Kat Morgan is a Tech Lead in Cisco's Product Innovation group, where she specializes in cloud native infrastructure and platform engineering. She brings over a decade of experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms at scale from homelab experiments to hyperscale enterprise deployments across regulated industries, airgapped environments, even extreme edge cases including submarine deployments and contributions to orbital satellite projects.

Prior to Cisco, Kat held engineering and advocacy roles at Pulumi, Kong, Red Hat, Canonical, and Dell, developing deep intuition and insight into the full stack including bare metal, virtualization, container orchestration, and developer tooling. She founded and maintains ContainerCraft.io and BrainCraft.io, open source communities dedicated to cloud practitioners and DevOps engineers.

Her Linux journey began in the early 2000s with a Red Hat book discovered at her local library, a spark that launched her career dedicated to making opensource infrastructure accessible and helping others level up.

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Cloud Taming - A Human Friendly DevOps Experience

It's 2026. Installing Linux, spinning up a VM, and launching containers is easy. So why does building a real cloud at home and in enterprise still feel like an enless IKEA maze? And where are the do-it-yourself instructions? Drawing on a decade of experience deploying to homelabs, enterprise clouds, even submarines, and satellites, we'll talk the talk and walk the walk live. Together, we'll build your own cloud, command by command and click by click.

Technologies include: devcontainers, nix, Docker-in-Docker, Kubernetes in containers, KubeVirt, Ceph, libvirt, KVM, Cilium, Zot, Dagger, Gitea, mise, Runme, Ghostty, tmux, Neovim, VS Code/Cursor, Talos Kubernetes, and more. It's a complete technologist's toolbelt in action.

You'll feel at home whether you're a terminal junkie, TUI connoisseur, and CLI ninja, or if you prefer a refined full IDE and click-to-run exercises. Join for hands-on technicals that break down complex bits into familiar patterns connected to the tangible hardware in your hands. Bring your laptop to follow along, or snap the QR code and try it later with friends. Take home the as-seen-on-TV toolkit and everything needed to hack your own cloud projects.

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