DevOps Finland May Meetup: Submarines, Meshes and Kubernetes

Hosted by Isovalent and Eficode

17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome / DevOps Finland, Isovalent and Eficode
17:45 Submarine Onboarding, Navigation, and Software Companies / Andy Allred @ Eficode
18:25 *** break ***
18:40 Connecting and Securing Clusters Across Clouds with Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh / Raymond de Jong, Field CTO, EMEA @ Isovalent
19:20 *** break ***
19:35 Understanding Kubernetes Through Real-World Phenomena and Analogies / Lucas Käldström, Kubernetes Contributor and CNCF Ambassador, Founder and CEO @ luxas labs
20:20 *** free discussion ***
21:00 Closing

NOTE: There will be a workshop on Cilium arranged before the meetup: https://isovalent.com/2023-05-09-cilium-workshop-helsinki/

Talk 1: Submarine onboarding, navigation and software companies
Andy will introduce us to the intricacies of a submarine, discuss what the onboarding process looks like, and how nuclear submarines navigate. Andy will then share everything software companies can learn from this, like how onboarding and value streams can transform an entire organization. When we talk about dashboards in software development, we may think the more accurate they are, the better. But what if the only data you have is an approximation that gets more confusing the longer you look at it? This is why Andy will be discussing what software development can learn from the deep blue sea - mainly about navigation and cloud-native visibility with eBPF.

Andy Allred started his career as an electronic warfare and operations specialist in fast attack submarines. After ten years there, he spent several years working in the telecoms industry, working with various providers, vendors, and cloud use cases. Currently, he is advising and helping organizations to be successful in their cloud use and DevOps journeys for Eficode. He has worked in all corners of the globe. This vast experience has taught him to keep an open mind, look for all points of view, and find innovative solutions.
Andy speaks at conferences about DevOps and cloud native solutions, and co-hosts the DevOps Sauna podcast.

Talk 2: Connecting and Securing Clusters Across Clouds with Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh
Managing high-available cloud-native applications across multiple clusters and clouds can quickly become complex and time-consuming. However, Cilium Cluster Mesh and Service Mesh provide a streamlined and scalable solution to cross-cloud connectivity. In this session, you will learn how Cilium Cluster Mesh combined with Service Mesh provides a single networking, security, and observability solution for applications spanning multiple clusters and clouds.

Raymond de Jong is Field CTO for EMEA at Isovalent, the originators of the Cilium project, providing networking, observability, and security for cloud-native applications using eBPF. In this role, he is supporting and enabling customers and partners to be successful with Cilium in their mission-critical environments. Leveraging almost a decade of experience in Software Defined Networking he is passionate about learning customer use-cases and designing solutions to meet their requirements.

Talk 3: Understanding Kubernetes Through Real-World Phenomena and Analogies
How is the Kubernetes controller model similar to a taxi driver? Why is Kubernetes so differently designed compared to similar systems? How has the second law of thermodynamics and randomness theory shaped Kubernetes design? How the shift from traditionally managing servers to using Kubernetes operators similar to the Industrial Revolution?
This talk offers the audience a unique perspective into why Kubernetes is designed the way it is. Kubernetes is often described as designed from “decades of experience”, but it is not as often mentioned what that means in practice. Quite conversely, many newcomers to Kubernetes find it “too complex”. Why is it, or why is that the impression?

Lucas Käldström is a cloud native enthusiast who has been serving the Kubernetes & CNCF communities in lead positions for more than 4 years. Lucas is a CNCF Ambassador, running 3 meetup groups in Finland and coordinating the Cloud Native Nordics meetups. He got the "Top Cloud Native Ambassador" award together with Sarah Novotny 2017. Lucas has e.g. shepherded kubeadm from inception to GA as a co-lead for SIG Cluster Lifecycle, ported Kubernetes to Raspberry Pi and multiple other platforms. Lucas is a CKA, runs a consulting company "luxas labs" for cloudnative tech and has spoken at six KubeCons.

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