Cape Town - Owning Your Stack: Launching Mendix in Private Cloud on Azure AKS

Description
What changes when a Mendix app runs in infrastructure you control? This talk traces the journey from first principles—what “private cloud” means and why teams choose it—through the nuts-and-bolts of running Mendix on an Azure AKS cluster. We’ll stay high-level, surfacing the decisions you’ll face rather than prescribing a single path.

What we'll explore:

• Clarifying private-cloud drivers: security, compliance, data sovereignty, isolation.
• Where Mendix Public Cloud hands you speed, and where a private cluster hands you control.
• The building blocks that turn AKS into a Mendix landing zone: Operator, Gateway, ingress, storage, and registries.
• From Studio Pro to Kubernetes: how packages move, what Helm does behind the scenes, and where GitOps or CI/CD can slot in.
• Operating day-to-day: monitoring, logging, scaling, and backups—with a live metrics demo to show what’s possible beyond Public Cloud dashboards.
• Common first-deployment pitfalls and the guardrails that prevent them without over-engineering.

Walk away with a mental map of the terrain, a shortlist of trade-offs to discuss with your platform team, and the confidence to start prototyping Mendix in your own AKS cluster.

Agenda
8:30 Welcome and coffee
9:00 Talk
9:40 Coffee & socials

Location
TBA

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

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