Google Container Engine and the impact of Containerization and Kubernetes

First talk will start at 5pm

Speaker 1:

Christian Hagner

Head of Cloud Services for Siatik who is a leader in the African infrastructure landscape for the past 17 years. He has focused on infrastructure modernisation and how to adopt new technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs by focusing on building and deploying cloud platforms

Topic: Christian will provide an overview of PaaS and SaaS and how it can minimize effort and cost in comparison to traditional IaaS solutions. Especially on the impact of containerization and kubernetes

25 Minutes

Speaker 2

Daniel Lee

B.Sc(Eng) in Mechatronics from UCT.

He began his career as a consultant building software for industrial processing plants on mines around the country, predominantly focussing on acid mine drainage before moving to dotModus where he now designs data pipelines for big data. His experience has expanded to meet customer demands across the globe. He is very well versed in the GCP stack and boasts expert experience with Pub/Sub, App engine Flex, Kubernetes, Compute Engine, Stackdriver, BigQuery, CloudSQL and Cloud Storage. He spends most of his time working with Apache Airflow when he is not creating connectors to get data from various sources into GCP.

Topic: Google Container Engine(GKE), using airflow as an example to show a good use case for using Google Container Engine.

Short intro to Google Container Engine(GKE)

Demo of how a Container engine instance can run(using Airflow and multiple pods and containers.)

Stack driver monitoring in GKE and custom metrics.

45 Minutes