Agenda

The growth of the public cloud market is obvious to everyone. But what’s less well known is that enterprises are still growing the infrastructure and services they run for themselves. A host of reasons are given for why companies can't use public cloud solutions, but do these reasons stack up?

This talk will describe why and how to bring the techniques from test driven development to automating compliance controls.

In 2018, we took a big step and launched a cloud-hosted SaaS version of our software, which until then had always been run self-hosted by customers. We began to use Octopus Deploy to deploy Octopus Deploy for thousands of our cloud customers. In doing so, we became one of our own biggest customers. Very quickly, we found ourselves using Octopus Deploy for plenty of automation tasks that weren’t related to deployments. Since then, we’ve been iterating on Octopus and taking it way beyond deployments.

It's never been a better time to learn Git. With all those resources available to you—books, tutorials, courses, even podcasts—getting started is easier than ever. Questions? Stack Overflow is ready to help. That's all great, but once you get past the basics, where do you go to take your knowledge to the next level? How do you learn to get the most out of Git?

The truth is that there is no easy answer; it'd be like asking how to get the most out of Lego! What you can do is observe how others use Git, learn from their experience and apply it to your own. So that's what I've done.

DevSecOps has recently become indispensable DevOps world part and continues the road to maturity. Most commonly, DevSecOps narrows to implementing security automation tasks in build and release pipeline. By leveraging automation, teams can apply security patches, provision shielded servers, scan code for security and deploy better-protected applications at a faster pace.

Chaos engineering is a powerful, scientific discipline that helps you proactively surface evidence of weaknesses in your systems. Who wouldn't want that?

Taming the complex distributed systems we're responsible for requires changing not just the tools and technical approaches we use; it also requires changing who is involved in production, how they collaborate, and how we measure success.

Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Istio and more are becoming the foundations of software development and infrastructure deployments. With these new technologies, a new set of lessons on security need to be understood and applied.

People have used Octopus Deploy for some form of Ops Processes for the past 5-6 years, and most DevOps tools don't have a built-in process for ops tasks. So, you end up using a workaround, and this is where Octopus Runbooks comes to the rescue!

I remember a time, not so long ago, when automating the deployment of an application was like building a house of cards: it was slow and finicky and, if you managed to make it work at all, you would end up with a precarious mountain of scripts ready to crumble at the slightest movement. Fortunately, times have changed. Thanks to the rise in popularity of Continuous Delivery, the tooling around deployment automation has matured at an incredible pace and is now more capable than ever.

IAC (Infrastructure as code) has become a mainstay for teams looking to automate their infrastructure deployments however is it actually code or just text?

Most cloud provider provisioning system or tools such as Terraform rely on a text based document to describe the infrastructure. Most of these approaches have had to shoehorn in some programming constructs (such as conditional logic and loops) into the languages to provide support for more complex scenarios.

More info coming