Kubernetes and Cloud Native North Dallas

We are excited to announce the October meetup scheduled for Thursday, October 16th.

1st Presentation:
Optimizing Kubernetes workloads for price/performance

Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system of the cloud and the backbone for everything from microservices to data pipelines and AI/ML workloads. But while Kubernetes provides flexibility and scale, it also introduces a fundamental resource allocation problem due to the common practice of overprovisioning GPU, CPU, and memory.
In dynamic environments real-time, automated resource optimization is not a nice-to-have; it’s essential for keeping costs down and performance up so that development teams can focus on innovation rather than maintenance, and your business can get more done with less.
Join us for insights into the challenge of optimizing Kubernetes workloads and solutions for reducing the cost of running Kubernetes dynamically, continuously, and at scale.

Speaker Bio:
Joel Stewart
Joel is passionate about customers and distributed systems. He joined Pepperdata in 2018 with over 10 years of experience in customer service for enterprise software companies. Combining his expertise in technology and his passion for customer success, he leads Pepperdata's support and services teams. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on distributed computing from Westmont College.

The Agenda
6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 8:30 - Optimizing Kubernetes workloads for price/performance
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up