The New York Times + HashiCorp
Details
Our next NYC HUG will be on Wednesday, April 11! We will discuss HashiCorp Vault, how the NY Times uses Vault, and the 0.10 release coming out that week.
TALKS
"Secrets in the Cloud with Vault (and Vault 0.10!)"
Chad Armitstead, Regional Director @ HashiCorp
Chad Armitstead heads up Solutions Engineering in the Northeast for HashiCorp. His background is in systems engineering, configuration management and release engineering. He recently moved back to the Northeast after covering Europe and the UK for HashiCorp. He's firmly in the 'dog person' camp, in case you're wondering.
"Managing and integrating Vault at the New York Times"
We will dive into how The New York Times is using Vault. We will
look at how we organize our secrets and how we manage the Vault configuration. We will look at how we provide isolation to our various development teams. Finally we will look at how applications integrate with vault to get their secrets at run time.
Prashanth Sanagavarapu, Director of Engineering @ The New York Times
Prashanth Sanagavarapu is leading multiple cloud infrastructure teams, evangelizing SRE and infrastructure as code practices. Prashanth is currently focused on building tools to empower application development teams and migrating 100+ applications to Google Cloud Platform. Prior to Times, Prashanth worked at companies like Concur, SuccessFactors leading DevOps teams.
Scott Stevenson, Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Scott Stevenson is focusing on cloud migrations, developer workflows, and security. Before joining the Times Scott was a privacy engineering graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University studying (and becoming paranoid of) the dark world of data collection.
Shawn Bower, Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ The New York Times
Shawn Bower is a Docker Captain who worked at Cornell University as their Cloud Architect. He has helped to move many of the University's workloads to Docker and the cloud. Shawn spent his time working with administrative units and researchers at Cornell helping to employ modern DevOps practices while moving their applications to the Cloud. Shawn has since moved to The New York Times where he works with development teams to move their applications to the cloud. In most cases, these moves involve Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes. He tweets at @drizzt51
SPONSORS
Blackstone is kindly hosting in their beautiful offices &
Fastly is sponsoring food and drinks to go around.