Hello NYC Kubernauts!

We are happy to announce the March New York City Kubernetes Meetup (#NYCk8s) will be on Wednesday, March 30th at the Harvest offices in the Flatiron. 

We are excited to welcome the author of O'Reilly's Leaning OpenShift, Grant Shipley from Red Hat. He will show all of the work the OpenShift team have been doing on the open source project. This will include a full demo of the project to show how to create, deploy, scale, manage, and monitor pods for both development and production loads. 

Ray Tsang from Google will also be presenting. He'll give us a look beyond container orchestration with Kubernetes, also also take a deep dive into more advanced features like autoscaling. We'll look at: - How to access the Kubernetes API securely - The different Kubernetes resources, such as Pod, Replication Controller, Service, etc. - How to update/manage your entire cluster using the API. We'll demonstrate all of the concepts via a custom autoscaler that scales a stateful application using custom metrics!

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 - Social

7:00 - 7:45 - Grant Shipley - Making Kubernetes accessible to the normal developer

7:45 - 8:30 - Ray Tsang - Scaling with Kubernetes, Automatically! Learn Kubernetes API through writing a visualizer to an autoscaler.

8:30 - 9:00 - Social / Wrap-up

Bios

Grant Shipley works at Red Hat focused on cloud technologies. Prior to that, Grant was a Manager of Software Development with responsibilities over the www.redhat.com website and supporting infrastructure. Grant has over 15 years of software development experience focusing on Java and PHP. In his free time, he contributes to several open source projects as well as developing mobile applications. Grant has been using Linux on a daily basis since 1994 and is active in the FOSS community.

Ray Tsang is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps. Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology, Ray enjoys traveling and adventures.

Location/Instructions:

Our friends at Harvest have offered to provide space for this upcoming event. The address is:

16 W 22nd St 
8th Floor
New York, NY 10010