Cloud Native Bhubaneswar Meetup #4: Cloud Native Career, Networking with Cilium, kro, and Istio

Event Agenda

🎙️ Fazlur Rahman Khan

Technical Trainer at The Linux Foundation

Talk: Cloud Native Career Training: Where Do I Start?

A practical guide to entering the cloud-native ecosystem, covering learning paths, foundational skills, and how to build hands-on experience with the right guidance.

🎙️ V. Roshan Kumar Patro

SDE-1 | SRE & DevOps at Meesho

Talk: Breaking Cluster Boundaries: Inside Pod-to-Pod Networking with Cilium

A deep dive into Kubernetes pod-to-pod networking and how Cilium enables secure, high-performance communication across clusters using ClusterMesh.

🎙️ Sayed Imran

Kubestronaut | DevOps Engineer at Convin

Talk: Reducing Kubernetes YAML Sprawl with kro

An overview of how kro enables higher-level abstractions in Kubernetes, helping teams group resources, reduce YAML complexity, and standardize application delivery without sacrificing flexibility.

🎙️ Rudra Madhaba Mishra

Cloud Engineer at Amazon

Talk: From Containers to Control Plane: How Kubernetes and Istio Work Together

A deep dive into how Kubernetes orchestrates workloads and how Istio complements it with traffic management, security, and observability at the control plane level.