Kubernetes and Cloud Native North Dallas

We are excited to announce the November meetup scheduled for Thursday, November 21st.

1st Presentation:

# Taming the Kubernetes Observability Beast: A Journey to Lean and Mean

American Airlines adopted a piecemeal approach to Kubernetes observability, deploying separate tools for logging, metrics collection, and distributed tracing. However, this led to tool sprawl, increased complexity, and higher overhead costs. To streamline observability later American Airlines adopted open standards, Kuma service mesh, unified platforms, and eBPF to simplify their Kubernetes observability stack, reduce operational complexity, and optimize costs while maintaining comprehensive visibility into their cloud-native environments for Kpaas ( kubernetes platform as a service).

Speaker Bio

#### Vamshi Samudrala

###### American Airlines

Enterprise Architect with a distinguished career spanning 15 years in the fields of DevOps and Cloud Architecture. Focused on automation, configuration management and innovation with cutting-edge technologies.Worked extensively with leading cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure possesses an exceptional ability to architect scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions that align with the unique requirements of each organization.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 8:30 - Taming the Kubernetes Observability Beast: A Journey to Lean and Mean
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up