Welsh Azure User Group - EVENT (February 2023)

SAVE THE DATE! - 15th February 2023 6.30pm-8.30pm GMT
AGENDA
The bridge will be open from 6.00pm for people to join before we kick of promptly at:

6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping

6.45pm – Kristina Devochko - @kristhecodingu1

• Deploying microservices to AKS with Azure DevOps Environments and multi-staged Azure Pipelines
• There are a lot of different ways you can set up Continuous Deployment to AKS - many of these ways may mean introducing a new tool. Introducing a new tool will require competence development, increased maintenance, auditing and operating needs - not to mention that it will be a new external tool to add to your supply chain.

But what if you could utilize additional capabilities of the tool that you already have? That's where Azure DevOps Environments and multi-staged Azure Pipelines come into picture! If you're actively using Azure DevOps and have all of your source code stored there, it can be easier and more lightweight for you to utilize Azure DevOps Environments as a deployment tool.
In this session I will talk about what Azure DevOps Environments are and what can be the benefits of using it. I will also share recommendations on how to group Kubernetes resources in ADO Environments based on my experience.

I will also demonstrate a whole flow from checking in your microservice to setting up an Azure DevOps Environment that will target an AKS cluster that the microservice will be deployed to, and a deployment stage in the build pipeline that will execute the deployment itself based on the newly created ADO Environment.
We'll also take a look at additional policies and checks you can set up for an ADO Environment in order to implement even more granular control over your deployment to critical environments like production environment.

Finally, we'll take a look at how much information you can retrieve directly from Azure DevOps once the application is deployed in AKS, both when it's running successfully and when something goes wrong and starts failing - without the need to interact with AKS cluster directly or learn kubectl :)

7.30pm – Tim Warner - @techtrainertim

• 2023: Microsoft Azure Trends to Watch Out For
• In this session Tim shares what he sees as the "biggest picture" trends in Microsoft Azure for 2023 and beyond. You can use this valuable information to forecast and guide your public cloud journey.

8.15pm - Quiz time!

8.30pm - Approximate Close!