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title: 'Kubernetes Atlanta Meetup: March 2020'
tags: ['2020', meetup, march]

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# Kubernetes Atlanta Meetup: March 2020<!--Month Year-->

- Date: 03.18.2020<!--date as MM.DD.YYYY-->
- Location:
    - [T-Mobile](https://www.google.com/maps/place/T-Mobile/@33.9217556,-84.3390155,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88f5094315f821bd:0x66d1130a578bd9da!8m2!3d33.9217512!4d-84.3368268)
    - [Parking](https://goo.gl/maps/v66mtH5TZyLgBAVRA) 
    - [Marta](https://goo.gl/maps/mMk8Yoaaut9vEJKG8)
- Venue: 
    - Please check in with the T-Mobile front desk upon arrival (follow the magenta!).
    - The meeting will be taking place on the 1st floor.
    - Public access to the parking deck is located between the Ravinia One and Two buildings. Turn on Ravinia Drive from Ashford Dunwoody Rd, and take the first right (behind Starbucks), then turn left between the One and Two buildings. When you drive between the buildings, use the Deck on the left and park in any spot marked as "visitor" or not marked as "reserved". Parking will be validated upon arrival at the T-Mobile front desk until 30 min after the meetup starts. The cost is $4 after that. 

**!!! This meetup was cancelled due to the COVID-10 pandemic. We will work to schedule the speakers for a future meetup !!!**

- Sponsers: 
    - SalesLoft & T-Mobile
- Speakers:
    - Policy as Code with OPA
        - Torin Sandall - Co-creator of the Open Policy Agent (OPA), and VP of Open Source @ Styra
    - Rolling out the Magenta Tape - Phase II: An OPA User Story
        - Joe Searcy (T-Mobile) & Torin Sandall (Styra)
- Hosts:
    - @alex.b
    - @phenixblue
    - @coyle

## This Month in Kubernetes
- [Starting June 6, 2020, GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour (~$73/month).](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing)
- [AWS Releases Container-oriented linux distribution called "Bottle Rocket" with minimal install footprint, in preview for EKS](https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket)
- [AWS Releases EKS for 1.15](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes-version-1-15/)
- [Announcing Istio 1.5](https://istio.io/news/releases/1.5.x/announcing-1.5/)

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