Monthly Meetup

Our Monthly Meetup!

This month, we've moved back an extra week and switched a Wednesday, but we're being hosted by the awesome folks over at Equifax! There are no special instructions for parking, but once you arrive please head to the lobby; someone will be there to greet you and sign you in.

Also this month we've managed to secure Michael Greene for a Presentation on the Release Pipeline Model.

The Release Pipeline Model:

'There are benefits to be gained when patterns and practices from developer techniques are applied to operations. Notably, a fully automated solution where infrastructure is managed as code and all changes are automatically validated before reaching production. This is a process shift that is recognized among industry innovators. For organizations already leveraging these processes, it should be clear how to leverage Microsoft platforms. For organizations that are new to the topic, it should be clear how to bring this process to your environment and what it means to your organizational culture. This presentation explains the components of a Release Pipeline for configuration as code, the value to operations, and solutions that are used when designing a new Release Pipeline architecture.'

Michael Greene:

Michael Greene is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in the Enterprise Cloud Group division. Michael is the PowerShell & DevOps lead for the CAT team (Customers, Architecture, and Technology). He drives customer feedback in the areas of management and automation, creates content to improve the customer experience, and provides a connection to engineering for projects that are adopting new products and technologies. Previously he worked in Office 365 operations where he gained experience using PowerShell to manage environments at cloud scale.

Other:
We've been working on getting our documentation and organizational business consolidated in our github repository (https://github.com/stlpsug/stlpsug), which the waffle is linked to. We've also now got a gitter (https://gitter.im/stlpsug/stlpsug) chat room set up for the group at large and the organizational business specifically. Feel free to submit requests and chat with us if you have any questions or comments! If you need an invite to gitter or want to be added to the repository, let one of us know here, on Twitter (https://twitter.com/STLPSUG), by email (stl.psug@outlook.com), or however else you can manage to get a hold of us!