infracoders Melbourne February

Hello Infracoders!

Please join us to talk about anything related to infrastructure as code. Thoughtworks Australia have kindly offered to host the Infracoders meetup and will supply food and beverages.

We usually have 2 technical talks per meetup. We start at 6pm and will be finished by 8pm. Please note there's a quick electronic sign-in process at Reception when you arrive at the office.

Presentation 1 "Cut dev cycles from hours to seconds" - Dan Baker, MetalBear.
Have you ever made a one line code change and then waited 30 minutes for a CI run to test it in a staging environment? Test changes instantly using mirrord, an open source project that allows you to run code locally, but in the context of a Kubernetes cluster.

Presentation 2 "Terraform vs GitOps - comparing two philosophies of deploying Kubernetes infrastructure." - Angus McInnes, REA.
A Kubernetes-based compute platform involves many interdependent components deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. One approach to deploying such a platform is using Terraform, which tracks dependencies between components and deploys them in the appropriate order. Another approach is to follow a GitOps philosophy, storing Kubernetes manifests in a Git repository and using ArgoCD to continuously synchronise the state of the cluster with the repository. I'll demonstrate and compare these two approaches.

If you'd like to present please contact infracoders organisers via Meetup with a

• talk topic
• one paragraph description
• estimate of the time you'll need (20 minutes or shorter is best)

As always, please update your RSVP as your availability changes. All venues have space considerations for safety and comfort of Infracoders.
Please contact the organisers if you'd like to present a topic relevant to the group or host a meetup at your office.