesh" by Marcel Lanz (Netcetera)
16:55 – 5 minutes pause
17:00 – Session 2 by VMware (More details soon)
17:40 – 5 minutes pause
17:45 – "Infrastructure as Code for Kubernetes Applications using cdk8s" by Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang (AWS)
18:25 – Final words, networking & apéro

Session 1: "Spawn – the Actor Mesh" by Marcel Lanz (Netcetera)

Serverless runtimes are often hidden in cloud providers' offerings and exposed solely by their programming API and deployment procedures. In this talk, we'll explore an open-source Serverless runtime built for the cloud and on-premises, running on the BEAM with a polyglot programming model (Go, Javascript, Java, Rust, ...) to build general-purpose applications. We'll see how the BEAM and OTP are an ideal fit to build a Serverless runtime and to build applications in a cloud-native way. After an introduction to Serverless and a polyglot programming model, we'll present the open-source project at eigr.io, where we implemented the core of our runtime based on Erlang/OTP and written in Elixir.

Marcel Lanz is a Senior Software Architect at Netcetera. At heart, he is an engineer and generally curious about how things work. He has worked professionally for over 20 years in different fields like embedded- and realtime-systems and with enterprise systems in healthcare, insurance, and fintech industries. Marcel enjoys time with his family when he is not exploring all things Go, Erlang and Serverless.

Session 2: By VMware
(More details soon)

Session 3: "Infrastructure as Code for Kubernetes Applications using cdk8s" by Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang (AWS)

How do you define your Kubernetes applications? Do you write lines of YAML or do you maintain many custom CLI scripts? Why not use the programming language you are writing your application in, to also define your application running on Kubernetes? In this session we are going to use the open source ckd8s project to code more and configure less when defining our Kubernetes applications.

Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang are Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Zurich. Malte is a trusted advisor to small and medium sized businesses in Switzerland, and has a background in computer science with research in software engineering and mixed reality. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the Alps on a mountain bike or with hiking boots. Jun helps Swiss customers identify opportunities as well as their risks, and architect cloud-based solutions to achieve their business potential. He has the passion for sustainability and strives for solving current environmental challenges with technology for a better future. He is also a huge tennis fan, who enjoys playing board games a lot.

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 talk about your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you!