This is an online Zoom meeting which is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 – 6:30pm - 8:30pm central time

The Zoom session will open around 6:15pm with the meeting starting at 6:30pm (with a short review of Group business before the speaker starts) and will end at 8:30 pm , and a virtual “Meeting after the Meeting” (afterwards).

The Fountaindale Library is closed for Meetings for now due to the pandemic so we have been holding our meetings virtually since March 2020.

This meeting will be run virtually on-line using a UniForum Chicago Zoom account.

RSVP Yes here on Meetup to receive an email an hour ahead of time with URL link to the Zoom meeting.

Be sure to have a check mark in "Email me when someone sends me a message" on your Meetup account at this location https://www.meetup.com/account/comm/ in order to receive email notification of the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting.

You will also see the Zoom URL on this Meetup posting once you RSVP Yes for the event.

The event posted on UniForum Chicago's website: http://uniforumchicago.org/meetings/Intro_to_Kubernetes.html

Abstract

Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Kubernetes has become the defacto system to manage distributed applications. We will give a short introduction to Kubernetes and how IdeaNova is using Kubernetes to schedule cloud workloads. Bring your questions, comments and experiences to share during the discussion which is to follow after the presentation.

As our January general meeting, this will also be our Annual meeting where half of our board member slots will be up for election. Currently no one other than the current board members for those slots have asked to be on the ballot. Unless someone asks to be added to the ballot, we will ask for a voice vote to re-elect those current board members.

Janne Pelkonen Bio

Janne Pelkonen is the current Chief Technology Officer at IdeaNova Technologies. Pelkonen is an expert in Information Technology and software development and is responsible for the company’s technical direction. Prior to joining IdeaNova, Pelkonen worked for Perficient Inc., Advanced Graphical Applications and Tellabs. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Getting to the meeting:

This January 2021 General meeting of UniForum Chicago (time as described with the meeting's title above) will NOT be at a physical location, but will be a virtual on-line meeting using a planned Zoom meeting for which the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting will be emailed to those that RSVP'd Yes on Meetup.com for this meeting at least one hour before the start of the meeting (That means RSVPing Yes by 5pm-ish for the meeting to officially start at 6:30pm).

Note:

Be sure to have EmaiI Updates turned on and then be sure there is a check mark in "Email me when someone sends me a message" on your Meetup account at this location https://www.meetup.com/account/comm/ in order to receive email notification of the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting.

You will also see the Zoom URL on this Meetup posting once you RSVP Yes for the event.

It is our intention to hold our annual pizza party once it is safe for in person dining.