Mitchell Hashimoto presents @ London HashiCorp 1st Meetup!

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the inaugural London HashiCorp User Group. We have a real cracker of a lineup for our 1st event so we are looking forward to seeing everyone there. Massive thanks to the guys at Sainsburys for providing the beer, pizza and venue! Much appreciated. Plan for the evening as follows;

6.30pm - Arrive beers and socialising

7.00 - Talk 3 - Nicki Watt - Lead Consultant @ OpenCredo and Brett Mack - Consultant @ OpenCredo

Writing a Terraform Provider

An introduction to writing a new provider for terraform, including key concepts and some of the lessons we learned while developing the vCloud Director Provider.

7.25 - Talk 2 - Andrew Brown and Alberto Blanco - Platform Engineers @ JustEat

Andrew - An overview of how JustEat Platform are adopting consul, consul-template, git2consul for configuration/service discovery and packer for our bakery.

Alberto - How the JustEat Acquired Platform Team use terraform as they begin to make an acquired platform scalable, reliable, etc

7.45 - Break - PIZZA!! Beers and socialising

8pm - Talk 1 - Mitchell Hashimoto - Founder and CEO of HashiCorp

Containerization makes it easier to package and deploy any application using a unified tool chain. As organizations are migrating, many have virtualized workloads that cannot be easily containerized, or application workloads such as static binaries and JVM applicatiothat do not benefit from containerization. To address the growing heterogeneity of workloads, HashiCorp has developed the Nomad scheduler.

Nomad is a globally aware, distributed scheduler designed to handle any type of workload on any operating system. Developers specify jobs using a high-level HCL specification, and Nomad manages the placement, scheduling, auto-healing and scaling automatically.

In this talk you will explore the Nomad architecture and how it can be used to handle the challenges of scheduling in a modern datacenter.

This should be an awesome start to the London HashiCorp User Group with speakers confirmed for our first three events expect to see a lot more!