SUSE Cloud Native Meetup, UK

Hi Everyone
We're back with #3, once again in London. Join us for our third Meetup in November.

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 'Building a Secure Kubernetes Service for Private Telco Cloud' Fintan Stewart, Technical Delivery Specialist, Platform Architecture, BT
• 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.

Building a Secure Kubernetes Service for Private Telco Cloud

In the Telco industry, demand on private cloud is shifting from hosting VNFs (Virtualised Network Functions) increasingly to CNFs (Containerised Network Functions). This presentation puts forward an approach to building a substrate agnostic managed Kubernetes service, orchestrated with Rancher for use across existing on prem cloud environments and expanding to bare metal workload clusters. We explore the unique security challenges faced by telco operators and propose a robust architecture that integrates advanced security measures, including network segmentation, encryption, and access control. By leveraging open source virtualisation and Kubernetes components, a solution can be provided that is reliable but flexible to meet the complex network needs of telco CNF applications, or, for example, run a data platform monitoring and analysing network events. We aim to provide an overview of the approach to component choice, cluster builds with GitOps CI/CD and the supporting platforms required to drive adoption of a managed Kubernetes platform.

Hi Everyone
We're in Manchester again in the New Year! We'd love you to join us for 2 fantastic talks, food, drinks and networking.

Timeline

• 6.00 – Walk-in/Doors open 🚪
• 6.15 – Food & Drinks 🍕🥤☕️
• 6.45 – Welcome by Nelson Batsford
• 7:00 - Talk One TBC, PA Media
• 7:30 Talk Two 'We need to talk about security in our containerised workloads, Jain Joseph, Solution Architect, SUSE
• 8:00 Networking and Drinks 🥤🚽
• 9:00 – Time is up! See you next time. 👋

We hope to see you there!

Abstracts
Talk One: TBC

Talk Two: We need to talk about security in our containerised workloads
Jain Joseph, Solution Architect, SUSE

Cloud computing and the shift to container infrastructures accelerate business, yet introduce new security concerns. It is important to ensure you have a security strategy in place and the right tools to help protect against known and unknown attacks. Through this session we are going to discuss how to secure your containerised environment from development to production and why Zero Trust controls are important in the dynamic world of Kubernetes.