Welsh Azure User Group - A Very Merry DevOps!

10th December 2020 6.30pm-8.30pm AGENDA:

We are so excited to be able to confirm our Welsh Azure User Group Christmas Present - A very Merry DevOps!

Join us in your best Seasonal Attire, we want hats, tinsel, lights for a cameras ON event!!! Lets have some fun, don't forget your mince pies and tipple of choice as this evening will be one to remember!

We are super excited to be joined by Abel Wang and April Edwards of Microsoft fame to take us through an incredible and exciting evening of DevOps Goodness! Full agenda below, but may be tweaked to suit any last minute changes!

The bridge will be open from 6.15pm for people to join before we kick of promptly at:

6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping

6.45pm - Abel Wang - Real World DevOps
Abstract
It is now 2020 and good DevOps practices are no longer just nice to have. It is absolutely necessary to continuously deliver value to our end users. Yet this isn't easy to do right. Unfortunately, all the flashy Hello World DevOps demos we see at conferences don’t really help us figure out how to do DevOps in the real world. They don’t even let us know what is possible.

In this session, we change all of that. We explore the why's and the how. Why is DevOps important? Why do we care? How do we implement DevOps best practices? And finally, we will do a real world deep dive.

Starting from nothing at all except source code (and I mean NOTHING. No infrastructure at all) we end with a complex modern application deployed all the way out into production hosted in the cloud.

We touch on modern technologies and techniques. From Infrastructure as Code to setting up DNS. From web front ends, to deploying databases. From API's hosted in Kubernetes clusters all he way to mobile apps. And we do everything from within our pipelines. With the right tooling, anything is possible. And in this session, you will see all this happen live with DevOps best practices including IaC, Database DevOps, Security, Quality and even disaster recovery!

7.30pm - April Edwards - A/B Deployments with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions

Join April where she will be taking the group through the exciting concepts and methods of A/B deployments specifically using ADO toolsets and how deployments are automated with GitHub Actions

8.15pm - Quiz time!

9.00pm - Approx Close

We really look forward to seeing you at the meet up!!!!