Aachen Meetup, December 2024

Name: Aachen Meetup, December 2024
Start: 2024-12-05T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-05T21:00:00+01:00
Location: gridX GmbH

Cloud Native Aachen

Dec 5, 5:30 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

In-person event

The first event of our Aachen meetup group as an official CNCF chapter!

About this event

As a continuation of our previous meetup group, we are exited to now host our events under the umbrella of an official CNCF chapter. At our first event under the new name, we will hear about Sigstore, a key project in securing supply chains.

Pizza and drinks will graciously be provided by our sponsors. We are looking forward to meeting everyone in person again, see you in December!

When

Thursday, December 5, 2024
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Where

gridX GmbH
25 Dennewartstraße
Aachen, 52068

Agenda

5:30 PM	Open Doors
6:00 PM	Opening Words	Welcome words and updates on the chapter from the organizers.
6:15 PM	First Talk: "Sigstore: A brief introduction" by Nina Bongartz	This session will equip you with the essential knowledge to secure your software supply chain. We'll explore the Sigstore project, review its key concepts, and provide an onverview of its core components, including Fulcio, Rekor, and others. We'll also discuss common supply chain attack vectors and how Sigstore's components work together to mitigate these risks. Finally, we will gain some practical knowledge for using Cosign with the publicly available Sigstore service. Nina is a Software Engineer at Red Hat.
6:45 PM	Food & Drinks	Pizza and drinks for everyone, thanks to our amazing sponsors!
7:15 PM	Second Talk: "Shopify’s Open Source Approach to Network Monitoring with eBPF, Vector and ClickHouse" by Sebastian Rabenhorst	At Shopify, we’ve successfully implemented a scalable, open-source network monitoring solution for the cloud. In this talk, we will demonstrate how we built a network monitoring solution leveraging eBPF, Vector, ClickHouse, and Grafana. This solution enables us to monitor over 30 million network flow, DNS and other networking-related events per second at the container level for thousands of services across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters in the Shopify Cloud. We will also share the lessons we learned regarding these technologies and provide insights on how you can implement your own purely open-source monitoring solution capable of handling millions of events per second. Sebastian is a Senior Production Engineer at Shopify.
7:45 PM	Food & Drinks	Join us in wrapping up the evening with some more networking over food and drinks.