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  • Highlights from GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit

    Highlights from GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit

    GitOps has become increasingly popular in the DevOps space. DevOps teams have been adopting GitOps in order to better deploy, manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters and applications. On Sept. 23, the DevOps community came together at GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit to explore ways in which organizations can use GitOps to solve real problems.

    The virtual event, hosted by MediaOps, offered expert-led sessions and panel discussions focused on a variety of topics, including:

    • GitOps and the evolution of DevOps
    • A developer’s guide to adopting GitOps
    • Metrics to measure in GitOps environments

    GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit is now available on-demand for up to 30 days after the live event. Register now to get exclusive access to the on-demand virtual environment.

    Meet the GitOps Evolution Leaders

    GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit featured an exceptional lineup of industry thought leaders and doers in the GitOps space, including:

    • Tracy Ragan, DeployHub CEO and CDF board member
    • Viktor Farcic, developer advocate at Upbound, member of the Google Developer Experts and a published author
    • Paul Curtis, principal solution architect at Weaveworks
    • Ravi Lachhman, evangelist at Harness
    • Jayne Groll, DevOps Institute CEO
    • Alan Shimel, MediaOps CEO

    GitOps Evolution Sessions

    GitOps – An Introduction, by Alan Shimel and Paul Curtis

    In this session, Paul and Alan discussed the four principles of GitOps, how an enhanced developer experience increases productivity, how to boost stability and reliability in Kubernetes environments and how to bake in security from the start.

    Automating the Human Side of GitOps, by Tracy Ragan

    GitOps requires many manual steps, from updating .yaml files for each new container image, and managing Pull Requests, Merges and Commits. In this session, Tracy explored how to move GitOps to a fully automated DevOps process and reviewed the basic architecture of GitOps, how it is managed manually and how GitOps needs to evolve to be part of the continuous delivery pipeline.

    How To Apply GitOps On Infrastructure, by Viktor Farcic

    During this talk, Viktor Farcic explored Crossplane combined with Flux as a potential solution for all our infrastructure needs and whether it fits into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem.

    GitOps Blind Spots – Introduction to Pragmatic GitOps, by Ravi Lachhman

    Check out Ravi’s session to learn how GitOps can be a continuum in a journey and introducing Pragmatic GitOps practices and approaches no matter where you are in your software development approaches. Ravi talked about common blind spots with embracing on a pure GitOps approach might leave to be solved for.

    The Evolution of GitOps Maturity for Business Success, by Paul Curtis

    In this session, Paul went on a four-step GitOps journey that started with operating a single cluster and application, to managing large deployments and fleets. He discussed the requirements and business benefits of each step and tied them back to improving Software Delivery and Operational (SDO) performance—including deployment frequency, shorter lead time, mean time to recovery and change failure rate.

    Fireside Chat: The People, Process, and Technology of GitOps, by Jayne Groll, Tracy Ragan and Viktor Farcic

    Join Jayne Groll, Tracy Ragan and Viktor Farcic for a panel discussion probing further into the people, process and technology of GitOps – including what’s next, challenges to culture and theory versus practical implementation.

    For more information and to access the on-demand environment, visit the GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit website.

  • How to Apply GitOps on Infrastructure

    How to Apply GitOps on Infrastructure

    GitOps has become more than a buzzword in the DevOps community. It consists of a set of best practices designed to better deploy, manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters and applications. By adopting GitOps everything becomes code, therefore empowering DevOps teams to control every aspect of the development process from beginning to end.

    Viktor Farcic, developer advocate at Upbound, member of the Google Developer Experts and a published author, has been doing GitOps even before the term was coined by Alexis Richardson in 2017. Viktor believes that even though many developers have been doing GitOps for a while, defining what it really is and giving GitOps a name is what has helped with its rapid adoption. 

    Viktor is one of our outstanding speakers presenting at GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit. During his session, Viktor will talk about GitOps and explore Crossplane combined with Flux as a potential solution for all infrastructure needs and to see whether it fits into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem.

    Crossplane is an open-source project that enables engineers to use Kubernetes to provision and manage infrastructure, services and applications. Combined with Flux, it allows us to apply GitOps principles to constantly monitor infrastructure and fix any drifts there are between the current and desired states.

    Our very own Jackie Whetzel sat down with Viktor Farcic for a quick interview on GitOps and his upcoming session. Check out a clip of the interview below.

    To learn more about how to apply GitOps on infrastructure join Viktor’s session at GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit on Sept. 23. To check out the full agenda or to register for free, visit the GitOps Evolution Virtual Summit website.

  • Former Cloudbees Leader and Author Viktor Farcic Joins Codefresh as Principal DevOps Architect

    DevOps Paradox podcast host is well-known in the industry

    Mountain View, Calif., September 15, 2020 – Codefresh has expanded its team to include Viktor Farcic as Principal DevOps Architect to focus on open source contributions and community engagement. Farcic, who is based in Barcelona, comes from Cloudbees where he most recently served as Product Manager. Before that, he was Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate for the company.

    With a deep interest in GitOps, CI/CD, containers, cloud, and Kubernetes, Farcic is a member of Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains Group. He has published several industry books, including The DevOps Toolkit series, Test-Driven Java Development, and DevOps Paradox that is also the title of the podcast he co-hosts with Darin Pope.

    Prior to Cloudbees, Farcic worked as senior software architect for everis and Defie, and as team lead for GTECH. He is a sought-after speaker at Kubecon Europe, 24hrs of Google Tech Talks, SkilUp, SauceCon Europe, and DevOps Pro Europe, as well as workshops and meetups.

    “What Codefresh has already achieved as a small company, and continues to achieve, is exciting for me,” Farcic said. “I see Codefresh becoming synonymous with CI/CD tooling, much like how Google is synonymous with ‘search engine’. Working with Codefresh to achieve that level of recognition by the DevOps community is a very worthy goal.”

    In addition to his new role at Codefresh, Farcic will continue to publish industry books and produce his podcast.

    “Viktor’s contributions to the community are legendary. He’s helped thousands of engineering teams and we think by putting our heads together we can help thousands more,” said Dan Garfield Chief Technology Evangelist.

    Codefresh’s CI/CD platform provides automation for building, testing and deploying modern applications using Kubernetes, serverless and more. Development teams often see 24x faster engineering cycles when using Codefresh.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014 by Raziel Tabib and Oleg Verhovsky, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD platform. After launch in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Red Dot Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.