** CANCELLED! ** (due to Rail strike) - The LondonIAC Meetup 18

Welcome to another In-Person meetup!

On Thursday 15th September, we're teaming up with G-Research for our latest meetup and will be holding the event onsite at their London Headquarters near Goodge Street. G-Research will be providing the refreshments and also the Pizza as we get back into the swing of learning something new and having an opportunity to network with our peers again.

The nearest Tube Station is Goodge Street.

** Entrance Information ** G-Research require both first and last name as part of their entrance policy [This is central London after all!] I will provide G-Research with a list of attendee names on the morning of the meetup. If you don't have a first and last name on your meetup profile, I'll contact you and ask if you can complete your name. Thank you.

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I'll hopefully be recording the talks so you can catch up on our YouTube Channel from Friday 16th September - Subscribe here.

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Tonight we have two excellent talks lined up so it's well worth a visit if you're in town. It should be a good evening.

Agenda:

18:00: G-Research Opens their doors. Grab a drink and have a chat with the other attendees as they arrive. I'll be there to meet you when you arrive and so will the Pizza.

18:20: - Introduction by Dennis McCarthy.
I'm excited to welcome you all back after such a long time away!

18:25: A word from our Sponsors - G-Research would like to welcome you to their office and say a few words before we begin the talks.

18:30: Automating audit and compliance benchmarks - Mark Bolwell.
Using ansible to drive system compliance auditing and compliance for recognised security benchmarks.

19:15 - If you can - doesn't mean you should: lessons from terraforming clouds - Natalie Godec.
We all love automation; the fewer steps needed to get something deployed - the better. Even if it means abstraction layer on top of abstraction layer - we all love our abstraction layers. Terraform, modules, wrappers and orchestration tools allow for an increasingly more sophisticated code - but where do you draw the line?

In this talk, we will explore the boundaries of infrastructure as code and look for the balance between abstraction and maintainability.

19:45: - Closing comments.

Now, it's time to grab a drink and have a chat with your fellow attendees and the speakers.

All the talks and any interactions with the attendees will be uploaded to our YouTube Channel so make sure you Subscribe here.

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BIOs:
Dennis Is the founder of the London Infrastructure as Code meetup and currently works as a Linux/Automation Engineer for WorldPay. He's also a published author and writes training courses on Ansible and DevOps tools for fun.

Mark Works as a Principal Automation Engineer for Mindpoint Group, Mark is a 20+yr career sysadmin who has assisted people all over the world adopting and writing automation. Is now assisting users and companies to achieve security compliance and adopting best practices through the use of automation.

Natalie is a systems/DevOps/cloud/platform engineer passionate about building secure distributed systems using the most fitting tech. She spent the last 3 years building a data platform for the digital healthcare scaleup Babylon, working with both AWS and Google Cloud and terraforming her way through. Outside of systems and clouds, she enjoys photography, tequila and designer bags.

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If you like what we do here at LondonIAC, please tell people about it (a LinkedIn follow and a share would also be great).

I'd love to get more people coming along and taking part and I can't do it without you so thanks for turning up and I hope you enjoyed the talks.