SUSE Cloud Native Meetup UK #5: 27 February

Hi Everyone
We're hosting our 1st SUSE Cloud Native Meetup in Scotland on 27 February at Barclays Eagle Labs in Glasgow. The event will be in partnership with Frontier.

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 'Reusable Rancher: Deploying and operating in Automation' Fraser Davidson, CTO Frontier
• 7:30 Talk Two 'Platform Engineering: The Backbone of the Next Evolution in Cloud-Native with CAPI and Rancher' Emina Cosic, Senior Product Manager, SUSE
• 8:00 Networking and Drinks 🥤🚽
• 9:00 – Time is up! See you next time. 👋

We hope to see you there!

Abstracts:
Reusable Rancher: Deploying and Operating in Automation

In this talk we'll show you how to get started automating Rancher, from server to multi-cluster apps. We'll be using a cloud managed Kubernetes service and a CI/CD platform - plus tools like Helm and Terraform - to demo how you can deploy and operate Rancher in automation, developer playground to production.

Platform Engineering: The Backbone of the Next Evolution in Cloud-Native with CAPI and Rancher

In the rapidly evolving cloud-native world, platform engineering is emerging as the foundation for managing distributed platforms at scale. By creating self-service, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms, organizations can address the complexity of managing distributed systems in hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments. This talk explores the principles of platform engineering, the challenges it addresses in distributed platforms, and how tools like Cluster API (CAPI) and Rancher enable organizations to simplify Kubernetes lifecycle management. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how platform engineering, CAPI, and Rancher intersect to drive the next evolution in cloud-native infrastructure.