Josh Smith

DevSecOps with Containers and Kubernetes

Monday, 11:00 AM EST

This DevSecOps Workshop is a unique hands-on experience for building, deploying, and securing containerized cloud-native applications using industry-standard open source technologies.

You will learn how containers and Kubernetes (specifically OpenShift) can change the way you run mission-critical applications, as well as how to leverage an assembly line approach that automates increasing levels of security assurance for each step in the process.

Attendees will get hands-on, applying DevSecOps techniques in building a Secure Software Factory for a Java-based application with a variety of tools - including Gogs, Nexus, Jenkins, Quay, and Sonarqube.

You'll learn:

• A bit of each of those tools
• How to automate development and deployment processes using containers
• How to build an end-to-end trusted software supply chain

Container Tools: The Next Generation

Tuesday, 11:00 AM EST

CRI-O and Buildah and Podman, OH MY. (…and Skopeo, and what on Earth happened with Docker, and……) Containers are really cool, and also useful. Everyone knows it! The open source community has rallied around them and are constantly making improvements and tweaks to their capabilities. But…the tools generated by those open source communities are constantly evolving, and it ends up really hard to keep up on what does what and…why you should care.

Laine and Josh will explain containers as a whole, their lifecycle, and the tools currently among the landscape of awesome. They'll talk about when you should use what, and they'll demo how it all fits together to help with container-based application development and deployment.

To Hug or to Strangle: Tips for Dealing with Monolith Pain

Tuesday, 1:00 PM EST

A long time ago, in a land far far away, there were monoliths. These fabled artifacts brought consistency and stability to the land - but there was a cost in speed, agility, time, and development pain.
Whether Java EE, .NET, or something else, the big ol' integrated plexi-purpose binaries or yore (and also now…) have grown into problems that hurt developers, architects, and the execution of business goals.

In this talk, Josh and Laine will talk specifics about the pain points of monoliths, and the various strategies they've seen to alleviate that pain.

Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters

Thursday, 3:00 PM EST

There is pain inherent in development - monoliths, confusing deployment processes, conflict between dev/ops/business.

IT is hard and the pace of change now makes it even more difficult. Join Josh and Laine as they talk about how focusing on solving this pain can help in a lot of surprising ways - kickstarting DevOps, speeding up product delivery, and even enabling the business as a whole.

How to Technology Good - Tips for Implementation at Scale

Thursday, 5:00 PM EST

Want to bring in [new cool thing X] or [necessary technology change Y] to your company, because you know there's a need for it? GOOD IDEA! Except…now what? If your company is more than about 3 people, how do you explain, enable, and encourage the adoption of this change, especially if it will require some work on everyone’s part?

In How to Technology Good, Josh and Laine will explain how bringing in technology is subject to one of the biggest problems in IT - how to scale it. They'll also talk about tips and tricks for how to be as successful as you can, and the main things to keep track of and watch out for. They'll go through each phase of bringing in new tech, all the way from how to pick your success criteria through what to think about when it comes to maintenance.