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Webinar: SecDevOps: The Marriage of SecOps and DevOps

We’re now seeing a new “marriage” of SecOps and DevOps that is creating a whole new mentality for driving innovation inside and outside of organizations. DevOps and security teams are now actively collaborating as peers, rather than in the traditional requestor/approver relationship, and making a seat at the table for security professionals. With the rise of DevSecOps, we get to truly redefine how operations, engineering, and security can be brought together in harmony to achieve unparalleled success. DevSecOps is propelling forward-thinking organizations by doing something simple — fostering collaboration of seemingly contradictory teams to align their disparate goals into a singular effort.

Join devopsy.kinsta.cloud Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, award winning CTO and author Gene Kim, Intuit’s DevSecOps leader Shannon Lietz, and Evident.io cofounder and CEO Tim Prendergast as they discuss how accelerating security intelligence to keep pace with the continuously updated cloud environments enables teams to detect problems sooner, respond faster, and protect their resources more effectively.

Date: Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Time: 1:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

Your Host

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About the Panelists

Gene Kim is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and the upcoming DevOps Handbook. Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor around IT operational processes. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the 40 Innovative IT People Under the Age of 40 list, and was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.

Shannon Lietz is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where she is responsible for setting and driving the company’s cloud security strategy, roadmap and implementation in support of corporate innovation. Previous to joining Intuit, Ms. Lietz worked for ServiceNow where she was responsible for the cloud security engineering efforts. Prior to this, Ms. Lietz worked for Sony where she drove the implementation of a new secure data center and led crisis management for a large-scale security breach. She has founded a metrics company, led major initiatives for hosting organizations as a Master Security Architect, developed security software and consulted for many Fortune 500 organizations.

CEO Tim Prendergast co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he endured when helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. After years of building, operating, and securing services in AWS, he set out to make security approachable and repeatable for companies of all sizes. Tim led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.

November 13, 2015
DOES 2015 – Josh Corman, John Willis on Immutable Awesomeness

Continuing recapping my favorite sessions of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, here is Josh Corman and John Willis talking about Immutable Awesomeness. What is Immutable Awesomeness you ask? Have a listen to my interview with John and Josh and then listen into the actual session where they go over it.

Just a couple of hints: 1. Software supply chains are a great way to look at your development/deployment process 2.In a world where software controls everything, it really is a case of life and death 3. If you can’t get excited about what this all means, listen to the session again.

Of course what makes this interview and session great is the unbridled enthusiasm that both John and Josh bring to the subject. In fact there was a palpable buzz in the theater when they walked off the stage and over to my video studio. The same enthusiasm carried over to our interview too. It was a lot of fun to interview these two.

So have a listen and enjoy. Also if you enjoy John Willis presenting, he will be headlining the DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal on December 3rd, joining some other great speakers.

Here is John and Josh’s actual presentation:

November 13, 2015
DOES 15 – Jeffrey Snover on Windows Nano Server

One of my favorite presentations at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 was Jeffrey Snover of distinguished engineer at Microsoft talking about his 16 year quest to bring what is today called Windows Nano Server to market. Interestingly when I spoke with Gene Kim about what he thought were some of the best presentations of DOES he also brought up Snover’s presentation as well.

Windows Server without Windows was something once considered heretical from anyone at Microsoft. As Jeffrey relayed to me in the interview below and on stage, he paid a price for evangelizing for this. But today we have a version of Windows Server that has only 1/20th of the footprint of regular Windows Server. It runs on mainframes, command lines and has virtually (no pun intended) all of the functionality that you need for a server in the cloud without the GUI overhead that Windows usually brings.

As importantly for me, Jeffrey also gave us a glimpse of what it is like to work in Satya Nadella’s Microsoft. It sounds like a very different place than when Steve Ballmer was CEO. Is also sounds very refreshing as well.

Here is my interview with Snover:

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Here is Jeffrey’s actual presentation at DOES ’15

November 12, 2015
DevOps Days Ohio

The Inaugural DevOps Days Ohio is being held on November 18th and 19th at Bluestone in Columbus Ohio (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-ohio/ ). From fledgling startups to established industry, the Midwest is home to a large, vibrant technology community. Ohio in particular has been a flurry of activity in the past several years, drawing attention from around the globe.

There are over 300 people expected at the event to discuss culture and technology needed to improve the ways that organizations operate and deliver products to their customers. The keynote speakers include:

Courtney Kissler from Nordstrom, Vice President of E-Commerce and Store Technologies, who will be speaking on “Transforming to a Culture of Continuous Improvement” on Thursday morning.

Carmen DeArdo, Technology Director at Nationwide Insurance will be discussing the Columbus based company’s journey over the last several years which started with the application of Agile practices and has expanded to focus on improving their end to end delivery capability.

One common theme of both Courtney’s and Carmen’s talks will be on the application of lean practices as a key enabler of reducing delivery lead times.

Other keynote speakers include:

David Mortman, former Chief Security Architect at Dell

Malilka Iyer from Pivotal,

Fred Hatfull from Yelp,

Dustin Collins from Conjour

Kelly Looney and JP O’Donnell from CoverMyMeds.

Courtney and Carmen recently spoke at Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summits. You can see their interviews with Alan here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnigCNRJjp67gfI72P1Y9O8NqIv13PLW)

November 10, 2015
DOES 15 videos – Adrian Cockcroft
At this years DevOps Enterprise Summit we were very happy to partner with Gene Kim’s IT Revolution and Electric Cloud to conduct on site interviews with just about all of the speakers from this years conference, as well as many other attendees. All in all devopsy.kinsta.cloud conducted something like 86 video interviews over the 3 days of the Summit.

Over the coming weeks we will be highlighting some of the best of the best here for you. We will present them in different formats.Some will have commentary around their sessions, others will feature background info on the topic and speaker and finally we will have updated info for some of the others.

In that vein I wanted to lead off the series with this interview of none other than Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures and formerly Netflix. My conversation with Adrian touches on really just three questions:
1. What was his presentation about: Systems integration or systems thinking. It offered an inside look at the Netflix culture and talent density.
2. what did he think of DOES 2015 – Adrian is on the program committee though by his own admission he was a bit pre-occupied on other business this year to help too much. But like many who attended Adrian is was really impressed at how deep the penetration into different verticals were.
3. What does he see in the next 3-5 years for DevOps? Adrian says that companies that don’t adopt DevOps ways run the risk of disappearing.
if the short 7 minute interview above wasn’t enough, here is Adrian’s complete session at DOES 15 (warning it is 31 minutes long)
November 9, 2015
Webinar: Security Automation for DevOps

As organizations move more deeply into continuous development and deployment modalities, the importance of implementing continuous security behaviors becomes non-negotiable. Cloud environments undergo dramatic changes during deployments, auto-scaling events, and through natural growth. While static data center environments were simple enough to be evaluated by humans, the dynamic nature of cloud environments are too complex to adequately secure without automation. Your operational tools deliver continuous monitoring and alerting — why doesn’t your security suite?

Join devopsy.kinsta.cloud Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, Andrew Storms, Vice President of Security Services at New Context, and Evident.io cofounder and CEO Tim Prendergast as they discuss why DevOps shops need to automate key functions in order to ensure their Cloud Infrastructure Security.

Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

Time: 1:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

Your Host

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About the Panelists

Andrew Storms, Vice President of Security Services, New Context

Andrew Storms is the Vice President of Security Services at New Context. Previously, Storms was the Senior Director of DevOps for CloudPassage and the Director of Security Operations for nCircle (acquired by Tripwire). At nCircle, he was responsible for the definition and enforcement of the security programs, delivering EAL3 certification, SOC2 audits and managed the company’s PCI ASV program. He has been leading IT, Security and Compliance teams for the past 2 decades. His multi-disciplinary background, also includes product management, quality assurance and software engineering. Storms commentary on IT security issues has appeared in CNBC, Forbes and The New York Times, as well as many other publications. He is a CISSP, a member of Infragard and a graduate of the FBI Citizens’ Academy.

Tim Prendergast, Co-Founder, Evident.io

CEO Tim Prendergast co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he endured when helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. After years of building, operating, and securing services in AWS, he set out to make security approachable and repeatable for companies of all sizes. Tim led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.

November 3, 2015
DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal

I know we have mentioned it before but we haven’t officially announced our DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal event on December 3rd in Los Angeles. The event co-produced with CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, IBM and devopsy.kinsta.cloud will take place from 9am to 6pm at:

The Olympic Collection Banquet & Conference Center
11301 W. Olympic Blvd., #204
Los Angeles, CA 90064

We have a great line up of speakers and sessions for this event and I wanted to share 4 of them with you today:

1st Keynote/Headliner: John Willis, evangelist at Docker – That’s right, the one and only @botchagalupe will be kicking things off. If you have been lucky enough to catch John present before you know that he never disappoints. Partly because his experience and knowledge give him superior insight into the issues and problems that IT teams face today, but also because he is so passionate about what he presents on. John will be presenting:

Kata

Mike Rother in his book Toyota Kata implied there was an invisible side to why Toyota was so successful over the years. As we we have explored the transitions from Lean to Agile and now to Devops we often fight the visible versus the invisible in accomplishing our goals. This presentation will take a look at what Kata meant at Toyota, Alcola over the years and bring it full forward with companies line Netflix and Etsy.

2nd Keynote: Andy Pemberton, Sr. Director, Solution Architecture at CloudBees. I have seen Andy present several times now and he does a great job of showing how the technology we are using everyday in our lives is being pushed, pulled, stretched and shaped by DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Agile. Andy will be presenting:

Orchestrating the Continuous Delivery Process

Continuous delivery is an end-to-end process and orchestration is the engine that drives continuous delivery. Automating the continuous delivery pipeline starts with understanding the process and of the entire toolchain. It sounds daunting, but it can be approached in stages to keep up with the demands for application delivery speed.

Boyd Hemphill, Director of Evangelism, StackEngine. Boyd is one of the great Austin DevOps folks. He runs the Austin DevOps Meet up Group, helps with Austin DevOps Days, Container Days and so much more. Like John Willis and Andy Pemberton, I have seen Boyd present a few times and he also just really brings a great talk. Boyd presented on “HomeOps, lessons he learned about DevOps while doing work at home. It is funny, insightful and a really great presentation.

HomeOps – Learning DevOps At Home

DevOps is great. You can see the benefits. All the success stories have you champing at the bit to become your very own Unicorn. Oh, but you are smarter than that. You know that every one of those success stories comes with many, often hidden, trials and tribulations.

HomeOps is the way I have become familiar with many of DevOps models such continuous delivery, lean thinking and cultural impact. Bringing these models to work with the ability to anticipate problems helped me save nearly $1.0m in costs while opening $1.8m in revenue.

Come gain some of the missing insight to your continuous delivery journey.

Bob Reselman – Publisher and Managing Writer: The World in Which We Live. Bob is half of the ROELBOB team that has been creating some of the funny cartoons here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Bob also has many, many (did I say many?) years of tech experience under his belt which gives him the perspective he needs in his role at The World in Which We Live. Bob will be presenting:

Making a Linux Container: My pain and agony in grueling detail

Allow me to share an intimacy: I an experienced technology writer. Also, I am a container newbie. But, I understand that containers are an important step forward in computer virtualization. Knowing the stuff is a whole lot better than not knowing it.

So I took the plunge and decided to get down and dirty by building a containerized microservice.

I do have a method. I am a learn by doing guy. First I get the concepts down, then I get hands-on and write about it as I go. I assumed there must be a lot of Hello World type stuff out there to get me up to speed with the basics. Then, I could take things a bit further and build my microservice container on what I learned in the Hello Worlds.

I mean, it can’t be that hard, right?

Wrong!

It turns out that making my first container was a journey into pain and agony. No human should have to go through such an ordeal. So I am going to share my story with you in grueling detail so that you don’t have to experience such torture… ever.

We have another 5 or 6 sessions/speakers that we are finalizing right now and will announce next week. However, there are still one or two slots open and if you are interested in presenting you can write me at editor@devops.com with contact info and we will contact you.

Besides the great sessions and speakers, we will be featuring demos of Jenkins, CloudBees, IBM BlueMix and more. Also lunch, refreshments and more will be served. There is plenty of free time built in for networking as well including caricatures by the ROELBOB team and more surprises in store. We will also be announcing additional sponsors in the coming days.

So if you are in the Southern California area and into DevOps, CD, Jenkins, BlueMix or want to learn more, this is a can’t miss event. You can get more info here. You can register for the event (there is a $99 charge for the day) on Eventbrite.

We hope to see you in Southern California on December 3rd.

October 28, 2015
Webinar: Pimp Your Jenkins Platform with Docker

The role of Docker on a Jenkins platform is much more than just packaging applications as Docker images. Docker can dramatically change and simplify the way to manage a Jenkins infrastructure.

You will learn in this webinar how Jenkins administrators can solve the headaches of customizing slaves (installing build tools…) with Docker enabled slaves and configure the build environment inside the Docker image.

This session will show how Jenkins administrators can empower application teams giving them the capabilities to create their own Docker images to define the build environment of their applications.

After a review of the patterns of integration of Jenkins with Docker, we will illustrate with a real life example how to Dockerize a CloudBees Jenkins Platform infrastructure.

Date: Thursday, November 19th, 2015

Time: 12:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

Your Host

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About the Panelists

Cyrille LeClerc, Product Manager, CloudBees

Cyrille Le Clerc is a product manager at CloudBees, with more than 15 years of experience in Java technologies. He came to CloudBees from Xebia, where he was CTO and architect. Cyrille was an early adopter of the “You Build It, You Run It” model that he put in place for a number of high-volume websites. He naturally embraced the DevOps culture, as well as cloud computing. He has implemented both for his customers. Cyrille is very active in the Java community as the creator of the embedded-jmxtrans open source project and as a speaker at conferences.

October 27, 2015
Devops Days Silicon Valley, you don’t want to miss it
DevOps Days have become a global phenomenon. These are unique, community-organized events that bring together development and operations practitioners for two days of scheduled presentations, open spaces (more about that later), and networking.

How instrumental to the DevOps movement are DevOps Days? “DevOps” actually got its name from the discussions that happened at the first DevOps Days organized by Patrick Debois in 2009 in Ghent, Belgium.

The 6th annual DevOps Days Silicon Valley is happening on November 6th and 7th at the world-famous Computer History Museum. Silicon Valley is the oldest of the US events and was originally the third DevOps Days ever. Starting as a low-key event hosted on the campus of Linked-in in 2010, DevOps Days Silicon Valley has grown into a major event.

True to past reputation, this year’s speaker lineup blends industry favorites, like John Willis, with a unique mix of soon to be well-known speakers who have been selected by the community. The 2015 line-up includes:
- State of the DevOps Union by John Willis
- Anomaly Detection 101 by Elizabeth A. Nichols
- Not Everybody is Kelsey Hightower by Gregory Poirier
- Securing the Heart of Automated Infrastructure by Jamesha Fisher
- Caching Versioned MetaData with Git by Kirsten Hunter
- Flaming Poo and the Human Response by Jason Hand
- DevOps Army of One – How to Survive When You’re the SPoF by Jonathan Disher
- Single Point of Failure… Expert by Sasha Rosenbaum
But that’s not all! Unlike most conferences where the scheduled speakers are the main event, at DevOps Days, facilitating the interaction between attendees is the main event. Both afternoons are dedicated to Open Space, where the agenda is dedicated to small-group participant-lead discussion and the discussion topics are chosen on the fly each day. This is the chance to dive into specific topics, ask for help, discuss what you’ve done, find like-minds, or just be a fly on the wall and take it all in.

The DevOps Days experience is one that is unique among technology events — from the local community driven organizing (each one is totally run by local volunteer organizers) to the 50% of time dedicated to Open Space discussions. The whole point behind DevOps Days is to push those with fresh knowledge and insights, no matter how small, into direct contact with those who can benefit from or add to it.

Of course there is a good bit of fun involved as well. Evening events, ignite talks, and the seemingly cult-like status of the locally designed t-shirts all add to the unique flavor of a DevOps Days event. Austin 2015 was famous for their dueling social themes of Star Wars (May 4th / “May the Force” day) and Cinco de Mayo (complete with large Mariachi band).

If you are in the San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley area, get your tickets for the November 6th and 7th DevOps Days Silicon Valley ($150) before they sellout. If you live elsewhere, be sure to keep an eye on the main DevOps Days site for upcoming events. You can also watch presentations from past events on the DevOps Days video site.

About the Author/Damon Edwards

Damon Edwards is the co-founder and managing partner of the DTO Solutions, a DevOps and automation engineering consultancy whose clients include leading SaaS, e-commerce, gaming, and financial services companies. Damon Edwards is also the co-founder and vice president of SimplifyOps, a provider of support and services for the users of the Rundeck open source project. Damon has spent over 14 years working on both the technology and business ends of IT operations. Damon is also a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps and operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, including co-organizing the DevOps Days conference series, co-hosting the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a co-author of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook from IT Revolution Press.
October 26, 2015
Webinar: Security Fundamentals for DevOps Shops

There is no single path to a DevOps approach that works for every organization, but there are fundamental principles and techniques used by the DevOps elite that give them distinct advantages. Applying DevOps principles to security operations is not a one-time practice or a stand-alone process — it’s a whole new approach requiring new ways of working collaboratively across departments. There are always learning curves and initial obstacles when making fundamental changes to your daily security practices and operations, but when done right, the benefits far outweigh the costs.
Join devopsy.kinsta.cloud Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, Evident.io cofounder and CEO Tim Prendergast, and former Chief Security Architect and a Distinguished Engineer for Dell Software David Mortman, as they discuss the fundamentals required to renovate your organization’s processes and behaviors to gain huge efficiencies for your security operations in the cloud.

Date: Thursday, November 5th, 2015

Time: 1:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

Your Host

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About the Panelists

David Mortman, Chief Security Architect, Dell Software

David Mortman is the former Chief Security Architect and a Distinguished Engineer for Dell Software and Contributing Analyst at Securosis. Before that, he was the Director of Security and Operations for C3, LLC. Formerly the Chief Information Security Officer for Siebel Systems, Inc., David and his team were responsible for Siebel’s worldwide IT security infrastructure, both internal and external. Mr. Mortman is a regular speaker conferences including RSA, BlackHat and DEFCON.

Tim Prendergast, Co-Founder, Evident.io

CEO Tim Prendergast co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he endured when helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. After years of building, operating, and securing services in AWS, he set out to make security approachable and repeatable for companies of all sizes. Tim led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.

October 23, 2015