We are pleased to announce the 6th Athens Kubernetes Meetup with two great talks:

“Introduction to Quarkus.”
by Georgios Andrianakis, Senior Software Engineer at RedHat.

Abstract: This talk will introduce the audience to Quarkus – the new Container First Cloud Native Java framework from Red Hat. We will see the awesome features it brings to the table and how they relate to the complex landscape that developers have to navigate in the Cloud Native age.

About the speaker: Georgios is currently working on the Spring Boot team, part of the Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes platform. He has more than 7 years of professional experience as a Backend Developer and DevOps Engineer. Msc. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, University of Athens

“Kubernetes @ Pollfish – 2 years and 6 clusters later”
by Paraskevas George, Linux Systems Engineer, Openstack Operator, AWS Certified Architect

Abstract: Kubernetes is the de facto orchestration platform for running stateless micro services, but what about monolithic apps? Can you run a monolith on Kubernetes and can you gain any value from doing so? Through out this presentation we will go through the past, present and future of our journey running Pollfish on Kubernetes, where we failed and where we succeeded.

About the speaker: Paraskevas is a Linux Systems Engineer doing DevOps, Automation and CI @ Pollfish. He has a background in Openstack/Ceph deployments and operations. He spends a lot of time in openstack-ansble IRC and mailing lists. He automates as much as he can with Terraform, Ansble, bash, Python and tries to migrate almost any workload on Kubernetes.