Devops Melbourne July 2020 (Online)

Hello All,

In order to help with social distancing and still staying connected with our DevOps Community, we have decided to host our meetups online for the time being.

This time we are excited to be collaborating with MyDevSecOps(https://www.mydevsecops.io/) to host this event. It will be live streamed on MyDevSecOps YouTube channel.

CONFIRMED TALKS:

Talk 1

Speaker: A special guest - Patrick Debios, Pioneer of DevOps Movement 😇

Patrick coined the term "DevOps" back in 2008 which as we all know started a movement in the technology industry.

To name a few references,
He is also an author in "DevOps Handbooks - How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organisations"

Talk title and Abstract:
We have learned that we need to trust others, but as our parents used to say - don’t trust strangers. So we secure our production server more than ever. Yet, there is this no-man's land: “the build server”. We think it’s time to take a closer look at some of the good practices around securing builds & artifacts to improve our day to day level of trust.

Development has changed over the years, from doing everything yourself to a 3rd party package for every function. Operations has changed too, running your own servers is now considered an exception. To the cloud! We have learned that we need to trust others, but as our parents used to say - don’t trust strangers. So we secure our production server more than ever.

Yet, in the middle sits this no-man's land: “the CI server”. We think it’s time to take a closer look at some of the good practices around securing builds & artifacts to improve our day to day level of trust. With Marked Sherman statement “Development is now assembly” in mind, the talk will focus more on the package/artifact/repository aspect. Less on the app security inside the code itself or at the OS/Machine level.

During this talk he will discuss in detail about:

• How much of our work is based on gut feeling & trust using examples from metadata, binaries, and repositories
• How to provide trust to others that build upon your software
• How this ties into the concept of “reproducible builds” and “Software Bill of Material”
• How this notion of trust applies to both people and technology

Let’s take ownership of your trust , we are already responsible when things go wrong anyway.

Talk 2

Speaker: Natalia Djohari

Title: Achieving DevOps - lessons learned from a past project

Abstract: In starting a project, there are plenty of things to consider from whether a solution is suitable or what the right tech stack should be. However, the one thing that is not often told is the developer experience and how it grows. Here are the lessons learned from a recent project to highlight the problem and challenges faced before eventually achieving a DevOps culture.

Special Note:
This particular event will also be streamed live on MyDevSecOps YouTube channel.

Note: We will be using zoom webinar for this event. If you would be joining us, it would be useful to download it before. We will share the webinar link just before the day of the event.

For future events:
If you've got an idea for an interesting talk about DevOps, infrastructure, security, observability, cloud, platforms or you want to share your or team's DevOps journey with others or anything in between, let us know here or feel free to connect with us on LinkedIn!

Talks can run anywhere between 15 to 40 mins.

Feel free to reach out to us here or on LinkedIn with your Talk title, Abstract.

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