January 2019 Meetup

We start at 6.10pm, quick introduction and then onto our speakers:

6.15pm:
How to create a system of Immutable Infrastructure by Gary Ewan Park.

Switching to a system of Immutable Infrastructure means that new machines are provisioned and swapped out with existing machines, which can then be destroyed.

This helps to reduce inconsistencies between servers, and as a result, improves the reliability of the deployment process.
In this talk, we will look at how we can use tools like Packer, Chocolatey and Terraform to help create a system for deploying Immutable Infrastructure.

We break around 7.15pm for food.

7.45pm:
Use a platform with a REST API? Make a module for it by Anthony Howell

Forget PHP, cURL, JavaScript, Ruby, Python and any vendor developed SDK. I'll show you my strategies for converting API doc's cURL commands to Invoke-RestMethod syntax, standardizing API calls with an Invoke-APICall cmdlet, and managing API credentials.

We finish at 8.45pm approximately.