Cloud Native Puducherry

Puducherry has 18 engineering colleges including a dedicated women's engineering institution, STPI backed infrastructure and established tech companies running cloud workloads. There is no shortage of engineers and students here who are working with or learning Kubernetes, AWS and DevOps tools. What is missing is a dedicated space to go deep on cloud native technology together.

Over the past year I have been working toward this, preparing for CNCF certifications, speaking at communities across South India and learning what makes a technical community genuinely useful. Cloud Native Puducherry is where I put that experience to work.

Regular talks are the foundation. Every meetup will feature vendor neutral technical sessions covering topics across the cloud native landscape, from Kubernetes and platform engineering to observability, security and emerging CNCF projects. Speakers will come from the local community as well as the broader Tamil Nadu and South India network.

Alongside the talks, the group will run structured study groups focused on CNCF certifications like CKA, CKAD and CKS. These sessions will include mock exams, knowledge transfer sessions and open discussions where the same concept is explored from multiple angles with live demos. The focus will always be on understanding how things work from the ground up, not surface level overviews.

The goal is a community that is open to everyone, from students just starting with Kubernetes to working engineers preparing for certifications, vendor neutral, technically focused and free to attend.