ISVs in MCPP – Chances & Challenges
2023-04-19 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Bayern
In this webinar, experts from Microsoft’s Learning partner ADN take another look at the programs for ISVs and consulting in the data context. Join us in outlining a possible solution path.
The topics overview:
– Solution Partner Options in the MCPP for ISVs (Enya Neumann, ADN) – Digital & App Innovation and Data & AI.
– The ISV Success Program – the universal cure? (Enya Neumann, ADN)
– Ways to meet program requirements for ISVs (Markus Sümmchen, white duck).

Microsoft Azure Partner Day – Re-Imagine medium-sized business
2023-04-25 10:00 - 17:00 | Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, München, Deutschland
Get to know future-oriented cloud strategies and learn in our exciting lectures how you can increase the productivity of your cloud business.
You can expect current topics such as Azure as a strategy for medium-sized businesses, exclusive Microsoft Insights, approachable Partner Voices and various breakout sessions that go into depth.
Speaker:
Microsoft Partner Voice – Markus Sümmchen (Founder & Managing Director @ white duck)

Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio pt. 2
2023-04-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Bayern
We are pleased to welcome you to the second part of our series “Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio”.
In the first part, we covered the basics of chaos engineering and looked at Azure Chaos Studio. In this part, we want to use Azure Chaos Studio to cause some chaos on a Kubernetes cluster with running applications.
Speaker:
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

SaaS Journey for ISVs – Tech (Cloud Native), Business Model (SaaS) and Distribution (Azure Marketplace)
2023-05-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Bayern
What are the aspects to consider as a SaaS provider? What are the necessary technical basics? In the webinar, you will learn everything about the transformation of the business model and software licensing and how you can implement this in the Azure Marketplace.
Speakers:
Markus Sümmchen (Founder & CEO @ white duck GmbH)
Dr. Ilias Michalarias (Founder & CEO @ SLASCONE)

Pulumi & Azure: The turbo boost for your cloud projects
2023-05-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Bayern
Discover how Pulumi, the innovative infrastructure-as-code platform, seamlessly interacts with Microsoft Azure. Together, they maximize the productivity and efficiency of your cloud projects and minimize the susceptibility to errors.
Learn how Pulumi allows you to work in your favorite programming language while effortlessly integrating Azure’s services. Cleverly and securely control and orchestrate cloud resources to increase the performance and scalability of your applications.
Speakers:
Engin Diri (Customer Experience Architect @ Pulumi)
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)

Cloud-Native & Sustainability: How and Why to Build Sustainable
2023-06-06 13:30 - 14:15 | Bayern
Cloud-Native & Sustainability: How and Why to Build Sustainable
In this talk, Nico will explore the concept of sustainability in the context of cloud-native workloads and discuss the benefits of developing sustainable applications. Nico will share best practices for developing and implementing sustainable cloud-native workloads and give real-world examples. This talk will walk you through the technical details of sustainable cloud-native workloads and provide actionable steps for anyone interested in building sustainable applications in the cloud.
Speaker:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)

MCPP Customer Success Story by white duck
2023-06-09 11:30 - 12:00 | Bayern
In this 30-minute virtual office hour, you will have the opportunity to gain detailed insights into the success of white duck’s MCPP Success Story. You should be quick, because the places are limited to 20 exclusive participation places.
In addition, Microsoft’s Partner Communications team led by Daniela Preis and Lars Gurow will give a short intro and moderate the event.
Speakers:
Markus Sümmchen (Founder & Managing Director, white duck GmbH)

DevOpsCon Berlin 2023
2023-06-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Friedrichstraße 151, Berlin, Friedrichstraße 151, Berlin, Deutschland
The Conference for Continuous Delivery, Microservices, Containers, Cloud & Lean Business
How to prevent your Kubernetes cluster from being hacked by Nico
Our Kubernetes expert, Nico, will talk about security and Kubernetes.
Details and agenda are online on the DevOpsCon website.
Speakers:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)

Azure Developer CLI: "azd up" - one command to rule them all
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Bayern
Dear community, we are happy to announce our next Azure Rosenheim Meetup! This time we have two great guest speakers: Christian Lechner and Martin Pankraz.
In the session, you will witness how complicated project onboarding and iterative setup of developer tooling simply vanish into thin air.
How? Using the Azure Developer CLI.
Speakers:
Philip Welz, Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer at white duck
Nico Meisenzahl, Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations at white duck
Christian Lechner, Development Architect at SAP SE
Martin Pankraz, Senior Product Manager | SAP Integration at Microsoft

Microsoft Build Germany
2023-06-22 16:30 - 17:15 | Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, München, Deutschland
Cloud-Native & Sustainability: Why sustainable applications are important and how they are developed
In this talk, Martin and Nico will shed light on the concept of sustainability in the context of cloud-native workloads and demonstrate the benefits of developing sustainable applications. Both cover best practices for developing and implementing sustainable cloud-native workloads and present illustrative real-world examples. This presentation will guide you through the technical details of sustainable and cloud-native applications and provide concrete steps for anyone interested in developing sustainable applications in the cloud.
Speakers:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)
Martin Brandl (CTO @ white duck)

Cloud Native Networking & Security
2023-06-29 18:00 - 21:00 | Office Liquid Reply, Luise-Ullrich-Straße 14, München, 80636, Deutschland
Exciting news for the tech community!
Make a note of the upcoming Cloud Native Networking & Security Meetup on June 29, 2023 in Munich. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and participate in lively discussions about the latest trends and insights in cloud native and security.
We look forward to seeing you!
Speakers:
Max Körbächer (Co-founder @ Liquid Reply)
Stephane Karagulmez (Senior Solution Architect @ Isovalent)
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

Kubernetes Community Days Munich
2023-07-17 08:30 - 2023-07-18 17:30 | smartvillage, Rosenkavalierpl. 13, Bogenhausen, Bayern, 81925, Deutschland
From 17. to 18 July, the Kubernetes & Cloud Native Community will meet at smartvillage Bogenhausen in Munich, Germany. Join this two-day technical event packed with exciting talks and networking opportunities. KCD Munich is aimed at developers, platform people and other IT professionals with an interest in cloud-native technologies. This community event is supported by the CNCF.

ContainerDays 2023 Hybrid
2023-09-11 16:30 - 17:10 | Hamburg, Mexikoring 29, Hamburg, 22297, Deutschland
Philip and Nico will talk about how to get the most out of the Kubernetes network with Cilium. After covering the Cilium basics, both will explain advanced features such as multi-cluster networking with Cluster Mesh, Cilium’s own Service Mesh implementation with Ingress support, and the future of Kubernetes ingress routing: Gateway API.
In addition, Philip and Nico will use real-world examples to show how you can optimize your network, service and security monitoring by leveraging Hubble, Cilium’s own network and security monitoring platform.
Speakers:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

ContainerDays 2023 Hybrid
2023-09-12 11:30 - 12:10 | Hamburg, Mexikoring 29, Hamburg, 22297, Deutschland
HOW TO PREVENT YOUR KUBERNETES CLUSTER FROM BEING HACKED
Philip and Nico will show you how to prevent your Kubernetes cluster from being hijacked by introducing you to best practices and useful open source projects using real-world examples.
– Create secure images with Wolfi
– Image verification with Cosign
– Security of container runtime with Tetragon
Speakers:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

Azure OpenAI Meetup
2023-10-12 18:00 - 21:30 | Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, Walter-Gropius-Straße 5, München, Deutschland
We cordially invite you to our Azure OpenAI Meetup at Microsoft in Munich!
Look forward to an evening around Generative AI, Azure OpenAI & AI in development.
Our agenda:
18:00 – 18:45: Welcome & Pizza
18:45 – 19:15: Implementing Generative AI Use Cases with Azure OpenAI (Sophia Cullen, Microsoft)
19:15 – 20:00: ChatGPT & JUNE: How we integrated Azure OpenAI into our SaaS product (Christian Häp, JUNE)
20:00 – 20:30: Increasing Developer Productivity with the Possibilities of GitHub and AI (Martin Brandl & Nico Meisenzahl, white duck)
20:30 – 21:30: Drinks & Discussions
Participation is free of charge. We ask you to cancel your registration if you are unable to participate at short notice.
We look forward to seeing you!

GitLab's DevSecOps World Tour
2023-10-19 14:45 - 15:10 | Spreespeicher, Stralauer Allee 2, Spreespeicher, Berlin, 10245, Deutschland
GitLab’s DevSecOps World Tour will take place on October 19 in Berlin.
Our expert Nico will give a talk entitled Boosting Your Developer Productivity with the Power of both GitLab’s DevSecOps Platform and AI. He will go through the aspects of how DevSecOps provides a solid foundation for safe, dependable, and high-quality software, as well as how improving developer productivity is essential to the software development process. He will examine the possibilities of AI from improved data analytics to quicker development techniques throughout the application lifecycle. In addition, he will examine how GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform may enhance workflow by streamlining it and ensuring application security.
Speaker:
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations @ white duck)

Developer Productivity Day
2023-10-25 09:00 - 17:30 | Munchen, Sonnenstraße 24-26, München, 80331
EventsDeveloper Productivity Day in cooperation with Microsoft and GitHub
With the help of the AI-based GitHub Copilot and other powerful tools from GitHub, your development team can streamline their workflows, be more productive and focused, and deliver new features to end users faster.
Take part in our free workshop day at Microsoft in Munich and get an overview of this technology through lectures and hands-on sessions. After the workshop day, you will know how to successfully use tools such as GitHub Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Actions and GitHub Codespaces in your company and teams.
Info & Registration

Rosenheim IT Forum
2023-11-08 13:45 - 18:00 | Stellwerk18, Eduard-Rüber-Str. 7, Stellwerk18, 83022, Deutschland
AI in software development
Experienced experts will show us practical examples of how you can use AI technologies to accelerate and optimize the development process and discuss with you where the path leads. The event is aimed at software engineers, IT managers and CTOs, as well as anyone interested in technology.
Take the opportunity to get comprehensive information and exchange ideas with experts and colleagues!

im:puls Forum 2023
2023-11-14 17:30 - 21:30 | Ballhaus Rosenheim, Weinstraße 12, Rosenheim, Bayern, 83022, Deutschland
Don’t Panic! How High-Tech Ecology and Optimism Can Save Our Future
The im:puls Forum, which started in 2022 with the idea of bringing together stakeholders from business and politics on the topics of sustainability, the future and digitalisation, is entering the next round. Auerbräu Rosenheim and Stellwerk18 once again invite you to the Ballhaus Rosenheim for an exciting and profitable evening.
We will be there as an exhibitor and want to make our contribution to the big topic of sustainability with our advice on sustainable cloud-native application development.
REGISTER NOW

Kubernetes Meetup Frankfurt
2023-11-14 18:30 - 19:00 | INFOMOTION GmbH, Westhafenpl. 1, Frankfurt, Hessen, Deutschland
Next-Level Kubernetes Networking with Cilium
After covering the basics of Cilium, Philip and Nico will delve into advanced features such as multi-cluster networking with cluster mesh, Cilium’s own service mesh implementation with ingress support, and the future of Kubernetes ingress routing with the Gateway API. They also show real-world examples of how Cilium can optimize your network, service, and security monitoring using Hubble, Cilium’s dedicated network and security monitoring platform. Don’t miss this session if you want to improve your Kubernetes network with Cilium.

Continuous Lifecycle & ContainerConf
2023-11-15 10:30 - 11:15 | Mannheim, Rosengartenpl. 2, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, 68161, Deutschland
Our experts Philip Welz and Nico Meisenzahl talk about containers and Kubernetes security.
“Protect your own Kubernetes cluster from attacks”
In this talk, Philip and Nico will show you how to prevent vulnerabilities in your own Kubernetes cluster from being exploited to take over containers or the cluster.
Both introduce open source projects that will immediately help you take your container and Kubernetes security to the next level:

Secure Container Images with Wolfi
Container Image Signing and Enforcement with Cosign and Kyverno
Container Runtime Security with Tetragon

Continuous Lifecycle & ContainerConf
2023-11-16 15:00 - 15:45 | Mannheim, Rosengartenpl. 2, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, 68161, Deutschland
Our experts Philip Welz and Nico Meisenzahl talk about Kubernetes networking with Cilium.
Next-level Kubernetes Networking with Cilium
Philip and Nico will talk about how to get the most out of Kubernetes networks with Cilium. Cilium is widely known for providing networking and security capabilities for Kubernetes. But the eBPF-based open-source project offers much more!
After introducing the basics of Cilium, Philip and Nico will discuss the other features, such as multi-cluster networking with cluster mesh as well as Cilium’s own service mesh implementation with Ingress support.
In addition, Philip and Nico will demonstrate how you can optimize your network, service, and security monitoring by leveraging Hubble, Cilium’s proprietary network and security monitoring platform.

WEBINAR: Cloud-Native & Sustainability
2023-12-05 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
Cloud-native technologies have revolutionized the way we develop and deliver applications, enabling greater scalability, flexibility, and reliability.
In this webinar, which we are conducting together with our partner Deutsche Telekom as part of the Cloud Explorer Initiative, our expert Nico Meisenzahl sheds light on the concept of sustainability in the context of cloud-native workloads and shows the benefits of developing sustainable applications. It covers best practices for developing and implementing sustainable cloud-native workloads and presents illustrative real-world examples.
This webinar will walk you through the technical details of sustainable and cloud-native applications and provide concrete steps for anyone interested in developing sustainable applications in the cloud.
TO THE EVENT

Festive Tech Calendar 2023
2023-12-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Bayern
Scaling at AKS Wonderland
This session provides a comprehensive overview of autoscaling technologies in Azure Kubernetes Service. Nico and Philip cover everything you need to know about the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) for optimizing pod resources, the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) for scaling the number of pods, the Cluster Autoscaler for node capacity management, and KEDA for custom event-driven scaling scenarios.
Don’t miss out on valuable insight into these scaling technologies!

Kubernetes & Cloud Native Berlin Meetup New Year 2024 Edition
2024-01-11 18:00 - 21:30 | Wallstraße 9-13, Wallstraße 9-13, Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
Kubernetes & Cloud Native Berlin Meetup organizes a meeting in Berlin Mitte together with the Mercedes-Benz.io team!
Our Kubernetes expert Philip Welz will talk about “Scaling AKS Nodes: Leveraging Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter, and Node Autoprovision”.
Speakers:
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer, white duck GmbH)
Thilo Fromm (Principal SWE Manager, Microsoft)

WEBINAR: How AI Improves Your SaaS Solution and Gives You a Competitive Advantage!
2024-01-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Bayern
How AI improves your SaaS solution and gives you a competitive edge!
In this webinar, we will show you how you can use AI to optimize your SaaS solutions and gain a competitive advantage. We’ll walk you through the basics of Generative AI, Machine Learning, and LLMs, and explain how you can use Azure OpenAI to integrate these technologies into your solutions and products.
In a demo, we will show you how quickly you can integrate the advantages of AI technology into your application.
Finally, we will also discuss the opportunities that arise for you as a software manufacturer through the use of AI – not only in terms of the functions of your applications, but also in terms of your development process and improved developer productivity.
REGISTER NOW

Azure Berlin Meetup
2024-01-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Elisabeth-Schwarzhaupt-Platz 5, Elisabeth-Schwarzhaupt-Platz 5, Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
Community Restart
Elevate Your Builds: Next-Gen CI/CD with Azure Container Apps and KEDA
Virtual machines are still the most common way to build and deploy applications via CI/CD. This session explores a new approach: KEDA, a cloud-native autoscaler that will drive on-demand scaling of containerized build agents running on Azure Container Apps. By leveraging both technologies, we can build highly scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable CI/CD pipelines.
Speaker:
Philip Welz (Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer @ white duck)

.NET Conf 2023 Recap Rosenheim
2024-02-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Stellwerk18, Eduard-Rüber-Str. 7, Stellwerk18, 83022, Deutschland
We cordially invite you to our .NET Conf 2023 Recap Meetup at Stellwerk18 in Rosenheim.
To begin, we’ll take a look at the keynote of the .NET-Conf 2023 to get an overview of the new features of .NET 8. Afterwards, we will exchange our experiences and ideas in a discussion round.
Afterwards, we want to introduce you to Semantic Kernel, an SDK to build intelligent applications, and Aspire, a framework for building distributed applications.
After the presentations, there will be some time for networking.
Our agenda:
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Welcome & Pizza
6:30 – 7:45 p.m.: .NET Conf Keynote & Discussion
7:45 – 8:15 p.m.: Semantic Kernel (Martin Brandl, white duck) & Aspire (Markus Voit, white duck)
from 8:15 p.m. Networking

Scaling your business as an ISV – our insights from more than 50 assessments with SMB
2024-02-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Bayern
In this webinar, we’ll share insights from over 50 Azure Solution Assessments for software vendors.
Martin Brandl and Nico Meisenzahl show how we have supported software vendors on their way to a cloud-native SaaS offering.
The webinar will focus on architecture, security, automation, and operations. We present practical examples and provide insights into artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate development processes. Learn how to independently develop intelligent applications to increase your competitiveness and create value for your customers. Finally, we’ll cover modern analytics and licensing models to further expand your SaaS business.
Speakers:
Martin Brandl (CTO @ white duck)
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting and Operation @ white duck)
REGISTER NOW

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
2024-03-20 15:25 - 16:00 | Paris, PARIS EXPO PORTE DE VERSAILLES, Paris, Frankreich
Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Service Mesh and Beyond with EBPF
In the Cilium Maintainer track session, you’ll get an update on how Cilium is expanding the boundaries of cloud native networking, observability, and security. What’s next after graduation and establishment as the de facto standard CNI for Kubernetes? We’ll start with a brief overview of each part of the project before giving an update on Cilium Service Mesh’s mutual authentication. Next, we’ll look at how Cilium is expanding beyond Kubernetes with load balancing and multi-cloud networking, and into runtime enforcement with Tetragon.
Speakers:
Liz Rice (Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent)
Maartje Eyskens (Software Engineer, Isovalent)
Nico Meisenzahl (Head of DevOps Consulting & Operation, white duck)
Vlad Ungureanu (Engineering Lead, Palantir Technologies)
