DevOps Braga #31 – We Are Back!

After more than a year on pause, DevOps Braga is back! 🎉

We’re relaunching the community with full energy and bringing tech meetups back to the north of Portugal.

This comeback edition features top-notch talks, straight from real-world experience at **Mercedes-Benz.io**, and community contributions.

📍 Venue: Mercedes-Benz.io Braga
📅 Date: September 24
🕠 Time: 18:30

📢 Agenda

18:30 – Welcome & Networking

**19:00 – “**Platform at Mercedes-Benz.io and how to enable developers leveraging tools like Crossplane, Kyverno, etc.” by Bertram Hass - CloudOps Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io

Abstract: The session will cover the Kubernetes journey of Mercedes-Benz.io, from its first single cluster in 2018 to today’s platform supporting 50+ product teams. In the second part, Bertram will share how they provide a self-service-first platform for end-to-end developer responsibility using tools like Crossplane, Kyverno, and more.

19:30 – “Your Data, Your AI: Integrating Secure Knowledge from the UI to the IDE” by *João Almeida - SRE at Mercedes-Benz.io*

Abstract: The power of AI is unlocked when it can securely reason over private data. This talk demos Carl.AI at Mercedes-Benz.io — starting with a context-aware assistant through a simple UI, then diving into a developer-first toolkit: a “RAG-as-a-Service” API and direct IDE integration via MCP. Learn how secure, internal knowledge becomes a seamless utility for every developer and team.

20:00 – " CICD Setups at “scale as a service" by Luis Serra - Senior DevOps Eng at synvert xgeeks

Abstract: Managing multiple CI/CD requirements presents significant challenges. Dealing from different operating systems, non-containerized solutions to high-resource-demand pipelines and specific tool versions— How can all these needs be met while ensuring scalability, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to best practices on a cloud platform? This talk introduces Fleeting Runners, a solution that delivers to development teams the ability to set up their own GitLab Runners abstracting underlayer infrastructure and observability management efforts.

20:30 – Closing & Networking 🍕🍺

A huge thank you to synvert xgeeks and **Mercedes-Benz.io** for supporting this edition!

👉 Don’t miss the relaunch of DevOps Braga — register now, bring your colleagues, and let’s make the northern tech community thrive again!

See you there