Return of the *ONSITE* DevOps Exchange!

It's been 2 years, 2 YEARS! Since the last onsite DevOps Exchange London.

But good news the first DOXLON in 2 years, is finally officially happening.

Hosted by our good friends Funding Circle at their plush City based offices, we are back as an absolute belter of a line up, with talks from AWS, Funding Circle themselves and DOX favourite Henrique from Lytt.

Doors will open at 6:30pm and talks start at 7pm, 3 x 20 minute talks followed by refreshments. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic Drinks and Food will be provided. RSVP immediately to ensure your space.

Jon Hammant @ AWS

Building skills in a DevOps world – T, E, V, and Ven Shaped engineers

Synopsis: Jon will be running through the different skill development trees needed to succeed in the world of Cloud, DevOps, and SRE. He’ll be documenting out, how to bring Range into your career, what to focus on next to learn and grow, as well as tool to build a functioning, multi-skilled team. He will give clear actionable advice both for people starting or coming into the world of technology, as well as for experienced people looking to take their (or their team’s) careers to the next level. He’ll explain the concepts of T, E, V shaped skillsets, as well as looking into a new Ven Diagram based way of viewing your own unique blend of skills.

Bio: Jon leads the Compute business for UK & Ireland for Amazon Web Services, owning a number of key area of the AWS business for the region including EC2, Containers, Serverless, Networking, HPC, Outpost, Graviton and Visual Computing. Prior to joining AWS, he was a Managing Director at Accenture leading our DevOps and Full-Stack Engineering businesses for UK/IR. Before into consulting he was in a number of technical roles across Financial Services (Head of Infra at Standard Chartered, Architecture/Engineering at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and The London Stock Exchange).

Robert Ray Barnes (DevOps Rob) @ HashiCorp

Using Cloud Identities for application authentication to HashiCorp Vault

Centralising your secrets management platform and Identity Provider is an essential part of adopting a Zero Trust mindset, but one of the biggest challenges facing DevSecOps Engineers and Developers in this new paradigm is how systems and applications can get that initial secret that grants access to the secrets management platform. This is commonly referred to as `Secret Zero` and can’t be stored in plaintext in the application code due to the high risk of exposure.

In this talk, I’m going to show you a simple workflow that removes Secret Zero from application code and uses Cloud native identities to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. I will demonstrate how to attach Cloud identity to a workload and configure HashiCorp Vault’s auth methods to use this identity for Authentication. By the end of this demo, you will understand how to configure the cloud components, Vault and how to refactor a simple Go application to facilitate this workflow.

Henrique Rodrigues @ LYTT

Why Debian is not secure

Synopsis: GNU/Linux distributions in general have a reputation of being secure and taking care of their users, specially when package management is concerned. Debian is a shining beacon in this environment, although its security efforts regarding CVEs can be very inconsistent. Where does it fall short? Do other distributions fare better? Does yours? Let's tie everything up with CI pipelines and Docker containers, for good measure.

Bio:
Henrique Rodrigues is leading the DevOps team at LYTT where, among other things, he has a key that turns a laser on. 20 years ago his family held an intervention because he was "using Linux too much". It failed, but his main system was Gentoo on PowerPC, so they might have had a valid point.

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