As I write this, I am jumping over the Atlantic Ocean heading for Toronto and then down to Miami (over the weekend), I want to get into both of those events here today. If this happens to be uploaded on Tuesday, then just know that this is what I was doing up there in the clouds.
KubeHuddle History
I have mentioned a few times and I know
- How in all the years of travelling to conferences, events and meetings have I never been to Canada! A friend of mine has just emigrated to Toronto as well and he says how great it is, I hope to see a little of that this week.
- Secondly and most importantly is the event, KubeHuddle. This event started last year in September 2022 and it was in Edinburgh, a short little hop on a plane or train for me in the midlands of England.
Link to 2022 event - https://kubehuddle.com/2022/edinburgh/
Link to 2023 event - https://kubehuddle.com/2023/toronto/
I am sure we do not need to go into number 1 too much here but if you are attending either event ask me about Toronto over the next two weeks.
Back to KubeHuddle, Edinburgh. Most of you are aware that this Cloud native, Kubernetes community is relatively new for me, it was March 2021 when I was “parachuted” into the Kasten business unit to help understand and start understanding the community whilst raising awareness and driving adoption of our technologies both Open Source and commercial to the community.
There is so much to learn when in this new world, especially when I come from a infrastructure background of virtualisation, storage, and data protection which I know many of you do to.
Last year I was unable to attend KubeCon in Valencia in fact just the other week was my first KubeCon EU in Amsterdam and then I attended KubeCon NA in October 2022 not long after KubeHuddle.
Throughout 2022 I did get to attend some smaller community user groups locally to me in London, then I heard about KubeHuddle I believe it was around DevOpsDays Birmingham (Another event anyone in the UK should consider looking at)
KubeHuddle was a two-day event, with some fantastic sessions that were not focused towards the programmer or developer, one of my talks was accepted “Integrating Backup into your GitOps Pipeline” and the room was full! An audience overall a little bigger than a user group meet up and people from all over the world within the community attending.
KubeHuddle – Toronto – 2023
And here we are traipsing across the Atlantic Ocean to meet up with that extended community that I am sure will have grown since the inaugural event in Scotland. Here we have a lot going on!
Kasten are sponsoring! I think its platinum.
We have a learning day workshop happening on the Wednesday, I have said over the weeks about that learning journey, so we want to help get people to understand the fundamentals and building blocks when it comes to Kubernetes. These workshops allow us to get hands on with some of the areas around data and storage over the first day.
I have a session “Fantastic Features “ this session will walk through some of the available features in the Kubernetes storage stack which enable us to protect the data that we might be running on the cluster, it will touch on the native features but also touch on some of the available Open Source tooling that can assist scale and protection when it comes specifically to data services and databases. The final slide then points to Kasten K10 which is the easy button when it comes to this data protection journey and maybe this can be the sequel to this session.
We also have sessions from Julia, Julia has been sharing her journey into Cloud and Kubernetes at these events and since joining Veeam she has been soaking up all the knowledge she can when it comes to AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps. Excited to see how this talk she is giving has evolved since she has learned more.
Obviously I need to give Geoff a big shout out as well who is also covering a great topic… I wonder how he will achieve those Application Aware Kubernetes backups…
On the Thursday of the event, in that same workshop room we have our cloud native community manager Cassandra heading up some panels.
I cannot wait to get to see the community again in person and visit a new city all in the same week!
VeeamON – Miami – 2023
If you had not guessed, I will not be heading home after Toronto but it’s a straight hop down from YYZ airport and into Miami early on Saturday morning where the VeeamON excitement starts. Now this whole post next week will go through in some more detail I think on VeeamON but I wanted to add something here as well.
Firstly, it is amazing to be back where we had VeeamON in 2019. Back at a famous Fontainebleau hotel in Miami, I mean Vegas last year was great, but Miami has that unique exciting vibe to it, and I am 100% confident that if you are attending then you will have a great experience!
Last time we were in Miami I think there was probably just one Kubernetes or Kasten focused session, Kasten at the time were an alliance partner and we were working closely on some specific accounts. Before an accusation that happened later in October 2020.
Fast forward to 2023 and we have at least 5 sessions including a learning workshop on day zero, some mainstage demos and a panel discussion. I believe this is because of what I have said in previous posts about that progression of people having to have a better understanding of containerisation and Kubernetes.
Next Week – VeeamON
Alongside VeeamON and the in person and virtual experience we have some announcements the one I will touch on more on Monday next week is Kasten K10 6.0 if you want to see a sneak peek to some of those innovation features then head on over to the release notes page on docs.kasten.io
Are you attending KubeHuddle?
Are you attending VeeamON?
What are you looking forward to?
Next week I will give a preview into the sessions that I have at VeeamON before getting back to some more broader points in the Cloud Native world, starting with Kasten K10 6.0 in some more detail.
