Cloud - From Different Angles

We have covered a range of topics over the last couple of years, the nature of DevOps means that covering every tool in the market could allow for a MeetUp every day of the year.

As the saying goes, "there is more than one way to skin a cat"

For this MeetUp we have 3 speakers lined up from local organisations, with talks looking at cloud delivery from different angles.

Alex Dibbo from Science and Technologies Facilities Council

OpenStack for Science in STFC

Talk Description:
In this talk I will cover what we run, who we run it for and some of the pain points we have had in delivering computing resources to researchers in STFC

About Alex:
I am the Cloud Architect for the OpenStack Cloud within the Scientific Computing department of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). I have spent the last 5 years working at STFC on designing, building and running the OpenStack Cloud to support a variety of scientific use cases.

Prior to that I worked at a small company which produces software for recruitment agencies, doing a variety of different things over the years from software support to development to consultancy to eventually becoming the network manager.

Dushyant Priyadarshee from Sharp Life Science

Practicing DevOps with Azure DevOps

Talk Description:
The aim of the talk is to present an introduction into Azure DevOps and explain as well as hopefully excite the audience towards the 'ease of use' of Azure DevOps.

Although it is a Microsoft Product and this talk will mainly use C# .NET projects and NuGet package feed during demonstrations, the same principles can be applied to other development technologies.
Microsoft has provided excellent integration support for other technologies on Azure DevOps.

During the demo, we shall look at build pipeline, release pipeline, creating and using a nuget feed.

About Dushyant
Dushyant has roughly ten years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer, mainly using Microsoft Technologies among others. As a developer, he works with C# .Net and desktop Development. With an inclination towards DevOps, automation and faster secure delivery of software, Dushyant has used Cruise Control.Net, Jenkins, Team Foundation Server in the past and has recently (<1year) been converted to being an Azure DevOps fan.

James Bloomer from Kudos

Incremental Kubernetes Implementation

Talk Description
This talk is a description of how the small team at Kudos started from zero use, and knowledge, of Kubernetes and incrementally increased that up to the point where the new Kudos product is implemented almost entirely on top of Kubernetes. The talk will cover our approach for staging that implementation, summarise what we learned along the way and offer ideas about what you could learn or try from our approach.

About James
James Bloomer is CTO of Kudos. He has many years experience in architecture, design, development and leading teams. Some of the interesting products he has worked on include CRM systems for banks, a CMS site for a world rally team and a product that processed the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn firehoses. He has a PhD in Particle
Physics, having worked at CERN, but has forgotten more physics than most people ever learn.