NoVA DevOps Sept Meetup at CapitalOne

Note:

Please park in 1750 Tysons Blvd garage to get your parking validated.

Address: 1750 Tysons Blvd, McLean, VA 22102

Meetup Summary:

We are hosting our September 19th Meetup at CapitalOne in McLean, VA -- featuring presentations on monitoring applications with ELK and New Relic, and managing AWS resources effectively with Jenkins and aws-cli. The presentations will showcase practical technical examples.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, and eat!

• 7:00 - 7:15 - Introductions, and Announcements

• 7:15 - 8:30 - Presentations, Discussions, etc.

• 7:15 - 7:45 - Monitoring: The All-Seeing Eye - Harness the power of data

Presented by Kiran Veeravelly

Robust monitoring is one of the key principles of DevOps. In this session, we will talk about how to leverage “ELK” stack for application monitoring/business metrics, “New Relic” and “Cloud Watch” for application health and metrics. In addition, we will go over the best practices to build a robust monitoring solution.

• 7:45 - 7:50 - 5min break and refueling

• 7:50 - 8:05 - CICD Pipeline as Code

Presented by Karun Komirishetty

Having a strong CICD pipeline empowers teams to push features quickly and deliver confidently to production. In the session, we will cover how Jenkins along with Groovy and Jobs DSL can be used to build and manage the CICD pipeline as code instead of manual configuration.

• 8:05 - 8:20 - AWS Resource Management

Presented by Kien Do

Managing AWS resources appropriately can save a lot of money over time. We will go over some techniques to automate AWS resource management like automatic rehydration, automatic shutdown of EC2 instances with Jenkins and aws-cli/cloud-formation templates.

• 8:20 - 8:35 - Q&A, Discussions, Networking

Present / Sponsor / Contact:

Send your future talk proposals or sponsorship requests to:

--> #novadevops-meetup channel on dctech.slack.com

--> email: novadevops@gmail.com

--> @karlp on dctech.slack.com

Thanks! We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 19th.

Meetup Sponsors:

• Refreshments: CapitalOne (non-alcoholic)

• Food: CapitalOne

• Location

--> https://www.capitalone.com/
--> CapitalOne, 1750 Tysons Blvd, McLean, VA 22102
--> Conference Room "LL" -- 1750 Building (adjacent to Ritz-Carlton)