Cloud Native & Kubernetes Meetup

About the Event:
Join us for an engaging, practical evening exploring the biggest challenges and newest tools in the Cloud Native landscape. We’re moving step-by-step from foundational topics to advanced cluster operations—covering critical migrations, architectural shifts, and deep-dive Kubernetes features.

1. Moving to Arm

Audience Level: Intermediate
Format: 20–30 min lecture
What we’ll cover: Switching to Arm architecture is no longer optional—especially with cost savings and cloud options like Graviton leading the charge. We’ll break down the migration challenges, container multi-arch builds, and how to execute a smooth transition without breaking production.

2. Your tools are being abandoned: detection + alternatives

Audience Level: All levels
Format: 10-min talk + round table / open discussion
What we’ll cover: Open-source and cloud-native tools eventually reach end-of-life or lose active maintenance. How do you detect abandoned tools early, evaluate maintainer health, and pivot to modern alternatives before tech debt catches up to you?

3. Tracing you didn't know you could ask for

Audience Level: Beginner–intermediate
Format: 30-min lecture + live demo
What we’ll cover: Moving beyond baseline distributed tracing. We'll explore underutilized tracing capabilities that pinpoint elusive bottlenecks across microservices, paired with a live demo showing how to implement these patterns effectively.

4. Gateway API: why it improves on Ingress\, and migrating off ingress-nginx

Audience Level: Intermediate (prerequisites: familiarity with Ingress)
Format: 15-min talk + round table / Q&A
What we’ll cover: Why the Kubernetes Gateway API is replacing traditional Ingress resources. We’ll discuss the architectural motivations, key advantages, and practical strategies for migrating off legacy setups like `ingress-nginx`.

5. Kubernetes features you're probably not using: native sidecars + HPA\, in-place resize\, traffic distribution\, CEL policies

Audience Level: Intermediate–advanced (actively running production clusters)
Format: 25–30-min lecture
What we’ll cover: Powerful native Kubernetes features often left untapped. We'll take a deep dive into Native Sidecars and HPA interaction, Pod in-place resize without restarts, fine-grained Traffic Distribution, and native validation via CEL (Common Expression Language) policies.