At  RSECon25 in Warwick, the Cloud Native SIG team ran their opening event, a workshop for people looking to get started with Kubernetes. It was a success, with a packed out room and a separate pod of conference attendees following the workshop online. We certainly managed to scale our workshop appropriately! We received a lot of positive feedback and exciting contributions from participants. If you did not manage to attend or are looking for further reading, you can view the tutorial in its entirety. A big thanks to Alex Lubbock for the Kubechaos App and Lewis Sampson and Piper Fowler Wright for the content and teaching.

The event was enjoyed by 80 people, and included material on Kubernetes architecture, Helm and practical examples for deploying your applications robustly and scalably. There was lots of great developer energy and support in the room and we fixed all manner of technical bugs and got some excellent contributions both to the course material and to our Kubechaos App, which we are currently reviewing. There are some really creative Javascript developers in the RSE community.

We had lots of positive feedback highlighting the workshop’s impact in the community. Wahab Kawafi from the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing shared this endorsement, "with cloud native workflows gaining popularity with researchers, it's great to finally have a resource to upskill RSEs in using Kubernetes and Helm". To continue this support, we have made the course open source and plan to do further events exploring other areas of Kubernetes. 

If you would like to hear more about the Cloud Native SIG please join our mailing list. We are hoping to release a website very soon and will keep you posted with details. Do you have your own adventures using Cloud Native technology that you would like to share? We would very much like to hear from you. Please email laura.shemilt@rfi.ac.uk if you would like to provide a short blogpost on your experience.