Hi Everyone,
I have to admit one of the reasons that I love going to these various meetups is because of the fantastic locations/buildings where they are held. Yesterday’s CNCF Kubernetes Canada East Meetup was held in a great building right down at the Water Front 207 Queens Quay West.
I would have taken more photos but I notice the security guard in the office giving me strange looks while I walked around looking for better angles, obviously not the expected behavior of a Kubernetes nerd!
These meetups are also great as we get to see familiar faces. Both leaders of the Toronto AI and Cybersecurity meetup were there as were other AI and Kubernetes stars from the huge local booming IT community.
The Meetup
As always everyone was given a rundown on all the latest Kubernetes news. Specifically Kubernetes version 1.31 Eli was discussed.
He are some photos of the major topics:
The removal of Kustomize from kubectl came as a surprise to me personally.
We then had 3 great talks.
The first one was about a new offering called Poutine https://github.com/boostsecurityio/poutine, not the delicious albeit dish from Quebec but instead a great new security tool for pipelines An Intro to Open Source Poutine! - by Steve Giguere, Developer Advocate @Palo Alto:
Then followed a great tale of an SRE dealing with a major issue with an nginx ingress and how they were able to troubleshoot and solve the problem. The Curious Case of Burning SLOs - by Faranak Sharifi, Site Reliability Engineer @ecobee I loved the title for the talk 
We then were treated to a talk about K9S (Kubernetes interaction for dog lovers - k9s. by Arka Bhattacharya) which I talked about in a previous post. K9S makes running Kubernetes in the CLI much easier. My only concern is that come exam time you are stuck right back with your old friend kubectl and you had better have not lost you muscle memory for typing all of those commands quickly.
One could not call it a party without some networking content and we got a full dose with Why network policy from Cilium? - by Liyi Huang@Isovalent
Monitoring and Telemetry was also not left behind: Otel Me everything about OpenTelemetry - by Marylia Gutierrez @Grafana
The night was a great success as always and well worth the cycle downtown!