DevOps Eindhoven

• 17:45: Doors open and drinks available
• 18:00: Dinner and drinks provided by CloudShapers
• 18:30: Welcome
• 18:40: “Building Empowerment: Creating a Developer Self-Service Portal" by Rick Moonen
• 19:20: Break
• 19:40: "The Guardians of Kubernetes: A Tale of Security and Collaboration" by Jan Stomphorst and Ronald Kers
• 20:20: Drinks & Conversations

“Building Empowerment: Creating a Developer Self-Service Portal"
In this presentation, I'll share how to build self-service infrastructure pipelines using the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. From automating provisioning to ensuring observability and centralized management, you'll gain practical insights to empower teams and streamline operations. Whether you're scaling a startup or managing enterprise-level infrastructure, you'll leave with actionable strategies to make infrastructure self-service a reality.

"The Guardians of Kubernetes: A Tale of Security and Collaboration" by Jan Stomphorst and Ronald Kers
In this presentation, Jan and Ronald will share their story of how to secure Kubernetes, whether you’re running it in the cloud or on-premise. They’ll provide practical tips, tricks, and insights to help you safeguard your Kubernetes clusters effectively. From securing the control plane to automating security tasks, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to enhance your Kubernetes security.

• 17:45: Doors open and drinks
• 18:00: Dinner and Drinks provided by TU/e
• 18:30: Welcome
• 18:40: Kubernetes from Scratch, The Hard Way
• 19:20: Break
• 19:40: How did we migrate from virtual machine world to Kubernetes?
• 20:20: Drinks

Kubernetes from Scratch, The Hard Way
To understand the inner workings of Kubernetes and to prepare of the K8s certification exams, I decided to create a K8s cluster from scratch, the hard way, on premises (“de meterkast”) on virtual machines using Alpine Linux. This talk is how I tried to do it, how I succeeded, failed and added a CEPH cluster and ETCD cluster along the way. It includes a lot of technical details, but if there is one thing that you should learn during this talk, it’s not about K8s at all: Containers are not VMs!
Alain van Hoof is a Linux user since 1993, when XFree86 settings could blow up your VGA monitor. At the age of 42 he became a MSc in System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Doing all the Hipster things like CI/CD and Cloud as a consultant he ended up where his heart belongs: in an academic HPC environment where he can do Linux professionally and at scale. At home his Kubernetes cluster in “de meterkast” has an uptime of many years, running a website with 1 visitor a day. Besides de IT his hobbies in include (Islay) whisky, speed skating, running and cycling.

How did we migrate from virtual machine world to Kubernetes?
This talk will be covering the story how an e-commerce firm working with ~1000 virtual machines moved to Kubernetes environment without downtime. The company had its own payment systems running, was PCI complaint and was one of the most visited web site in Turkey. By giving the overview picture, architectural details will be explained with the steps covered during the migration process. Also, best practices applied for deployments, tools that are being used for CI and approaches that are used to overcome black Friday will be explained. Security part for for PCI compliancy also will be touched during the talk.
Oguz Yarimtepe is a lead engineer at ASML. He has been working on different levels of the Linux world, over 10+ years. Starting from programming on embedded devices, he did most of his career on system engineering and Linux system administration. He did open source contribution to security projects and Linux distributions. At his last job, he was the SRE team lead at one of the most popular web sites in Turkey. There, he leaded the migration of the production environment from virtual machines to Kubernetes environment. He will be sharing his experiences during the talk with the audience.