The Dark Side of DevOps — JFrog swampUP 2019

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....

October 23, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Roaring Elephant CI/CD Chris Short: Part 1

We’re joined by Chris Short from Red Hat to discuss the ins and outs of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Download as MP4 Source: CI/CD with Chris Short (1/2) Here's a current list of ready to go CFPs and/or abstracts that I can speak to at a moments notice. If you're looking for OpenShift.tv live streams I hosted/produced/ran, search my name on OpenShift's YouTube. If you'd like to have me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, live stream, etc....

October 12, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: Contour - High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes

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....

October 10, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Webinar: Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native way

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....

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

DevOps is Not War - DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019

DevOps needs to focus on more than Dev and Ops to be truly transformative for an organization. What about your security folks? What about your network team? We’ll introduce the work of Thucydides and the concept of Thucydides’s Trap, a political scientist’s take on how rising and established powers are destined for conflict. Transformations can often be contentious and sometimes rebellious. History can actually help us avoid failure in our transformations....

October 1, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short