The Twelve Clouds of Christmas: Year Six

It's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of CloudAustin! Email (austin-cug-admin@googlegroups.com) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list.

You can see previous years' 12 Clouds lineups for 2015 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/226373629/), 2014 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/212248062/), 2013 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/140828762/), 2012 (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-cloud-user-group-meeting-december-18-2012-tickets-4922596619), and 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1BT9T2tcw). Talks are OK, demos are better, strict 5 minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on!

The Austin Monitoring Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Monitoring-Meetup/), Austin DevOps (https://www.meetup.com/austin-devops/), Docker Austin (https://www.meetup.com/Docker-Austin/), Microservices and Containers Austin (https://www.meetup.com/Microservices-and-Containers-Austin/), Austin Quality Software Development (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Quality-Software-Development-Meetup/), and the Agile Austin DevOps SIG (https://www.meetup.com/AgileAustin/) will be joining us for this festive holiday celebration - other local tech user groups who want to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, just email us!

Speakers

1. "cyber punch me in the throat - a fairly secure jump host using yubikeys, and other cool shit" by Paul Czarkowski

2. "All I want for Christmas is Oracle in a container" by Karthik Gaekwad

3. "Alexa, play christmas music!!" by Revanth Reddy

4. "Alexa, help me manage my cloud"- Lee Fox and Ryan Vanderwerf

5. "Checkmate" - 5 min demo of a watchdog and recovery daemon by Peco Karayanev

6. "Cloud Storage: Grinch to Grin" Talk+Demo by Jason Echols

7. "Using AWS Config for Security and Cost Optimization" by Vijay Bheemineni

8. "A container network performance tool" by Lee Calcote

9. "Elementary: IBM Watson in 5 minutes" by Oliver Rodriguez

10. "Even the Rebel Alliance had a plan" - a foundation for migration" by Sam Barbeau

11. "5 minute deploy Kubernetes on AWS & Google" by Rob Hirschfeld

12. "Automate security like a boss!- how to automate cloud security" by Cliff Turner

13. "How Snowflake shows you how to handle a blizzard of JSON data" by Mark Gale

14. Your Name Here

Sponsors

Because this is a large, festive event, we have room for multiple sponsors. If you have an idea of something else to sponsor tell us! Dinner, dessert, booze, and door prizes are all good.

Meal: Pok-E-Jo's from AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/)!

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Beer: Riverbed (https://www.riverbed.com/products/steelhead/steelhead-saas.html)

Holiday Treats: Ambonare (http://www.ambonare.com/)

Speaker Gifts: DevOps Days Austin

Door Prize 1: Bose Headphones from DevOps Days Austin (http://www.devopsdaysaustin.com/)

Door Prize 2: BB-8 Droid from DevOps Days Austin (http://www.devopsdaysaustin.com/)

Door Prize 3: Lego TIE Fighter from DevOps Days Austin (http://www.devopsdaysaustin.com/)

Door Prize 4: Lego X-Wing from DevOps Days Austin (http://www.devopsdaysaustin.com/)

Door Prize 5: iPad from Snowflake (https://www.snowflake.net/)

Door Prize 6: Echo Dot from OnPrem (http://www.onprem.com)

Door Prize 7: $100 gift card from Visa (https://usa.visa.com/about-visa.html)

Door Prize 8: $50 gift card from CloudPassage (https://www.cloudpassage.com/)

Door Prize 9: Backpack and assorted swag from AlienVault (https://www.alienvault.com/)