Cloud Native London – 7th April

Welcome to our April meetup, coming up to the Easter break! Join us on Rambly to hear the usual three fantastic speakers and network with your fellow techies.

6:45 Kick off
7:15 CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes (Batel Tova, JFrog)
7:45 Performance and Benchmarking Cloud Native Storage (Alex Chircop, StorageOS)
8:15 Break
8:30 Continuous Security – Building Security into your Pipelines (Matt Jarvis, Snyk)
9:00 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

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CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes (Batel Tova, JFrog)
Kubernetes is a powerful, open-source, container orchestration/cluster management tool that helps you manage and deploy your containerized application and services on a cluster of machines. Discover how to automate your CI/CD process for cloud-native applications. Deploying your application on your K8s clusters after each commit has never been easier!

Batel is an Developer Advocate for JFrog and has a background in DevOps support engineering , web development and embedded software engineering. Prior to this, Batel served as a Enterprise Solutions Lead on a dedicated team that accompanies and assists large customers through the architectural implementation of the JFrog platform. She loves her dogs, plays guitar and is a fan of Marvel’s movies.
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Performance and Benchmarking Cloud Native Storage (Alex Chircop, StorageOS)
Benchmarking storage is hard. We discuss tools and methods for measuring performance and benchmarking cloud native storage, and identify some of the issues and many common pitfalls for benchmarking storage in general.

Alex is a founder and CEO of StorageOS, building software defined storage platforms for cloud native environments. Alex is also a co-chair of the CNCF Storage SIG. Before embarking on the startup adventure he spent over 25 years engineering infrastructure platforms for companies like Nomura and Goldman Sachs. He’s on Twitter @chira001
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Continuous Security – Building Security into your Pipelines (Matt Jarvis, Snyk)
In the world of continuous delivery and cloud native, the boundaries between what is our application and what constitutes infrastructure is becoming increasing blurred. Our workloads, the containers they ship in, and our platform configuration is now often developed and deployed by the same teams, and development velocity is the key metric to success. This presents us with a challenge which the previous models of security as a final external gatekeeper step cannot keep up with. To ensure our apps and platforms are secure, we need to integrate security at all stages of our pipelines and ensure that our developers and engineering teams have tools and data with enable them to make decisions about security on an ongoing basis. In this session I talk through the problem space, look at the kinds of security issues we need to consider, and look at where the integration points are to build in security as part of our CI/CD process.

Matt Jarvis is a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences and meetups across the world, including MesosCon, Open Infrastructure Summit, FOSDEM and All Things Open, a past winner of the OpenStack Outstanding Community Contributor award, and in 2021 was named one of the Top 100 influencers in Open Technologies in the UK. Matt has also served on program committees for several international conferences, including OpenStack Summits and MesosCon, and is a board director of OpenUK. In his spare time, Matt builds community around open technologies through running a number of successful meetup groups, including Cloud Native Manchester and Edinburgh.
He’s on Twitter @mattj_io