​🎉 Get ready for our first event of the year!

​Call for Papers (CFP)📝

​If you are interested in hosting, speaking or sponsoring any of our events please reach out by creating a Github issue in our meetup repository 🫰🏻

​Event description 🎫

​Join us at Convergence's Downtown office for our first event of the year (2025), it will be an evening packed with networking, learning, and fun, hosted by Cloud Native Vancouver 🇨🇦, an official CNCF community group.

​Details
📝 Date: January 23rd, 2025, at 5:00 PM 🕠

​📍 Venue: Convergence - Vancouver

​This event is the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of cloud-native technologies while mingling with fellow tech enthusiasts.

​Who should attend 🧑🏻‍🤝🏻‍🧑🏻

• ​Software Developers

• ​Cloud Engineers

• ​Product Managers

• ​IT Professionals

• ​Students interested in Cloud Native driven architecture.

​Agenda 📖

• ​5:00 to 5:30 PM: Our volunteers will guide the guests to the room and you'll be received with free food & drinks 🍲, feel free to start eating and networking as soon as you arrive!

• ​5:30 PM to 5:35 PM: Host introduction and sponsors shoutout.

• ​5:35 PM to 6:05 PM: Scalable Terraform/OpenTofu without frameworks by @Maxim Onyx

  • ​Maximizing the benefits of Terragrunt without actually using it: Learn strategies to avoid code repetition, structure your Terraform configurations effectively, manage branching, pass variables seamlessly, and integrate CI/CD pipelines efficiently. Explore the whys behind these practices with practical examples and actionable insights.

• ​6:05 to 6:35 PM: Securing and Monitoring Kubernetes with Admin Network Policies by @Niko Smeds and @Reza

  • ​Discover how to implement Kubernetes v1.31+ Admin Network Policies with Calico and enhance observability using Grafana. Strengthen cluster security and gain actionable insights effortlessly!

• ​6:35 PM to 7:55 PM: TBD

• ​7:55 - 8:00 PM: Wrap Up 🥂

​Organizing Team

​Sponsors

​​We want to thank our sponsors who support us. This event's proud sponsors are:

​Thanks to GrafanaLabs.com for sponsoring our event in this opportunity!

​Venue Host and Partners:

​Venue: Convergence develops, designs and deploys business-class software ecosystems of all shapes and sizes and have gladly helped us by allowing us to use their amazing Downtown Vancouver office as our venue.

​Partner: CaterDash who gladly helped us catering the food for this event. Y'all are amazing!

​Partner: CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainable.

​Register on our CNCF community page to be added to our newsletter.

​Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and have a blast. See you there! 🚀

​Contact us

​If you are interested in becoming an sponsor, or partner for an event just reach out to our email cloudnativevan@gmail.com

​Venue Rules

​Bikes, scooters and pets are not permitted on Convergence. We do not have a storage area and have a strict no pet policy on campus. Service dogs must be clearly identified with a service vest or something similar. If any of these apply to you, please make the necessary arrangements beforehand.

​Agreements

• ​​​​​By signing up to this event, you agree to be added to the Cloud Native Vancouver Luma newsletter (you can opt out at anytime).

• ​You also agree that any photos taken at events may be used by Cloud Native Vancouver for marketing purposes.

• ​You also agree that we might share your contact information with our venue sponsor and sponsors.