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9:00am EDT

Behind the Scenes of Keptn: Event-Driven Delivery & Ops Orchestration - Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace

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Keptn orchestrates delivery & operational workflows by automatically your DevOps tools (deploy, testing, observability, notifications, configuration management, remediation ...) through events based on CloudEvents. Keptn workflows are declarative, the supporting configuration files are version controlled, and Keptn decides on whether or not to move a workflow further by continuously validating your Service Level Objectives (SLOs). In this session Andreas Grabner, DevRel at Keptn, will do a deep dive on the latest version of Keptn. He will explain the event-driven architecture, the recent separation of control and execution plane introduced with Keptn 0.8, and will give you guidance on how to best get started for integrating Keptn into your existing delivery tools and processes to automate tasks around quality gates, performance & chaos engineering, delivery or auto-remediation.

Speakers

Andi Grabner

CNCF Ambassador & DevRel, Dynatrace

Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi) has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He is a CNCF ambassador, contributor to the CNCF project keptn and a DevRel for Dynatrace. Andreas is also a regular... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Advanced Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

Cruising Through the Cloud-Native Space Across #100DaysOfKubernetes - Anais Urlichs, Codefresh

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In many of the talks that we hear from today, we will get a snapshot of someone's knowledge, a snapshot of someone's experience and understanding within their field of expertise. This knowledge is built up over time, through reading, writing and sharing your insights. When Anais got started in DevOps, she made it her mission to make her entire learning journey public on devops.anaisurl.com. With the goal to inspire others to get started in DevOps and to show how everyone has to begin somewhere, Anais started #100DaysOfKubernetes. In this talk, Anais will take you along her journey of discovering the vast number of resources available in the space, the challenges she faced, and ultimately, how rewarding it is to find new tools and learn to use a new framework.

Speakers

Anais Urlichs

SRE, Civo

Anaïs is a Site Reliability Engineer at Civo, a cloud computing company based on Kubernetes. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before transitioning to the cloud native ecosystem, Anaïs helped... Read More →

cdCon 100DaysOfKubernetes pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

400 Years Old Banking & Finance Group DevOps Cultural Transformation Journey - Siddharth Pareek, NatWest Group

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Natwest Group (https://www.natwestgroup.com/) today and its brands are made up of hundreds of past banks as old as being of the 1640s. And has a total profit of over £4,000 million for the year 2019. The group runs all ages of technologies from mainframe to cloud, all sorts of methodologies waterfall to SAFe, working with the diverse work culture & with the shared purpose for over 4 centuries. Siddharth's journey as being part of the Global DevOps Center Of Excellence team for the Natwest Group towards the DevOps transformation or rather cultural & mindset change has been with a mixed bag of failures & successes. In this session, Siddharth will talk about what were the pain points. How the masses were taken along in the new ways of working. Motivating or driving factors. Things that didn't work. The manner in which self-empowered communities were driven.

Speakers

Siddharth Pareek

Senior Vice President Consulting, NatWest Group

Siddharth is currently vice president of consulting leading a DevOps Center of Excellence practice for a European bank.He is a digital evangelist known for DevOps and cloud transformation primarily for the banking and finance industries. He’s an enterprise agile and lean coach focused... Read More →

400 Years Old Banking & Finance Group DevOps Cultural Transformation Journey Siddharth pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

How's Your Bank Working From Home? - George Proorocu & Mihai Popa, ING Bank

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When we were almost done with the transformation from a traditional bank into a tech company, 2020 came, and we had to make some further adjustments due to the Corona outbreak. Our presentation will guide you through "how did it work out". We always base our talks on "Why" are we presenting this topic and on the key takeaways for the people attending. Why? In 2020 our Bank went through many challenges starting from an increase in cyber-attacks / scams to organizational and other corona-related problems. We believe that we have some valuable lessons learned that can be helpful to any Corporation, and not only during a global pandemic. Takeaways: 1.How did the large banks adapt to the Corona situation 2. What were the challenges in our organization and how we approached them 3. From a cybersecurity point of view, what changed in 2020 in the banking sector?

Speakers

Mihai Popa

Senior Software Engineering Manager, ING Bank

Mihai likes to take initiative and he is very ambitious, pragmatic and a self-organized person. He likes to see his teams thriving by inspiring them in achieving their maximum while identifying the improvement parts and adapting their way of working. He speaks 4 foreign languages... Read More →

George Proorocu

IT OPS Chapter Lead - Cybersecurity & Fraud, ING Bank

An IT industry veteran with 15 years of experience, starting from hands-on technical roles to leading engineering teams in security-critical sectors. Passionate about coaching, development, teaching, and supporting others.George started his journey as a professional chess player at... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:35am EDT

6 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Pipelines - Diego Lemos de Resende & Derik Evangelista, VMware

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Pipelines are meant to be the road that will guide your team from code straight to production, automating everything on its way. Pipelines should be a source of joy for developers, the team's safe harbour. But the reality can be different, and many teams are struggling to get their pipelines right, spending time and energy fighting against automation instead of having their pipelines delivering value. In this talk, Diego and Derik will live code a Continuous Delivery pipeline from scratch, from commit to production, using Concourse. During the talk, we will make use of some CD best practices, and explain why you should adopt them in order to make your way to production more reliable and joyful.

Speakers

Diego Lemos de Resende

Software Engineer, VMware

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience having played different roles and having worked with a variety of technologies and methodologies across different companies and sectors. In recent years, as a technical leader, has been successfully helping teams and companies to tackle... Read More →

Derik Evangelista

Manager, Software Engineer, VMware

Derik is a software engineer and engineering manager currently working for VMware, helping to build the Cloud Foundry Platform as a service. Previously, he spent several months delivering pipelines as a product, developing the pipeline configuration used for several teams to deliver... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other

9:35am EDT

Dev Loves CI/CD: Efficient Sec and Ops Pipelines - Michael Friedrich, GitLab

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Continuous integration and delivery/deployment helps speed up development and review workflows. Developers can focus on code reliably tested in different environments. At some point, the operations team gets paged on broken pipelines and jobs being stuck. On top, the security audit unveiled plain text secret exposure and dependency exploits. The next horror story: The software cannot be deployed anymore because package dependencies are broken. In this talk we hear stories on making CI/CD pipelines more reliable and secure. Automated deployments and package/container repositories can help avoid redundant cycles and extra work hours. Monitoring/observability combined with automation ensures to sleep in busy on-call times. Learn how Dev meets Sec and Ops in the pipelines and hear best practices on efficiency, iteration and insights.

Speakers

Michael Friedrich

Senior Developer Evangelist, GitLab

Michael Friedrich is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab, focussing on Observability, DevSecOps, AI. He loves to educate everyone and regularly speaks at events and meetups. Michael created o11y.love as an Observability learning platform, and shares technology trends and in... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:35am EDT

Site Reliability Engineering Adoptions: Setting up the Fundamentals - Spyridon Maniotis, Danske Bank Group

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The session aims to present patterns and anti-patterns when adopting SRE practices in corporations; supported by real case studies/examples from the financial services industry.

Core to an SRE adoption elements such as; operating model, tenets, process engineering, skillset, technological capabilities/tactics, reconciliation with DevOps and ITSM, as well mechanisms such as "error budget" & "engagement models" will be outlined. All in relation to an "adoption at relevance".

Concluding a set of lessons learned will be presented, along with key considerations to be taken when adopting, sustaining, and scaling.

Speakers

Spyridon Maniotis

Head of DevSecOps Center of Excellence, Danske Bank Group

Spyridon has 10 plus years of experience in different roles within IT, both from the industry (Danske Bank & Nordea) but also consulting (Deloitte Consulting). He is well rounded across DevOps, SDLC, Cloud Native, Technology Strategy, IT Service Management and Operations, Compliance... Read More →

Site Reliability Engineering Adoptions (1) pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:35am EDT

Designing for Reliability in Production - Ayelet Sachto, Google

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Learn the considerations and strategies that can make designing for reliability in production more intentional; going beyond infrastructure into operational practices and best practices for application design and operational readiness when designing an application for production. *Sections*: -Why & what of reliability -Building reliable systems - what to think about when designing reliable systems and some examples from the field -Running reliable systems - How we leverage SRE and how we can run reliable systems using SRE principles, as well as lessons from the field.

Speakers

Ayelet Sachto

Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google

Ayelet is a Strategic Cloud Engineer focusing on infrastructure, AppDev and SRE and PSO-SRE EMEA co-lead @Google UK. Throughout her 15 years career, She developed and designed large scale applications and data flows, while implementing DevOps practices and SRE methodologies. Ayelet... Read More →

[CdCon]Designing for Reliability in Production Resources (1) pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

GitOps & Cloud Native

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

10:10am EDT

Enabling a DevOps Mindset at Scale in an Enterprise - Jimmy McNamara & Nick Penston, Fidelity Investments

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Talk through the cultural enablers to create a strong DevOps culture within large organisations. Nick and Jimmy will talk through the cultural enablers to support large numbers of very talented and ambitious cloud engineers. Touching on strategies supporting strong communication and talent development for cloud engineers. Key themes: Talent Development Enabling DevOps culture Harnessing the voice of the developer/cloud engineer

Speakers

Jimmy McNamara

Product Manager, Fidelity Investments

Jimmy is a Product Manager of Software Engineering within Enterprise Cloud Computing at Fidelity. He is responsible for the SRE, Observability & Cloud Engineering areas. Jimmy has 24 years of experience across a variety of industries with a focus on engineering and technology exc... Read More →

Nick Penston

SVP of Cloud Engineering / Head of Cloud Engineering, Fidelity Investments

Nick Penston is Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering, in Cloud and Platform Engineering (CAPE). Nick joined Fidelity in January 2014 and has worked across the organisation to support the mission of enabling Fidelity to safely and securely adopt cloud at scale. He now leads Cloud... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 10:10am - 10:40am EDT

Technology Focus Jenkins, Jenkins X, Other

10:10am EDT

Infrastructure-agnostic Continuous Delivery - Oliver Nocon, SAP SE

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There is a lot of movement in the space of Continuous Delivery systems. The Continuous Delivery Foundation drives topics and tools forward like Jenkins, Jenkins-X and Tekton. On the other side there are big players in the market pushing their often proprietary systems. Where will the market evolve to? Should you care? In this session you will learn about one way to get prepared for the future by using the Open Source project "Piper". You will get insights into running "Piper"-based pipelines on different systems in the market. See how you can combine the strengths of multiple systems or just be prepared to not be locked into a specific tool. Judge yourself if “configure once - run anywhere” could become reality or will just stay a dream ...

Speakers

Oliver Nocon

Chief expert and CD/DevOps coach, SAP SE

Oliver is chief expert and CD/DevOps coach at SAP SE located in Walldorf/Germany. He has been working in SAP’s development organization since 2001 and has a proven track record in technology topics as well as in project, program, and delivery management - especially in the cloud-space... Read More →

2021 CDCon AgnosticCICD pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 10:10am - 10:40am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

10:45am EDT

Linking Events to Achieve Traceability and Data Aggregation in CI/CD Systems - Emil Bäckmark, Ericsson

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The usage of immutable events notifying occurrences in CI/CD systems is increasing and we see standards like CloudEvents and event implementations in e.g. Tekton emerging. Events are useful for triggering and propagating information in these systems. To see the bigger picture, by aggregating data from several events, the receiver need to have some kind of context to see which events belong together. One way to create this context is by using event linking, where events reference other events. This will enable data aggregation, complex event triggering and traceability. Traceability is crucial when for example a bug or a security vulnerability is found in a deployment. When traced back to a bug in a library, we also need to trace forward to what deployments that library was part of. This is needed regardless of who developed the products and what tools where used.

Speakers

Emil Bäckmark

CI/CD Architect, co-creator of CDEvents, Ericsson

Emil Bäckmark is an architect for the CI/CD solutions within Ericsson. He is experienced in generic CI/CD solutions on all product levels and is as such part of leading the development of CI/CD systems necessary to reliably deliver high quality products for Ericsson.Emil is co-chair... Read More →

cdCon 21 Linking Events to Achieve Traceability and Data Aggregation in CICD Systems pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 10:45am - 11:15am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

10:45am EDT

Mainframe DevOps and Modernization - Daniel Kelosky & Michael Bauer, Broadcom

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This presentation will show traditional mainframe development practices and interfaces and how the practices and interfaces can be modernized with Open Mainframe Project's Zowe framework. The session will be in the context of C and assembler language software development for z/OS, but the concepts apply to other language development for mainframe, like PL/1 or COBOL.

Speakers

Daniel Kelosky

Software Architect, Broadcom

Dan Kelosky is a Software Architect helping to build Devops and Zowe solutions within Broadcom. Dan started mainframe development in 2009 coding IBM assembler and Metal C. He has since written code for web UIs (HTML, CSS, & Typescript), for distributed systems (C++, Java, & Node.js... Read More →

Michael Bauer

Product Manager, Broadcom

Michael Bauer is a Senior Product Owner at Broadcom and an avid open source contributor. He leads the Zowe CLI squad and is a technical steering committee member for Zowe and the COBOL Programming Course under the Open Mainframe Project.

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 10:45am - 11:15am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

11:15am EDT

BoF Session: Event Based CD: Conversations with the CDF Events SIG - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub; Emil Backmark, Ericsson; Andrea Frittoli, IBM & Erik Sternerson, doWhile

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Join the Events SIG team and learn how CI/CD is beginning to evolve. Our traditional CD models are imperative but the future of CD is becoming more declarative. Interoperability between tools in the CD ecosystem is critical. The goal of the Events SIG is to drive the standardization and interoperability between Continuous Delivery systems through events. Come ask the team questions. Bring your thoughts on event based CD and find out how you can get involved in the Events SIG. Emil Bäckmark, Andrea Frittoli, Erik Sternerson, and Tracy Ragan will host the BOF and facilitate the conversation.

Speakers

Andrea Frittoli

Open Source Developer Advocate, IBM

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and member of the project Governing Board. He is the chair of the CDF TOC and member of the Governing Board. He's a strong advocate for transparency in open source... Read More →

Emil Bäckmark

CI/CD Architect, co-creator of CDEvents, Ericsson

Emil Bäckmark is an architect for the CI/CD solutions within Ericsson. He is experienced in generic CI/CD solutions on all product levels and is as such part of leading the development of CI/CD systems necessary to reliably deliver high quality products for Ericsson.Emil is co-chair... Read More →

Tracy Ragan

CEO and Co-Founder, DeployHub

Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is a software supply chain platform based on the CDF's Ortelius open-source project. Tracy is expert in supply chain management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture... Read More →

Erik Sternerson

CI Specialist, doWhile

Erik Sternerson is an active contributor to the CDEvents specification, part of the Events in CI/CD Special Interests Group in the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and is a contributor to the Eiffel events open source community. Erik also works as an Enterprise-Scale CI/CD Specialist... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 11:15am - 11:45am EDT

Technology Focus Other

11:15am EDT

BoF Session: SIG - MLOps - Terry Cox, Bootstrap Ltd

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A Birds of a Feather informal, open discussion around SIG MLOps.

Speakers

Terry Cox

Director, Bootstrap Ltd

Terry has a 30 year background in entrepreneurship, technology and the design of software and hardware products with a focus on tackling big problems at scale. He currently leads the CDF MLOps Roadmap and is MLOps Lead for Jenkins-X. He is a practiced public speaker.

Wednesday June 23, 2021 11:15am - 11:45am EDT

Technology Focus Other

12:10pm EDT

Keynote Session: The SPACE of Developer Productivity: A Fireside Chat - Tara Hernandez, Google & Nicole Forsgren, GitHub

Tara Hernandez hosts this fireside chat on developer productivity featuring Nicole Forsgren, author of Accelerate and the new SPACE framework. SPACE is an acronym for satisfaction, performance, activity, communication, and efficiency - each a dimension of measuring developer productivity. Join us for this insightful session to learn what the research tells us about how to evaluate and improve developer productivity, recognize the common myths and antipatterns to avoid, and figure out a path to enabling high developer productivity for your team no matter what shifts happen in the global workplace.

Speakers

Nicole Forsgren

VP of Research & Strategy, GitHub

Dr. Nicole Forsgren is the VP of Research & Strategy at GitHub. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful... Read More →

Tara Hernandez

Vice President Developer Productivity, MongoDB

Tara Hernandez has spent nearly thirty years evolving ways for companies to develop and ship software. She helped launch Mozilla.org and has been a firm proponent of open source ever since. She also thinks smart companies understand the business value of having a diverse employee... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 12:10pm - 12:30pm EDT

Keynote Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:10pm EDT

Sponsored BoF Session: Evolving Continuous Delivery Using Feature Flags - Elliott Landon & Nick Rendall, CloudBees

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Continuous Delivery and feature flagging may seem like practices in conflict with one another to some organizations. After all, without proper context, the idea of developers making changes to code in production would rightly make the average Release Manager more than a little nervous. However, with adequate technical, cultural, and process planning, the combination of continuous delivery tools with feature flag management can yield drastically more powerful continuous delivery capabilities within an organization.

In this BoF session, we will discuss how this combination of tools should be viewed as the natural next step in the evolution of continuous delivery, and how you can bring this functionality to your organization.

Speakers

Nick Rendall

Product Marketing Manager, CloudBees

Nick Rendall is a Product Marketing Manager at CloudBees. He has held product responsibility on both the Dev and Ops sides of the house in his career, but has come to the conclusion that Devs have more fun. He lives in Colorado and has two children under three years old, so his current... Read More →

Elliott Landon

Feature Management, Solution Architect, CloudBees

Elliott is a Product Manager in Boston who oversees CloudBees' enterprise feature management solution. Prior to his role in product, he worked as a Solution Architect, working closely with the platform's co-founder Erez Rusovsky. Aside from his passions around DevOps and the Boston... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT

BoF Sessions, Sponsored Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:10pm EDT

Sponsored BoF Session: Securing Infrastructure Before it’s Infrastructure: Leverage your CD Tooling to Secure your Cloud Automatically - Amir Benvenisti & Sean O'Dell, Accurics

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No longer limited to just application code, CI\CD pipelines can now play a crucial role in securing your entire technology stack. In this BoF talk, we’ll discuss the different stages in the pipelines, from a developer’s initial commit to release deployment. We’ll explore the pros and cons of introducing security controls at different stages of the pipelines. Using open source tooling, we’ll go over the different options available to both developers and devOps engineers to secure their infrastructure automatically within their pipelines.

Speakers

Sean O'Dell

Director of Developer Advocacy, Accurics

Sean is a reformed infrastructure administrator and architect with a passion for enabling Developers and Application teams to succeed in a secure Multi-Cloud world. Sean also believes that traditional Enterprise IT organizations can (and should) implement a modern approach by embedding... Read More →

Amir Benvenisti

Head of Open Source, Accurics

Amir leads the open source software team at Accurics, where he is focused on developing products that enhance security and productivity. A veteran of the IDF Intelligence Corps, Amir has over 10 years of experience as a cyber security professional. Most recently he was a cybersecurity... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT

BoF Sessions, Sponsored Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:40pm EDT

Sponsored Demo/Tutorial Session: Kubernetes GitOps with Rancher Continuous Delivery - Arsalan Naeem, Rancher (now a SUSE company)

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Take a look at how Fleet was built from the ground up to perform Kubernetes Gitops at scale. Dive into the basic Fleet architecture, how labels are our friends, and how to treat K8S clusters as cattle. How to automate deployment of cluster tools (Monitoring, Logging, OPA Polices) after cluster provisioned.

Speakers

Arsalan Naeem

Field Engineer, Rancher (now a SUSE company)

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:40pm - 2:55pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Demo/Tutorial

Technology Focus Other

2:40pm EDT

Back to the Future with COBOL - John Mertic, The Linux Foundation & Sudharsana Srinivasan, IBM

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Mainframe applications are the lifeblood of the global economy. COBOL is the lifeblood of those applications. Yet few people realise or acknowledge the profound impact the COBOL language has had over its 60 year history. Showcasing a brand new OMP Working Group, this session reveals COBOL's secret history and the efforts of OMP and others to bring COBOL's value to the public eye. The session will cover - 1. COBOL's enduring value - how it stood the test of time 2. Recent trends to demonstrate COBOL's ongoing popularity 3. The work of the OMP in promoting COBOL

Speakers

John Mertic

Director of Program Management, The Linux Foundation

John Mertic is the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ASWF, ODPi, Open Mainframe Project, and R Consortium accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both... Read More →

Sudharsana Srinivasan

IBM Z Advocacy Program Manager, IBM

Sudharsana Srinivasan is a Program Manager with IBM Z Ecosystem team. She has worked on several programs, most prominently the COBOL Course that launched on Open Mainframe Project and currently co-leads the Technical Steering Committee of the project. As an entrepreneur, she helped... Read More →

Wednesday Open Mainframe Project COBOL Presentation pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT

Advanced Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

2:40pm EDT

How To Automate Everything In 2021 - Viktor Farcic, Shipa

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Automation of all the repeatable tasks is nothing new. We've been doing it for years or even decades. But the technology changes, so do the tools and the processes we use in automation. Today, we are practicing not only continuous delivery (CD), but also GitOps and progressive delivery. Our applications are running in Kubernetes and are designed around event-based decoupled architecture. So, how do we automate everything in 2021? Which practices should we use, and which tools should we choose? How can we combine events with workflows, pipelines, GitOps, and progressive delivery using tools designed from ground-up to be cloud-native and Kubernetes-first. We'll use Argo project (Events, Workflows & Pipelines, CD, and Rollouts) combined with SealedSecrets and Kaniko for the hands-on demo.

PLEASE NOTE: This talk has similar content to the GitOps talk titled Combining Progressive Delivery with GitOps and Continuous Delivery.

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT

Advanced Delivery

Technology Focus Other

2:40pm EDT

Sponsored Session: How to “SRE” your Way to Pipeline Improvement - Anders Wallgren, CloudBees

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Oftentimes, IT professionals think auditability and observability are separate concepts, when in fact, they’re two sides of the same coin. It’s the review of what happened and why - just from different perspectives and moments in time. The point is, building an auditable pipeline should also result in building an observable pipeline.

Most IT pros, however, think about observability in regards to the observability of an operational system. But what if we considered the observability of an internal organizational system instead? For example, the CI cycle time of your pipeline.

To test this hypothesis, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) approaches can be applied to pinpoint what metrics we care about most and how to align context with desired outcomes.

During my talk, I will share how to place service level objectives (SLO’s), indicators (SLIs), and agreements (SLA’s) into different parts of your Software Delivery Lifecycle. You will learn how to make your pipeline metrics adjacent to auditability and observability standards as part of any continuous improvement process.

What Attendees Will Learn:
How to put SLIs, SLAs, and SLOs in place to align with key pipeline metrics
Examples of how to “SRE” your way to better cycle times (as an example)
How to avoid “metricing yourself to death" in the process

Speakers

Anders Wallgren

VP of Technology Strategy, CloudBees

Anders Wallgren is the VP of Technology Strategy at CloudBees. Anders brings with him over 30 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining CloudBees, Anders held executive positions at Electric Cloud, Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders... Read More →

SRE Your Way to Pipeline Improvement Anders Wallgren CB pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Breakout Sessions

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

3:15pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: Gitops at Scale with Rancher Continuous Delivery - Arsalan Naeem, Rancher (now a SUSE company)

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Fleet is GitOps at scale. Fleet is designed to manage up to a million clusters. It’s also lightweight enough that is works great for a single cluster too, but it really shines when you get to a large scale. By large scale we mean either a lot of clusters, a lot of deployments, or a lot of teams in a single organization.

Speakers

Arsalan Naeem

Field Engineer, Rancher (now a SUSE company)

Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:15pm - 3:25pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other

3:15pm EDT

A Vulnerable Tale about Burnout - Julia Simon, CloudOps

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This vulnerable tale is a personal journey through the unpredictable world of depression and burnout. It could have been easily predicted because Julia was "doing it all". Yet it was totally unexpected because she assumed her mental health was strong and stable; she could handle anything. Until she couldn’t and everything became unbearable. She made the impossible and necessary decision to stop working in order to recover, setting out on what became four months of self-discovery. Julia will talk about what what led her to this state, what it looked like, and how she was able to get the necessary help to feel strong enough to not only go back to work, but to have the courage to shift career paths all together. This experience should serve as a space for open and authentic discussions to eliminate stigma around the topic of mental heath in the workplace and the tech industry.

Speakers

Julia Simon

People Partner, Learning & Community, CloudOps

For the past 6+ years, I have been working at a Montreal-based cloud services company, CloudOps. I strive to understand what motivates people, creates effective and collaborative teams, and how the role of community participation and ongoing learning affects people. I am the co-founder... Read More →

cdCon 2021 Burnout EN Julia Simon (1) pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

3:15pm EDT

Measuring DevOps with the Four Keys Project: How to Make it Work for your Organization - Dina Portman, Google

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Through six years of research, Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has identified four key metrics that indicate the performance of a software development team. The metrics not only give insight into DevOps performance, but the research indicates that these metrics are actually predictive of improved business outcomes, including profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Google Cloud Platform has created an open source project to help automate the generation and collection of the metrics. However, not every organization has a workflow that will work perfectly out of the box with the Four Keys Project. This session will outline how to update the data definitions and extend the Four Keys Project to better reflect your operations.

Speakers

Dina Graves Portman

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Dina Graves Portman is a Google Cloud Developer Relations Engineer with a deep passion for data. In her six years at Google, she’s served on all sides of the data world, including analytics, engineering, machine learning, and consulting. Currently, she’s focused on bringing meaningful... Read More →

Wednesday Measuring DevOps Four Keys Make it Work for your Organization pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Technology Focus Tekton, Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

3:25pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: Improve Deployment Velocity by Using Distributed Tracing and Lightstep to Understand and Debug Deployment Problems Quickly - Andrew Chee, Lightstep

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Modern software systems are becoming more complex. When problems happen during a deployment it is very difficult to identify the actual root cause of that problem. See how distributed tracing and Lightstep's analytical capabilities help quickly identify those problems so you can quickly remediate deployment issues.

Speakers

Andrew Chee

Sr. Solutions Engineer, Lightstep

Andrew is a Senior Solutions Engineer with Lightstep helping customers improve their systems' performance through the adoption of distributed tracing and observability best practices. Andrew has been in the software performance monitoring space for many years with previous roles at... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:25pm - 3:35pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other

3:35pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: How Capital One Improved the Developer CI/CD Experience, Roderick Randolph, Capital One

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At Capital One, we've built an innersource CI/CD pipeline framework using open source best practices that empowers developers to deliver software through automation. As the framework scaled over time to support thousands of applications with hundreds of contributors from many teams, the overall developer experience also needed to evolve. Today we can build and deploy faster, identify impediments using agile practices, and create better outcomes for development and operations. During this talk you will learn how we scaled our CI/CD framework and adapted our developer experience to improve efficiency and productivity, and you will walk away with tips to delight your developer's CI/CD experience to unlock greater developer productivity.

Speakers

Roderick Randolph

Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

Roderick Randolph is a distinguished engineer at Capital One. Over the past 15 years, Roderick has been a software practitioner and technical leader within the Capital One tech organization building software products and coaching teams on how to ship software faster with fully automated... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:35pm - 3:45pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

3:50pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: ArgoCD Autopilot, Straightforward GitOps app Promotion Across Environments - Dan Garfield, Codefresh

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Open GitOps is crystalizing as a standard so how do you actually do it? Codefresh open source engineers recently launched Argo CD Autopilot, an opinionated way to manage applications across environments using GitOps at scale. We'll bootstrap two clusters, deploy our apps, and promote a change from staging to prod. Easy peazy.

Speakers

Dan Garfield

Chief Open Source Officer and Co-Founder, Codefresh

Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. He helped launch the GitOps Working Group and helped lead the creation of the Open GitOps principles. As an Argo Maintainer, Kubernaut, Google Developer Expert... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:50pm - 4:00pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other

3:50pm EDT

Moving Beyond CVEs: Why We Need a Strong Security Posture in Open Source? - Alice Chen, Armory & Beth Fuller, Themist

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At last year's Spinnaker Summit, Beth shared the Security SIG's progress in implementing a Vulnerability Management Process for OSS Spinnaker, and the "why" behind it. Digging more into security has highlighted the importance of implementing and communicating intentional security practices in an OSS project. In this talk, we'll look beyond Spinnaker to explain why having a good security posture means a lot more than just CVEs. What does it look like to shift left in OSS? How does doing so make life easier for the Security Engineer persona? We'll make a case for codifying open source security processes through both automation and governance, and recommend an upstream CI experience to make projects safer and OSS users' lives easier.

Speakers

Alice Chen

Principal Solutions Architect, Armory

A CI/CD expert, Architect, and Automation engineer with over 15 yrs of experience, Alice helped start the Apache Trafodion project when she worked at HP, and was an OpenStack contributor. She later worked at Informatica as a DevOps Engineer for infrastructure, and currently works... Read More →

Beth Fuller

Founder & Head of Product, Themist

Beth (she/her), Head of Product/Spark of Themist, is imagining and building a policy-focused DevOps platform that provides each persona in the software supply chain with a smart, equipped context to get folks up and running quickly, while creating transparency for Security, Finance... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT

Spinnaker Summit

Technology Focus Jenkins, Spinnaker, Other, All
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:00pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Mainframe with DevOps: Automating the CI/CD Pipeline - Mark Schettenhelm & Manoj Singh, BMC Compuware

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The mainframe is often overlooked when setting up pipelines. This misses a great opportunity to improve delivery speed and quality by aligning with DevOps. We will show how to benefit from pipelines leveraging open source tools.

Speakers

Manoj Singh

Solutions Consultant, BMC Compuware

Mark Schettenhelm

Senior Product Manager, BMC Compuware

Senior Product Manager for BMC Compuware ISPW, Mark has 40 years of experience in the IT industry. In his 30+ years with Compuware and now BMC, Mark has been instrumental in helping to bring mainframe solutions to the forefront of the industry.

Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other

4:10pm EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: Step into the Lab: An intro to GitLab CI/CD - Parker Ennis GitLab

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In this lightning talk, hear Parker Ennis explain how the GitLab DevOps platform can automate your application and infrastructure deployments - across multiple kubernetes environments, multiple clouds, using different deployment strategies - all from a single application requires no integrations (and hey, we integrate well with others too).

Speakers

Parker Ennis

Senior product marketing manager, GitLab

Parker is passionate about music, sports, gaming, and all things open source with a knack for injecting positivity into the workplace. A Wolfpack fanatic, he originally went to North Carolina State for his B.A. in International Relations w/ Criminology. He then attended The Iron Yard... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:10pm - 4:20pm EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm EDT

Crowdsourcing Empathy: Humanizing an organization using Lean, Agile, and DevOps - Gautham Pallapa, VMware

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Making empathy part of an organization's culture has to be organic, and leadership cannot mandate empathy as a core tenet for the organization. I firmly believe that the best way to start the empathy engine within a workplace to crowdsource ideas that improved people's quality of life in the organization. In this session, I tell Project Athena's story, an initiative I spearheaded to improve empathy, leadership, collaboration, and sharing within an organization. I will share successes, failures, celebrations, and emotions that my teams and I experienced, phenomenal results that we were able to accomplish over a short period of time, and how we succeeded in making empathy a core tenet of our organizational culture through Lean, Agile, and DevOps. I dive into the need for psychological safety and how innovative and joyful work can be in a generative culture.

Speakers

Gautham Pallapa

Global CTO, VMware

Dr. Gautham Pallapa is a Global CTO for VMware. He works as a trusted advisor with Global 2000 enterprise customers in transforming their strategy, processes, technologies, culture, and people to achieve their objectives and business outcomes. His mantra is "Transform with Empathy... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm EDT

Five Reasons Value Stream Thinking Is the Future of DevOps - Steve Pereira, Visible

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Teams everywhere are beginning to adopt Value Stream Thinking as a foundational element of their DevOps strategy. Companies like Nike, Nationwide, Walmart, Barclays, BMW, Verizon, Northrop Grumman, Liberty Mutual, AT&T, John Deere, Adidas and many more are seeing incredible clarity and alignment driven by Value Stream visualization and focus. This session will introduce the benefits of Value Stream Thinking and techniques, how an organization should go about implementing it and why it's the next logical step for your DevOps journey. Attendees will hear real-world transformation stories and results achieved with Value Stream techniques. Value Stream thinking brings visibility, alignment and measurement to your organization in a tangible and clear paradigm. Value Stream Mapping is an accessible, inclusive technique that surfaces opportunities across every facet of DevOps improvement.

Speakers

Steve Pereira

CEO and Founder, Visible

Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value.He shows teams how to use simple tools and techniques to make big changes. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on sharing mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm EDT

How to Scale Cloud Adoption whilst Building a World Class Developer Experience - Hibri Marzook & Ruchir Sanghavi, Contino

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In 2021 the majority of organizations have built a cloud foundation of some sort (eg. Landing Zones, Scaffold) in order to securely consume Cloud at scale. However, the majority of said organizations find themselves crippled with the following challenges:
- Developers still find these environments unusable
- Cloud foundations do not evolve in line with the requirements of the development teams
- Old fashioned Centre of Excellence's have turned into the ivory towers of the cloud world.

In this talk, Hibri Marzook & Ruchir Sanghavi will explore how to build upon one's cloud foundations to put in a developer-centric engineering-based methodologies focusing on:
- World-class developer experience
- Building modern team topologies that don't hinder progress
- Engineering practices that are key to ensure long term cloud adoption

Speakers

Ruchir Sanghavi

Account Principal, Contino

Ruchir is an experienced Transformation Director, Lead Principal Engineer and DevOps practitioner who works as an Account Principal at Contino. With over 10 years of experience working and leading Software Engineering teams and large scale cloud adoption programmes in enterprises... Read More →

Hibri Marzook

Principal Consultant, Contino

Hibri Marzook helps teams continuously deliver software and is a Principal Consultant at Contino, a transformational technical consultancy. He has worked with Media and Fintech startups leading teams to adopt modern development practices. He has a keen interest in systems thinking... Read More →

How to Scale Cloud Adoption whilst building a world class developer experience pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm EDT

cdCon Jobs Theater Sponsored by Capital One

Check out the Capital One Job Theater! Sponsors will present videos, sharing information on available positions and company culture. Companies participating are:

Armory
BMC
Capital One
CloudBees
GitLabs
The Linux Foundation
OpsMx
Rancher
Snapt
StackHawk

Wednesday June 23, 2021 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT

Sponsored Session

Technology Focus Other

5:05pm EDT

The Imperative to Stop Being Lazy and Do Better - Brendan O'Leary, GitLab

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There are a lot of challenging, unsolved problems in software. Building accessible, inclusive, smart software is a solved one...do better. My last name is valid. Despite what countless apps and websites have tried to tell me, it is reasonable to have an apostrophe in a name. I get it; SQL is hard. But it doesn't "solve" the problem to have validation, saying, "Please enter a valid last name." Talk about *invalidating* someone's experience in life. And that's not even that big of a deal. But this kind of carelessness is all too common in tech. Many other people's identities are marginalized even more severely when developers are careless. In this talk, we'll examine examples of each of these types of inclusion. We'll show how these issues have already been solved; it just requires the determination and compassion to choose to make our products more accessible and more inclusive.

Speakers

Brendan O'Leary

Staff Developer Evangelist, GitLab

Brendan O'Leary is a Staff Developer Evangelist at GitLab, the DevOps platform, and a governing board member at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and advisor to various startups. He has a passion for software development and iterating processes just as quickly as we iterate on... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT

Technology Focus Other

5:05pm EDT

Are your CI/CD Pipelines Secure? - Angel Rivera, CircleCI

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Most CI/CD pipelines used by DevOps teams utilize integrations with services such as APIs, databases and other critical systems to complete their workflows. These integrations usually required the use of extremely sensitive secrets such as passwords, tokens or certificates and must be securely protected at all times. Unauthorized access of these pipeline secrets open these systems to threats from bad actors and illegal access of data. In this talk Angel will discuss common pain points in properly securing applications, CI/CD pipelines and protecting sensitive access gates to integration targets. Attendees will learn strategies to secure their applications, sensitive data and pipeline integration points. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to implement security layers that can improve their pipeline security posture.

Speakers

Angel Rivera

Senior Developer Advocate, CircleCI

Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

5:05pm EDT

Introduction to Shipwright - Jason Hall, Red Hat

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Shipwright (https://shipwright.io) is a framework for declaring and executing image builds. It boasts a pluggable architecture that allows for many common build strategies including CNCF Buildpacks, Kaniko, Buildah, s2i and others. Shipwright is built on Tekton, and adds a higher-level focus on simply building container images. So far it's mainly been developed in a partnership between Red Hat and IBM, but all contributions are welcome. This talk will introduce Shipwright, describe how it takes advantage of Tekton's platform, and demo how to use a built-in build strategy to deliver images using Buildpacks.

Speakers

Jason Hall

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jason co-founded Google Cloud Build and the Tekton project at Google, and recently joined Red Hat to continue working on Tekton, Shipwright, and other related development and delivery projects. He contributes to various container-image-related projects, and has never heard a joke... Read More →

Introduction to Shipwright (1) pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

5:05pm EDT

Gatekeeping and the DevOps Revolution - Kat Cosgrove, Independent

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There are more computer science graduates than ever, and the number keeps rising. Include coding bootcamp graduates, and the number of junior engineers out there is staggering. Sounds great, right? More engineers means larger communities and more help for our projects, and the whole world benefits because we’re solving harder problems faster. That's what DevOps is about, yeah?

It’s not quite that simple. Tech is advancing quickly, becoming more and more specialized. We frequently assume that the people reading our documentation and using our tools already have context and peripheral knowledge specific to our corner of tech, and we forget about all of those junior engineers with fresh ideas who are hungry to learn but don’t understand our jargon. We don't mean to do it, but we're gatekeeping them and it's slowing our progress. In order to really accelerate DevOps adoption, WE need a cultural change, too.

Speakers

Kat Cosgrove

Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell

Kat is a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She has... Read More →

Gatekeeping and the DevOps Revolution pdf

Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

5:40pm EDT

Supercharge Cloud Migration with Progressive Delivery - Rosemary Wang, Hashicorp

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You’re ready to send some canary traffic to a newly refactored application in a new cloud provider while the former application resides in your current datacenter or cloud. However, you encounter a problem: you haven’t aggregated application metrics from both environments, and you’ll have to manually review a dashboard to determine whether or not to increase the percentage of canary traffic. Is there an automated way to do this? In this talk, Rosemary combines canary analysis with the powers of service mesh observability and traffic management to supercharge migrations in multiple environments with progressive delivery. She’ll demonstrate that setting up tools such as HashiCorp Consul, Prometheus, and Spinnaker can help scale the migration and support of refactored applications across multiple clouds or platforms while reducing their production risk.

Speakers

Rosemary Wang

Developer Advocate, HashiCorp

Rosemary Wang works to bridge the technical and cultural barriers between infrastructure, security, and application development. She has a fascination for solving intractable problems as a contributor, educator, speaker, and writer of infrastructure automation. When she is not drawing... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:40pm - 6:10pm EDT

Advanced Delivery

Technology Focus Spinnaker, Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

5:40pm EDT

Continuously Delivered Documentation - Matthew Casperson, Octopus Deploy

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To give our customers the easiest onboarding solution possible, we recently created a selection of 80 guides that documented the integration between 5 or so common technologies required to complete a deployment. This was great for customers, who could read documentation highly targeted to their own technology stack, but presented us with many problems. How could we know that our guides were accurate? How could we keep screenshots up to date? And how could we do all this without a huge team dedicated to continually manually reviewing each guide? By bringing common DevOps practices like automated tests, infrastructure as code, and continuous deployments, we have maintained 80 guides, hours of screencasts, and thousands of screenshots with a team of 2. Our process was documented at https://octopus.com/blog/devops-documentation, and the proposed session will discuss this journey.

Speakers

Matthew Casperson

Product Manager, Octopus Deploy

I have loved technology since my first Commodore 64, and that passion remains to this day. Over the last 20 years I have been involved in many aspects of technology, from working a help desk, snowmobiling between servers at a ski resort, working on open source software at Red Hat... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:40pm - 6:10pm EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

5:40pm EDT

Life Beyond the Commit - Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet

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The rate of change in our apps and infrastructure has risen dramatically as we've gotten more sophisticated in how we build things. And oh how sophisticated we've become! We have infrastructure that's programmable and dynamic, that we can quickly tweak to meet our needs. And atop that, we've built elaborate applications that are distributed, containerized, and microservice-ified. CD and GitOps let us sustain this level of complexity without everything collapsing. We're now in an era where the plumbing is so advanced that the state and scale of our applications can change in the blink of an eye, faster than the speed of a git commit. Our tools must adapt, becoming much more event-oriented and responsive if we hope to keep things under control. This session will discuss self-healing systems, event-driven automation, and how we can apply CD principles to ongoing systems management.

Speakers

Deepak Giridharagopal

CTO, Puppet

Deepak has guided Puppet’s technical development and longer-term technical strategy since joining the company in 2011. He has overseen the development of nearly every major product in Puppet's portfolio including Puppet Enterprise, Relay by Puppet, PuppetDB, Bolt, Wash, and Nebula... Read More →

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Wednesday June 23, 2021 5:40pm - 6:10pm EDT

GitOps & Cloud Native

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness - Evan Smith, Solvemate

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Software Engineering is an environment that is rife with worrying stereotypes like the "Brilliant Jerk" and the "Peter Principle". How do you be a kind engineer and encourage kindness in engineering? For the last couple years, I've been exploring what it means to be a Kind Engineer. It's called different things in different circles but ultimately it comes down to the fact that people who give more unconditionally make themselves happier, their teams happier and their companies happier. I'd like to share some practical tips on how people can become kinder engineers. This talk will cover code reviews, psychological safety, giving/receiving feedback and honesty in the workplace.

Speakers

Evan Smith

Site Reliability Engineer, Solvemate

Evan Smith is a Site Reliability Engineer with the remote German company Solvemate and is responsible for managing the infrastructure, CI/CD, incident response and monitoring, as well as promoting a culture of kindness and learning. With a focus on discovering what it means to be... Read More →

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Thursday June 24, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

Event-driven Distributed CI for 20000 Projects - Aleksandra Fedorova, Red Hat

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Linux distributions represent the ultimate challenge for continuous integration, because of the size and variety of the projects involved. For example Fedora Linux contains about 21 thousand independent components. These components can be stand-alone applications written in high-level languages or kernel modules which require a bare-metal hardware for testing. Rather than enforcing one specific implementation of the CI/CD infrastructure to be used across components, Fedora Gating framework allows to aggregate test results of arbitrary CI systems in a common database. The aggregated results are then processed by the decision engine, which ensures that the system-wide gating requirements are satisfied. In the talk the architecture of the framework and the role of the messaging in Fedora infrastructure will be described, covering both the benefits and the challenges of this approach.

Speakers

Aleksandra Fedorova

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

I work in the OSCI (Operating System Continuous Integration) team at Red Hat as a Product Owner of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CI topic. I am the member of Fedora Council and one of the organizers of the Fedora CI Special Interest Group responsible for the continuous integration on the... Read More →

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Thursday June 24, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:00am EDT

It wasn’t DNS. We checked! Infra CICD with KubeVirt and Tekton - Cansu Kavili Oernek & Tyler Auerbeck, Red Hat

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You must have heard of this very famous haiku: It’s not DNS There is no way it’s DNS It was DNS Unfortunately, it was, cause we forgot about that change... We know that testing infra components can be hard. It's not cheap to have or maintain test environments or sometimes access to these systems is highly restricted. Also, we often don’t let our infrastructure codebase benefit from CICD practices as our app codebase does, even though it is getting more and more complex each day. But the good news is, with tools like KubeVirt and Tekton, we can rely on a common platform to test our infra-related deployments and changes (DNS, networking, ansible roles..) safely before pushing things straight to prod! And of course, that common platform is K8s! During this talk, we’ll cover how to orchestrate the testing and deployment of the changes safely on OpenShift by using Tekton and KubeVirt.

Speakers

Tyler Auerbeck

Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat

Cansu Kavili Örnek

Red Hat

As a passionate techie, I work in close collaboration with companies to form, enable and accelerate product teams by helping them to adopt DevOps culture and practices.

Thursday June 24, 2021 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Tekton, Other

9:35am EDT

Bridge the Gap Between Jenkins and Kubernetes - Bartek Antoniak, VirtusLab

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This session focuses on important aspects of running Jenkins in a cloud-native environment like Kubernetes with the full advantage of public cloud capabilities like backups, observability and security. Bartek will show how to free up engineering teams from typical infrastructure activities and lets them focus on the business value by using Jenkins Operator project. With declarative configuration and full lifecycle management based on Operator Framework, this can become the de facto standard for running Jenkins on top of Kubernetes.

Speakers

Bartek Antoniak

Cloud Engineering Manager, VirtusLab

Engineering Manager in a cloud-native world managing mid-sized cross-functional teams. Responsible for cloud-related initiatives at VirtusLab like open source projects, products or partnerships. These days I usually build cloud platforms and help clients with digital transformation... Read More →

Bridge the Gap Between Jenkins and Kubernetes pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

GitOps & Cloud Native

Technology Focus Jenkins, Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

9:35am EDT

Reducing Burnout with Continuous Remediation - Anton Weiss, Canarian

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Continuous Delivery and global spread are turning information systems into a beautiful messwork of partially degraded autonomous components. Incidents in such systems are abound and managing these incidents becomes an impossible task for mere humans. It sometimes feels like plugging holes in a cloud with your bare fingers in an attempt to stop the rain. In order to build the resilient systems of the future (and reduce the operators' burnout) we need smart continuous remediation. The talk will present some of the more interesting developments in this field across the industry.

Speakers

Anton Weiss

CTO, Canarian

Thursday June 24, 2021 9:35am - 10:05am EDT

GitOps & Cloud Native

Technology Focus Other

10:10am EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: Automating Decisions to Achieve Speed and Stability with Continuous Delivery - Gopinath Rebela, OpsMx Inc.

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As organizations increasingly adopt continuous delivery as a paradigm for delivering features at high velocity, there are significant challenges in the transition from existing software processes to true continuous delivery. We find organizations at various stages of maturity in achieving continuous delivery. There is significant friction in decision making for stability and security that include manual steps. In this talk about the challenges faced by organizations in terms of visibility into delivery data, automating the decision making process and discuss best practices adopted by organizations delivering thousands of changes a day.

Speakers

Gopinath Rebala

CTO, OpsMx Inc

Gopinath is passionate about simplification and automation of Software Delivery with little or no human intervention. He brings more than 20 years of Software development and delivery leadership with startups and fortune 100 companies. He has patents in content distribution, application... Read More →

CDCon21 Thursday Automating Decisons pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 10:10am - 10:20am EDT

Sponsored Session, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other, All
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

10:45am EDT

Why Saying "CI/CD" is not Enough - Sriram Narayanan, ThoughtWorks

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"CI/CD" is becoming mainstream. Various departments are beginning to recognise that silos are harmful and are trying to collaborate. They bring in consultants who guide them on being Agile, set up Scrum teams, advice on CI/CD tools, help set up processes. Depending upon the sense of urgency, this becomes org-wide either from day one or from lessons learned from a pilot project. The measures of success aren't quite well understood and are interpreted and customised to whatever the implementation team feel they can manage to meet within their constraints. Worse, most teams as well as organisation management lack the exposure to know what questions to ask in order to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. This talk explains why one sees delivery delays, defects in production, integration hell, security bottlenecks, etc having "CI/CD", and the corrective measures.

Speakers

Sriram Narayanan

Consultant, ThoughtWorks

Sriram presently works with Singapore based clients to help ensure Continuous Delivery on software projects that ThoughtWorks delivery. He is often involved with projects comprising of multiple commercial entities while working with stakeholders to change processes to help ensure... Read More →

SRiram Narayanan Why the phrase “CI CD” isn’t enough pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 10:45am - 11:15am EDT

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

10:45am EDT

Open Source is for Everyone, Anyone, Everywhere! - Morgan Carroll, Brittany Barnes & Dixsie Wolmers, IBM

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We are three IT professionals in the early stages of our careers working in diverse areas. Marketing, front end user experience design, and cognitive software. We were all intrigued by open source and joined a jump start program as mentees to learn more. This is our journey from knowing nothing at all about open source, to choosing open source projects that we felt we could learn from and bring value to, to how we are all now three successful open source committers. This led us wanting to share our stories, the good bits as well as the bad bits, the mistakes we made and the things we wish we could tell ourselves before we had started. Whether you're an experienced project lead wanting to attract more newbies like us, whether you're not sure how far out of your comfort zone to go dipping your toes into open source projects, come and hear our thoughts, feedback and ideas.

Speakers

Brittany Barnes

Cloud and Cognitive Software Engineer, IBM

Software developer at IBM Security with a background in computer science and discrete mathematics. I enjoy travel, concerts, gardening, and video games My day job doesn't involve open source, but I became interested in open source from hearing about it and joined a jump start program... Read More →

Dixsie Wolmers

Front End Developer, IBM

Dixsie is a front-end developer based out of Austin, TX. She is formerly a US Navy radar systems engineer turned middle school science teacher turned front-end developer who is passionate about technology, teaching, and learning. When not working on open source, you can usually find... Read More →

Morgan Carroll

Senior Cloud Engineer, IBM

Morgan is a Senior Cloud Engineer who has been with IBM for 4 years. She is a former NASA balloon program intern who enjoys gaming, 3-d printing, and anything outdoors in Austin. She is the proud dog mom of two short-legged rescues: Apollo and Mr. Hubble.

Thursday June 24, 2021 10:45am - 11:25am EDT

Technology Focus Other

11:25am EDT

BoF Session: SIG Interoperability - Kara de la Marck, Cloudbees & Fatih Degirmenci, Ericsson

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A Birds of a Feather informal, open discussion.

Speakers

Kara de la Marck

Open Source Developer Relations, CloudBees

Kara works at CloudBees with the Jenkins and Jenkins X open source communities. She is co-chair of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s Interoperability SIG, chair of the Jenkins Cloud Native SIG, and is a mentor and org admin for Outreachy and Google Summer of Code. As a board... Read More →

Fatih Degirmenci

Executive Director, Continuous Delivery Foundation

Fatih works at the Linux Foundation, leading the CD Foundation initiatives. He specialises in automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps. Before the Linux Foundation, Fatih was involved in several CI/CD initiatives at Ericsson and open source. He served in the OPNFV TSC and in... Read More →

Thursday June 24, 2021 11:25am - 11:55am EDT

Technology Focus Other

11:25am EDT

Sponsored BoF Session: Reckoning with the Onslaught of Online Content - Melissa McKay, JFrog

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There are many ways that developers and other tech practitioners can learn technical concepts and improve their skills. Online conferences, videos, and articles abound that allow for asynchronous learning of a variety of content. The availability of online content isn’t new, but the quantity of content has exploded in response to the pandemic.
Be prepared for a lively discussion of the following questions:

What online content is the most effective for learning?
What is your favorite type of online content? Least favorite?
How do you think online content can be improved?
What are your thoughts on paid vs free content?
How does one (especially a junior developer) best evaluate existing content?

As we slowly recover and emerge from our homes, many regular speakers and developer advocates hope to return to the live conference format. But one could argue that the pandemic has increased the opportunities for those who have historically been unable to engage in live conferences due to family obligations, the hefty time commitment away from work, or travel budget constraints. It would be nice to keep online opportunities available, but how do we ensure quality moving forward?

Join Melissa McKay in an informal discussion for both teachers and learners — we are all BOTH!

Speakers

Melissa McKay

Developer Advocate, Office of the CTO, JFrog

Melissa is passionate about Java, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. She is currently a Developer Advocate for JFrog, serves on the Continuous Delivery Foundation TOC and is a Co-Chair of the Interoperability SIG. Melissa has been recognized as a Java Champion and Docker Captain, is... Read More →

Thursday June 24, 2021 11:25am - 11:55am EDT

BoF Sessions, Sponsored Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:55pm EDT

BoF Session: Best Practices - Terry Cox, Bootstrap Ltd. & Tara Hernandez, Google

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Birds of a Feather (BoF) session is an informal discussion about topics concerning Best Practices. It's the perfect opportunity to meet with project leaders and peers to catch up, share information and ask questions.

Everyone is welcome to ask questions & share ideas.

Speakers

Tara Hernandez

Vice President Developer Productivity, MongoDB

Tara Hernandez has spent nearly thirty years evolving ways for companies to develop and ship software. She helped launch Mozilla.org and has been a firm proponent of open source ever since. She also thinks smart companies understand the business value of having a diverse employee... Read More →

Terry Cox

Director, Bootstrap Ltd

Terry has a 30 year background in entrepreneurship, technology and the design of software and hardware products with a focus on tackling big problems at scale. He currently leads the CDF MLOps Roadmap and is MLOps Lead for Jenkins-X. He is a practiced public speaker.

Thursday June 24, 2021 2:55pm - 3:25pm EDT

Technology Focus Other

3:25pm EDT

Diversity & Inclusion Workshop Sponsored by Netflix - From Allyship to Sponsorship: Solutions to Design a Diverse and Inclusive Community, Yulkendy Valdez, Forefront

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This session will engage the audience in creating a more diverse and inclusive open-source community. Research undoubtedly shows that investing in diversity and inclusion helps you develop better technology and increases your bottom line. The challenge is how we get there and how we, as individuals, develop the leadership skills required to be part of the solution. Join our session to define what Diversity and Inclusion mean for you, and learn the best practices to be part of the solution.

Speakers

Yulkendy Valdez

Co-Founder & CEO, Forefront

Yulkendy Valdez is a master educator and expert in developing experiential programs focused on diversity and inclusion. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur and TEDx Speaker. She has received numerous fellowships from the Harvard Kennedy School, Opportunity Nation, Young... Read More →

From Allyship to Sponsorship Solutions to Design a Diverse and Inclusive Community (cdCon 2021) pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT

Sponsored Session

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

3:45pm EDT

Lightning Talk: Did Micro-services Kill CICD? - Michael Pereira, Northwestern Mutual

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The rise in popularity of micro services has brought a lot of benefits to the software development world, but also created drawbacks that make it harder to deploy applications to production though a CICD pipeline. Can we find a good middle-ground that works for everyone?

Speakers

Michael Pereira

Lead Architect, Northwestern Mutual

Michael Pereira is the Lead Architect of the Devops Engineering group at Northwestern Mutual, working on improving the Continuous Delivery pipeline for the whole organization by improving the tools and processes used by the development teams. Previously, Michael helped Syncsort bring... Read More →

Thursday CDCon microservices killed CICD pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 3:45pm - 3:55pm EDT

Continuous Delivery, Lightning Talks

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:00pm EDT

Gamification Strategy for Enterprises to Enable DevOps Practice - Garima Bajpai, DevOps Community of Practice, Canada

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This talk proposes an enterprise level Gamification strategy and eventually highlights the Convergence of Gamification and Machine Learning to build next-generation products The Enterprise level Strategy for gamification lays the foundation for - - Introduce culture of experimentation - Measuring innovation by integration of scores - Engage End-User in Gamification, mock-up.. - Introduce researchers in the process - Creating Open-Source Projects - Map the Road to Organized innovation This talk proposes an enterprise level Gamification strategy The Enterprise level Strategy for gamification lays the foundation for - - Introduce culture of experimentation - Measuring innovation by integration of scores - Engage End-User in Gamification, mock-up.. - Introduce researchers in the process - Creating Open-Source Projects - Map the Road to Organized innovation

Speakers

Garima Bajpai

Founder. - Canada DevOps Community of Practice, Chair ambassador program CDF, Canada DevOps Community of Practice

Garima Bajpai is a thought leader on DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of practice, Canada supported by Crowdbyte Solutions Inc. She is the Chair for the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. Some might know her as a published author... Read More →

Garima cdCon pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:35pm EDT

No K8s Expertise? No Problem. How to Use Open Source Ketch to Deploy Cloud Native Applications Without a K8s Skillset - Bruno Andrade, Shipa.io

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Ketch is a new and fully open source project for deploying and managing cloud native applications on any Kubernetes cluster *without* writing YAML configuration files. While Kubernetes is now the gold standard orchestrator for containerized and microservices-based applications, operating it requires overcoming a steep learning curve. Traditionally, successful Kubernetes deployments require developers to become experts in Kubernetes concepts, objects, and YAML file writing and management. Open source Ketch eliminates this complexity by deploying applications directly to Kubernetes clusters – rendering YAML files unnecessary and flattening the learning curve for developers. Ketch enables developers to focus on writing code rather than on infrastructure, and to deploy and run applications on Kubernetes with no expertise necessary.

Speakers

Bruno Andrade

CEO and Founder, Shipa

Bruno Andrade is the CEO at Shipa.io, a cloud native application management framework to manage the full application lifecycle. Previously, he has held engineering leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Oracle, and IBM, and was the CEO of HTBASE. Bruno also speaks regularly on cloud... Read More →

cdCon Bruno Andrade pdf

Thursday June 24, 2021 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT

Continuous Delivery

Technology Focus Other
Presentation Slides Attached Yes

4:35pm EDT

Is it Worth it? Four Metrics to Determine Platform Efficiency - Michael Stahnke, CircleCI

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A successful platform is normally measured by adoption and usage — important metrics to track to ensure you’re serving your internal customers. From a business perspective, though, you also need to show that your platform delivers a worthy return on the investment your organization makes to build, run, maintain and evolve it. Join CircleCI's VP, Platform, Mike Stahnke in this talk as he walks attendees through four key metrics to determine platform ROI and ways to put them into practice.

Speakers

Michael Stahnke

Vice President, Platform, CircleCI

Michael Stahnke is VP Platform at CircleCI running SRE, Security, and tooling. Prior to this, he worked at Puppet running Puppet Enterprise Engineering, Platform Engineering as well as SRE. He is an established author where he has co-authored State of DevOps Reports and State of Software... Read More →

Thursday June 24, 2021 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT

Technology Focus Other