Name: Streamline Your Infrastructure & Introduction into Confidential Computing
Start: 2025-10-29T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-29T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Digicomp Academy AG

*\*\*\* Last-minute change due to a speaker falling ill. Jan has kindly stepped in. See updated description below. \*\*\**

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Two exciting topics, two very experienced speakers and much networking opportunity. We are very much looking forward to the next DevOps Meetup Zurich. Here's what's planned for the evening:

17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival and first drinks
18:00 - 18:50- Streamline Your Infrastructure by Ralf Weber
18:55 - 19:40 - Introduction into Confidential Computing by Jan Moser
19:40 - 20:30 - Networking & more drinks

**Streamline Your Infrastructure: Kubernetes-Native Resource Management with Crossplane**
While many are familiar with Terraform, Crossplane offers a seamless experience to manage your infrastructure as code that integrates directly into your Kubernetes workflow - eliminating context-switching and the need to learn a new language. In this talk, we'll explore how Crossplane enhances visibility into your cloud resources, tackles configuration drift, and enables opinionated developer self-service. Through a live demo, you'll learn how to manage both cloud and on-prem resources effectively with Crossplane, and how to build an abstraction layer between vendor-specific resources and developers - significantly improving Developer Experience (DX).

**Ralf Weber**
As a Platform Engineer at Cistec, I focus on streamlining the Developer Experience by building abstraction layers and improving visibility such that our developers can focus on what they do best: delivering features. Operating in the healthcare sector, we work primarily with on-premise client clusters and rely heavily on open source software to maintain flexibility and independence. With a background in a finance startup and a strong foundation in cloud-native tooling, I focus on making open source technologies like Crossplane and ArgoCD work for teams - not the other way around.

**Introduction into Confidential Computing**
Confidential Computing extends data protection to the stage of active processing. It uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which are secure hardware areas in modern processors. A TEE isolates and encrypts data and code during computation, reducing exposure to the operating system, hypervisor, or cloud service layer. This approach helps maintain data integrity and confidentiality, even in shared or untrusted infrastructure.
The talk provides a technical overview of how TEEs function and how they integrate into broader security architectures. It examines design choices, performance considerations, and the operational challenges of developing enclave-compatible applications. The session also outlines common risk areas such as side-channel vulnerabilities and discusses established mitigation techniques.
Participants will gain a clear understanding of the building blocks that make Confidential Computing practical, including attestation workflows, memory protection mechanisms, and secure key handling. The content is intended for engineers and architects seeking to apply these concepts within privacy-sensitive or compliance-driven environments.

**Jan Moser**
Since many years, Jan works in different software architecture positions all over the globe. With a background in software engineering, he successfully planned, designed and helped implement solutions in various business fields such as defence, automotive, pharma or finance. As an ISAQB accredited software architecture instructor he loves to share his knowledge and enable others to grow in their career paths. Jan at the moment is working as a lead consultant for Gradion worldwide.

Many thanks to our **sponsors**:

* Location Sponsor: digicomp https://digicomp.ch
* Catering Sponsor: DevOpsDays https://www.devopsdays.ch/

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