We're technologists from New York's Capital District and beyond, and emerge from the cities of Poughkeepsie, Albany, Troy, and the surrounding counties. We include all of Central New York, the Southern Tier and the Adirondacks and the North Country.

We want to meet quarterly in order to share expertise, imagine and discuss projects and solutions together. We're individuals from Universities, Colleges, and Companies large and small who share a passion and expertise for all things Cloud Native.

We're Platform Engineers, Students, Researchers, Developers, SREs, DevOps, Trainers, Authors , and simply tech enthusiasts in the Upstate NY area who are passionate about building, automating, and scaling modern infrastructure and applications.

What We Explore Together: - Cloud-Native Platforms: Kubernetes, Helm, Operators, OpenShift, Crossplane - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Puppet, Chef - GitOps & DevOps: ArgoCD, Flux, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions. Whether you're working with container platforms, deploying AI workloads, managing infrastructure as code, or just starting your journey into DevOps, this group is for you.

Our goal is to learn, share, mentor, and grow together through open discussions, tutorials, meetups, and hands-on collaboration. We welcome beginners, experts, and everyone in between.

Be excellent to each other.