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CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next devopsy.kinsta.cloud Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees :

CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins

Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, allows DevOps teams to implement Continuous Delivery.

You will learn how to:
- Orchestrate Continuous Delivery pipelines with the new workflow feature,
- Scale Jenkins horizontally in your organization using Jenkins Operations Center by CloudBees,
- Implement end to end traceability with Jenkins and Puppet and Chef.
Date: November 19th

Time: 1:00pm eastern, 10:00am pacific
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About the Speaker:

Cyrille Le Clerc is Director of Product Management at CloudBees with more than 15 years experience in Java. Prior to CloudBees, Cyrille was Chief Technology Officer at Xebia. As an early adopter of the “you build it you run it” model, he put it in place for a number of high volume web sites. He naturally embraced DevOps culture. He is also very active in the Java community, creator of the open source project “embedded jmxtrans” and a speaker at various conferences.
November 3, 2014
Webinar: What DevOps Need To Know About Web App Security
You’ve seen the headlines— With Global Presence Falls Victim to Hackers. These data breaches result in the theft of millions of names, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal data. Imagine the consequences of a breach leading to the theft of your confidential data. . .

If multi-national companies with dedicated security teams and expansive budgets aren’t immune to the impact of hackers, how can you adequately prepare yourself to defeat this threat?

What can be done to make apps more secure? From both development and operations, how can web app security and DevOps work together to make it better?

This webinar will explore the web application threat landscape. It will zero in on some of the most common attacks wreaking havoc on the internet, teaching you how to defend your online assets from them by leveraging development and operations teams to be more security aware.

Date: Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Time: 2pm eastern standard time
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About Speaker:

As Product Marketing Manager for Incapsula, Orion Cassetto is experienced in web application security and SaaS security solutions. Orion previously held product marketing positions at Imperva and Amorize Technologies as well as having earned degrees in Asian Studies and Chinese Language from Washington State University.
October 22, 2014
4 themes to expect from DevOps Enterprise Conference

The next few weeks are busy ones for the DevOps conference circuit. In just a week, devopsy.kinsta.cloud will kick off another one of its intimate Camp DevOps gatherings in Houston, with talks lined up on everything from the evolution of DevOps to mythbusting DevOps fallacies. Meanwhile, another worthy show kicks off from San Francisco today: DevOps Enterprise. A product of collaboration between IT Revolution’s Gene Kim and Electric Cloud’s Steve Brodie, this week’s confab sold out with 500-attendees, and its own program is jammed with a slate of speakers passionate about agile development, continuous delivery and DevOps. devopsy.kinsta.cloud caught up with Kim and Brodie before the show to learn a little bit about what’s on tap. According to the pair, there are four key trends and themes that seem to weave themselves throughout the conference’s programming:

1. DevOps Is About Normal Organizations Doing Heroic Things

According to Kim, the stories being told by the program speakers are as “heroic and amazing” as anything you’d hear from the outlier “unicorn” companies like Google, Amazon, Etsy who are setting the pace for the DevOps movement.

“And they are not only replicating the results you’d typically see from these unicorn Internet companies, they’re doing it inside organizations that have perhaps decades of low-trust, command-and-control bureaucracy,” he says.

2. Chief Architects Are The Newest Actors in the DevOps Cast Of Characters

Not only will the storytellers include ops leadership, dev leadership and executive leadership, there’ll also be a strong contingent of chief architects stepping in to discuss continuous delivery.

“Architects are often the first people to see the problem because they see the end-to-end BLANK stream,” Kim says, “and architects are in a very powerful place to affect change that spans dev, test and operations.”

3. DevOps Spans Across More Industries Than You’d Think

While there will be speakers from the type of usual suspect companies one would expect to be practicing DevOps—Web, IT, software and so-on—the range of types of companies represented by the speakers shows the surprising reach of the movement across industries, Brodie says.

“DevOps is relevant across sectors,” Brodie says. “We have presentation from companies you’d expect, but also, for instance, government, and organizations doing embedded systems development. Sometimes people think of DevOps as big data center-centric, but it is relevant with the Internet of Things and in this mobile world.”

4.Security Is Possible Through DevOps

“The number one objection that comes up over and over again in terms of why we can’t do DevOps is information security and compliance,” Kim says. But more than one speaker will explain why infosec is not only possible with DevOps, but actually stands to benefit. And that includes not only risk management, but compliance in highly regulated industries as well. “We have a whole panel on security and compliance, including James DeLuccia from Ernst & Young, describing how publicly traded, heavily regulated organizations are putting DevOps systems into place and still maintain compliance.”

Even though the conference is sold out, the entire DevOps community can benefit from the programming. The show is offering a live stream starting at 9 A.M. PT for those interested in viewing talks remotely.And if you’re still craving the benefits of networking in a conference hallway track, there’s still time to sign up for Camp DevOps Houston. Registration is still open and it is just $5.

October 21, 2014
Webinar: DevOps in the Modern Enterprise
We are happy to announce the next devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinar. In partnership with AppDynamics and Citrix :

DevOps in the Modern Enterprise

DevOps has been embraced by companies ranging from small e-commerce providers to large fortune 100 institutions. As the rate of adoption continues to grow there is still much confusion about how to successfully transition from “DevOps curious” to full fledged “DevOps practice”. Jim Hirschauer, Technology Evangelist with AppDynamics, will discuss the role of software tools in fostering a successful DevOps practice. Spencer Schwab, Staff DevOps Engineer with Citrix, will share his experience in transitioning his organization into a DevOps centric practice. Spencer will expose the challenges associated with shifting towards DevOps as well as the solutions he discovered while leading and participating in this experience with all of it’s ups and downs. You’ll learn how to initiate change within your organization as well as the associated pitfalls and benefits of the DevOps journey, all based upon the real word experience that Spencer brings from Citrix. One attendee will win a $100 Amazon gift card. You must be present to win

Date: October 30th

Time: 1pm eastern, 10am pacific
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About the Speakers:

Spencer Schwab – Currently, as an Operations Application Owner at Citrix, Spencer leads a Dev/Ops team that is responsible for the availability, run state, capacity, and configuration of the GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining products in production. Prior to Citrix, he spent eight and a half years working for Fedex where he designed and implemented many high-availability solutions to support the company of over 300,000 employees. He also has served as the Director of Systems Management for Message Factors Inc. and has worked for several small technology firms. Spencer always enjoys a troubleshooting challenge and thrives under pressure. When not working hard, Spencer enjoys spending time with family, cooking, gardening, and riding the waves on his boogie board.

Jim Hirschauer – Technology evangelist for AppDynamics, Jim Hirschauer has an extensive background in highly available, business critical, large enterprise IT operations environments. Jim has been interested in application performance testing and monitoring since his days as a systems administrator in a retail bank. His passion for performance analysis led him down a path to design, implement, and manage the cloud computing monitoring architecture for a top-ten investment bank. During his tenure at the bank, Jim created new processes and procedures that reduced the time spent in the test and QA cycle while simultaneously increasing overall code release quality and dramatically improving end user experience.
October 7, 2014
DevOps front and center at Interop NY

Reporting from Interop NY where DevOps has made it presence felt. There are a number of DevOps related sessions over the course of the conference this week. I wanted to highlight 4 that I am looking forward to:

The DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying Your Value to Move Up the Ladder by Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics

Location:  Room E08, Level 1

Date:  Thursday, October 2

Time:  2:45pm-3:45pm

The official blurb for this session is: DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It’s only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that’s not really doing your career any favors. In this session we’ll talk about how to prove your value to the organization by looking at the positive side: that is, how much money you’ve saved your company. We’ll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Sensu and Logstash to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you’ll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your value to the company (and to ask for a raise).

I spoke to Dustin who occasionally writes for devopsy.kinsta.cloud about this session. Beyond getting a raise for your hard work, the session is about how you show the value of DevOps to your organization. Of course if you try to implement some DevOps type of processes and behavior and something goes wrong, it is easy to blame, but how do you show the benefit. No one notices when things are running right. How do you build on success to expand the rollout of DevOps to the rest of your organization? I have seen Dustin speak on this topic before and I am sure it will be an interesting session.

DevOps Gold: What the Olympics Teaches Us About Agile Development and Release by Dave Roberts, Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Cloud, DevOps, and Data Center Automation, BMC Software

Location:  Room E15, Level 1

Date:  Thursday, October 2

Time:  4:30pm-4:50pm

The official blurb for this session is: At the recent winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, we saw athletes from all over the world striving for excellence. Some turned in the best performance of their lives and came home with a gold medal. Others, some favorites, struggled and saw their dreams slip away. In this session, we’ll see how DevOps done right is a lot like the Olympics. If you set reasonable goals, train hard, and execute well, you’ll reach DevOps Gold, too. But if you take your releases for granted, you may end up with failure. This session is for developers and operations personnel working toward implementing a DevOps process. You’ll learn best practices for achieving DevOps success and how to best implement them in your own company.

I spoke with Dave on this one as well. I love the idea of comparing DevOps to athletes training for the gold. Dave will talk about that there is no magic with DevOps success. It takes careful planning, reasonable goals and lots of preparation. You don’t just walk strap on skis and think you are a downhill Olympic champion. There is more to competing and winning than just showing up.

Dave is an accomplished speaker and this is a great topic. It should be a very interesting session. Note that this is part of the Cloud Connect Day 2 sessions and there are some other great sessions throughout the day there.

The next two already took place by the time you read this (thanks to my laptop crashing and this not being published earlier). They are both by Lori Macvittie, another devopsy.kinsta.cloud contributor.

Achieving Operational Excellence Through DevOps by Lori Macvittie, Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks

Location:  Room E16, Level 1

Date:  Tuesday, September 30

Time:  9:00am-12:00pm

This is actually a day long workshop by a number of people with Lori kicking things off early and then chairing a panel at 10:45:

Panel: What Does DevOps do for the Network?
DevOps is to application deployment as SDN is to networking. They’re both ultimately about achieving operational excellence to improve time to market, reduce risks and costs associated with operational overhead. DevOps tends to focus on scripting and APIs as a means to achieve operational excellence, so how does that fit with the move to bring automation and orchestration to the network? We’ll explore questions that are on everyone’s minds such as: Do you have to have a soft network to take advantage of DevOps? Will network engineers need to become developers?

Interop Debate: Learn SDN vs. Traditional Certifications: What’s Better for Your Career? by Lori Macvittie, Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks

Location:  Room E13, Level 1

Date:  Wednesday, October 1

Time:  2:45pm-3:45pm

This is another panel discussing: The networking industry views the CCIE certification as one of the most difficult and desirable titles to obtain. Many CCIEs enjoy extraordinary career opportunities as well as financial gain as a direct benefit of passing the notorious lab exam. Recently, the relevance of the CCIE certification has come into question by those who see a different future for networking. The big idea is this: if networking is headed in an automated, software-defined direction, is the CCIE still relevant? Or should networkers who want to be at the top of the industry differentiate themselves by learning the emerging tools and techniques of the SDN revolution? Our all-CCIE panel (including a former CCIE program manager) & CCIE moderator will discuss.

This panel will discuss what it the future of the CCIE certification in an age of SDN. With software eating the world and networks, is hardware relevant even anymore? Should be great discussion and promises some fireworks!

October 1, 2014
IBM Interconnect 2015 Call for Papers

IBM Interconnect is IBM’s premier event covering DevOps, mobile, cloud, security and more. With 300 sessions focused exclusively on DevOps, IBM Interconnect delivers a full 360 degree view of all aspects of DevOps, including best practices, technical implementations and management strategies.

IBM Interconnect offers breakout sessions, labs and hands on experimentation and learning at the dev@ experience. The dev@ experience is a zone built by developers for developers, to learn from developers. Tech Talk. Hands on. Straight forward.

The IBM InterConnect 2015 Call for Speakers is now open, and we want to hear from you on a variety of topics. Submit your paper today, deadline is October 10^th. Speaking at InterConnect will help raise your profile and expand your network with more than 20,000 peers, experts and influencers. All speakers are eligible for a complimentary conference pass, enabling them to experience this incredible value for free!

October 1, 2014
IBM and Rackspace join as premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston, tickets now only $5

We are very happy to report that IBM and Rackspace have signed on as a premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston on October 28, 2014. They join CA Technologies ITInvolve and JumpCloud as premier sponsors of this event. Additional sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston include BlueMeric, CloudBees, PagerDuty, VictorOps, Automic, Qwinix and Incapsula. We are very grateful for the support.

With all of this great support from our sponsors, devopsy.kinsta.cloud is dropping the cost of admission to Camp DevOps Houston to just $5.00!

The reason for this is that Camp DevOps are set up to educate and bring DevOps to areas that may not have been exposed to on site DevOps education and conferences. We believe Houston is a great market to bring DevOps too. As long as the costs of the conference are covered (including breakfast, lunch and refreshments) our mission is accomplished in that regard. The only reason for the $5 dollar admission is to stop people from registering and then not attending, taking away a seat from someone else who would like to attend.

The speaker lineup for Camp DevOps is just about full. Sanjeev Sharma, author of DevOps for Dummies headlines a great lineup of speakers on a wide variety of DevOps topics. There are multiple tracks aimed at both the technical and business tracks. You can get much more information at Campdevopsy.kinsta.cloud. You can register for just $5 at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/camp-devops-houston-tickets-12489234637

If you are in the Houston area or know tech people who are, be sure to come join us. We think this is going to be a great event in just about a month away.

September 23, 2014
Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility – A Webinar with Rally Software and Chef
We are kicking off our devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinars with a real blockbuster! Join Colin Campbell of Chef and Jonathan Chauncey and Jeff Smith of Rally Software as they discuss:

Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility

In today’s digital economy, leading companies are turning to software to deliver new services in response to customer demand and competition. Technology can enable and expedite innovation, but it requires business leaders, software developers and IT operations teams to closely collaborate around shared goals, at new speeds, and with the flexibility to change on a dime to customer needs and market shifts. In this webinar, Rally Software, a leading global provider of enterprise-class software and services solutions, will discuss how it has institutionalized DevOps and how it uses Chef to support its speed-focused approach to delivering business agility. You’ll learn firsthand how Rally automates its virtualized infrastructure, accelerates application development and tightens customer feedback loops.

Date and Time: Thursday, September 4 at 11am PT/2pm ET

Register at: http://devops.megameeting.com/registration/?id=1949-232488

The webinar will be hosted by devopsy.kinsta.cloud and moderated by devopsy.kinsta.cloud editor-in-chief, Alan Shimel. Speakers include:
- Jonathan Chauncey, developer at Rally Software. He’s been involved in Web application development for almost 10 years, four of which have been at Rally. His technical interests include: automation, testing, clojure, Ruby and search.
- Jeff Smith, development manager at Rally Software. He’s been involved in Web application development for almost 20 years, 11 of which have been at Rally. His technical interests include: test automation, continuous deployment and infrastructure automation.
- Colin Campbell, director of patterns and practices at Chef. He has worked on advanced model-based testing and analysis techniques for a number of years in industry. He is currently involved in developing and documenting Chef best practices and design patterns.
Registration is required to attend the webinar. You can register here.
August 21, 2014