SUSE Cloud Native Meetup UK #4 (Manchester): 30 January 2025

Hi Everyone
We're in Manchester again in the New Year! We'd love you to join us for 2 fantastic talks, food, drinks and networking.

NEW! We will live stream the content to Youtube! 🎥

The Live Stream is invitation only, so you will still need to register and we'll send the details on how to join the session virtually!

Timeline

• 6.00 – Walk-in/Doors open 🚪
• 6.15 – Food & Drinks 🍕🥤☕️
• 6.45 – Welcome by Nelson Batsford
• 7:00 - Talk One: 'Crafting Tomorrow: SUSE's Contribution to PA Media Group's Platform Engineering Journey', Matthew Levitt, Head of Platform Engineering, PA Media
• 7:30 Talk Two: 'We need to talk about security in our containerised workloads, Jain Joseph, Solution Architect, SUSE
• 8:00 Networking and Drinks 🥤🚽
• 9:00 – Time is up! See you next time. 👋

We hope to see you there!

Abstracts
Talk One: Crafting Tomorrow: SUSE's Contribution to PA Media Group's Platform Engineering Journey, Matthew Levitt, Head of Platform Engineering, PA Media

Learn how a media company is leveraging platform engineering in order to boost developer productivity and operational efficiency. In this session, PA Media will discuss the key considerations that influenced their decision to adopt Rancher as their platform foundation. They will walk through their real-world implementation process, highlighting how Rancher fits into their technology stack and will help to empower developers, streamline deployments, and improve overall operational performance. The talk will also explore the company’s future vision for platform engineering and how Rancher can continue to support their evolving needs.

Talk Two: We need to talk about security in our containerised workloads
Jain Joseph, Solution Architect, SUSE

Cloud computing and the shift to container infrastructures accelerate business, yet introduce new security concerns. It is important to ensure you have a security strategy in place and the right tools to help protect against known and unknown attacks. Through this session we are going to discuss how to secure your containerised environment from development to production and why Zero Trust controls are important in the dynamic world of Kubernetes.