Aprilnetes

London Kubernauts,

We tried to come up with some horrible April Fools puns, but we failed miserably, so we'll just cut straight to the point: Kubernetes London is back with a night full of nerd fun!

First things first! Big thanks to our sponsor, Monzo, who have again kindly provided the venue, food and drinks for the night. Let's give them the first round of [virtual] applause \o/

We are looking forward to seeing you all at Monzo on 2nd April! This is not April Fools joke, folks -- this is happening!

Until then stay awesome,

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Please be aware we will be checking names at the door and attendance is strictly limited. To make it fair to everyone we will start letting in people from the waitlist on a first come, first served basis from about 18:45 onwards until we reach max capacity. Please bring your ID. Apologies in advance if you don't make it in - please join us online for the live stream and in the pub afterwards! 🙏
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Your Organizers.

Program:
18:30 - 19:00 Food, drinks and socialising
19:00 - 19:10 Welcome by organisers
19:10 - 19:30 Carmen Andoh, Go engineer, Google
19:35 - 19:55 Kir Shatrov, platform engineer, Shopify
20:00 - 20:20 Paris Apostolopoulos, Lead Engineer, Ticketmaster
20:25 - 20:45 Sam Irvine, Infrastructure Engineer, ControlPlane
20:45 Pub

Abstract and Speaker Bios:

Carmen Andoh
Carmen recently joined the Go Team at Google, but up until this February worked as an Infrastructure Engineer at Travis CI. Wielding as many as 4 different clouds (yo dawg, you like multi-clouds?) for 3+ million Linux & Mac (and WSL) Builds per week. Before that, she's had other lifetimes that have had nothing to do with tech.

Abstract: You know containers. You know K8s. But do you really know? Enter Infra on HARD MODE: K8s on Mac Hardware, at scale. Come listen to the adventures of a friendly neighbourhood build infrastructure team, and how they managed K8s on Mac.

Kir Shatrov, Autoscaling Kubernetes clusters the hard way
Kir Shatrov is a platform engineer at Shopify where he works on scalability and reliability of one of the world’s largest ecommerce platforms. When not into working, Kir enjoys cooking, gastronomic tourism (he even has a GitHub repo with his favourite spots!) and exploring London on the bike.

Abstract: Autoscaling workloads in Kubernetes often sound like throwing some Horizontal Pod Autoscalers and KCCO. Using one of the largest commerce platforms as an example, we'll talk about why it's not always as easy and what are the typical blockers that may prevent you from adjusting capacity on the flight to accommodate for traffic growth and savings.

Paris Apostolopoulos
Paris is the Lead Software Engineer, Ticketmaster, London. He builds and designs simple web APIs and integration systems that power the new Reactive web applications of Ticketmaster International.

Abstract:
Description:
A year after our initial presentation around our journey with K8s at TM, we are back with more stories, lessons learnt, failures and updates. Still facing challenges and needs to accommodate for more even more markets and end users, k8s continues to be our no1 tool for the job. We still try to adopt the DevOps way which is mostly around people and not processes.

Sam Irvine
Sam is an Infrastructure Engineer at ControlPlane, a Kubernetes and pipeline security startup in London, UK. Sam works on delivering K8s platforms and secure pipelines in high compliance environments. Previously, Sam has experience delivering scientific outreach and presented technical training.

Abstract:
Most organisations build then deploy container images directly to Kubernetes using the same CI server. This paradigm requires a CI server to have build-time secrets, direct networking routes to K8s, and deploy credentials. This privilege and access means CI servers are a goldmine for malicious actors.