Webinars

No one lacks an opinion when it comes to CPU limits. Are they a mandatory requirement or a misunderstood evil? Most cloud providers tell you to set them, yet members of the original Kubernetes team at Google say not to use them! Why all the debate about something that seems so simple? Should you use CPU limits or not? Natan will go through both sides of the argument. He’ll explain why there is so much controversy over something so simple, and help you determine what is right for your team.

Greg discusses Palantir’s experience and growing pains in scaling their Apollo Platform’s internal use of GitOps to 100+ environments, 500+ unique services and 1000+ engineers. He’ll talk about the problems encountered, unsuccessful attempts at solving them and ultimately Apollo’s reimagination of GitOps at Palantir.

GitOps is an efficient and effective approach to continuous deployment (CD) that leverages Git as a single source of truth for both infrastructure and applications. Join us as we demonstrate how to build a multi-stage pipeline for applications and clusters, automate deployments and integrate EKS with your GitOps deployments.

How do we connect multi-region and multi-cloud servers, containers and developers without firewalls, VPNs, IPs, subnets, ACLs, NSGs, VPCs, NAT, VLANs to manage which systems can communicate securely? For the last thirty years we’ve needed complex IP-based configs, but there's a better way. Identity-based networks are coming. In this talk you’ll learn what they are and why they matter.

Observability is more than pretty dashboards, it’s a powerful tool for developers to design better code. A key part of the modern developer’s stack. However, just activating code tracing and metrics is not enough to make observability matter. In this talk, Roni will show how Continuous Feedback is what you really should get to for your setup.

Kubescape is an open source security testing tool for Kubernetes. In the last 10 months it was used to scan more than 10k Kubernetes clusters for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. In this talk, Shauli Rozen will share key insights from this database, including the most common K8s security challenges and how to approach them.

Choosing the right open source project to use can be quite challenging - not knowing if it’s going to be the right fit, how it will behave, and if you end up wasting time trying to make it all work. In this talk, Senior DevOps Engineer Hila Fish will share some best practices on how to evaluate open source software before adding it to your DevOps toolchain.

This is another special edition of our Platform Engineers meetup to wrap up on our learnings from PlatformCon. We will look at the most interesting talks and discuss future trends in platform engineering.

This is a special edition of our Platform Engineers meetups to follow up on our learnings from the first ever PlatformCon. Lee and Luca will discuss the best and the worst and the main takeaways from this community coming together for the first time.

This roundtable event is exclusive. There are no presentations. No product demos. We’re having an open conversation with questions, comments, personal experiences and some beer (The beer is on us. This is an in-person event in San Francisco).

This is a special edition of our Platform Engineers meetup, ahead of our first ever PlatformCon. Jessica, Stefan, Schuyler and Luca will discuss the latest trends in platform engineering and how PlatformCon speakers will tackle them.

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a hot trend right now. Yet, there is still very little and quite tribal knowledge on how to successfully “platform” your setup. Kaspar has seen hundreds of successful and unsuccessful platforming endeavors. In this session, packed with insights and examples, he will walk you through how to structure your platforming process and how to architect your platform.

Designing a consistent and simple infrastructure layer is the foundation for a solid production management platform. In this webinar, Andrew Fong (ex VP Infrastructure at Dropbox) will share his experience on how you can approach Terraform vs Pulumi vs SDK in order to build a repeatable solution.

Containerized apps or containers in general are everywhere in our days and seem to be the standard. But there is one main downside: container networks are hard to secure. In this webinar we will explore an alternative called Unikernels. Ian Eyberg, CEO at NanoVMs will showcase an open source solution and guide you through first steps on how to get started deploying unikernels.

One of the biggest hurdles to implementing continuous delivery and DevOps in an industrial environment – dealing with milestones and macroscopic quality gates – can be overcome with a continuous quality assurance approach that applies the "green to green" and "shift left" paradigms not only to software, but also to non-software artifacts. In this webinar, Peter Fassbinder (Siemens) will share some insights from his extensive experience on how to tackle such a challenge.

Every engineering organization that’s cloud-native is now talking about platforms and how to build one. But what is a platform and what does Platform Engineering actually mean? Lee Ditiangkin will discuss the vision behind Platform Engineering and how your team can make the most of this new approach.

A migration from the Container Network Interface (CNI) in AWS VPC to Cilium, an open source plugin for Kubernetes, can feel like swapping the wheels of a running car. In this webinar Frederico and Simone from Meltwater will show you how they managed that challenge at Meltwater.

How do you architect and build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? Michael Wood (Hashicorp) and Chris Stephenson (Humanitec) do just that, all day long. They’ll use Terraform from the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and Humanitec to build an IDP that scales.

Henning Jacobs, Executive Principal Engineer at Zalando, will show how the leading e-commerce for fashion in Europe provides an internal platform for their 1000+ engineers. He will dive into how they use custom integrations on top of SaaS and open source, such as Kubernetes and Spotify’s Backstage, to deliver a great developer experience to over 200 internal engineering teams.

Brian Kernigham said: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.” In fact, debugging in a modern K8s production environment is even harder with the orchestrator spinning containers up and down all around you and weird networking wizardry that keeps everything glued together. In this webinar we will explore the newly released kubectl debug feature, the open-source KoolKits project and the notion of Continious Observability.

GetFeedback by SurveyMonkey is an enterprise customer experience solution, capturing data from multiple sources, receiving 500M requests everyday. To keep up with the company’s growth Renato’s Platform team faced the challenge to build a self-service microservices setup that allowed for expansion and product integration. In this webinar, Renato, the former Head of Platform, will share his experience.

Kubernetes is an extremely powerful technology and is a darling of the DevOps universe for very good reasons. However, implementing it across an engineering organization is not straightforward and often tricky. The promises of resource efficiency, scalability and better app and infrastructure management can often turn into Ops nightmares. In the last few months, we ran an extensive survey on the performance of Kubernetes setups of teams of all sizes. In this webinar, we will share our key findings and learnings.

We are very excited to host this AMA session with Bryan Finster, founder and former lead of the Walmart DevOps Dojo. We are looking forward to your questions!

Managing configs across multiple environments can be really challenging. This is especially true when certain configs should change according to different environment types like dev, staging and production, but others should not. In this workshop Chris will show you how to find and fix broken configs when things went wrong.

We are very excited to welcome Liz Fong-Jones to our webinars for the second time! This time we will talk to her about the adoption of SRE, how to ensure observability and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

This roundtable event is exclusive. There are no presentations. No product demos. We’re having an open conversation with questions, comments, personal experiences and some beer. (The beer is on us. The logistics are at the bottom of the page.)

Nigel Poulton is one of the most influential trainers and authors to everything that is Kubernetes or Docker related. We are excited to talk to him about how to get started with containers and Kubernetes.

We spoke to hundreds of software engineering organizations that are starting the journey in platform engineering. But where to begin? And how to avoid falling into common traps at the start of your platform journey? In this webinar, Kaspar will walk through the most common fallacies we have seen across hundreds of engineering organizations in the last year.

What’s the difference between a Service Catalog and an Internal Developer Platform? And how do both concepts relate to value streams? How to make the most use out of such concepts to ship code reliably and improve the developer experience? In this webinar Dominik, VP Product at LeanIX and Kaspar, Humanitec’s CEO, will shed some light on these areas.

This webinar will be all about Kubernetes CNI and Network Policy. Chris and Reza, both Developer Advocates at Tigera, will guide you through the requirements the K8s networking model puts on a cluster, the why and how a CNI helps meet them.

Observability is key in a cloud-native setup. In this webinar, Ben Sigelman, will talk about effective observability strategies and give you an introduction on CNCF’s OpenTelemetry project.

In this webinar we will discuss principles and best practises of data-driven engineering. Ralf, founder and CEO of Logilica, will show you how to define the right DevOps metrics and how to measure them based on already existing lifecycle data.

As much as we would like all environments to be the same: they're not. It's too expensive to spin up a new CloudSQL instance for every dev project, developers have kubectl on the dev cluster but not production and staging needs to be loaded with test data before every release. In this workshop, Humanitec’s CTO Chris Stephenson will show how you can run Postgres in-cluster in dev, pre-loaded with test data in staging and fully managed in production.

We talked to more than 1,800 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.

Cloud native is hard. 17% of teams have to operate multi-cloud, 60+% multi-account and 90+% multi-cluster. How do you effectively setup and manage application configurations across all clusters? In this workshop, Humanitec’s CTO Chris Stephenson will demo the approach of working against baseline YAML files to keep configs under control.

As a business scales, it becomes critical to change how developers do their work. Creating leverage for other developers is key to growth. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) comes in to help. In this webinar, Alan Barr will share his journey building an IDP for 100s of engineers at Veterans United Home Loans and what you should pay attention to so your IDP doesn’t suck.

Debugging cloud native apps running in a Kubernetes cluster can be tricky. With the combination of an Internal Developer Platform like Humanitec and pain-less cloud native debugging with Rookout, it feels like developing on your own machine.

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a key element of most top-performing engineering teams’ DevOps strategy. In this webinar, Steve Pereira will discuss how an IDP can help you move beyond “ticket Ops” and where it fits in your DevOps roadmap.

Secrets management is a key element of application configuration management. Hashicorp Vault has established itself as an industry standard for managing secrets for Kubernetes applications. In this hands-on session, Nils will show a best practice implementation of Vault that you can apply to your own clusters and setup.

Developer self-service is a fundamental step every engineering team needs to take to reach true DevOps, true “you build it, you run it”. A key element to achieve self-service is to simplify as much as possible how application developers interact with the infrastructure team setup. In this workshop, Humanitec’s Chris Stephenson will show practical examples of how engineering orgs can optimize their deployment workflows on top of EKS, GKE and AKS.

We talked to more than 1,800 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.

Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and Kubernetes are all key trends in DevOps. They are changing the way most engineering teams think about and interact with their setups. In this webinar, Jim Sheldon will show how his team at Meltwater built a high-performing developer platform combining the best of all worlds.

Observability is key for SRE, especially for production environments. As the number of environments and services increases, your observability setup gets a lot more complex. This leads to a major challenge: Ops want to shield some of this complexity away from developers, while still providing them with the right degree of observability to debug quickly. We are excited to discuss this topic with one of the leading experts in this field: Liz Fong-Jones

Technological transformation is tricky. Whether you are doing a refactoring of one of your services or a complete re-platforming of your setup, there are so many factors at play one needs to consider. From technical to cultural aspects and everything in between. All of this gets a lot more complex at an enterprise scale. We are excited to discuss organizational transformation with Courtney Kissler, who led large-scale reorgs and tech transformations at Starbucks, Nike, and now Zulily.

GitOps and developer self-service are key trends in the DevOps industry. But how can companies operating in highly regulated industries benefit from these new approaches? We are excited to have Steve Wade, a leading expert in implementing self-service and GitOps setups for top-performing Fintech companies, as a guest speaker in this webinar.

In this two-part webinar series we will look at two seemingly opposed DevOps approaches: GitOps and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). While GitOps aims at making all configurations and infrastructure available to developers as code, IDPs abstract away as much complexity as possible from engineers. Our CTO Chris is excited to co-host this with Kostis, Developer Advocate at Codefresh. Part 1 will be a high level debate, while in Part 2 they’ll show real life examples with hands-on coding.

What does it take to build an internal platform? Why do so many internal platform projects end up as half baked solutions with low adoption and high maintenance? We are excited to discuss common pitfalls and requirements for successful platform implementations with Chris and Cristóbal, platform pros at ThoughtWorks.

In this two-part webinar series we will look at two seemingly opposed DevOps approaches: GitOps and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). While GitOps aims at making all configuration and infrastructure available to developers as code, IDPs abstract away as much complexity as possible from engineers. Our CTO Chris is excited to co-host this with Kostis, Developer Advocate at Codefresh. Part 1 will be a high-level debate, while in Part 2 they’ll show real-life examples with hands-on coding.

The ability to spin up fully provisioned preview environments with every pull request can help your developers to rapidly test and iterate on new functionality. In this practical workshop we explore how to enable this for your developers on top of Kubernetes. The approach we are taking is reproducible on any existing CI/CD setup and any cloud.

Top performing engineering organizations all have one key trait in common: They enable their developers to self-serve the tech they need. But how to reach this goal in a highly regulated industry? In this webinar, David and Alexandru will discuss how their teams built a self-service setup for over 150 engineers in the payment industry, while keeping their workflows extremely compliant.

With the shift to Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies, a number of pressing security issues arise. In this DevSecOps talk, Thomas Fricke will share insights about the security model of Kubernetes, its pros, its vulnerabilities and how to get your cluster bulletproof.

We talked to more than 1,500 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.

Why is it so important to unlearn things in DevOps at the right time? And why is the history of Infrastructure as Code such a good example of this? We are very excited to discuss this with two industry leaders: Barry O’Reilly, entrepreneur, business advisor and author of the books UNLEARN and LEAN ENTERPRISE and Kief Morris (Thoughtworks), author of the book INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE.

According to the brand new State of DevOps Report 2021 by Puppet, platform teams are the key to DevOps success at scale. We are excited to discuss this and further key findings with Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the report.

In many engineering organizations, dependencies on SRE and Ops teams for provisioning of resources and deployments become a huge blocker for development teams. In this webinar, Stefan Kolesnikowicz, SRE Manager at Achievers, will discuss how to support engineers without limiting them, improving the developer experience by using a GitOps based internal platform.

Developer self-service is the key common denominator of high-performance engineering organizations like GitHub, Spotify and Salesforce. Kubernetes is a great foundation on which to build modern self-service setups. But it also comes with huge complexity and a new set of dependencies. In this webinar, Kaspar will discuss how to navigate around these obstacles to enable developer self-service on Kubernetes.

According to the latest Puppet report, top performing engineering organizations all have one key trait in common: developer self-service. They enable their developers to self-serve the tech they need to run their apps and services autonomously, releasing pressure on Ops teams. In this webinar, Aaron will discuss why companies like Salesforce and GitHub built self-service setups and what this means for the performance of their engineering organizations.

Kubernetes has become the new darling of the infrastructure world, but often when making technical decisions we forget what tech really is. It’s a byproduct of problem solving. The actual focus is and always has been people and solving their problems, whether it’s for your clients or your colleagues. In this webinar, Lian Li and Eva Lettner, Engineering Managers at Container Solutions will share their insights and best practices, helping organisations transform their tech and their culture to adapt to the new world of Cloud Native.

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming the de-facto standard for container orchestration in the enterprise. Challenges can present themselves regardless of whether you're using managed services from the likes of AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, OpenShift (IBM), or even self-managed Kubernetes clusters. In this webinar, we will discuss typical challenges when migrating enterprise setups to Kubernetes.

Do your developers constantly bug you for environments, help with YAML or a fresh database instance? The 2020 State of DevOps by Puppet clearly shows what the top 10% teams do significantly better than everyone else: enable developers for self-service. In this webinar, we will show why companies like Github and Spotify built self-service setups. And we’ll demo our own self-service approach at Humanitec.

Enabling developers to self-serve Kubernetes and other cloud native resources is a clear sign of an advanced DevOps setup, but most teams have yet to reach this level. In this webinar, you will learn how to enable developer self-service by using Humanitec’s API via Postman.

Internal Developer Platforms are increasingly becoming mainstream at most large tech enterprises. One of the visionary thinkers and most experienced veterans in this field is Aaron Erickson, who built the Internal Developer Platform at Salesforce. We are very excited to talk to him about his experiences and best practices in this webinar.

What are the key differences between the traditional approach to internal platforms and tooling vs the modern approach, better suited to fast paced digital innovation? We are very excited to discuss this with Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies.

Dynamic environments are a challenge for NoSQL databases like Elasticsearch. In this webinar Philipp Krenn from Elastic will discuss with Humanitec’s CTO Chris Stephenson how to overcome the pitfalls of automated provisioning for new dynamic environments that use Elastic.

Among key DevOps trends to watch, the latest State of DevOps Report by Puppet turns the spotlight on developer self-service and platform engineering. That's why we're very excited to discuss this new shift in engineering with Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the report.

Cost control and optimization of cloud bills have become increasingly important issues for businesses. As cloud adoption rises, IT professionals are looking for ways to reduce their new (big) expense line items. In this webinar we will cover the best options teams have to reduce cloud costs and discuss practical strategies to cut your cloud bill.

Do your developers constantly bug you for environments, help with YAML or a fresh database instance? The 2020 State of DevOps by Puppet clearly shows what the top 10% teams do significantly better than everyone else: developer self-serving. In this webinar, we will show why companies like Github and Spotify built self-service setups. And we’ll demo our own self-serving approach at Humanitec.

Galo Navarro worked in a team tasked with building an internal PaaS for 1500 engineers at e-commerce giant Adevinta. In this webinar, he will give unique insights into the why and how of building internal platforms. He will share best practices on how to set up platform teams, how to evaluate what components to build or buy, how to execute and how to measure success.

Why do the best teams in the world ship faster than anyone else? Because they built their own Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to make their developers self-serving. We are excited to partner with Enterprise Docker and DevOps London to explain why teams like Github, Google, and Spotify built IDPs and what impact they have on their teams. Kaspar, CEO of Humanitec, will demo how to build your own IDP using Humanitec.

As Kubernetes becomes more popular, security issues related to it are increasingly coming under the spotlight. In this DevSecOps talk, Thomas Fricke will share insights about the security model of Kubernetes and demo a handful of key scripts to analyze cluster vulnerabilities.

Adopting Kubernetes in fast growing teams is not an easy challenge to cope with. In this webinar we will share real-life examples of mistakes we see and provide insights how to avoid them. Learn how to prevent bottlenecks, slow delivery and how to scale your team’s productivity.

More and more enterprise software developer teams are migrating their containerized workloads to Kubernetes as the de-facto market standard for container orchestration. But using and understanding Kubernetes can be challenging, especially when working in teams. It increases cognitive load, slowing down teams in their development process. In this webinar, we will look at the DevEx side of using Kubernetes. We will discuss how state-of-the-art CI solutions and Internal Developer Platforms can be combined to minimize cognitive load for development teams, while leveraging the full potential of Kubernetes.

Well designed internal tooling can boost your team's productivity. For organizations with a growing number of application developers, this becomes almost indispensable. In this webinar we cover how Ops and Platform teams should approach the question of when and how to build internal tooling for developers. We discuss how to mitigate the risks, while reaping the benefits.

Is GitOps the next big thing in DevOps and automation? Or is it a great concept in theory, but marred by downsides when it comes to reality? In this panel, we will discuss pros and cons of GitOps through the war stories of Ádám Sándor, Cloud Native Architect at Container Solutions, Chris Stephenson, CTO at Humanitec and Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Codefresh.

DevOps automation should be end-to-end and allow teams to follow a standardized routine, no matter what they are deploying and where. Often, Continuous Delivery setups fall short of automating the provisioning of databases. In this webinar we will show you how to set up an end-to-end flow that’s easy to maintain and enables your developers to self-serve any database they need to include in their setup.

Why do the best teams in the world ship faster than anyone else? Because they built their own Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to make their developers self-serving. We are excited to partner with ATX Automation Professionals to explain why teams like Github, Google and Spotify built IDPs and what impact they have on their teams. Kaspar will demo how to build your own IDP using Humanitec.

Once scaling becomes a pressing need, teams consider migrating from Heroku to Kubernetes. In this webinar, we will discuss when it is the right time to actually do so with Masashi Beheim. Masashi is part of the Engineering Leadership at Forto, a digital freight forwarder, and successfully completed this journey with his team.

An excellent developer experience that allows for maximum focus and productivity is a key ingredient for the success of leading tech companies. It’s the internal platform teams in those companies that work hard on guaranteeing this competitive advantage for their orgs. Many large companies started to copy this approach and established internal platform teams. In this webinar, we will share some insights on how to master the journey to a great developer experience, especially when you cannot start green field.

Environment variables help you keep important configuration external from your application code and unlock the full potential of Kubernetes. In this webinar DevOps expert Jacob Fahrenkrug will share some best practices from his experience.

How do you get to a setup that is easy to maintain and drives velocity in your application development team, but doesn’t restrict freedom? Is it even possible? Join the conversation with industry veterans Füsun Wehrmann (Wayfair) and Yair Etziony in this webinar! They will share best practices and frameworks to help you think about these trade-offs.

Is GitOps the next big thing in DevOps and automation? Or is it a great concept in theory, but marred by downsides when it comes to reality? In this webinar we will discuss advantages, but also limitations of the GitOps approach with Ádám Sándor, Cloud Native Architect at Container Solutions.

Well run engineering teams provide developers with a high degree of automation and self-service. In this webinar we will show you hands on how Internal Developer Platforms help you to automate workflows in delivery and at the intersection of CI and CD. We showcase how you can set up your environment once, define rules and then update with a simple git-push.

In this webinar we will cover a big and often underestimated problem in software delivery: How to manage application configurations in a scalable way? We will talk about different approaches and show you how base-line templates can solve the problem.

Test automation is a trend and frameworks like the Robot Framework have significantly lowered the barrier to get started with automating tests. Still, setting up, expanding, and maintaining automated tests can be challenging. In this webinar, two experts will talk about their views on how to overcome typical challenges.

Adopting Kubernetes in fast growing teams is not an easy challenge to cope with. In this webinar we will share real-life examples of mistakes we see and provide insights how to avoid them. Learn how to prevent bottlenecks, slow delivery and how to scale your team’s productivity.

Kubernetes provides many advantages, but from a developer's point of view, the introduction of Kubernetes makes things more complex. However, this does not have to be the case. In this webinar, a react developer and a DevOps engineer will give you a hands-on example of how to build the perfect self-serving workflow on top of Kubernetes.

Environment variables help you keep important configuration external from your application code and unlock the full potential of Kubernetes. In this webinar DevOps expert Antoine Rougeot will share some best practices from his experience.

Learn how to set up your own internal developer platform in this hands-on webinar with CircleCI and Christoph Richter from Humanitec. They’ll show you how CircleCI and Humanitec work together to improve your in-house developer experience.

During this webinar, Nils will give an introduction to the KubeLibrary, a RobotFramework library for testing Kubernetes clusters.

Bootstrapping a new microservice on Kubernetes can be complicated and frustrating. Not only do you need to choose the tech stack, but you also need to work out how to get your code running in the cluster! In this Webinar, Geraldo will walk you through the process of building a microservice using Go and the ever-popular ElasticSearch. He will then use Humanitec to get the service up and running in a Kubernetes cluster.

A major bug urgently needs fixing in Production, but QA is impossible because Staging is ahead of Prod. In this webinar you will learn how to clone your Production environment to allow immediate testing before hot-fixing Production.

Leading tech companies build their own Internal Developer Platforms. In this webinar you will learn what an Internal Developer Platform is and how such a platform can improve the developer and DevOps experience.