[Online] Answering the unanswerable question with GitOps

⏳ Agenda:
18:30 - 19:00: Tech checks with speakers & attendees.
19:00 - 19:05: Welcome
19:05 - 20:00: Steve Wade - Answering the unanswerable question with GitOps
20:00 - 20:30: Q&A
20:30 - 20:35: Jetbrains license giveaway
20:35 - 21:00: Socialising / Networking via Chime

📖 Abstracts:
When Steve arrived at Mettle he was asked a question by senior management which he and his team could not answer. This talk will explain how GitOps has enabled them to be able to answer it. Steve will talk about the lessons learnt along the way, the tooling and processes he has helped put in place and what is left to do to complete the journey.

📢 Speaker:
Steve Wade currently works in the Platform Team at Underwrite Me in London. Prior to this current role, Steve was a Platform Lead at Mettle helping them build out their GitOps centric platforms. You may have heard him speak on The Art of Modern Ops podcast by WeaveWorks as well as on TGIK. Before Mettle, Steve was a Principal Kubernetes Consultant at Apprenda, providing Kubernetes training and implementation services. Steve has served in technology leadership roles across multiple verticals including real estate, gaming, and the UK parliament. Steve has a BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing.

Steve has a BSc in Computer Science from Portsmouth University and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing.
Blog: https://medium.com/@swade1987
Twitter: https://twitter.com/swade1987
GitHub: https://github.com/swade1987

🏚️ Online
We will be streaming the event via Amazon Chime, details will be visible when you RSVP.

💸 Sponsors:
Jetbrains for giving away a full license to one of their products

📋 Code of Conduct
Please see our Code of Conduct here: https://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-DevOps/pages/21932587/Code_of_Conduct/