Flexibility AND Standardization with Automation Frameworks and DevOps

Evolve your thinking - Flexibility AND Standardization with Automation Frameworks and DevOps with Michael Stahnke, Director of Engineering, Puppet

When the primary technologies you’re building upon and deploying are changing at a breakneck pace, the primitives of understanding and managing those technologies need to evolve as well. This is why DevOps practices, and automation frameworks, that emphasize cycle time, iterations, and common abstraction have become so valuable. Whether you’re deploying a war file to a J2EE application server, or thousands of containers to kubernetes, the actions you need to take are similar. You have testing, deployment, infrastructure creation, management, compliance, security and event management. In this discussion, I’ll cover keeping up with changing technologies by applying conceptual abstractions that map across generations of technology tooling. I’ll also provide concrete examples of how using devops methodologies allows your organization to get more done, all backed by data.

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Michael Stahnke, Director of Engineering, Puppet

Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering at Puppet. He's had a few roles at Puppet, and been a part of the company growing from 35 to 520+ employees. He's been heavily involved with release engineering and community throughout his tenure. He came to Puppet from Caterpillar, Inc. where he was an infrastructure architect, system administration team lead, and open source evangelist. Michael also helped get the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository off the ground in 2005, is the author of Pro OpenSSH (Apress, 2005), and rants continuously about technology and computers, while striving to learn more about them. He blogs at medium.com/@stahnma.