Infrastructure & Ops Hour: Kubernetes Complexity with Katie Gamanji
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Join us for a special conversation on Kubernetes with Sam Newman and Katie Gamanji, the ecosystem advocate for the CNCF. They’ll discuss how to manage some of the complexity in your Kubernetes cluster and share fascinating aspects of the discipline, interesting convergence areas, and insights intended to help you learn how to approach the most challenging aspects of building and managing evolving software needs.
This is your chance to ask Sam and Katie anything you want about Kubernetes and their own career journeys. They’ll spend a few minutes covering the trends that are influencing infrastructure and operations, then tell you what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Understand why Kubernetes is needed
- Discover how to manage the complexity in your Kubernetes cluster
- See what’s coming next for infrastructure and ops
This live event is for you because...
- You want the chance to ask Sam Newman and Katie Gamanji your questions around working using Kubernetes tools.
- You’re looking for ways to use Kubernetes to support your production goals.
- You want to become well-versed in the foundations and best practices of pipeline creation and deployment.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Sam Newman and Katie Gamanji
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up
- Read Kubernetes: Up and Running, second edition (book)
- Read Programming Kubernetes (book)
- Read Kubernetes Best Practices (book)
- Take Kubernetes in 3 Weeks: Parts I and II (live online training course with Jonathan Johnson)
- Take Building and Managing Kubernetes Applications (live online training course with Sébastien Goasguen)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
April 14, 2021, at 8:00am PT / 11:00am ET
- Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Katie Gamanji
Katie Gamanji is a cloud native leader, practitioner, and contributor who works in a senior field engineer role and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). She also serves in a leadership role at OpenUK. As a cloud platform engineer, she has contributed to infrastructure buildouts at Condé Nast and American Express, gravitating towards cloud native technologies, principles, and Kubernetes as the focal point. Recently, she released a course on cloud native fundamentals and led the creation of the CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification. Katie is an active keynote speaker, a #WITAwards and #TechWomen100 winner, and a strong advocate for women in STEM.
Sam Newman
Sam Newman is a technologist focusing on the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery—three topics which seem to overlap frequently. He provides consulting, training, and advisory services to startups and large multinational enterprises alike, drawing on his more than 20 years in IT as a developer, sysadmin, and architect. Sam is the author of the best-selling Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, both from O’Reilly, and is also an experienced conference speaker.