Zurich HUG #1: Inaugural event

Hi everyone!

It is our pleasure to announce the launch of the Zurich HashiCorp User Group with a great selection of speakers.

Agenda:

18:30 - 18:35: Arrival and networking
18:35 - 18:40: Organizer's welcome message,
18:40 - 18:50: Host's welcoming message,
by Lucas Bickel, Sr. Software Engineer, Adfinis SyGroup

18:50 - 19:15: HashiConf Recap
by Christoph Puhl, Sr. Solutions Engineer, HashiCorp

This talk will give a quick recap about the announcements made at HashiConf, San Francisco in October.

19:15-19:45: Using Terraform as your Everything as Code tool
by Basil Brunner

Terraform is a well known Infrastructure as Code tool. It is ideal for managing cloud infrastructure at AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. However, thanks to a provider model, Terraform can talk to many more services. In this presentation, the basic working principles of Terraform are briefly reviewed. The speaker will also share some important lessons he has learned from using Terraform for more than three years.

19:45 - 20:00: break, networking, pizza & drinks

20:00 - 20:30: Deploy managed Kubernetes (OKE) with Terraform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
by Andreas Postl, Cloud Platform Architect, Developer Evangelist at Oracle

Latency and high availability matters for critical workloads. In this talk we show you the design principles and building blocks behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, how infrastructure as code (e.g terraform) can be used to simplify and speed up provisining of an architecute presented in a live demo.

20:30 - 21:00: Terraform modules and best-practices
By Anton Babenko

Anton will talk about different aspects when using Terraform - from common problems and solutions to best practices. During the talk, he will also cover Terraform modules (eg, https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules), how to use them in a typical Terraform project, and what are the limitations of Terraform modules. The talk will be rather interactive with real code, so feel free to bring your problems and questions.

21:00 - : Beers, pizza, networking

About the speakers:

Anton Babenko
Anton Babenko is a long time developer, CTO, and tech-lead who is spending a large amount of his time as an open-source contributor to various Terraform & AWS projects, terraform-aws-modules and a few others. The most popular one is where he manages a collection of verified Terraform AWS modules (terraform-aws-modules on GitHub) which has been downloaded more than 1,5 million times. The newest one is about Terraform best practices www.terraform-best-practices.com . He also leads AWS, DevOps and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and speaks often at various technical meetups and conferences.

Basil Brunner
Basil Brunner is a Software & IT Operations Engineer. He's involved in the development and operation of SaaS applications and gives particular importance to leveraging the benefits of cloud native services. The DevOps culture is one of his great passions. He is constantly looking for ways to improve the way software is brought to production as quickly and save as possible.

Andreas Postl
Andreas Postl is a Cloud Platform Architect and Developer Evangelist at Oracle. His main expertise is DevOps, Microservices, Docker, Wercker, CI/CD and Oracle Kubernetes Engine. Before Oracle Andreas was a Software Architect at UBS and Global Head of JAVA EE Development at Credit Suisse.

Christoph Puhl
Christoph is working at HashiCorp as Sr. Solutions Engineer for the DACH region. Before joining HashiCorp Christoph worked at VMware in a european team of networking specialists with a focus on VMware NSX integration into Kubernetes and additionally focussing on all security related topics within the VMware portfolio. Over the last 10 years his technical focus was all about datacenter networking, network virtualization and network automation and he still owns an active CCIE certification.

Special thanks to Adfinis SyGroup AG for providing the location/apero for the event.