What we’re about
DevOps West Michigan is a MeetUp group for people interested in learning about and sharing DevOps principles and practices.
The term DevOps is being used in several ways:
In its most broad meaning, DevOps is a philosophy or cultural approach that promotes better communication between the two teams.
In its most narrow meaning, DevOp is a job description for an employee who possesses the skills to work as a both a developer and a systems engineer.
(Definitions courtesy of Margaret Rouse from techtarget.com)
Some topics/products/ideas which might be of interest to DevOps:
Chef /Puppet / CFEngine / Ansible
Vagrant / Packer
Virtualization
Configuration Management
Security
Monitoring
Backups
Deployment
Versioning
Disaster Recover / Response
Package management
Workflows
Licensing
etc.
Schedule:
We hope to meet on the second Monday of every month. We are looking for speakers and topic suggestions.
If you're interested in speaking, or want to suggest a topic, please let Justin Kulesza or Mike English know.