DevOps na Praia – June/2026 Meetup🤝 GDG Porto 🤝 Cloud Native Porto

DevOps na Praia is back — and this time we’re joining forces with the community!

Get ready for a special edition of DevOps na Praia, bringing together an incredible collaboration between DevOps na Praia 🤝 Cloud Native Porto 🤝 GDG Porto.

This meetup will be an evening full of learning, networking, and great conversations — bringing together different tech communities for a memorable night of knowledge sharing and connection. Whether you're passionate about DevOps, Cloud Native technologies, Platform Engineering, SRE, Observability, AI, or Engineering Leadership, this event is the perfect place to connect with fellow tech enthusiasts and industry professionals.

Join us for a community-driven evening where ideas are shared, experiences are exchanged, and new connections are made.
A huge thank you to our sponsors and partners — Five9, Google, CNCF, and synvert xgeeks — for supporting and empowering our growing tech communities.

DevOps na Praia — where technology meets beach spirit!

📍 Location: Five9 – Porto
📅 Date: June 2, 2026
⏰ Time: 18:30
Agenda & Talks:

18:30 – Check-in & Welcome 👋

🎤 19:00 – Building Multi-Environment Lean Kubernetes Platforms
Speaker: Rui Trigo – Senior Systems Engineer @ Tripadvisor
Abstract: Diving into how platform engineers build lean Kubernetes platforms that work smoothly across prod and non-prod environments without adding unnecessary complexity. Sharing practical ideas around opinionated defaults, self-servicing, consistent setups across environments, and safer releases with less operational overhead. The goal is to make Kubernetes more useful for engineering teams while keeping the platform simple, scalable, and easy to work with.
Rui Trigo is a Senior Systems Engineer at Tripadvisor Experiences who has been passionate about tech for as long as he can remember. He spends much of his free time tinkering in his homelab and reading widely on technology and beyond. When he’s out of office, he trains in martial arts to stay in shape.

🎤 19:30 – Releases, Enhancements, Deprecations: The Kubernetes Way
Speaker: Frederico Muñoz - Kubernetes Release Team Co-Lead | Cloud and Architecture Lead @ SAS
Abstract: Every year, 3 new Kubernetes releases are announced. This rhythm has been a sign of vitality — not without its challenges — but how does it actually happen? In this session, Frederico gives us an inside view of how the Kubernetes release process is organised, how it has evolved to its current state, and the short-term challenges the community is tackling, with the recently announced Kubernetes 1.36 “Haru” as the backdrop. Code Freezes, Feature Blogs, Enhancement Freezes, alpha and beta cuts — we’ll cover the process, the community, and the terminology.
Frederico Muñoz has been involved with Linux since the mid-90s and never really stopped. From being a Debian Developer to a Cloud Architect at SAS, he has designed and deployed cloud-native platforms across Europe while staying hands-on as a Kubernetes Release Team member since v1.26. He led the Kubernetes v1.32 release and is currently a SIG Release Co-lead, as well as a CNCF Ambassador and co-organiser of KCD Porto. He also published 20+ articles on kubernetes.io as part of his work with SIG Contribex. When not wrangling release cycles or deployment diagrams, he continues to study and write on Archaeology, a passion asold as his opensource involvement.

🍕 20:00 – Networking, Food & Drinks

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See you there! 👋