June Meetup - About Sketchnotes and using Ansible & PowerShell together!

We'd like to thank Sanderson Recruitment (https://www.sandersonplc.com/) for sponsoring this Meetup.

Agenda:

7.00pm - Arrival

7.15pm - Welcome / User Group Introduction - Jonathan Medd (https://twitter.com/jonathanmedd)

7.30pm - About sketchnotes - Matt Penny (https://twitter.com/salisbury_matt)

8.15pm - Break / Pizza / Refreshments

8.45pm - Using Ansible and PowerShell together - Jonathan Medd (https://twitter.com/jonathanmedd)

9.30pm - Wrap up / Close

Session 1:

About sketchnotes

If you've been to one of our previous Meetups, you may well have seen one of our regular attendees Matt making sketchnotes of each session and publishing online, e.g. https://twitter.com/salisbury_matt/status/1109043016105410560

They've proven very popular, so we thought it would be great for Matt to talk to us about how he makes them and the thought process behind it.

Matt will discuss:

• what sketchnotes are, hopefully with a bit of live demonstration)
• the way he does sketchnotes
• how doing sketchnotes has benefited him

Bio:

Matt is a Database and Automation Engineer at Simplyhealth. He has been working with powershell and sqlserver for 8 years or so, and with oracle and various flavours of unix for many years before that. He has been putting sketchnotes on the internet since 2013.

Session 2:

Ansible is becoming an increasingly popular tool for automation and orchestration of IT infrastructure. In this session we will take an introductory look at Ansible as a platform and then some real-world examples, insight and tales from the trenches when using it with PowerShell and Windows based systems.

Bio:

Jonathan is a Cloud Automation Engineer at Atos. A PowerShell MVP since 2010 and VMware vExpert since 2011, he is the co-author of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference 1st and 2nd editions and co-organiser of both PSDayUK, a PowerShell one day conference in the UK, and PowerShell Southampton.