Cloud Native Kubernetes Meetup

Moin Moin!

The next Cloud Native and Kubernetes Community meetup is coming up very soon! We will talk about Kubernetes, A Karpenter migration and a different take on IDPs. There will be drinks, food, great talks and afterward time to socialize and catch up!

MENU:

• 1st Talk (30min): Spot-Only Karpenter: What Breaks at 3AM by Tobias Scholz, Platform Engineer and Chaos Monkey at Freenow by Lift
• 2nd Talk (30min): Forget Portals: Headless, Intent-Driven Platforms by Hossein Salahi, Tech Lead at Liquid Reply

TALK 1: Spot-Only Karpenter: What Breaks at 3AM
Running Karpenter 100% on spot keeps our bill low but in the previous months waves of spot terminations put that strategy to the test. We will walk through our migration from kOps and Cluster Autoscaler to EKS and Karpenter, the rough edges we hit along the way, the newer options Karpenter now offers to influence spot behavior and what it really takes to keep services stable on spot-only infrastructure.

TALK 2: Forget Portals: Headless, Intent-Driven Platforms
This talk challenges the ecosystem's reliance on monolithic developer portals. To cure GUI fatigue, it offers a vendor-agnostic blueprint for headless IDPs. By demonstrating how the MCP connects natural developer workflows directly to platform APIs, we equip teams to build leaner, intent-driven platforms.

OSS/CNCF projects: https://github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo

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We are looking for speakers & sponsors! Join the #cloud-native-hamburg channel on CNCF Slack to reach out to us!