Kubernetes – Core concepts & Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Our next AWS User Group Meetup in Heilbronn 2026 will take place on February 19th - again with interesting talks and pizza 🍕. Join this meetup if you work with AWS or are just interested in the topic - either way, you will learn a lot and connect with the community.

🎤 Kubernetes Core Concepts
Introduction to Kubernetes: an open source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications – What is Kubernetes? Which key components make up a Kubernetes cluster? And why does it make sense to use Kubernetes in the first place?

Speaker: Kai Mayer
Kai is Junior Software Engineer @ XL2 by Audi and Capgemini, working on AWS based cloud projects.

🎤 Kubernetes on AWS with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
EKS is AWS’s managed Kubernetes service, deeply integrated into the AWS ecosystem. But how do you use EKS effectively? How do you deploy both the EKS cluster itself and applications running inside it? And what are the key advantages and limitations to be aware of?

Speaker: Julian Michel
Julian works as Managing IT Architect at XL2 by Audi & Capgemini. He is AWS Community Builder and started the AWS User Group Heilbronn.

Additional information:

• We will start with networking and pizza 🍕, then we will continue with the talks. 🎤
• There will be some AWS swag available for attendees.
• 📅 Please keep your registration status up-to-date - this helps us organize the event and the pizza.
• You can park in the parking garage next to the XL2 office on the 4th floor in the designated XL2 parking spaces.