Back by popular demand, the second Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 10th March 2016. We'll be at Nabarro LLP from 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion:
* 6:30 - 7:00 Doors open and drinks/food provided
* 7:00 - 7:05 Welcome talk
* 7:05 - 7:45 Simon Fisher - Cooking up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Chef
* 7:45 - 8:00 Break
* 8:00 - 8:45 Mark Crossfield - "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”
* 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry
About the Speakers:
The first talk will be by Simon Fisher, a Solution Architect for Chef. In this talk he will be demonstrating how Chef capabilities can enable Continuous Delivery. Building on the solid foundation and success of open source Chef, Simon will demonstrate some of the broader product set that incorporates new features around delivery pipelines and compliance. This session is aimed at all levels, from those who haven’t heard of Chef to seasoned professionals and will incorporate a demo of the products.
The second talk will be by Mark Crossfield, an organiser of DevOps Manchester, who will be sharing some experiences of "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”. In 2015 Auto Trader reached a milestone in their release automation journey by handing over control of application deployments to delivery squads.
This was the culmination of a nine month project, two years of loose discussion and years of previous automation - but the journey does not end there. We'll cover the context in which the project was carried out, the approach was taken & what was learned along the way. This talk is intended to appeal to all levels of technical knowledge.
Venue
We'll be at Nabarro LLP this month - near Park Square roundabout and aprox 10 mins walk from the train station:
Nabarro LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY
(Parking is available - just press the buzzer at the barrier and say you're here for the Devops event)
www.nabarro.com
We're looking to tour the city over the course of the year (if you can offer space at your company/organisation/uni then let us know).
Sponsors
Nabarro LLP is proud to be sponsoring Sheffield DevOps 2016. Nabarro is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in Nabarro’s Sheffield office said “We are passionate about supporting the growth of the Sheffield City Region. Like the Sheffield DevOps team, we want Sheffield to be the UKs next big technology hub, attracting the best tech businesses and talent from across the UK and beyond, and encouraging innovation. Supporting organisations like DevOps is a vital part of this strategy and we are very much looking forward to working with both in order to achieve our common goal.” For more information on Nabarro’s technology focus click here: www.nabarro.com
More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to www.sheffielddevops.org.uk or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.
Look forward to seeing you there!
WHEN: Thursday, 10 March 2016 from 18:30 to 21:00 (GMT) - Add to Calendar
WHERE: Sheffield DevOps @ Nabarro LLP - 1 Victoria Quays Sheffield, South Yorkshire S2 5SY GB - View Map
More details: www.sheffieldevops.org.uk
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk
About SheffieldDevops
The devops group in Sheffield has been founded to provide a forum for discussion on:
* Adoption of software development lifecycle practices into operations and system administration.
* Creating collaborative working culture/environment for developers and operations teams.
* Applying agile principles in an environment dominated by changes, firefighting and reluctance to change.
* Automation - version control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, deployment and monitoring.
* Metrics - collection of system/application/business/build/SLM metrics and the subsequent reporting and sharing.
* Technology - cool new tools from clusters to containers, cloud solutions, paas, iaas, visualization, monitoring and dashboards - just so long as they help create the devops culture.
* Adoption of Lean principles to improve the flow of work through an organisation.
We plan to meet on the second Thursday of each month in central Sheffield, we’ll have a couple of talks on the above subject areas and then head to a nearby public house to continue the discussion in an more informal manner.
We’re on the look out for speakers, so if you (or someone you know) have a passion for any of the above topics and have something to share then please get in touch via email or twitter.
The group has been created thanks to the efforts of great people on the Sheffield Digital slack channel for the digital community in Sheffield - if you want to lend a hand in running the group or have any ideas to make it bigger and better then please get in touch.
At Nabarro LLP
You will need to sign in at reception on arrival.
