Simon Weald
Site Reliability Engineer, Giant Swarm
London, United Kingdom
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Simon is a Site Reliability Engineer living in the UK, working remotely for Giant Swarm. He’s into keeping infrastructure tidy, running Kubernetes clusters without drama, and helping dev teams ship things reliably.
He spends most of his time thinking about observability, automation, and making sure systems behave when things go sideways. Simon has a strong interest in open source and likes to tinker with new tools in his spare time.
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Cluster API: A Unified Approach to Cluster Lifecycle Management Across Diverse Environments
Cluster API (CAPI) is changing how teams (and homelabbers) manage fleets of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments. In this session I’ll share lessons taken from providing Kubernetes as a Service for production workloads, alongside hands-on experimentation in a homelab.
We’ll explore CAPI’s core features, see how it enables consistent, declarative cluster lifecycle management across a variety of infrastructures, and compare and contrast experiences between datacenters and homelabs.
A short demo will showcase cluster provisioning, upgrades and scaling, and we’ll finish with some tips and tricks learnt from administrating hundreds of clusters to help you succeed with CAPI, wherever you use it.
Kubernetes at the Edge – Come see It In Action !
Edge computing is still a fairly new area in the cloud native tech industry and is growing fast. As computing moves to the edge, what does Kubernetes look like beyond the cloud, and why does it matter?
This session features a live demo with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and real-time AI detection. Watch as our edge device identifies raised hands, sends data to a Kubernetes cluster via KubeEdge, and visualizes results instantly.
We'll explore:
- Edge Kubernetes challenges: connectivity, resources, security
- KubeEdge's approach to decentralized workloads
- Real-world applications across industries
Join us to see how AI, Kubernetes, and edge computing converge to enable powerful new possibilities.
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