The next Sheffield Devops Meetup is hosted by Sky Betting and Gaming with a "Tech Talk" theme, showing the power of tooling available to support the use of Infrastructure-as-Code. It will take place on Thursday the 9th March 2017 at Sky Betting and Gaming from 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion. As Sky Betting and Gaming will be hosting and sponsoring the evening, they will offer refreshments on arrival.
6:30 - 7:00 Doors open
7:00 - 7:05 Welcome talk
7:05 - 7:45 Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS with CloudFormation - Paul Brabban
7:45 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 8:45 Scaling Docker Swarm for Production with Terraform - Bobby Devaux
8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry
About the Speakers
The first talk will be by Paul Brabban from Sky Betting and Gaming:
An introduction to Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, the infrastructure templating system provided by AWS.
Sky Betting and Gaming International's Data Platform is completely provisioned using CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code solution provided by AWS. This talk will introduce you to CloudFormation before diving into the more advanced features, tips and tricks that helped us overcome the challenges we've faced.
The second talk will be by Bobby DeVeaux from UK Cloud, who will be presenting an overview of his most recent project; building a production-ready fully-scalable Docker Swarm using Terraform & Packer on OpenStack.
Bobby is a Consultant DevOps Engineer who currently works with UK Cloud’s clients to help them understand DevOps, how to improve their automation and migrate to a cloud-native environment. He has over 20 years experience working with the web and has most recently been working with public sector clients on their latest projects.
Venue
Sky Betting and Gaming
Electric Works (in the downstairs Conference Room)
Sheffield Digital Campus
Sheffield
S1 2BJ
www.skybetcareers.com
Sponsors
Sky Betting and Gaming
Nabarro LLP is proud to be sponsoring Sheffield Devops. 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 Sheffield 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!
More details: sheffielddevops.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.
