Policy-driven access control//App. Delivery with Consul Service Mesh And K8s

Cloud Native Computing Meetup Berlin is happy to host Styra's Developer Advocate, Anders Eknert, and CircleCI's Developer Advocate Zan Markan with HashiCorp's Developer Advocate Nic Jackson.

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SCHEDULE:

[18:00 - 18:45] Zan & Nic, "Progressive Application Delivery with Consul Service Mesh and Kubernetes"

[18:50 - 19:35] Anders Eknert, “Policy-driven access control - an introduction to OPA"

Both talks will be followed by Q&A and a 5-minute break.

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TALK DETAILS:

“Policy-driven access control - an introduction to OPA”, Anders Eknert

Abstract: With our digital systems growing increasingly distributed and our tech stacks increasingly heterogeneous, we need to devise new models around policy and access control. In this presentation, we’ll introduce Open Policy Agent (OPA) - what problems it solves and how it unifies policy across the whole cloud native stack. After a brief introduction, we'll take a closer look at Rego, the policy language used by OPA, before exploring how OPA may be used for building guard rails around our Kubernetes clusters.

“Progressive Application Delivery with Consul Service Mesh and Kubernetes”, Zan & Nic

Abstract: Even with a high level of test automation and coverage, deploying applications to production carry a particular risk. Differences in infrastructure, configuration, application software, and data stores can mean that an application that performed flawlessly through the development and test cycles can fail when introduced to the production environment.

To counter the risk involved with deploying to production, we developed a technique called canary testing. Rather than immediately replacing existing software with a new version, you gradually introduce it while monitoring its behavior.

In this talk, you will learn how to implement a fully automated progressive delivery pipeline for canary testing using Consul Service Mesh, Flagger, Circle CI, and Kubernetes. We will look at the end-to-end process from code commit to production release, and by the end of the talk, you will understand the core configuration of all the tools involved so that you can replicate the workflow in your environment.

SPEAKER BIOS:

Anders Eknert is a developer advocate at Styra with a long background in software development, security, and identity systems in primarily distributed environments. When not in front of his computer he enjoys watching football, cooking, and Belgian beers.

Zan Markan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality. Throughout his career, he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools.
He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.

Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” a book that examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. He is currently writing “Service Mesh Patterns” for O'Reilly, a book that looks at common distributed system patterns with specific relation to the Service Mesh.