After a busy December 🚀, we are getting ready for our first meetup of 2025 🎉!

👉 Here's a sneak peek of the agenda:

18:30: Check-in and welcome 👋

18:45: 🎙️ "Kubernetes Testing Environments: Tools, Traps and Tips" by Pablo Chacin, Staff Engineer at Grafana Labs.

There are many situations in which we want to test our application in a development Kubernetes environment. In some cases, we want to test tools that interact with the clusters, while in other cases, our application must run inside the cluster. There are many tools available, but they are not all equally adapted to every use case. In this talk we will discuss the benefits and limitations of different tools and some practices to facilitate developing our test.

Pablo is a technologist with over 30 years of experience. He helps organizations improve the reliability of their business-critical systems. He also has a PhD in Distributed Systems. He is a former CTO and mentor.

19:15: 🎙️ "How Glovo Manages Hundreds of Databases Without Losing Sleep" by Nishaad Ajani, Senior Software Engineer, Storage at Glovo.

Discover how Glovo simplifies infrastructure management by reducing dependency on Terraform and adopting hybrid solutions. In this talk, we’ll explore:

• Moving beyond Terraform with a custom Kubernetes operator for managing Aurora RDS clusters.

• A hybrid approach combining Terraform and GitOps to enable seamless updates with minimal friction.

• Automating MySQL engine upgrades using AWS blue/green deployment flows and state machines.

• Overcoming challenges like GitHub API limits and latency-induced failures during upgrades.

Learn how these innovations minimize toil, accelerate updates, and enhance developer workflows. See real-world results through metrics and examples, and join us for an engaging Q&A session!

Nishaad is a Software Engineer/SRE with over 11 years of experience. Currently working at Glovo in Barcelona, he has previously worked in Hong Kong and has been exploring and working with Kubernetes since 2019.

19:45 - 20:30: Networking, Snacks, and Drinks 🍻🍕

We appreciate Glovo's generosity in hosting us at their Barcelona office and providing snacks & refreshments. Thank you so much 🙌

See you there! 👋