Whether you are a seasoned developer, a cloud computing enthusiast, or simply curious about the scene, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals in Manchester.
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| Time | Description |
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| 18:00 | Networking with food and drinks |
| 19:00 | Building a digital beehive: The cluster that wasn't real, but the attacks were - Arnav Tripathy |
| 19:30 | Break |
| 20:00 | Building Care Tech That Actually Works in Production: Applying SRE and Platform Engineering Principles to a High-Stakes Regulated Environment - Victory Anusie |
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7:00 PM - 7:30 PM BST
Building a digital beehive: The cluster that wasn't real, but the attacks were
in-personKubernetes is everywhere now—and so are attacks against it. Misconfigurations, exposed APIs, and overly permissive RBAC have made clusters a prime target, while most security tools stop at scanning images and YAML instead of showing what attackers do after they get in.
This talk introduces KubeDecoy – a lightweight, open-source Kubernetes honeypot built from familiar components: vcluster, Falco, Falcosidekick, and NGINX. The goal is simple: stand up a convincing fake cluster, expose realistic attack surfaces, and quietly observe how real adversaries interact with them.
We’ll walk through the architecture, a live-style deployment on Minikube, and practical workarounds for vcluster’s limitations using only open-source components. Along the way, we’ll map KubeDecoy’s detections to the Kubernetes Threat Matrix, highlight where it shines (and where it doesn’t), and show how you can apply these ideas in your own clusters—whether you’re blue team, red team, or somewhere in between.
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8:00 PM - 8:30 PM BST
Building Care Tech That Actually Works in Production: Applying SRE and Platform Engineering Principles to a High-Stakes
in-personI am Victory Anusie, a Site Reliability Engineer and DevOps practitioner based in Greater Manchester.
I am building myCareSignals: a child-pathway intelligence platform for children's residential care in England. What makes it relevant is not what it does for children's homes, but how I built it: a production AWS architecture running ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, S3/CloudFront, Cognito-backed authentication, role-based access control, keyword-based safeguarding detection and audit logging - all managed as infrastructure as code, treated as a Tier-0 service from day one.
The talk will cover:
- Why I treated a small care-tech MVP like a Tier-0 service from the start
- The architecture decisions that keep a regulated, safeguarding-critical platform reliable
- What SRE principles look like when the stakeholders are children's home managers, not engineers
- What I learned about infrastructure design in a sector where downtime has real human consequences
I have written about this on Medium: https://medium.com/@victoryanusie/designing-care-tech-that-actually-helps-building-a-feedback-key-working-ai-safeguarding-system-b92842eb0b73
I also recently published a piece on AWS cost optimisation from a client SRE engagement: https://medium.com/@victoryanusie/how-i-saved-a-client-2-784-a-year-a-site-reliability-engineering-story-77b043d15ee9