London HashiCorp Meetup #2

Hi Everyone!

We're back with our next event and looking forward to some more awesome talks!

Massive thanks to JustEat for providing a venue and beer/pizza!

So... The plan for the night is as follows;

6:30pm - Arrive. Beers, pizza and socialising

7:00pm - Talk 1 - Paul Stack - The Quest for Infrastructure Management 2.0

7:45pm - Talk 2 - John Benson - Using Nomad and Consul to deploy and discover applications

8:30pm - Leftover beers, pizza, socialising then on to a pub if people are keen.

Paul Stack - Former Development Lead @ OpenTable - The Quest for Infrastructure Management 2.0

The age old task of racking and stacking in a physical data centre is becoming more and more rare as more companies embrace the public cloud. Having the ability to chose between providers such as AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean and Google Cloud Platform makes creating infrastructure easy. It is better to spend time developing better services for our customers than managing infrastructure

During this talk, Paul will demonstrate how building a scalable infrastructure on AWS becomes easy with Terraform. The talk will demonstrate how using configuration management, pre-baked AMIs and auto-scaling groups it gives the ability for developers to be able to launch their own infrastructure when needed. The demo’s will include the ability to launch instances, databases and manage user access

By the end of the talk, Paul will have demonstrated that the creation of infrastructure now becomes part of the development lifecycle and that the old ways of system administration is fast moving to become infrastructure engineering. Paul will also demonstrate that the creation of new ‘environments’ are just a change of parameters in our infrastructure code

Jon Benson - Solutions Engineer @ HashiCorp - Using Nomad and Consul to deploy and discover applications

A technical deep dive into how to leverage HashiCorp's Consul for service discovery and Nomad for scheduling to deploy applications at scale