Melbourne AWS User Group #156 - February 2026

# 🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – February Meetup 🎉

📅 Wednesday, 25 February
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)

We’re kicking off 2026 properly with a deep technical session and another exciting speaker announcement coming soon 👀
This month we’re diving into Kubernetes networking changes that could directly impact your clusters — especially if you’re running Ingress-NGINX.
This month’s lineup features:

• Gokul Venugopal returning with a Level 300 session on the retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX.
• Warwick Wilson shares lessons from running and evolving a production AWS Serverless orchestration platform over three years.

A huge thank you to our sponsors: 🥇 Mantel Group – Gold Sponsor, 🥈 Cevo – Silver Sponsor, 🏛 NAB – Venue Sponsor

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube as always.

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# 🗓️ Agenda

• 6:00 pm – Food & Socialising
• 6:30 pm – Introductions
• 6:40 pm – What’s New in AWS
• 6:55 pm – The Retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX (Level 300); Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
• 7:25 pm – Title coming soon (Level 200); Speaker: Warwick Wilson
• 7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
• 8:00 pm – Networking + Close

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# 🎤 Talk Details

## The Retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX: Impacts, Risks, and Next Steps

Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
Level: 300
Description:
Ingress controllers are foundational to how traffic flows into Kubernetes workloads — but with the announced retirement of Ingress-NGINX, many teams are asking: what now?
In this session, Gokul will cover:

• A refresher on Kubernetes Ingress and the role of Ingress-NGINX
• What the retirement means in practice
• Risks for existing clusters
• Migration paths and available alternatives
• Pros and cons of the major options

If you’re running Kubernetes in production, this is one you don’t want to miss.

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## Title Coming Soon

Speaker: Warwick Wilson
Level: 200
Description:
Warwick manages a Spatial Data supply and distribution platform for DTP, an AWS Serverless orchestration that has now been in production for nearly three years.
In this session, Warwick will walk through:

• The original architecture and design decisions
• How the AWS Step Functions workflows started simple
• How they evolved over time as production realities set in
• Lessons learned operating and refining long-running serverless orchestration

If you're running or designing Step Functions in production, this is a practical, experience-driven session you won’t want to miss.

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# 🙌 Want to Speak at a Future Meetup?

We’re always looking for new speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk waiting to be shared.
If you’d like to present at a future event, reach out at the meetup, via our website:
👉 https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/