From Dev/Ops to DevOps

Abstract

Some call this phenomenon devops, others agile system administration truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes it work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API.

This talk will summarize the different ideas behind DevOps, and will show that this goes beyond tooling and becomes a way of thinking, where ultimately both developers and sysadmins will stand together to support the business.

Speakers

Patrick Debois

In order to understand current IT organizations, Patrick has taken a habit of changing both his consultancy role and the domain which he works in: sometimes as a developer, manager, sysadmin, tester and even as the customer.

During 15 years of consultancy, there is one thing that annoys him badly, it is the great divide between all these groups. But times are changing now: being a player on the market requires you to get these 'battles' under control between these silos.

He first presented concepts on Agile Infrastructure at Agile 2008 in Toronto, and in 2009 he organized the first devopsdays . Since then he has been promoting the notion of 'devops' to exchange ideas between these groups and show how they can help each other to achieve better results in business.

Kris Buytaert

Kris is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits. Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen ,used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences. He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud.

His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

Date & Location

December 15th, 2011 from 19h00 til 21h00 - Ghent