Infrastructure Coders Sydney November Meetup

Infrastructure Coders November Meetup @ Dius

I am very excited to announce the speakers and the topics of their talks for the Infrastructure Coders Sydney November Meetup event, which will be held on Thursday the 17th of November at the Dius offices on York Street in Sydney. Once again a big thank you to the speakers, the sponsors and the community!

Tickets for the event are $5 with all proceeds being donated to Variety and their “Future Kids Program”. **If you are uncomfortable with PayPal please msg me to organise bank transfer or cash at the event**

Vernon Jefferson - CTO at Kivera

“How to Build a SaaS”

After a decade of building enterprise cloud platforms and migrating complex applications to cloud, I found myself with an interesting product idea, $2m in funding and the need to build a globally available SaaS platform. In this talk I want to share my learning journey of designing, architecting and building a SaaS on AWS to support Kivera, a cloud security product. I'll touch on data modelling, tenant isolation, approach to APIs, identity management, testing and infrastructure. Hopefully I can save you some tears.

Andrew Martin - CEO / Co-Founder at Control Plane

“Hacking Kubernetes”

In a live evocation of the recent O’Reilly title Hacking Kubernetes (Martin, Hausenblas, 2021), this ultimate guide to threat-driven Kubernetes defence threat models and details how to attack and defend your precious clusters from nefarious adversaries.
This broad and detailed appraisal of end-to-end cluster security teaches you how to attack and defend against a range of historical and current CVEs, misconfigurations, and advanced threats:

• See the historical relevance of CVEs and demonstrations of attacks against your containers, pods, supply chain, network, storage, policy, and wider organisation
• Understand when to use next-generation runtimes like gVisor, firecracker, and Kata Containers
• Delve into workload identity and advanced runtime hardening
• Consider the trust boundaries in soft- and hard-multi tenant systems to appraise and limit the effects of compromise
• Learn to navigate the choppy waters of advanced Kubernetes security

Event Schedule:

600pm - Doors Open (networking, food & refreshments)
630pm - Talk 1: Vernon Jefferson "How to Build a SaaS"
700pm - Short break (networking & refreshments)
715pm - Talk 2: Andrew Martin “Hacking Kubernetes”
800pm - Networking until it is time to leave

If you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending future Infrastructure Coders Sydney events, please reach out to me directly on 0423461061 or kitchin.josh@gmail.com