Kubernetes at Christmas

Our London meet-up is back for Christmas! Join the Public Cloud Kubernetes London’s meet-up this December for all things public cloud and Kubernetes.

What can you expect?
Christmas! 🎄 Food. Drinks. K8s. Good Conversation.
There will be a few lightning talks followed by a general discussion with our presenters in a panel, and finish with food, refreshments and networking.

And yes we do appreciate some great Christmas sweaters!
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Talk 1: Playstation and Kubernetes: How to solve a problem like real-time
Joseph Irving (Sony)

Kubernetes can be a natural fit for hosting things like websites and APIs - but hosting something that requires sets of long-lived stable connections may not work as well in the shifting sands that is a Kubernetes cluster. Realtime video game servers are one of these things, as a group of friends would not enjoy being booted out of their 30 minute match because the pod they were playing in got autoscaled. At PlayStation we're trying to use an open source project, Agones, to run game servers in a Kubernetes cluster. We hope to get all the benefits that come with the Kubernetes ecosystem, without sacrificing the ability to provide great shared-world game experiences.

Bio: Joseph is a Senior DevOps Engineer working in Playstation's centralised technology team. He’s been using Kubernetes to run production workloads for over 6 years and he enjoys trying to solve company wide problems in a simple but flexible way, building common tools and platforms to simplify and speed up development.

Talk 2:
The Complexity of Microservices Deployments
Bogdan Catana (Harness)

Bio: Bogdan is a Lead Solutions Architect at Harness with a strong passion for technology and DevOps. He started his career in software development, but then shifted towards platform engineering, site reliability and most recently consultancy and architecture with a focus on Software Delivery. He worked with companies across multiple sectors, including Software Engineering, Finance, Travel, Medicine, Education and Charity and has a drive for automation and advocating DevOps best practices.

Some of the previous talks he had been in webinars with Hashicorp around CI/CD Security, a Brunch with Dave Farley on test automation, a talk at {unscripted} 2021 around Infra Provisioning and App Deployments synchronisation and a talk at Blueprint London 2021.

Talk 3: Look ma, no sidecar!
Alessandro Vozza (solo.io)

The sidecar model of delivering service mesh to applications in a cluster has drawbacks that limited adoption at scale and performance; a new model introduced in the ambient mode of Istio aims at reducing complexity and overhead and delivering secure application networking at both L4 and L7 with zero changes needed at the pod level.

Bio: Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open source for 25 years and recently moved to a new Developer Relations role. Twitter handle: @bongo

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Who are these events for?
Platform Engineers
Cloud Engineers
DevOps Engineers
DevOps Managers
K8s Developers
... and anyone interested in public cloud Kubernetes

Got something to talk about?
Get in touch with Graeme or Salman, we'd love any contributions and offers to talk.

Unfortunately due to building restrictions, there is no wheelchair access to the venue.