management

Better incident command for improved MTTR

February 12, 2020

A skilled incident commander improves time to resolution and decreases stress all around. Join Beth Long and Elisa Binette to learn how to build strong incident management skills at the individual level and shape organizational processes to drive down MTTR, making both customers and engineers happier.

Blockchain for Dummies Using the Open Service Broker API

February 12, 2020

Are you a developer of a cloud native application and unfamiliar with blockchain? Come learn how to use an Open Service Broker API deployed service instance to connect your app with a blockchain netwo …

Deriving meaning in a time of chaos: The intersection between chaos engineering and observability

February 12, 2020

Crystal Hirschorn explores incident planning, postmortem-driven development, chaos engineering, and observability practices and details the exponential effect they can have on leveling up your engineering organization, one controlled chaos experiment at a time.

A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with DevSecOps + Containers

February 11, 2020

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in th …

BoF: Linux Security

February 11, 2020

This BoF session is for technical discussion and collaboration in the area of Linux security. Potential topics include: - Access Control (SELinux, Smack, AppArmor etc). - Kernel Self Protection and …

Comparing Next-Generation Container Image Building Tools

February 11, 2020

Until recently, running docker build against Dockerfile had been the only way to build container images. However, lots of opensource software are being proposed as successors/alternatives to `docker …

Stories from the DBA trenches

February 10, 2020

Your company may not have a DBA explicitly in the org chart, but that just means everyone on the team takes over the role at some point. Silvia Botros explains why thats ok (all the DBAs she knows were accidental too) and shares tips and tricks for keeping your MySQL databases running smoothly and protecting your companys most important asset.

Managing Server Secrets at Scale with a Vaultless Password Manager

February 9, 2020

Operating a large cluster, a datacenter, or a distributed network involves handling a lot of secrets. In almost all cases, you have to deal with at least four types of secrets for each piece of hardwa …

Package Management and Distribution in a Cloud World

February 9, 2020

The open source ecosystem has long been at the forefront of innovation in software distribution and package management, whether we're talking about Linux, open source library ecosystems like Node.js' …

Segment Routing: the stuff marketing doesnt talk about

February 8, 2020

Over the past few years, Segment Routing has received a considerable amount of attention for enabling a range of novel new network capabilities. While Segment Rout …

How Container Runtime Matters in Kubernetes?

February 7, 2020

Container Orchestrator Kubernetes utilizes Container Runtime to provide low-level pod/container management and operations at the node level. The capabilities & performance of these Container runtimes …

Introducing serverless to your organization

February 7, 2020

Serverless computing offers the benefits of accelerated delivery and reduced operations costs. However it also brings tooling and architectural challenges. What are safe yet effective methods to introduce serverless to your organization? Mike Roberts discusses several options, drawn from his experience with teams that have faced this precise question.

Packet-Level Network Analytics without Compromises

February 7, 2020

Network analytics has been a key component of network management for decades. As we look to integrate more intelligence, whether for increased security or to bette …

Putting microservices on a diet with Istio

February 6, 2020

Building microservice architectures is complex. Handling the involved complexities is usually left up to the development teams to implement. Using open source components to address these challenges is an option, but this quickly leads to excessive library bloat in your microservices. So let's put them on a dietwith Istio. Join Mario-Leander Reimer to learn how.

Seven years of DDD: Tackling complexity in large-scale marketing systems

February 6, 2020

Vladik Khononov shares his experience using the domain-driven design methodology at Plexop, a large-scale marketing system that spans over a dozen of different business domains, from the management of advertising spaces to sales agents commissions.

How the Heck Do You Apply TDD to Infra as Code?

February 5, 2020

If youre coding your immutable infrastructure and have a CI/CD pipeline to deploy it using your configuration management tool of choice, how do you test it? How do you ensure that the new feature you …

Lightning Talk: Securing Physical Access to Systems, Networks and Data

February 5, 2020

Information Security is a complicated and well discussed topic. InfoSec is vitally important and one weak link can break the chain. Less popular these days is disc …

SDN Controllers in the WAN: protocols and applications

February 5, 2020

Some operators have recently been deploying SDN Controllers in the WAN for the first time. This presentation discusses the protocols needed to underpin a quasi-rea …

The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes

February 5, 2020

How do you decide whether to adopt a leading-edge technology? The Financial Times recently migrated its content platform to Kubernetes. Join Sarah Wells to find out what it takes to migrate 150+ microservices from one container stack to another without affecting the existing production users and while the rest of your teams are working on delivering new functionality.

Data Modeling Driven Management: Latest Industry and Tool Developments

February 4, 2020

This session will cover the industry landscape and latest developments in terms of data YANG modeling-driven management in the first part. And the second part will …

Docker LibNetwork Drivers: Explorer's Tale

February 4, 2020

When dealing with microservices, such as Docker containers, inevitably, there comes a time when you will troubleshoot issues in a software-defined networking (SDN) …

Network Automation: Do I Need Expensive Tools To Do Meaningful Automation?

February 4, 2020

This talk will focus on: 1 - Automation Domains 2 - Use Cases for Consideration 3 - Open Source Tooling used in Network Automation Case Studies 4 - Case Studies: - …

Xen: The Way of the Panda

February 4, 2020

The Xen Project supports some of the biggest clouds in production today and is moving into new industries, like security and automotive. Usually, you will use Xen indirectly as part of a commercial pr …

Kubernetes: Project Update

February 3, 2020

Kubernetes is one of the high-velocity projects in the open source world today, and it marks the 3rd anniversary since the project went GA in July of 2015. Its a great opportunity to see how core fun …

Operators and the IETF

February 3, 2020

This is a panel of IETF Area Directors (Benoit (Management), Spencer (Transport), Alvaro (Routing), Warren (Operations)) and IAB members (Lee Howard, Jeff Tantsura …

The Remote Culture Recipe

February 3, 2020

In this talk, you'll hear from Bitnami co-founder and COO Erica Brescia on the lessons learned and best practices they have developed to effectively run a highly distributed team of 70+ stretched acro …

Lightning Talk: Device vs Service models in Network Automation

February 2, 2020

Network operators are increasingly adopting automation, but most networks today are managed as a set of individual devices. Further, approximately 70% of network o …

Run Linux Kernel as a Daemon

February 2, 2020

The presentation describes a specific linux kernel which runs in the userspace mode. It supplies all kernel services but with the threads and virtual memory management passing to the host kernel. It i …