Cloud Native Networking & Security

📢 Exciting news for the tech community! 🚀
Mark your calendars for the upcoming Cloud Native Networking & Security meetup on June 29th, 2023 in Munich. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and engage in lively discussions on the latest trends and insights in the Cloud Native and Security space.
We look forward to you!

🗒️ Agenda
18:00 - 18:15 Registration
18:15 - 18:45 Welcoming & Talk 1 - Let's give it a Spin - a beginner's guide to Fermyon Spin by Max Körbächer
18:45 - 19:15 Talk 2 - Effortless Open Source Observability with Cilium, Prometheus, and Grafana - LGTM! by Stephane Karagulmez
19:15 - 19:45 Talk 3 - How Tetragon Can Help You Take Your Kubernetes Defense to the Next Level by Nico Meisenzahl und Philip Welz
20:00 - open end Beer & Pizza (sponsored by Isovalent) and SWAG

Abstracts

Let's give it a Spin - a beginners guide to Fermyon Spin by Max Körbächer
Running wasm applications have the reputation to be yet to complicated to be used in a productive and relevant manner. However, with Fermyon Spin and the open-source platform provided, this is more than an easy job to get started with. We will shortly look at some specifications of wasm before we step into the Spin SDK and platform. With a snap of your finger, we going to deploy an application to the Fermyon cloud before I will show you how you can run your own wasm platform.

Effortless Open Source Observability with Cilium, Prometheus, and Grafana - LGTM! by Stephane Karagulmez

Without good observability, it can be almost impossible to know if your application is actually up without refreshing your website every 30 seconds. However, it can be challenging or almost impossible to update many applications to provide the observability you need.
Enter Cilium which leverages eBPF to provide observability data with Prometheus metrics for your applications without having to modify the application itself.
In this session we will demonstrate how Cilium powered with Hubble and the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for Metrics) is able to show Service to Service communication, monitor Golden Signals, detect transient network layer issues and identifies problematic API request with transparent tracing.
Using a demo application, we will demonstrate performance and metrics for that application and how the metrics change with increasing request volumes. We will show how metrics change when a new configuration of our application introduces error rates and increases request duration.
Finally, we will demonstrate how tracing headers for the application can be exported with Hubble HTTP metrics as Exemplars to link metrics to traces in Grafana, monitoring each HTTP Request and its duration using Tempo.
The audience will walk away with knowledge on how to monitor service-to-service connectivity and collect tracing data and golden metrics using standard Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry exported from Cilium and eBPF.

How Tetragon Can Help You Take Your Kubernetes Defense to the Next Level by Nico Meisenzahl und Philip Welz

Philip and Nico show how to use Tetragon to strengthen your Kubernetes clusters’ overall security. They will introduce you to the fundamentals of Tetragon and eBPF and how both can help you improve your security observability, runtime enforcement, and overall cluster integrity.
Additionally, both will share best practices and real-world examples with you in a live demo. So don’t miss this session to learn everything you need to know to run your Kubernetes-based workloads securely with Tetragon.

🧑🏻‍💻 Speakers:
Max Körbächer (Co-founder @ Liquid Reply)
Stephane Karagulmez (Senior Solution Architect @ Isovalent)
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

📍Location: Office Liquid Reply
Luise-Ullrich-Straße 14, 80636 München

This event is organized by Isovalent, Liquid Reply, white duck