Software Defined Infrastructure for DevOps

Hi everyone, Happy New Year! We decided to skip January as everyone was catching up after the holidays, but will do our first meetup this February with monthly meetups after that.

The first one will focus on Software Defined Infrastructure.

Same format as last year:

6:30pm: Arrive
7-8pm: Three 20 minute talks
8-9pm: Beers and Pizza
9pm onwards: Local pub

Look forward to seeing everyone again in 2015, watch this space for updates on speakers!

Summary

There are lots of cool tools that people are using for what the industry is calling 'Software Defined Infrastructure'. From Ansible, Cloudformation, Chef Metal, Heat, Terraform and a bunch of others. We've picked what we think are 3 interesting talks that demonstrate the power of this stuff. This is the engine that sits behind most self service deployment portals in companies.

Talk 1: Push infrastructure with Ansible (Paul Angus from shapeblue.com)

Ansible is one of the new breed of tools that encompasses configuration management, orchestration and software defined infrastructure. Find out how many companies are spinning up entire environments from source code including vm's, networks, dns, firewalls, load balancers etc.

Talk 2: Using Heat on OpenStack (Eric Williams from Rackspace)

Rackspace talk about how software defined infrastructure is done on their Rackspace cloud. If you're running OpenStack then this is a great way to learn how to take automation to the next level.

Talk 3: We did it our way! (Thomas Eskenazi and Yann Vigara from Net A Porter)

We're just finalising this talk. However, you can expect a top London technology company to discuss their own in-house deployment portal. Written from scratch based on user feedback to provide complete self service delivery to their internal customers.