As is to be expected from a world capital city, London is also a hotbed of DevOps adoption. The local London DevOps community is thriving with a near constant stream of DevOps conferences. There are however two great events coming up that are can’t miss. DevOps Connect: CD Connect/Jenkins Days in May and Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in June are both in London. Now you can attend both for the price of one!

Right now due to the staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud sponsorship of DOES London and the generosity of the sponsors of both events, if you sign up for the full £179 two-day ticket for DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days you will receive the full £179 back in the form of a credit towards your ticket for DOES London. You wind up attending CD Connect/Jenkins Days for free!

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Which of the following best describes how you currently monitor and manage systems across your hybrid cloud environment?(Required)

Multiple separate tools for different environments

Multiple separate tools for different monitoring and management functions

Single consolidated dashboard

Custom built monitoring and management solution

No full monitoring and management solution

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How valuable would it be for your monitoring and management solution to incorporate predictive analytics to help you identify and address system issues that are critical and not waste time or effort working through all the data and “noise” that is not critical?(Required)

Extremely valuable

Moderately valuable

Somewhat valuable

Slightly valuable

Not valuable

How do you most typically address potential system issues BEFORE they impact your operations?(Required)

Automated workflows and playbooks to remediate potential issues as soon as they are detected

An orchestrated response process that leverages automation, AI, and human expertise to rapidly respond to potential issues

Advanced monitoring tools such as predictive analytics and anomaly detection to proactively identify and address potential issues

Respond to issues as they arise, using manual processes and troubleshooting techniques

A combination of automated remediation, orchestrated response, and/or proactive monitoring to address potential system issues

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Other

What methods does your organization use to control and monitor cloud/IT spending?(Required)

Centralized procurement processes

Pre-approved budget thresholds

Automated cost monitoring tools

Department-level spending controls

Regular cost audits and reviews

Cloud cost optimization platform

Approval workflows for resource provisioning

Native financial operations tools provided by the cloud provider

No formal controls in place

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

Which methods do you rely on most to detect security vulnerabilities in your systems?(Required)

Automated scanning tools

Manual assessments

Vendor notifications

Threat modeling (for early detection)

None of these

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

What are the TWO most common ways you prioritize vulnerabilities to address within your environment?(Required)

Based on potential impact

Based on exploitability

Regulatory compliance requirements

Based on CVSS scores

Risk-based analysis of multiple factors

First-in-first-out approach

No formal prioritization process

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How do you typically handle system updates and security patches?(Required)

Automated updates and patches

Manually review and apply updates and patches on a regular schedule

A combination of automation and manual review

Apply updates and patches on an as-needed basis.

Outsourced update and patch management

No defined process

Don’t know

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So what do you get from attending DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days and the DevOps Enterprise London? Glad you asked. Let me give you some of the highlights to look forward to.

First DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days:

1. Two-day event, day one features keynotes and three tracks, plus lunch, refreshments, exhibit area and demo theater.
2. Day two of the event are deep dive workshops on Jenkins, DevOps Transformation, automating deployment in Hybrid Clouds, DevOps Foundation and DevOps Lift off and the Nexus World Tour: Rugged DevOps Heroes Assemble. You can pick and choose which of these workshops to attend, there is on price for admission to all of them.
3. The event is being held at the KIA OVAL, KENNINGTON OVAL,SE11 5SS LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
4. The keynote and headline speakers for the event are pretty amazing:

Sacha Labrourey, CEO and Founder CloudBees, former CTO JBoss speaking on “Why Jenkins Has Become the Engine of Continuous Everything.”

Sanjeev Sharma, CTO & Distinguished Engineer for DevOps, IBM on “Adopting DevOps at Enterprise Scale.”

 
Gary Gruver, Author of “Leading the Transformation”, Previously executive IT positions at Macy’s and HP, speaking on Leading the Transformation: “Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale.”

After this great morning of keynotes, there are three tracks all full of great speakers and topics after lunch.  You really don’t want to miss this event and if you were planning on going to the DevOps Enterprise Summit London, you can go to CD Summit/Jenkins Days for free.

Why go to DevOps Enterprise Summit London? Well if you want to hear about the experiences of large enterprises in adopting DevOps, there is no better place. In the previous two Summits held in San Francisco, Gene Kim and team have done a great job of shining a light on “horses” DevOps transformations. This first London edition of the franchise promises to be equally as great. It will be held at the Hilton Metropole in London.

Some of the speakers scheduled to present include:

Gene Kim, Author, Researcher and Founder of IT Revolution.

Gareth Rushgrove, Senior Software Engineer, Puppet.

Jason Cox, Director, Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company.

This is just the tip of the iceberg really. There will be over 25 speakers at DOES London, as well as community space, breakout sessions and more.

While London has more than its share of DevOps events, I am not sure it has experienced the likes of these two events before. Please don’t miss them and look forward to seeing you there.