AWS Usergroup Dublin MeetUp #14 RSVP

AWS Usergroup Dublin MeetUp #14

Thanks to Sponsors:

Mongo DB (http://www.mongodb.com)

Version 1 (http://www.version1.com)

Infinity Data Centres (http://www.infinitysdc.com)

Agenda:

17:45 – Doors Open / Registration / Networking / Grab a Drink

18.00 – START - AWS User Group, Dublin

Intro to Speakers & Sponsors with Jason O'Conaill

18.10: Ronan Guilfoyle from AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/)

What's new this month from AWS. Update from the world of AWS and recent technology developments. This is a must attend presentation for those working and innovating with AWS.

18:40: Rob Jennings & Oisin de Condúin from Version1 (http://www.version1.com)
Rob and Oisín from Version 1 will talk about the automation framework they’ve built to help manage their AWS customers. Using Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, and internal tools Version 1 are able to automate, control, and audit deployments to AWS.

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19:10 Networking break - Drinks & Food

19:40:

Joe Drumgoole from Mongo DB (http://www.mongodb.com)

AWS is one of the most popular platforms for MongoDB deployments. In this talk Joe will give a brief overview of MongoDB and then go into detail on what users need to do to maximise their performance and data resilience in an AWS context.

20:10: Joe Heung from Logentries (http://www.logentries.com)

Title: Workflows with Configuration Management Tools

Abstract: In Rapid7 we use a collection of tools for configuration management, in particular Chef. We will look into how as a startup we utilised Chef for creating our development environment, and used the same process for going to production. Continuing on into the lessons learned from following this workflow and how we currently go from development to production. Also looking into our Chef cookbook development process and how we use the Jenkins DSL and kitchen for testing infrastructure code.

Bio: Joe Heung is a DevOps Engineer in Logentries who were recently acquired by Rapid7 with a main focuses on automation in the cloud. Joe holds a Masters Degree in Information and Communications Technologies from Waterford Institute of Technology.

20:40: Prize Giving & Wrap Up and More Networking

Note:

This is your opportunity to meet with other members!

Speakers will also be available to answer any queries not covered in their respective Q&A's.

Food is also provided courtesy of our sponsors and we may even play some music.

Members interested in getting involved with the running of the user group should chat to Jason or Ronan during the break.

We're also always on the lookout for new speakers and sponsors, so if you've got recommendations to make on these fronts, please do so during the break.

Enjoy!