Swiss Cloud Native Day 2022

14.09.2022

The second Swiss Cloud Native Day on Mount Gurten took place. My insights about edge native, test infrastructure code, supply chain security and serverless.

View from the Gurten

Resources

• Swiss Cloud Native Day, Cloud Native Community Bern

Edge-Native: The New Paradigm for Operating and Developing Edge Apps by Frank Brockners

We’re all familiar with «cloud native» – but once we start to operate applications at the edge, we have to adopt a new set of principles and evolve our cloud-native paradigms. In this session Frank Brockners (Distinguished Engineer at Cisco) introduced the «edge native» paradigm and provided an understanding of how to design and operate edge apps.

Resources

• Edge native, Cisco

How to Test Infrastructure Code by Yevgeniy Brikman

Step-by-step, live-coding class on how to write automated tests (unit tests, integration tests, static analysis, etc.) for infrastructure code, including the code you write for use with tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Packer by Yevgeniy Brikman (Co-founder of Gruntwork).

Resources

• How to test infrastructure code: automated testing for Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer and more, Yevgeniy Brikman

Securing your Software Supply Chain with Sigstore, Tekton and SLSA by Priya Wadhwa

Supply chain security has been a huge topic of discussion in recent months, and protecting your supply chain has become more important than ever. In this talk, Priya Wadhwa (Software Engineer at Chainguard) discussed how to practically apply the principles of the SLSA security framework to secure a container native build system.

Resources

• Sign, verify, and protect your software., sigstore

Why We Switched to Serverless Containers by Florian Forster

In this talk Florian Forster (CEO at CAOS) gave the audience a sensation of where serverless can help and where it has some pitfalls. He explained in depth how the journey from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run went and what they needed to change in ZITADEL and the tooling to make that happen.

Resources

• Identity infrastructure, ZITADEL
• Multi-Region Cloud Run load balancing with Terraform, Ahmet Alp Balkan