Europe

Cloud Native Birmingham

57 members
November 2019
Next event
No upcoming events scheduled
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
About this group

Cloud Native Birmingham is a passionate community of cloud-native enthusiasts focused on exploring, learning, and applying modern cloud-native architecture principles, tools, and frameworks aligned with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Our meetups are designed to go deep into the cloud-native ecosystem, covering real-world use cases, best practices, and hands-on learnings across DevOps, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, security, observability, and automation.

What We Offer

  • Strong focus on open source contributions, encouraging members to actively participate in CNCF and other open source projects through documentation, code contributions, issue triaging, and community collaboration.

  • Interactive discussions on containerization to streamline application development and deployment.

  • Best practices for running containers in production using Docker for efficiency, reliability, and security.

  • Kubernetes orchestration deep dives for managing containerized workloads at scale.

  • Multi-cloud Kubernetes insights, including scaling workloads on Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.

  • Service Mesh expertise with tools like Linkerd, Istio, focusing on ingress, egress, and traffic management.

  • Dedicated Linkerd sessions, highlighting its lightweight, secure, and production-ready service mesh capabilities.

  • GitOps workflows in practice for declarative configuration, automation, and operational consistency.

  • Simplified Kubernetes application management using Helm Charts for packaging and deployment.

  • Kubernetes networking and security mastery with tools such as Cilium, Calico, Weave Net, Flannel, and more.

  • Future-ready cloud-native topics, including Cloud Native 2.0, Service Mesh evolution, Chaos Mesh, and emerging CNCF projects.

Open Source Tools & Products We Explore

  • Container & Runtime: Docker, containerd, CRI-O

  • Orchestration: Kubernetes

  • Service Mesh: Linkerd, Istio

  • Networking & Security: Cilium, Calico, Weave Net, Flannel

  • GitOps & CI/CD: Argo CD, Flux, Tekton, Jenkins

  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger

  • Packaging & Deployment: Helm, Kustomize

  • Security & Policy: Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper, Falco

  • Chaos Engineering: Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos

We focus on real-world usage, production readiness, and contribution opportunities, helping members not only use these tools effectively but also contribute back to the open source ecosystem.

Cloud Native Birmingham is a place to learn, share, contribute, and grow together whether you’re just starting your cloud-native journey or building and scaling production-grade platforms. Join us to connect with like-minded practitioners and build real-world cloud-native expertise.

Follow us on Linkedin for more updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-native-birmingham/

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