Speaker Rider

Last updated 2023-01-23 Intro I’m very happy that you’re interested in having me speak at your event. I’m always excited for an opportunity to share my knowledge and views with others. That said, I do have some requirements and standards for accepting an offered speaking slot, submitting to an open CFP, or promoting an event I’m part of. Scope The scope of this speaker rider applies to any and all non-$JOB speaking engagements....

January 23, 2023 · 5 min · Chris Short

Speaking

Here's a current list of ready to go CFPs and/or abstracts that I can speak to at a moments notice. If you'd like to have me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, live stream, etc. please review my Speaker Rider and send me a message. Thank you! Interviews If you’re looking for podcasts or interviews I’ve took part in, please head over to the Interviews page. Talks Live stream: What ultra-successful people who practice DevRel know and do Date: 2022-08-16...

November 7, 2020 · 15 min · Chris Short

Webinar: The top 7 most useful Kubernetes APIs for comprehensive cloud native observability

An important early step (just after “Orchestration & Application Definition” in the CNCF trail map) in starting your cloud-native journey is picking solutions for observability, including monitoring, logging, and tracing. All of these observability tools leverage data available from Kubernetes’ comprehensive APIs. Those APIs provide insights into the events that are occurring inside of the Kubernetes platform, including answers to questions like: “What’s running in my Kubernetes cluster?” In this webinar, Sensu Co-founder & CEO Caleb Hailey will walk through the various Kubernetes APIs that are necessary for complete visibility into your Kubernetes platform, with examples from open source observability tools like Prometheus and Sensu....

July 9, 2020 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: Security at Cloud-native Speed On-Demand

Your browser does not support the audio element but you can download it (right-click, save as...). Join us for this on-demand webinar where our speaker, Chris Short, draws on his experience as a principal technical marketing manager for Red Hat, CNCF Ambassador, and editor of KubeWeekly and DevOps’ish to share best practices on: applying gates during CI/CD the critical features for container security tapping the power of native controls in Kubernetes leveraging automation to retain velocity Download as MP4...

January 10, 2020 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: Contour - High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes

Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy.​ Contour supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation out of the box while maintaining a lightweight profile. Using Contour you can quickly deploy cloud native applications, update Envoy configurations on the fly, and safely delegate ingress configuration to protect service access on multi-team Kubernetes clusters. In this webinar, Steve Sloka, Sr....

October 10, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native way

Operators simplify management of complex applications on Kubernetes. They are usually written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. But, there’s an alternative to that with a lower barrier to entry. Ansible is a first-class citizen in the Operator SDK. Using Ansible frees up application engineers, maximizes time to automate and orchestrate your applications, and doing it across new & existing platforms with one simple language. Here we see how....

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: KubeVirt - Beyond Containers: Coming full circle back to VMs!

In this webinar we will introduce KubeVirt and what VMs with K8s mean for you. We’ll explore: The architecture of KubeVirt Key use cases where you can already take advantage of Kubevirt to manage legacy applications – Windows apps included! – alongside Kubernetes ‘Gotchas’, tricks and things to be aware of for different implementations How KubeVirt compares with other virtualization frameworks Future of KubeVirt, related projects, and where to start We will show a demo of an application that is comprised of VMs, Containers, an RDBMS and a LoadBalancer-type Service....

September 12, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short