Teaming up to help deliver more meals to Ukraine

Wendy Smith — Mon, 16 May 2022 09:00:54 +0200

Why not do good while learning about cloud native tech? Buoyant, Civo, Cockroach Labs, Fairwinds, Pulumi, and Jetstack have teamed up to donate $2 for each virtual booth visitor to World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit committed to providing meals in response to humanitarian crises.

Working with restaurants across Ukraine and in six countries welcoming refugees, WCK is providing hundreds of thousands of daily meals for people in need. WCK serves meals at shelters, hospitals, transit hubs, and more. It’s a wonderful mission and, if you agree, we encourage you to donate to WCK directly 💙 🇺🇦 💛

How it works

Participating is easy. If you registered for KubeCon, just click on the booth links below to visit our virtual booths. Each visit will count as a $2 donation, so if you visit us all, that’s $12 for the cause right there!

Of course, there are many more reasons to visit our booths. You’ll find lots of great cloud native resources including demos, tutorials, ebooks, and more. Here are some of the highlights you can expect at each booth.

Pulumi — Universal Infrastructure as Code

At the Pulumi booth, you’ll learn about our cloud engineering platform, which brings infrastructure, developer, and security teams together through a unified software engineering process that tames cloud complexity and accelerates innovation. Don’t miss our Ask an Expert live sessions to hear directly from the engineering team. Whether you want to know more about how to build with Universal Infrastructure as Code in general-purpose programming and markup languages or just learn more about what’s on the roadmap, this is your chance to ask us anything.

Buoyant — the creator of Linkerd

Buoyant is announcing something really exciting: the introduction of fully managed Linkerd. You can be one of the first to check out the demo, and you’ll also find a ton of service mesh content including a service mesh 101 in English and Spanish, their Engineer’s Guide to mTLS, and details on Buoyant’s Service Mesh Academy.

Civo — Fast Simple, Managed Kubernetes

Stop by the Civo booth for live sessions on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment - including demos, Civo marketplace walkthroughs and an inside look at how they live-provision a private region. You’ll find lots of resources and friendly team members to answer any questions on Civo’s easy-to-use managed Kubernetes service. It is fully CNCF certified and 100% Kubernetes upstream compatible.

Cockroach Labs — Build What you Dream

CockroachDB’s presence this year at KubeCon (both physical and virtual) is primarily a charitable one (if you attend in person, visit booth P16, where for each badge scanned they’ll donate $3 to either Black Girls Code, Women Who Code, the Cancer Research Institute, or UNICEF for Ukrainian relief). Visit their booth to see demos and architecture overviews that relate what they’ve learned from building a multi-region, managed distributed SQL database offering on Kubernetes.

Fairwinds — Kubernetes Governance and Security

Fairwinds, a leader in Kubernetes governance providing a unified view between dev, sec, and ops, offers lots of great resources at their virtual booth this KubeCon. You can get a quick tour of Fairwinds Insights, learn about Kubernetes cost savings, how to make Kubernetes service ownership possible, typical Kubernetes security mistakes and much more. Come chat with a friendly Fairwinds engineer to talk about the many great open source solutions including Polaris, Goldilocks, Nova, and Pluto. Visit the Fairwinds booth today!

Jetstack — the creator of cert-manager

Get more out of cert-manager and find out how Jetstack Secure can eliminate workload misconfigurations and provide full visibility of each certificate across every production cluster. Chat directly to one of the project maintainers and learn to use cert-manager to secure Ingress endpoints and internal workloads using mTLS.

Lots of great reasons to visit our booths

There are plenty of good reasons to check out the great content of these amazing companies while supporting a wonderful charity that is doing an incredible job at helping the people of Ukraine.

PulumiUP: the Event for Cloud Engineers

Wendy Smith — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

My professional background has included nearly ten years of managing field events and user conferences. I never thought I would say this, but I miss traveling. I even missed Vegas and AWS re:Invent this year. I miss connecting with customers and advocates in our communities. I wish we could all be looking forward to getting together in person in Seattle or Austin or insert any city here. As the year continued, it became clear we were not going back to in-person events anytime soon, and everyone in the industry pivoted to virtual programs while video conferencing became an all-day activity.

We spent a lot of time considering how to best engage and share announcements with our community and encourage the cloud engineering community’s growth. All of us here at Pulumi recognize how valuable your time is and how much time we’ve all spent on virtual event platforms in the last year. With that in mind, we made a deliberate decision to avoid any all-day or multi-day programming. Instead, we are hosting a short 2-hour keynote that we think you will find insightful and valuable, with best practices and real-life situations that you can learn from and apply to your approach to building, delivering, and managing modern cloud applications.

PulumiUP Agenda - Kicking off on 4/20 at 9 am - 11 am PST - Save your spot

Speakers	Title and Company	Subject
Joe Duffy	Co-Founder and CEO, Pulumi	The Modern Cloud Era: All Software is Cloud Software
Adrian Cockcroft & Aaron Kao	VP of Sustainability Architecture, Amazon VP of Marketing, Pulumi	Discussion: What’s different about building in a modern cloud application world
Justin Fitzhugh	VP of Cloud Engineering, Snowflake	Perspectives from Cloud Engineering Pioneers
Keith Redmond	VP of SaaS Engineering, Fenergo	Perspectives from Cloud Engineering Pioneers
Luke Hoban	CTO, Pulumi	Placing Cloud Engineering in the Hands of Every Developer
Sophia Parafina	Technical Marketing Manager, Pulumi
Komal Ali	Software Engineer

Panel: Hear from the Experts: Planning for the Future of Modern Cloud Applications	Title and Company
Moderator: Kat Cosgrove	Developer Advocate, JFrog
Justin Fitzhugh	VP of Cloud Engineering, Snowflake
Charity Majors	CTO/Co-Founder, Honeycomb
Dana Lawson	VP of Engineering, GitHub

Engineering leadership from Snowflake, the cloud data warehousing organization, and Fenergo, a client lifecycle management provider for the financial services industry, will share their perspectives and experiences practicing cloud engineering for the modern cloud era. Justin Fitzhugh, VP of Cloud Engineering at Snowflake, and Keith Redmond, VP of SaaS Engineering at Fenergo, will each share how they reduced costs while empowering every developer on their team.

Everyone at Pulumi is super excited to be sharing this material with our community. If you are interested in cloud engineering, cloud infrastructure, software development, modern applications, or Pulumi, you want to save your spot for this 2-hour event. Whether you’re a seasoned cloud engineer or just curious to learn what’s all the fuss about cloud engineering, you will learn something new about the future of building on the cloud at PulumiUP. You can also sign up for new workshops and other events occurring in April and May. We’ll miss seeing you in person but hope that changes soon! Pulumipus and I are packing our bags and hoping for the best.

Save your spot today!

Pulumi Blog: Wendy Smith