Hi Everyone
We’re back with #3, once again in London. Join us for our third Meetup in November.

Timeline

• 6.00 – Walk-in/Doors open 🚪
• 6.15 – Food & Drinks 🍕🥤☕️
• 6.45 – Welcome by Nelson Batsford
• 7:00 – Talk One ‘Reusable Rancher: Deploying and operating in Automation’ Fraser Davidson, CTO Frontier
• 7:30 Talk Two ‘Building a Secure Kubernetes Service for Private Telco Cloud’ Fintan Stewart, Technical Delivery Specialist, Platform Architecture, BT
• 8:00 Networking and Drinks 🥤🚽
• 9:00 – Time is up! See you next time. 👋

We hope to see you there!

Abstracts:
Reusable Rancher: Deploying and Operating in Automation

In this talk we’ll show you how to get started automating Rancher, from server to multi-cluster apps. We’ll be using a cloud managed Kubernetes service and a CI/CD platform – plus tools like Helm and Terraform – to demo how you can deploy and operate Rancher in automation, developer playground to production.

Building a Secure Kubernetes Service for Private Telco Cloud

In the Telco industry, demand on private cloud is shifting from hosting VNFs (Virtualised Network Functions) increasingly to CNFs (Containerised Network Functions). This presentation puts forward an approach to building a substrate agnostic managed Kubernetes service, orchestrated with Rancher for use across existing on prem cloud environments and expanding to bare metal workload clusters. We explore the unique security challenges faced by telco operators and propose a robust architecture that integrates advanced security measures, including network segmentation, encryption, and access control. By leveraging open source virtualisation and Kubernetes components, a solution can be provided that is reliable but flexible to meet the complex network needs of telco CNF applications, or, for example, run a data platform monitoring and analysing network events. We aim to provide an overview of the approach to component choice, cluster builds with GitOps CI/CD and the supporting platforms required to drive adoption of a managed Kubernetes platform.