DevOps Exchange July

DevOps Exchange July will return back to the Sainsbury's offices in
Holborn.

Firstly we will hear from Tom Wilkie from Grafana Labs sharing his tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Prometheus monitoring. We will also hear from Ali Aktar and Irfan Ansari from ApplyingAgile taking us into their experience of DevOps and Hashistack on the Google Cloud platform.

Finally, Iain Gray from Elsevier will take us through his journey of DevOps in the Enterprise and how to evolve a company in this way successfully.

Please see 3 x 20 mins talks below:

Talk 1: Tom Wilkie @ Grafana Labs

Title: Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus

Prometheus has become the defacto monitoring system for cloud native applications, with systems like Kubernetes and Etcd natively exposing Prometheus metrics. In this talk Tom will explore all the moving part for a working Prometheus-on-Kubernetes monitoring system, including kube-state-metrics, node-exporter, cAdvisor and Grafana. You will learn about the various methods for getting to a working setup: the manual approach, using CoreOS’s Prometheus Operator, or using Prometheus Ksonnet Mixin. Tom will also share some little tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Prometheus monitoring, including the common pitfalls and what you should be alerting on.

Bio: Tom is VP Product at Grafana Labs, but really he is a software engineer. Previous Tom founded Kausal, a company working on Prometheus, and worked at companies such as Weaveworks, Google, Acunu and XenSource. In his spare time, Tom likes to make craft beer and build 3D printers

Talk 2: Ali Aktar @ ApplyingAgile & Irfan Ansari @ ApplyingAgile

Title: Its not all about Kubernetes - DevOps and Hashistack on GCP

Google Cloud with full Hashistack using terraform as infrastructure as code. CI/CD using jenkins and Nomad for container deployment.

Bio: Ali Aktar and Irfan Ansari have worked independently for many years in various contract and perm roles in the UK and abroad. A year ago they joined forces with several other SME's to form a specialist organisation delivering DevOps and Cloud transformation expertise to multinational companies. Their particular specialism is using Hashistack tools in multi cloud environments and attempting to solve difficult problems that others have yet to attempt.

Talk 3: Iain Gray @ Elsevier

Title: The Three-legged Stool - Devops in the Enterprise

A journey through the evolution of a company and its devops function and a look at how to do this successfully using policy as code.

Bio: Iain is a devops manager and cloud architect of far too many years experience to note. He started back in the day of 3.5" floppy disks and has managed to keep up with the changing face of operations while still maintaining both his sanity and sense of humour. Iain is focused on large scale cloud transformations and how the changing operations dynamic affects operational maturity in production.

We'll again have a pizza, followed by drinks and a tab at the local pub to continue the discussion.

Hope to see you there!

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