A DevOps State of Mind. OpenStack L.A. January '15 Meetup

Thanks for being patient everyone! But I think the wait will be worth it. Here are the details for our January '15 meetup...

Presentation Abstract

Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization.

In this presentation, you’ll learn about:

• The acceleration of application delivery for businesses with DevOps.

• The transformation of IT to a DevOps, Microservices, and Container-based cloud architecture including the use of Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic host, Docker, Google’s Kubernetes, and Jenkins

• How DevOps practices can operate in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)-enabled environment.

• PaaS and DevOps, when used together, can reduce software delivery cycle times, drive automation, and increase efficiency.

• How organizations are using PaaS and how to replicate their successes.

Join Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, West at Red Hat, as he walks through how DevOps can accelerate application delivery for business.

Speaker Bio
Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist for the Western U.S. at Red Hat, has over 20 years of experience in IT and software. Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners with a focus on emerging technologies including IaaS, PaaS, and DevOps. He started his career at Intel in IT and Managed Hosting followed by leadership roles in Services and Sales Engineering at Loudcloud and Linux startups. Chris holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and found his passion in technology as a C and Smalltalk developer.

Agenda

7:00P – 7:40P: Eating, drinking, mingling, and networking

7:40P – 7:45P: Group announcements and speaker introduction

7:45P – 8:45P: Presentation/Q&A

8:45P – 10:00P: More eating, drinking, mingling, and networking