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  • Q&A: Implementing DevOps at Scale with Akash Tayal and Bob Vuong

    Q&A: Implementing DevOps at Scale with Akash Tayal and Bob Vuong

    Enterprises may be successful adopting DevOps initiatives but adopting DevOps at scale could become a challenge for some organizations.

    In this Q&A session, Akash Tayal, principal and U.S. cloud strategy and operating model leader at Deloitte Consulting, and  Bob Vuong, principal at Deloitte Consulting, discuss the benefits and challenges of adopting DevOps at scale.

    Akash and Bob are two of the keynote speakers presenting at this year’s DevOps Experience. During their keynote session “Scaling DevOps Across the Enterprise,” Akash and Bob will take a deep dive into the typical DevOps journey and the ingredients for success.

    What is the first step toward implementing DevOps at scale?

    In order to scale DevOps across an enterprise, we need to shift our mindset as the key driver. It begins with people creating value-driven capabilities. In our experience, this is based on four key areas: PACE (Process, Architecture, Culture and Engineering). An organization needs to shift to adopting flexible Process (ways of working) with tight guardrails, modular and loosely coupled application Architecture, Culture shift through cross-functional Product teams with aligned incentives and Engineering driving everything as code.

    What are some of the key benefits of scaling DevOps?

    In addition to frequent code deployments and lower time from concept to actual release, DevOps also puts more responsibility on developers, leading to lower failure rate. Scaled DevOps across the enterprise can shift IT from a cost center to a value driver for the organization

    What is the main challenge organizations encounter when scaling DevOps?

    The two primary challenges we see organizations encountering with scaling DevOps are: One, multiple tool choices available with each line of business preferring their own tools, causing fragmentation and proliferation which makes stitching the DevOps pipeline problem even harder. We see organizations adopting at scale focused on standardization of tools as one of the key drivers. Second challenge is a complicated software delivery lifecycle that further expands the problem due to security, compliance and multiple other processes required to release code to production. We see successful organizations managing CI/CD pipelines as a product in itself and engineering the pipelines to help developers focus the majority of their time on building business value code.

    What are the main takeaways from your DevOps Experience keynote session?

    Adopting DevOps is not just a technology transformation. It requires a process and culture shift as well. Whether you are starting your DevOps journey or have already been on the journey but facing challenges, this session should help you understand how organizations adopting DevOps have transformed their software delivery approach and delivered Better-Value-Sooner-Safer-Happier (BVSSH) to achieve their business goal.

    Akash, what advice would you give to organizations looking to implement DevOps at scale?

    Several organizations get bogged down in tools debate when focused on DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines. I suggest you focus on the business outcomes and create a single view across the pipeline to monitor the bottlenecks and address them. Driving aligned incentives across the delivery and release value chain is essential to ensure frequent releases of high-quality code versus stitching together fragmented tools across each line of business to make the pipeline work. A single view of the entire process and pipeline helps identify these bottlenecks and solve for them.

    Bob, what’s your advice for organizations looking to implement DevOps at scale?

    Tools are generally an easy place to start. The implementation of tools and developing a pipeline can be seen as a fundamental part of how teams will engage. Also they are measurable and show progress. You can see what tools are being implemented, and you can gauge how far along they are. However, too often the focus moves away from the people and process changes that need to occur. I would focus on the people dynamic and how to integrate and improve on the years of siloed IT divisions, expecting to work together toward common goals and objectives.

    For more insights and tips on how to implement DevOps at scale, attend Akash and Bob’s keynote session at DevOps Experience 2020 on Oct. 22. To check out the full agenda or to register for free, visit the DevOps Experience website.

  • Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM

    Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM

    DevOps practices, processes and solutions help businesses accelerate their digital transformation by improving the speed and quality of software development. DevOps tools enable teams to do their job more efficiently by embracing automation, increasing agility and building speed, versatility and security into the framework.

    At the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit, attendees will learn how to keep their applications running smoothly with automation and data-driven solutions that can reduce mean time to resolution and explore IBM solutions to help innovate hybrid environments, disrupt cloud native development and transform existing mainframe infrastructures. The free virtual event will take place on Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET.

    IBM leaders will discuss the benefits of DevSecOps, how to increase business value, SRE best practices and how IBM Cloud software and services can help organizations succeed on their DevOps journey.

    The virtual event will feature four educational sessions from leading DevOps technologists:

    • “Application Modernization Enabling Hybrid Cloud with IBM Z,” by Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer and chief architect for DevOps at IBM.
    • “The Modern DevOps Manifesto,” by Andrea Crawford, distinguished engineer at IBM.
    • “DevSecOps in a Hybrid Multicloud World,” by Sunil Joshi, executive architect at IBM.
    • “Common Tooling Approaches from Kubernetes to the Mainframe,” by Eric Minick, program director at IBM.

    For more information about the virtual summit or to register, please visit the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit website.

  • New ASG Report Looks at COVID-19’s Impact on Software Development

    New ASG Report Looks at COVID-19’s Impact on Software Development

    We are all trying to adapt to a new world created by COVID-19. As the coronavirus continues to spread, the economy and businesses everywhere have been severely impacted, and no one really knows what the so-called “new normal” will be. For now, most organizations have gone remote, not knowing when—or even if—employees will be able to return to their offices.

    While some organizations have been open to the idea of working remotely, many have also struggled to shift to a remote workforce seemingly overnight. For software developers, however, remote work is nothing new. Many developers have successfully worked remotely before the COVID-19 pandemic even started.

    “The Future of Remote Work and Software Development“ research published today by Accelerated Strategies Group dives into the long-term impact of a decentralized workforce on software development and delivery. ASG interviewed 347 industry leaders from around the world to gather and refine data on the impact of COVID-19 on software teams and their organizations’ ability to create software, and the importance of remote work tools and applications during the pandemic.

    The ASG report, commissioned by CloudBees, revealed some interesting trends. The survey found 63% of respondents said digital transformation objectives have significantly or somewhat increased in priority. Business automation (61.6%) and the need for investment in creating contactless services (60.1%) have increased somewhat or significantly.

    More than half of the respondents said the COVID-19 conditions have increased their focus on DevOps initiatives (51.75%) and increased their progress on cloud migration (52.25%). Also worth noting is the growth in companies’ DevOps and Agile adoption, with 46.24% of respondents stating they are using cross-functional teams, 55.64% practicing daily stand-up meetings and 43.23% automating tasks.

    The majority of respondents (59.49%) to the ASG report saw an increase in productivity on software teams since the pandemic started. Forty-two percent of respondents said it has become somewhat easier to complete their work tasks in a timely manner.

    However, feedback concerning respondents’ ability to manage unproductive distractions was mixed: 39.7% said managing these distractions was somewhat or much easier, 36.36% said it was somewhat or much more difficult and 23.48% said they had no change in their ability to manage these distractions.

    When asked to provide insight into the potential negative impact of their remote workforce on productivity, more than one-third (38.6%) of respondents said there was no change, 27.58% of respondents indicated that teams were slowed down significantly or somewhat and 33.83% said things moved along significantly or somewhat faster.

    The majority of remote workers (64.4%) expect to remain working remotely, either permanently or at least three or more days per week, once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Only 12.7% said they anticipate returning to an office location full-time.

    For the most part, the transition to working from home has benefited software teams. COVID-19 has not only impacted the global economy, but also business priorities and has accelerated business and software strategies. Though the future is uncertain, and no one has a clear picture of what the “new normal” looks like, there is a huge possibility many software and DevOps teams won’t return to the office—at least not full-time.

  • Upcoming Event: DevOps Experience 2020

    Upcoming Event: DevOps Experience 2020

    The third annual DevOps Experience is just around the corner, and this year’s event will be out of this world.

    DevOps Experience 2020: The Builders Shall Inherit the Earth offers attendees the opportunity to gain inspiration, sharpen their skills and network with some of the best DevOps leaders and practitioners. The conference will take place in a virtual environment with a lobby, an auditorium and an exhibit hall on Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. EDT.

    This year’s event will focus on digital transformation and DevOps adoption from a “bottom up” model. It is the practitioners who are often the unsung heroes of successful DevOps implementations, choosing what tools to adopt, bringing teams together and contributing to the community.

    DevOps Experience 2020 will feature a stellar lineup of DevOps luminaries, including:

    • Kohsuke Kawaguchi, co-CEO and founder at Launchable (keynote speaker)
    • Akash Tayal, U.S. cloud strategy and operating model leader at Deloitte Consulting (keynote speaker)
    • Bob Vuong, principal at Deloitte Consulting (keynote speaker)
    • Loris Degioanni, CTO and founder at Sysdig (keynote speaker)
    • Tracy Ragan, co-founder and CEO at DeployHub
    • Orit Golowinski, senior product manager of progressive delivery at GitLab
    • Jayne Groll, CEO at DevOps Institute
    • Rob Hirschfeld, founder and CEO at RackN
    • Bryan Feuling, solutions architect at Harness
    • Bob Reselman, analyst at ASG
    • Maya Ber Lerner, CTO at Quali

    The breakout sessions and panel discussions will fall under four main tracks:

    • Humans in the DevOps World: DevOps is about more than just technology. Understand the important role that humans play in your organization’s DevOps journey.
    • CI/CD: Learn how to keep the factory running by setting up your CI/CD pipeline to automate software delivery.
    • GitOps: Find out the key principles and benefits of GitOps and best practices for continuous deployment and progressive security.
    • Observability: Insights demand much more than collecting and analyzing. Observability can help developers uncover issues that impede performance and derail customer experience.
    • SRE: What is SRE? Who are SREs? How do we get it? Where do we start? This track will explore the best practices and patterns associated with SRE.
    • Tools: Discover and learn the latest DevOps tools and services that IT teams are using to accelerate delivery, improve quality and get faster feedback.

    Take advantage of the valuable information provided in the educational sessions at DevOps Experience 2020 and learn how to adopt the right tools and practices to harness the full potential of DevOps. To infinity and beyond!

    To check out the full agenda or to register for free, visit the DevOps Experience website.

  • MediaOps Teams with Gary Berman to Add “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” to Its Award-Winning Lineup of Video Series

    MediaOps Teams with Gary Berman to Add “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” to Its Award-Winning Lineup of Video Series

    Hacking Victim Turned Cyber Advocate Gary Berman Joins MediaOps to Co-Produce and Distribute His Unique Show Highlighting Cyber and IT Thought Leaders Protecting the Public

    Boca Raton, Fl – Sept. 14, 2020 —  MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced it has teamed with hacking-victim-turned-cyber-advocate Gary Berman to co-produce and distribute the “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” video podcast. The show will join MediaOps’ award-winning lineup of video programming including TechStrong TV, DevOps Unbound and CISO Talk, all on the Digital Anarchist platform.

    “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” is an educational and entertaining series based on interviews with cybersecurity and IT thought leaders who protect the public from cyber attacks. Berman conducts in-depth interviews with industry experts to discuss real-life cyber crime stories, anecdotes and lessons learned.

    Berman was a victim of cyber criminals earlier in his career, when he ran his own marketing firm, which ended in the loss of his business. Berman pivoted from being a victim ​to becoming an advocate, and after a 25-year career in marketing, entered the cybersecurity field with a mission to protect others from suffering the life-altering consequences of being hacked. In each episode, he shines a light on all the unsung heroes who toil in anonymity to keep us safe at work, home and school.

    As an advocate, Berman was challenged by the complexity of cyber technology, attempting to distill complicated technology information into a communications platform accessible not just to the cybersecurity community but also to the general public. With support from the tech community contributing real-life stories of cybercrime, Berman launched the cyber hero comics series. The “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” show was launched from the comics.

    “I am proud to join the world-class professionals at MediaOps, as the next step in accomplishing my mission. Together, we are creating a highly engaging, entertaining and informative show that will be the antidote to the ‘Zoomification’ of the cybersecurity and IT community,” said Berman.

    “Gary brings a fresh, unique perspective to his cyber awareness mission. We look forward to working with him and making his show a must-watch for both the cyber community and civilians looking for sound cybersecurity advice,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “Our mission is bringing quality programming to our ever-growing audience across our omniversal channels. The CyberHero Adventures video series is a great example of this.”

    “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” will be available via the Digital Anarchist network and streamed via TechStrong TV, which is available on the web at LinkedIn Live (staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud page), Facebook Live (staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud page), YouTube (DevOps TV channel), Techstrong.tv, DigitalAnarchist.com and the MediaOps community sites (staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard and Container Journal). The show will also be available on the staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud mobile app for iOS and Android and on TV via staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud app for OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.  Episodes are available on-demand at Digital Anarchist, the next-gen streaming service for tech communities, which offers in-depth coverage on DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation, adding high-quality content on a regular basis.

     

    ABOUT MEDIAOPS

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

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    Rebecca Auguste

    rebecca@mediaops.com

    (561) 430-3347

  • Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Tracy Ragan, Cornelia Davis, Ashley Ward and Rob Hirschfeld

    Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Tracy Ragan, Cornelia Davis, Ashley Ward and Rob Hirschfeld

    The Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit will bring together Kubernetes and cloud-native community members for a unique learning experience focused on the tools and best practices you need in order to successfully secure and manage Kubernetes. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. EDT.

    Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes - speakers - Tracy Ragan - Cornelia Davis - Ashley Ward - Rob Hirschfeld

    At the The Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit, Kubernetes technologists, DevOps and cloud-native experts will be educating the audience on cloud-native technologies and digital transformation with Kubernetes. Tracy Ragan of DeployHub, Cornelia Davis of Weaveworks, Ashley Ward of Palo Alto Networks and Rob Hirschfeld of RackN are a few of the outstanding speakers that will be sharing their knowledge and insights with the community at the Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit.

    Recognized as a Women In Technology (WIT) Honoree for her work in DevOps, DeployHub Co-Founder and CEO Tracy Ragan is an expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud-native architectures. Tracy is a well-known DevOps evangelist and DevOps Institute Ambassador. She serves as board member of the CDF, where she is the elected General Member Representative, and she is also the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape. Prior to DeployHub, Tracy was co-founder and COO at OpenMake Software.

    During her talk, “Achieving Business Agility with Microservices,” Tracy will explain what application teams must do in order to achieve business agility. She will explore how microservices are truly the last mile of Agile practices and an essential component for the creation of a modern software architecture.

    One of our most distinguished speakers is Cornelia Davis, CTO at Weaveworks and author of “Cloud Native Patterns: Designing Change-Tolerant Software.” Cornelia is an industry veteran with almost 30 years of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems, web app architectures and cloud-native platforms. She is responsible for Weaveworks’s technology strategy, inclusive of open source projects, commercial products and services offerings. Cornelia is driven by the desire to help enterprises transform their business through the leverage of cloud computing platforms.

    In her session, “The Business Benefits of GitOps,” Cornelia will cover key GitOps principles and practices and tie them to measurable IT outcomes, such as change failure rates and mean time to recovery. These IT metrics are intrinsically tied to digital transformation initiatives. She will also review research that has shown a correlation between these measures and where companies fall on the spectrum from high to low performers in terms of business outcomes.

    Ashley Ward, CTO for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, is another of our brilliant speakers presenting at the virtual event. Ashley aids customers in the secure deployment and scaling of cloud native environments. He has over 15 years of experience in the operations and infrastructure architect space.

    During the session “Kubernetes Security – Defense in Depth,” Ashley covers the areas that need attention when securing the Kubernetes stack.

    “Kubernetes can seem complicated and even frightening when trying to secure it,” said Ashley. “I hope that people takeaway an understanding of why and how they can secure their Kubernetes clusters and resources.”

    He will also introduce the audience to the concept of a cloud-native application protection platform.

    Another DevOps and cloud-native expert joining as a speaker at this year’s virtual event is Rob Hirschfeld, founder and CEO at RackN. Rob has been creating software to automate infrastructure for over 20 years. He has been involved in numerous open source efforts including LF Edge (Board), CNCF (SIG Chair) and OpenStack (Board).

    Rob will show how EdgeLab.digital uses Digital Rebar to provide PXE boot, immutable O/S and API-driven automation control of RPis to build Kubernetes (k3s) and OpenFaaS.

    “This session is a ground-up demo of the entire process and background about why it’s important to have a proven reference architecture,” said Rob. “This is designed as a learning environment that can also scale to real edge and enterprise use.”

    Attendees will learn how this easy-to-duplicate-at-home demo creates a true desktop data center using the community edition of Digital Rebar to enable netboot for RPis and install CNCF sandbox project K3s. The same code learned in this demo session can run any COTS infrastructure and is currently running multinational banks in the EdgeLab.

    You can hear from these speakers and more than 30 other industry leaders at Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Operationalizing Cloud Native with Kubernetes Virtual Summit website.

  • Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Strachan, Liz Rice, Priyanka Sharma and Tim Hockin

    Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Strachan, Liz Rice, Priyanka Sharma and Tim Hockin

    The Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit will bring together Kubernetes and cloud-native community members for a unique learning experience focused on the tools and best practices you need in order to successfully secure and manage Kubernetes. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. EDT.

     

    Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit - keynote speakers - James Strachan, Liz Rice, Priyanka Sharma, Tim Hockin

    The Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit is a free, interactive virtual conference featuring a stellar lineup of Kubernetes and cloud-native experts, including keynote speakers James Strachan, Liz Rice, Priyanka Sharma and Tim Hockin.

    James Strachan, distinguished engineer at CloudBees, is one of the four brilliant keynote speakers presenting at the virtual event. James is co-founder of Jenkins X, an open source project that helps developers automate their CI/CD processes for cloud native applications. James is also the creator of the Apache Groovy programming language and the Apache Camel integration framework.

    In his keynote session “Using Jenkins, Jenkins X and Tekton with GitOps,” James will demonstrate how Jenkins, Jenkins X and Tekton can solve all of your cloud-native CI/CD requirements using a simple GitOps approach that is easy to set up, use and manage from Git.

    AWS Container Hero, Liz Rice, will also make an appearance at the virtual conference as keynote speaker. Liz is vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security, where she works on container-related open source projects, and she’s also chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee.

    The author of “Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications” will review what you do and don’t need to worry about when running your cloud native applications during her session, “The State of Kubernetes Security.”

    Another CNCF member joining as keynote speaker is Priyanka Sharma, general manager at CNCF. Priyanka was previously the director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab, where she built the developer evangelism team that participates regularly in the cloud native community. Priyanka has contributed to several CNCF projects such as Jaeger and Vitess and was a founding team member of the OpenTracing standard.

    During her talk, “What 6.5 Million Developers Have in Common: Kubernetes,” Priyanka will share some interesting findings from research done by CNCF on the cloud-native ecosystem and will also discuss Kubernetes and cloud-native trends and best practices.

    Last but not least, Tim Hockin, principal software engineer at Google, will be interviewed for the keynote session “Operationalizing Kubernetes: Interview with Tim Hockin.” Tim works on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and is co-founder of the Kubernetes project. He has also worked on Google’s Borg and Omega projects as well as the Linux Kernel.

    As Kubernetes keeps gaining traction in mainstream IT environments, the next big challenge IT teams will face is operationalizing the platform at scale. But, is the Kubernetes ecosystem mature enough to operationalize at scale? Attend Tim’s keynote session to find out.

    Join this interactive, multi-track virtual conference and learn how thought leaders are embracing containers and microservices environments, leveraging cloud native technologies and enabling digital transformation with Kubernetes.

    You can hear from these keynote speakers and more than 30 other expert speakers at Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit website.

  • MediaOps Helps GitLab Power the First GitLab Commit Virtual, a 24-Hour User Event Unlike Any Other

    MediaOps Helps GitLab Power the First GitLab Commit Virtual, a 24-Hour User Event Unlike Any Other

    GitLab and MediaOps Collaborate to Bring GitLab Commit as a Free Global Virtual Event Providing Everyone the Opportunity to Join DevOps Discussions and Network with Thought Leaders from Microsoft, Google, HubSpot and Forrester

    BOCA RATON, Fla. —  MediaOps, the place for IT to tell its story in the most powerful way, announced it is collaborating with GitLab to help power the first-ever Virtual GitLab Commit Event. The 24-hour conference takes place Aug. 26, bringing together DevOps luminaries from around the globe for a free, interactive learning experience.

    The GitLab Commit Virtual community event features eight different content tracks, with more than 80 speakers, including panels, demos and thought-leader presentations. Speakers will showcase the power of community and share DevOps best practices through strategy and technology discussions, lessons learned, behind-the-scenes looks at the development life cycle and more.

    “GitLab Commit was created to be a home for DevOps learning and collaboration and tailored with the end user in mind,” said John Jeremiah, product marketing manager at GitLab. “At GitLab, we believe that anyone can contribute. This event will offer the opportunity for attendees around the world to participate and contribute, no matter what time zone they’re in.”

    The virtual environment features auditoriums with more than eight different tracks, an expo hall lined with booths featuring interactive chats and downloadable resources, a virtual photo booth, speaker networking sessions via Zoom and behind the scenes interviews. It offers the best of a physical environment in a virtual context combined with the advantages and convenience that a virtual environment offers.

    “Partnering with GitLab is exhilarating because of the enthusiasm of both the GitLab team and GitLab community at large,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “That enthusiasm helps us to reach further and higher to ensure that GitLab Commit Virtual is the biggest, best virtual event we have produced to date. It really is a don’t-miss event for the DevOps World.”

    The agenda for GitLab Commit Virtual features a mix of topics including technical sessions, live coding, deep-dives and case studies covering DevSecOps, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, open source, all-remote and more.

    This year’s event features outstanding sessions from DevOps and 20+ industries, including:

    • “The Power of GitLab,” opening keynote by Sid Sibrandij, CEO GitLab.
    • “DevOps Works! Why Hasn’t Security Kept Up?” a keynote session by Joni Klippert, StackHawk.
    • “DevSecOps in Government and Highly Regulated Industries,” a keynote session by Nicolas Chaillan, U.S. Air Force.
    • “Real World DevOps,” by Abel Wang, Microsoft.
    • “Why Your Organization Should Embrace the Community Model,” by Karl Cardenas, State Farm.
    • “Getting Fuzzy: Blurring the Lines of Traditional QA and Security Testing,” by David DeSantos and Sam Kerr, GitLab.
    • “State of the Market: Empowering Developers to Find and Fix Security Flaws,” by Amy DeMartine, Forrester.
    • “Leading DevOps Transformation with GitLab Data,” by Bobbi Wenzler and Nicole Schultz Northwestern Mutual.
    • “GitLab for Collaboration Beyond Code,” by Molly DeBlanc, GNOME Foundation.
    • “How the U.S. Army Cyber School Created ‘Courseware as Code’ with GitLab,” by Ben Allison, U.S. Army Cyber School.
    • “Measuring DevOps,” by Nathen Harvey and Dina Graves Portman, Google.
    • “How To Create an Equitable and Inclusive Culture That Transcends Physical Walls,” by Eimear Marrinan and Meaghan Williams, HubSpot.

    In addition to the sessions, attendees can visit the virtual exhibit hall to interact with partner sponsors including Google Cloud, Oracle, Pulumi, VMWare Tanzu, Chef, Lightstep, RedHat and ServiceNow. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with the sponsors and download information at any time.

    Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand for up to 30 days after the live event. To see the full agenda and to register, please visit the GitLab Commit Virtual website.

     

    ABOUT GITLAB

    GitLab is a DevOps platform built from the ground up as a single application for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle enabling Product, Development, QA, Security, and Operations teams to work concurrently on the same project. GitLab provides a single data store, one user interface, and one permission model across the DevOps life cycle. This allows teams to significantly reduce cycle times through more efficient collaboration and enhanced focus.

    Built on Open Source, GitLab works alongside its growing community, which is composed of thousands of developers and millions of users, to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. More than 100,000 organizations from startups to global enterprises, including Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, NASDAQ, Dish Network, and Comcast trust GitLab to deliver great software faster.

    GitLab is the world’s largest all-remote company, with more than 1,300 team members in 68 countries and regions.

    ABOUT MEDIAOPS

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are reshaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, MediaOps delivers the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

  • Upcoming Event: Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit

    Upcoming Event: Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit

    As Kubernetes keeps gaining traction in mainstream IT environments, the next big challenge IT teams will face is operationalizing the platform at scale. On Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. EDT, leading Kubernetes and cloud native communities will come together at the Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit to explore the tools and best practices you need in order to secure and manage one of the most powerful, yet complex IT platforms in the world.

    Today, organizations are managing not just one or two Kubernetes clusters, but entire fleets as their infrastructures increasingly depend on Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling and operations of applications. As such, operationalizing Kubernetes is paramount to a successful environment.

    The free, interactive virtual conference brings Kubernetes technologists, DevOps and cloud-native experts together to share their knowledge and insights with the community. Attendees will find out how organizations such as AWS, Microsoft, CloudBees and many others are embracing containers and microservices environments.

    Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit features an exceptional lineup of industry leaders, including:

    • (Keynote speaker) James Strachan, distinguished engineer at CloudBees
    • (Keynote speaker) Priyanka Sharma, general manager at CNCF
    • (Keynote speaker) Liz Rice, vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security
    • Tracy Miranda, director of open source community at CloudBees
    • Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft
    • John Willis, senior director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat
    • Bob Reselman, analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group
    • Prashanto Kochavara, director of product at Trilio
    • Pankaj Gupta, senior director of product marketing at Citrix

    The virtual environment features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources and an auditorium where attendees can watch the sessions by industry experts. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact, in real time, with speakers and sponsors, and will have the chance to participate in contests to win incredible prizes.

    Stay tuned for speaker announcements and more summit details. For more information and to register, visit the Operationalizing Kubernetes Virtual Summit.

  • Upcoming Event: GitLab Commit Virtual 2020

    Upcoming Event: GitLab Commit Virtual 2020

    For the first time ever, GitLab’s annual user conference will take place in a virtual environment on Aug. 26, bringing together DevOps luminaries from around the globe for a free, interactive learning experience.

    GitLab Commit Virtual is a 24-hour virtual event that provides attendees with the opportunity to join DevOps discussions, demos and presentations, and network with thought leaders from the industry’s top companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Hubspot, Forrester and many more.

    Speakers will showcase the power of community and share DevOps best practices through strategy and technology discussions, lessons learned, behind-the-scenes looks at the development life cycle and more.

    The agenda for GitLab Commit Virtual features a mix of topics, including technical sessions, live coding, deep-dives and case studies covering DevSecOps, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, open source, all-remote and more.

    The virtual environment features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources and an auditorium where attendees can watch sessions by industry leaders.

    This year’s GitLab Commit features more than 40 sessions from some of the most brilliant DevOps experts, including:

    • “DevOps Works! Why Hasn’t Security Kept Up?,” a keynote session by Joni Klippert, StackHawk.
    • “DevSecOps in Government and Highly-Regulated Industries,” a keynote session by Nicolas Chaillan, U.S. Air Force.
    • “Real World DevOps,” by Abel Wang, Microsoft.
    • “Why Your Organization Should Embrace the Community Model,” by Karl Cardenas, State Farm.
    • “Getting Fuzzy: Blurring the Lines of Traditional QA and Security Testing,” by David DeSantos and Sam Kerr, GitLab.
    • “How the U.S. Army Cyber School Created ‘Courseware as Code’ with GitLab,” by Ben Allison, U.S. Army Cyber School.
    • “Measuring DevOps,” by Nathen Harvey and Dina Graves Portman, Google.
    • “How To Create an Equitable and Inclusive Culture That Transcends Physical Walls,” by Eimear Marrinan and Meaghan Williams, HubSpot.

    By visiting the expo hall, attendees will also be able to interact with sponsors, including AWS, Google Cloud, Lightstep, HashiCorp, Red Hat, VMWare Tanzu and WhiteSource.

    Attendees will get a deep dive into how enterprises are transforming DevOps at an organizational level and how they can implement similar practices in their own organization.

    To see the full agenda and to register, please visit the GitLab Commit Virtual website.