Understanding APIs in Government

A presentation on APIs for non-technical senior leaders

CDDO Cloud Maturity Model Show+Tell 01

A show and tell talk describing the development of a cloud maturity model for the UK Public Sector

CDDO / Future of Cloud / Azure 2.0

UK Public Sector Cloud Marketplace Ignite

An ignite format talk, describing a vision for a UK Public Sector Cloud Marketplace

Dynamic Workload Balancing and Resource Optimization in Kubernetes

In this talk, Chris will explore the challenges and benefits of dynamically balancing and optimizing the resources of a Kubernetes cluster. He will explain how Kubernetes uses a scheduler to assign pods to nodes based on various factors, such as resource requests, limits, affinity, anti-affinity, and taints. He will also demonstrate how to use tools and techniques, such as horizontal pod autoscaling, cluster autoscaling and the descheduler, to improve the performance and efficiency of your cluster. From this talk, you will learn how to leverage the power and flexibility of Kubernetes to achieve optimal resource utilization and workload distribution.

Is It Time To Put Your Pet Kubernetes Down

Explores how Kubernetes is the new pet and the consequences that presents.

Is It Time To Put Your Pet Kubernetes Down [webinar]

Explores how Kubernetes is the new pet and the consequences that presents.

Building a Multi-Tenanted Kubernetes Platform

In this session, you will explore the tools and techniques necessary to partition a cluster so that multiple teams can use it to deploy workloads.

Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...?

What are Pod Security Policies? What do you mean, they are deprecated? What am I going to do?!

Policy as [versioned] code

In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of is the policy helping or hindering. From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.

Policy as [versioned] code (Lightning)

In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of is the policy helping or hindering. From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.

Proactive cluster autoscaling in Kubernetes

Scaling nodes in a Kubernetes cluster could take several minutes with the default settings. In this webinar, Chris will demo live how you can configure Pod Priorities and a placeholder pod to pre-warm node instances for quicker scaling. By the end of the session, you will master how to align the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler for blazing fast scaling even with occasional traffic spikes.

Microservices Security Pattern in Kubernetes

How do I secure my APIs and apps to be production-ready? In this session, you'll learn about the sidecar pattern and policies that can make your services more secure and resilient, including a live hacking demo.