Tech Talks: Introduction to GitOps & GitOps Toolkit

Tech talks are short virtual events streamed directly to Cloud Native Nordics YouTube channel.

AGENDA:

13:30: Welcome by the Organisers
13:35: Introduction to GitOps by Alexis Richardson
13:45: GitOps Toolkit by Stefan Prodan
14:15: Q&A
14:30: Thank you and good bye!

TALKS:

TALK #1: Introduction to GitOps by Alexis Richardson
Alexis will give us an introduction to GitOps and why we should care about it.

TALK #2: GitOps Toolkit by Stefan Prodan
Join Stefan, who'll be sharing a recent experimental project, The GitOps Toolkit. It is a set of composable APIs and specialized tools that can be used to build GitOps pipelines on top of Kubernetes. Get a sneak peek of this early project by the Flux CD maintainers and help give feedback!

You can find the project here: https://github.com/fluxcd/toolkit

BIOS:
Alexis Richardson, CEO and Founder, Weaveworks
Alexis is the Founder and CEO of Weaveworks, and the former chairman of the TOC for CNCF. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.

Stefan Prodan, Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks
Stefan is a Developer Experience engineer at Weaveworks and an open source contributor to cloud-native projects like Flagger, FluxCD, Helm Operator, OpenFaaS and others. He worked as a software architect and a DevOps consultant, helping companies embrace DevOps and the SRE movement. Stefan has over 15 years of experience with software development and he enjoys programming in Go and writing about distributed.