AGENDA

16:30: Doors open

17:00: Welcome by Cloud Native Aarhus

17:10: Welcome by our host OK

17:15: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government by Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV

18:00: Break with food

18:30: Panel Discussion with local community members about the new trends in the world of CNCF

19:30: Networking

20:00: Doors close

Talk

Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government by Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV

Who said that Government Tech has to be boring? In Norway the largest administration has been using Kubernetes for over 7 years! StatefulSets had just been introduced (alpha) and RBAC was still in beta. During this time we moved from quarterly releases to thousands of continuous releases each week across our fleet of cloud native applications!

Could we replicate the success we had at NAV for other agencies? Could we provide them with a fully managed platform as a service to let them focus on building new and innovative services for their users and not reinventing the wheel by building yet another platform?

In this session Hans Kristian will share their experience building and operating one of the largest platforms of its kind in Norway providing a fully fledged application development platform for more than a 100 product teams. And how they set an ambitious goal of being able to provide their platform as a service to other agencies.

Bio:

Hans Kristian Flaatten is a CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and a Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on Nais - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience to build, run and operate applications.

Panel Discussion

As KubeCon EU just finalized, we will take a moment to discuss the exciting new trends and ideas the event has left us. 
The panel will consist of 3-4 local community members, who has been to KubeCon EU, and they will share their reflections on whatever the audiences will throw at them.

If you are going to KubeCon and want to share your thoughts on this years trends please reach out to us.

Panel members:

Lucy Sweet works as Platform Engineer at Uber, pretends she knows stuff about Kubernetes and likes to fly planes and learn new human languages in her spare time.
Casper Thygesen has worked as a consultant for 14 years and have tried building several platforms. In the CNCF space, I have contributed to Kafka, opensearch, redpanda, apache flink and backstage. I took kubestronaut last year and picked up the path for golden kubestronaut a few days ago (wish me luck!).
Hans Kristian Flaatten