Cloud & DevOps Events in Glasgow

Come join us in 6 Professor's Square Room 329 for a beginner friendly Amazon Lightsail workshop.

You can expect to:

• Learn how the cloud works
• Learn how to host a website
• Build your professional portfolio
• Meet cool people!

Bring your own laptop!

With Autumn well and truly upon us we're looking forward to bringing you the last AWS User Group of the year on Tuesday 17th November from the Skyscanner Offices, West Regent St, Glasgow.

We are pleased to have Syrus Semakadde, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS with us on the evening and we can't wait to share more details on his presentation shortly.

Don't miss your opportunity to network with fellow AWS professionals and enthusiasts. Share your knowledge, learn from others, and be a part of Glasgow's vibrant AWS community!

Don't forget, there will be 🍕 - what's not to love?!
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Please RSVP via the User Group in the usual manner.

AGENDA:
18:15 - Arrival and Welcome
18:30 - Pizza and Networking
19:00 - Presentation 1
19:45 - Break
20:00 - Presentation 2
21:00 - Event End

If you're interested in speaking at one of our User Groups in the future, we'd love to hear from you - please submit your proposal here - https://forms.gle/C1W1btufxyFm92oG9

In December we round out the year with our final Glasgow Cloud Native community meetup.

Kubernetes For The Little Guy: Real Workloads Without a Hyperscaler Budget
We've all seen the hyperscale clusters powering the AI boom, with thousands of nodes, tens of thousands of GPUs, and enough power usage to rival most nations. Plenty of us have a homelab quietly humming away on second-hand enterprise tin or an old laptop. But what about the bit in between? Can a small shop get genuinely useful, genuinely demanding work out of affordable(ish) hardware? And how can we ensure that any compute is shared fairly? At AmberWolf, one modest cluster earns its keep supporting our offensive security capabilities: AI inferencing and agentic workflows, CI runners and payload generation for our internal tooling, and GPU-backed password cracking. None of it is mass-scale, and the budget was a very real driver. Join us for a tour of how we make that work in practice: scheduling GPU jobs so expensive silicon never sits idle, leveraging on-premises compute for nested virtualisation, and keeping inferencing (and the data it touches) inside our own walls instead of someone else's API. We'll discuss times existing technology was or wasn't a great fit, and the things that bit us along the way: GPU scheduling to handle a team's demands, limitations of storage, and where we cheerfully chose pragmatism over purity.

Speakers: Iain Smart & Daniel Wilkinson

YAML Ain’t Managing Kubernetes​
The war stories and real-life-learnings from deploying the cloud-native platforms that underpin Scottish NHS services. Scaling from COVID to mycare.scot. And some funky tech choices.​

Speaker: Tadhg Davey
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Huge thanks to Morgan Stanley for hosting us!

Schedule:
5.30pm - Doors open, food and drink courtesy of Morgan Stanley
6.00pm - Talks
7.45pm - Wrap Up

Please note that you must RSVP via Meetup.com at least 24 hours prior in order to attend this event!

Code of Conduct
Attendees are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct.

5:45pm – 6:00pm Registration

6:00-6:15pm Welcome

6:15pm – 7:00pm - Privileged Access is Broken (Even When You Think It Isn’t)
Most organisations believe their privileged access is secure.

Multi-Factor Authentication is enabled. Conditional Access policies are in place. Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is configured. On paper, everything looks right.

In practice, privileged access remains one of the most common paths to compromise.

This session explores why.

Rather than focusing on individual controls, this session examines how privileged access is actually used in real-world environments, and why environments that appear secure frequently fail under operational pressure. Drawing on familiar patterns from on-premises administration through to modern cloud environments, it highlights how common behaviours such as convenience, speed, and “just getting it done” introduce risk, even when the correct controls are in place.

The session then introduces a structured, practical approach to improving privileged access, focusing on how identity, access policies, device trust, and operational practices must work together as a cohesive system rather than isolated features. Particular attention is given to isolation as a critical but frequently overlooked control in modern environments.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of where typical implementations fall short, and how to take practical steps to improve their own environments using the tools they already have.

This session will reference Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and is aimed at Level 200 attendees who are familiar with these controls and want to understand how to apply them effectively in real-world scenarios.

7:00pm - 7:15pm - Gary Lumsden

7:15pm - 7:30pm - Quiz

7:30pm – 8pm Food and Drinks

8pm - Finish

Please note that you must RSVP at least 24 hours prior in order to attend this event!

Food & Drinks
Please do remember, though if you can't make the event to cancel your ticket so we know what food to order or not. :)

Code of Conduct
Attendees are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct.

Filming / Images
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