DevOps Wroclaw 2019-12: at Ocado

This DevOps Wroclaw meetup will be hosted at Ocado Technology office.
We will have two great talks:

18:15 – Talk #1
"A gentle introduction to AWS CDK" [EN/PL] by Krzysztof Ciszak (Ocado Technology)

Amazon describes Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) as “an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages”.
In this session we’ll go through the basic concepts of the CDK, how is it different from the other IaC approaches and how can it help you maintain your infrastructure in a truly classy way.

19:15 – Talk #2
“Understanding Kubernetes Storage” [EN/PL] by Mateusz Dymiński (Nokia)

There are a lot of examples how to run applications on the Kubernetes, but you won't find much info on how to run your database on K8s platform. Many developers and DevOps avoid even touching the storage layer and repeating cliches: "applications in containers must be stateless", "writes done by container apps are slow", "storing data on k8s requires distributed storage" or "never run DB on k8s". Time to deal with these myths and understand how storage works on K8s!

Why does everyone thinks it's so complicated? What is PersistentVolume? What is PersistentVolumeClaim? Why do we have both components and how do they interact with each other? What's Local storage? How to write scalable applications that are not always stateless? How to debug K8s when something connected with storage went wrong? What's Container Storage Interface?

I will try to answer these questions! Hopefully you will leave the room with better understanding of K8s storage.

Software engineer, sometimes DevOps. Loves backend, tolerates frontend, 7+ years of experience in Java, but since the beginning of 2014 fascinated by the Golang. One of the GoWroc (Golang User Group Wroclaw) leaders. During the daily duties he's building reliable and scalable distributed systems in cloud environment at Nokia.

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Hangout

We also invite you to join our hangout channel:
https://hangouts.google.com/group/yzVftQe0reMj5dlk2

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Agenda

18:00 – grab a beer and take a seat
18:10 – Intro [EN]
18:15 – "A gentle introduction to AWS CDK" [EN/PL] by Krzysztof Ciszak (Ocado Technology)
19:15 – “Understanding Kubernetes Storage” [EN/PL] by Mateusz Dymiński (Nokia)
20:15 – pizza and mingle time

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Sponsor

This event is sponsored by:

• Ocado Technology (https://www.ocadotechnology.com/)