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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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Other

11:15am EDT

BoF Session: Jenkins X - James Strachan & James Rawlings, Cloudbees

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This BoF will be an open discussion on anything related to Jenkins X, automating Continuous Delivery, Kubernetes, cloud and how to Accelerate delivering value to your customers

Speakers

James Strachan

Software Engineer, CloudBees

James Strachan is one of the founders of the Jenkins X open source project. Jenkins X was developed from a desire on the part of James and his colleagues to help developers automate their CI/CD processes for cloud native applications, thus delivering business value faster. Previously... Read More →

James Rawlings

Software Engineer, Chainguard

James Rawlings is a software engineer with a passion for automation. He currently serves as an engineer at Chainguard, where he helps maintain 'Wolfi', previously worked in CI/CD open source communities.

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Jenkins X

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:10pm EDT

BoF Session: Ortelius - Tracy Ragan & Steve Taylor, DeployHub

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Moving to microservices? Come chat with the Ortelius community and learn how you can evolve your existing pipeline to support a microservice architecture. Ortelius is the CDF's newest incubating project. Ortelius is a microservice management platform that catalogs versions of microservices with their deployment meta-data built into your CD pipeline. Ortelius tracks your logical application, displays your service blast radius and serves as a central location for publishing and consuming services in a microservice architecture. If you are moving to a microservice architecture, the team can provide you with insights on how to evolve your pipeline to support a cloud native architecture. Learn about Ortelius tips and how to get started.

Speakers

Tracy Ragan

CEO and Co-Founder, DeployHub

Steve Taylor

CTO, DeployHub

Steve Taylor is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the area of microservices, supply chain, Kubernetes, DevOps process improvement, software build and release, and configuration management. Steve was designing continuous delivery pipelines for Fortune 1000 companies before... Read More →

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Ortelius

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

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Other

11:25am EDT

BoF Session: Tekton - Christie Wilson, Google & Andrea Frittoli, IBM

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A Birds of a Feather informal, open discussion around Tekton.

Speakers

Andrea Frittoli

Open Source Developer Advocate, IBM

Christie Warwick

Software Engineer, Google

Christie Wilson (Warwick) (she/her) is a software engineer with a passion for building quality software and having fun doing it. During her career she has worked in a wide range of domains from currency exchange to AAA games and is currently working on continuous delivery tools at... Read More →

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Tekton

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

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Other

2:55pm EDT

BoF Session: Continuous Delivery - Spinnaker @ Scale - Isaac Mosquera, Armory & Paul Roberts, AWS

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Join Isaac Mosquera, Paul Roberts and other industry experts including Adam Jordens of Netflix; Mark Huber of Cox Automotive; Robert Wen of Salesforce & Shrirang Moghe of Autodesk for this informal discussion on Spinnaker @Scale. It's the perfect opportunity to meet with project leaders and peers to share information and ask questions.

Speakers

Robert Wen

Lead Build and Release Engineer, Salesforce

Robert Wen is a lead build and release engineer at Salesforce. His team is responsible for DevOps, CI/CD and developer productivity. Prior to Salesforce, Robert has contributed to build automation and release management for Oracle, Google, Sony, and Splunk.

Adam Jordens

Netflix

Adam is an engineer and a long-time member of the Spinnaker community. He has been involved with the project since its inception and his team has responsibility for the ongoing development and operations of Spinnaker at Netflix. Previously, Adam helped build critical services for... Read More →

Mark Huber

Cox Automotive

Shrirang Moghe

Autodesk

Isaac Mosquera

CTO, Armory

Isaac is the CTO & Co-founder at Armory. He has been leading engineering and product teams at Armory engaged in the Spinnaker community since it was open-sourced in 2015. He has recently been elected to both the Spinnaker Steering Committee and the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s... Read More →

Paul Roberts

Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Paul Roberts is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Paul is an extremely technical and seasoned technologist who has spent the last decade engineering and implementing large scale infrastructure and security architectures for organizations of all sizes... Read More →

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Spinnaker

2:55pm EDT

BoF Session: Jenkins - Oleg Nenashev, CloudBees & Rick Zhao, Qingcloud

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This Birds of a Feather (BoF) session is an informal discussion about topics concerning the Jenkins community. 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 and talk about how the entire community can work together to push the ecosystem forward.

Speakers

Rick Zhao

Senior Software Engineer, Qingcloud

Rick is a senior software engineer in QingCloud, currently is a dedicated contributor to KubeSphere. He is focusing on the DevOps and open-source area. Especially he did a long-term contribution to the Jenkins community as the leader of Chinese Localization SIG. He is also the ambassador... Read More →

Oleg Nenashev

Community Builder, Gradle

Oleg is a developer tools hacker, community builder and DevRel consultant. He's passionate open source software, open ecosystems and open hardware advocate. Oleg is a core maintainer Jenkins project where he writes code, mentors contributors and organizes community events. He is a... Read More →

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Jenkins

2:55pm EDT

BoF Session: Screwdriver - Jithin Emmanuel & Venu Narayanabhatla, Verizon Media

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Birds of a Feather (BoF) session is an informal discussion about topics concerning the Screwdriver community. 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 and talk about how the entire community can work together to push the ecosystem forward.

Speakers

Jithin Emmanuel

Sr Mgr, Software Dev Engineering, Verizon Media

Jithin Emmanuel is a Senior Manager for Software Development at Verizon Media and a CDF Member. Jithin is also the product owner for Screwdriver, an open-source build platform designed for Continuous Delivery, and leads its product development. Jithin had given talks at CDCon 2020... Read More →

Venu Narayanabhatla

Senior Director, Software Dev Engineering, Verizon Media

Hi I am Venu Narayanabhatla , Lead the Developer Productivity Group at Verizon Media. We are part of Core Platforms that enable Verizon Media builders to develop, build, test, deploy and monitor their applications efficiently, securely at scale on both public and private clouds.My... Read More →

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

BoF Sessions

Technology Focus Screwdriver