[Jan25-CNCF-Madison] Campfire Series Kickoff

The Campfire Series is a new initiative by Cloud Native Madison designed to bring our community together—where innovators gather to Chat, Circle, and Connect. Through biweekly "Chat" sessions, monthly "Circle" deep dives, and quarterly "Connect" flagship events, we aim to spark conversations, explore emerging cloud-native trends, and build lasting professional relationships. This series will serve as our platform to reflect on past challenges, share actionable insights, and collaboratively shape the roadmap for 2025 in the cloud-native, DevOps, and security landscape.

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1. Campfire Series Kickoff Where Innovators Gather™ - to Chat, to Circle, to Connect Ryan Etten Senior Specialist Architect, Red Hat Cloud Native Madison Organizer Tuesday, January 16th, 2025
2. Today’s Agenda CNCF Code of Conduct CNCF Overview and Cloud Native Madison Reflecting on 2024 Introducing Campfire Series The Three Pillars: Chat, Circle, Connect 2025 Cloud Native Topics & Community Roadmap Open Discussion
3. CNCF Code of Conduct We abide by the CNCF Code of Conduct, which ensures an inclusive and respectful environment. Please help us keep our community safe and welcoming. If you face or witness any uncomfortable conduct, reach out to local organizers or CNCF directly.
4. The CNCF Founded in 2015, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation supports vital open source projects (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and more). They also host major conferences and empower local groups—like us—across the globe. We share the CNCF’s goal: building strong cloud-native communities.
5. How the CNCF Powers Innovation CNCF’s mission is to make Cloud Native computing ubiquitous.
6. Cloud native practices empower organizations to develop, build, and deploy workloads in computing environments (public, private, hybrid cloud) to meet their organizational needs at scale in a programmatic and repeatable manner. It is characterized by loosely coupled systems that interoperate in a manner that is secure, resilient, manageable, sustainable, and observable. Cloud native technologies and architectures typically consist of some combination of containers, service meshes, multi-tenancy, microservices, immutable infrastructure, serverless, and declarative APIs — this list is non-exhaustive. CNCF Cloud Native Definition v1.1
7. Local community serving Madison, WI and surrounding areas Meetups, workshops, networking on cloud-native and DevOps Alignment with CNCF principles Who We Are: Cloud Native Madison
8. Reflecting on 2024 2024 was pivotal for Cloud-Native DevOps
9. Reflecting on 2024: Cloud Native DevOps, Security, & Lessons Learned Widespread Kubernetes & Microservices De facto standard for modern apps AI-Enabled App Modernization Emerged as key approach Complexity Breeds Risk Multi-cloud, misconfigs, supply chain attacks
10. Multi-Cluster Config Mistakes Software Supply Chain Attacks It’s Real Now A Year of Crossroads: Incidents and Lessons (2024)
11. • Modern Observability = Metrics, logs, traces → Actionable insights • AI-Assisted Tools Spot Patterns humans miss • DevOps + Cloud Native = Cultural/Procedural foundation for speed & scale Observability: The Nervous System of Cloud-Native Operations
12. Platform Engineering & Supply Chain: The 2024 Focus Platform Engineering “Glue” delivering stable internal platforms Supply Chain Security Container images, Helm charts, pipeline dependencies SBOM and AI Tools Enhanced scanning and signing
13. Clusters Self-Tuning & Anomaly Detection Cost Optimization & Intelligent Remediation Policy Enforcement & Automated Fixes AI in the Cloud-Native Workflow (2024)
14. • Unified Control Planes for provisioning, deploying, observing, securing • Stronger Policy Enforcement & Compliance frameworks • Intelligent Remediation & Self-Optimizing clusters • Extended Ecosystem of Platform Engineering 2025 Outlook: Integration, Intelligence, & Innovation
15. Converging lessons from 2024 with the Cloud Native Madison outlook for 2025
16. Our Pillars for 2025: Chat, Circle, Connect Chat Biweekly community “office hours” → quick convos and Q&A Circle Monthly deep dives (today’s session) Connect Quarterly large events for networking, workshops, etc.
17. How We’ll Apply 2024 Lessons & Prep for 2025 Monthly Circle Topics - 3rd Thursdays Tie them to the 2024 trends (serverless evolution, security, AI, platform engineering, etc.) Chat Launch - 2nd and 4th Fridays Rolling out end of January for biweekly “office hours” Connect Dates - Quarterly In-Person Projected for Q2, Q3, Q4, each focusing on relevant advanced topics or sponsor workshops Community Engagement Slack, volunteer opportunities, new speaking slots
18. Questions? Let’s gather by the fire!
19. Which 2025 trends excite you the most? Topics you’d like for upcoming Circle or Chat sessions? How can we best address 2024’s warnings on Supply Chain Security? Let’s Gather by the Fire…
20. Thank you for gathering! Stay Connected with Cloud Native Madison
21. Joining Cloud Native Madison is Easy! linktr.ee/cloud.native.madison Join our Slack, find our new company page on LinkedIn, Join our Cloud Native Community Group on CNCF, and follow our CFP process to submit your ideas and talks to help grow this community. Stay tuned for much more to come!
22. Thank You!