Not so long ago, we had to remember lots of commands and their execution order to configure systems and infrastructure. With the rise of Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code, we learned that it's easier to declare the desired state of systems and let other tools bring our intentions to the system. Finally, Git can be our best friend when it comes to storing and versioning our configuration. This talk starts with a short introduction to GitOps and common principles. To put it to practice we look at one specific GitOps implementation approach from the CNCF Sandbox Project Keptn. Together we walk through declaring the desired state for application delivery in Git, see how the GitOps operator translates that definition into tasks and how those tasks get executed by various tools to bring the desired state to life.

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A CI/CD pipeline seems straightforward to implement and maintain. Yet it can often quickly become a tedious time sink and a source of universal frustration on many teams. From flaky builds to long-running builds, to flaky long-running builds, the sources of frustration are endless. With the goal to ship more and faster as well as to compete in an ever-changing industry, we can (and must) do better.

This talk will cover best practices for performance, stability, security, and maintainability of CI/CD pipelines, each supported with practical examples and counterexamples.

Investing in the skills of your developers is a tricky proposition. Such investments are expensive, have an impact on productivity and rarely show a positive return.Online training is often abstract and of variable quality. Similarly conferences and workshops rarely deliver patterns that can be directly applied within the learners team. Darwinist develops learning and consulting methodologies that break these gordian knots.Andrew will show some case studies demonstrating the methods and patterns that Darwinist uses to retool a team with key technologies such as AWS, GKE and Kubernetes within incredibly short timespans. Typically less than a week.See how devs were able to completely re-engineer and refactor multiple apps' CI-CD and DevOps structures during a week long Skill Sprint and how they can now use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications completely independently.

No cloud skills, no career. As we accelerate towards the future of everything online, cloud skills will be ever more in demand. Not just for engineers, but for your whole DevOps team and the rest of the office, too.

But where to start learning? AWS alone offers nearly 200 services, Azure lists nearly 275 of them. And then we stuff like containers, orchestration, serverless, databases, machine learning, IoT, cost optimization, networking, security. It‘s all quite overwhelming.

Let me help by showing you the learning paths you can follow towards cloud competence, plus the serious game and social learning application we developed to become cloud natives.