🎤 Agenda

Welcome Note: Cloud Native Birmingham Organizer

Kickstarting the evening with a warm welcome, setting the tone for a community-focused session on cloud-native technologies, collaboration, and learning.

🎤 Speaker 1: Sajeeva Nambadawa Vithanage (Founder @ CerDirectory.io, Golden Kubestronaut)

Talk 1: What is the Golden Kubestronaut Program, and How Can You Become One?

Description:

The Golden Kubestronaut Program celebrates community members who are passionate about Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. In this talk, Sajeeva shares the story behind the program, what it means to be a Golden Kubestronaut, and how you can become one too.

🎤 Speaker 2: Mahendran Selvakumar (DevOps Engineer @ TCS, Linkerd & Calico Ambassador, CNCF Chapter Organizer)

Talk 2: Getting Started with Linkerd: A Simple Service Mesh for Kubernetes

Description:

In this session, we’ll introduce Linkerd, a lightweight and easy-to-use service mesh for Kubernetes. You’ll learn what a service mesh is, why Linkerd stands out, and how it helps improve security and reliability between your services. We’ll walk through how to install Linkerd, secure service-to-service communication, and monitor traffic all with practical examples. This talk is perfect for anyone new to service meshes or looking to simplify how services talk to each other in Kubernetes.