It is playground time again! We are proud to announce that we have teamed up with IBM LinuxOne to present you with this content-packed workshop!

We have been talking a lot about public clouds in our past meet-ups. In this meetup, we will be talking about the IBM private cloud for a change. Please join us if you would like to know about cloud providers other than AWS, Azure and GCP!

Presenter: Phila Dlamini -WW IBM Developer Advocate

Description:
The banking industry recognizes that a public cloud yields many benefits, but it is also wary of the potential for loss of control, as well as security and compliance challenges. Private clouds offer much-needed relief, allowing banks and financial institutions to leverage existing assets combined with the latest innovations and providing a DevSecOps mechanism for quickly and efficiently developing applications and deploying microservices into the legacy system. This code pattern uses a hybrid cloud architecture to deploy a banking microservice on LinuxONE. The microservice accesses a simulated retail bank on an IBM Z® Mainframe via banking APIs.
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Prerequisites and preparation:
You will need to bring your own laptop for this workshop. Please register at http://www.ibm.com/Linuxone/try 24 hours before the workshop. If you are running Microsoft Windows, please install Putty Configuration and Putty Gen beforehand.

How to find us:
We will be hosting this event at IBM, Sandton. On arrival at IBM you'll be greeted by Redefine Security at the main booms on street level. Please carry your proof of identity, ID or Driver's. You'll be directed to park at P7. Take the lift to the Atrium on level "A" and proceed to Reception.

6:00pm ~ 6:30pm: food, drinks, networking and set up
6:30pm ~ 8:00pm: Workshop time!
8:00pm ~ 9:00pm: network to your heart's content :-)