As the Principal Developer Advocate at Konstruct, Frédéric Harper helps Developers, and DevOps be successful with their Kubernetes journey. Fred has shared his passion for technology on the stage at multitudinous events around the world. He’s helped build successful, and healthy communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit. He is also the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication... and cat videos.

Presentations

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Surfing the Argo CD sync waves

If you want to be successful in your cloud native journey, a good Kubernetes-native continuous deployment (CD) tool is indispensable. There are some interesting choices out there, Argo CD being one of the best. In this talk, let’s surf the sync waves together, and learn the intrinsic parts of using Argo CD to deploy, and manage applications on your clusters. We’ll explore the insightful web UI, but also play with the CLI for terminal lovers. You’ll also end up with a broader comprehension of GitOps through the lenses of Argo CD while improving your application lifecycle management (ALM)

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What the Heck Is Kubernetes

Ever wonder what that fuss is all about! Is this just a new technology that will die along the thousands of JavaScript libraries that were supposed to change the way we code? Is Kubernetes really a game changer? Even if it was, do you or your project really need a container orchestration system with its clusters, controllers, pods and all those new moving pieces? All your questions will be answered in this talk! We will demystify this together. In the end, you’ll have a better understanding of the platform & its quirks, including the pros and cons, and how to get started.

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