2 Talks: Apply CIS using Ansible/Packer + Agile Dev and Division of Labor

2 Talks: Applying the CIS Baseline using Ansible & Packer + Staffing Your DevOps Organization: Agile Development and the Division of Labor

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE 6:30!
• 6:30pm Doors open
• 6:30-7pm Social time
• 7pm: Speaker starts
• 9pm: Meeting ends

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Speaker 1: Richard Bullington-McGuire: Applying the CIS Benchmark using Ansible & Packer

Description: In this presentation we will talk about how to use an Image Bakery pattern to lock down an operating system with the CIS Benchmark using Ansible & Packer, and how to start down the path of getting the rest of the way there for compliance purposes. We will describe the CIS Benchmark in context, describe the approach, and show how we can improve our compliance with GitHub pull-request driven development, having Jenkins bake the images and perform a compliance scan. We will show a sample compliance matrix and show strategies to map issues requiring remediation to issues for tracking purposes. Viewers should leave with a solid strategy for dealing with sticky compliance issues where some open ended work might be required to fully remediate the situation.

Bio: Richard Bullington-McGuire is Principal Architect at Modus Create. Richard is a serial entrepreneur and versatile technologist with experience in agile processes, software development, system architecture, devops, mobile computing, for-profit and non-profit start-up companies, and design. He is a member of both IEEE and ACM.

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Speaker 2: Eugene Callahan: Staffing Your DevOps Organization: Agile Development and the Division of Labor

Description: The increased productivity brought about by the division of labor is a key insight of economics. This division reached in an extreme in the assembly lines of the 20th century, places where humans were asked not to think but to serve as capital goods, as flexible parts of a machine. The DevOps call to “break down silos” represents a reversal of that trend towards ever greater specialization. What is causing that reversal, and why is it happening now?

Bio: Gene Callahan is industry associate professor of computer science at New York University. He is the author of the books "Economics for Real People" and "Oakeshott on Rome and America," and has published dozens of papers and book reviews in academic and professional software engineering journals.

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We would like to thank our sponsor for this month's meetup:

Salt @ https://www.welovesalt.com

Salt is a specialist Digital Recruitment Agency helping companies digitally transform by scaling up technical, creative, and marketing/sales teams. Our technical expertise includes DevOps, AI//Machine Learning, Product and Engineering. Salt works with Agencies, Consultancies, Tech/Product and End companies. Simply put – Any company going through a digital transformation or helping their clients transform.