Public Speaking

I worked for a large company with several hundred cron jobs running on two systems. Managing these jobs was cumbersome. Resource use during peak times brought things to a halt. Imagine what is was like when if systems were down! In this talk, we discuss Kubernetes’ killer feature: Cron Jobs. Slides: Kubernetes Cron Jobs: Dreams Really Do Come True — DevOpsDays Columbus 2018 Download as MP4 (right click, Save As…) Source: Chris Short Ignite - Kubernetes Cron Jobs: Dreams Really Do Come True ...

People think that DevOps, Cloud Native, Agile, GROWS, etc. are all rainbows and roses. You start small, work your way up or you decide as an organizational unit to change. These are two patterns associated with a Jedi-type maturation process of DevOps. Like in Star Wars, DevOps has a dark side. This talk by Chris Short of Red Hat provides examples of successful and failed DevOps transformations, as well as some lessons learned along the way. ...

We’re joined by Chris Short from Red Hat to discuss the ins and outs of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Download as MP4 (right click, Save As…) Source: CI/CD with Chris Short (1/2) If you'd like to have me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, live stream, etc. please send me a message. Thank you! Here's a current list of ready to go abstracts that I can speak to at a moments notice.

Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy.​ Contour supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation out of the box while maintaining a lightweight profile. Using Contour you can quickly deploy cloud native applications, update Envoy configurations on the fly, and safely delegate ingress configuration to protect service access on multi-team Kubernetes clusters. In this webinar, Steve Sloka, Sr. Member of Technical Staff at VMware, will share how to use Contour and Envoy efficiently in your Kubernetes clusters. ...

Operators simplify management of complex applications on Kubernetes. They are usually written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. But, there’s an alternative to that with a lower barrier to entry. Ansible is a first-class citizen in the Operator SDK. Using Ansible frees up application engineers, maximizes time to automate and orchestrate your applications, and doing it across new & existing platforms with one simple language. Here we see how. ...