Raju Gandhi

Platform Engineering: The What, Why & How

Platform engineering is the latest buzzword, in a industry that already has it's fair share. But what is platform engineering? How does it fit in with DevOps and Developer Experience (DevEx)? And is this something your organization even needs?

In this session we will aim to to dive deep into the world of platform engineering. We will see what platform engineering entails, how it is the logical succession to a successful DevOps implementation, and how it aims to improve the developer experience. We will also uncover the keys to building robust, sustainable platforms for the future

Platform Engineering: The What, Why & How

Platform engineering is the latest buzzword, in a industry that already has it's fair share. But what is platform engineering? How does it fit in with DevOps and Developer Experience (DevEx)? And is this something your organization even needs?

In this session we will aim to to dive deep into the world of platform engineering. We will see what platform engineering entails, how it is the logical succession to a successful DevOps implementation, and how it aims to improve the developer experience. We will also uncover the keys to building robust, sustainable platforms for the future

What the Helm?!

Kubernetes IS the the cloud operating system, allowing to to do everything from resource management, to scheduling to networking. However, deploying applications of any complexity can be overwhelming. involving wrangling lots of YAML files. Oh! And good luck versioning your releases.

Most operating systems ship with a package manager. From apt to home brew to chocolatey, a package manager simplifies the act of installing software. So why don't we have one for Kubernetes?

Well, your wait is over. Say hello to Helm—the Kubernetes package manager. Helm, a CNCF project, aims to simplify deploying your applications to Kubernetes, with support for multiple environments, versioning, rollbacks and so much more.

In this session we will deep dive into Helm. We will see what it takes to package your applications using Helm, and discuss the benefits of folding Helm into your workflows. Single-click Kubernetes deployments, here we come!

Just commit to deploy

Git revolutionized the way we think about version control. Kubernetes' on the other hand gave us a programmatic mechanism to declaratively specify the desired state of a cluster, and with the magic of Kubernetes reconciliation loop automatically see the cluster reflect that ask.

Combine the two, and we get GitOps. In this session we will take a look at FluxCD, a CNCF project that allows you to commit your changes to a repository, and have your changes automatically applied to your Kubernetes cluster.

Join me to see what it takes to adopt FluxCD in your workflow, the benefits it provides, and how you can modernize, simplify and automate your deployment process.

In this session, we will take a look at GitOps, using FluxCD to simplify and automate your deployment process.

Terraform-ing your Cloud

A large part of embracing DevOps involves embracing automation. Over the last decade we have seen the emergence of “as Code” — Build-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code. The benefits to utilizing such tools are huge! We can codify the state of the world around our applications, giving us the ability to treat everything that our code needs like we treat the code itself. Version control, release management, tagging, even rolling backs are now possible.

Terraform, an open-source tool from HashiCorp allows us to build, control and modify our infrastructure. Terraform exposes a Domain-specific language (DSL) that we can use to express what our infrastructure should look like. Terraform can work with all the major cloud providers, including Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure.

We will be using AWS as our playground for this workshop

Agenda

• The place for, and benefits of “Everything as Code” alongside GitOps
• Terraform's architecture
• Terraform 101
• Introduction to HCL
• What are providers?
• Initializing terraform and providers
• Dive right in! Creating your first resource in AWS using Terraform
• Understanding references, dependencies
• apply-ing terraform
• Variables and the HCL type-system
• Using data and output in your terraform scripts
• Understanding how Terraform manages state
• Using S3 as a backend
• DRY with Terraform modules
• Collaboration using Terraform
• Terraform ecosystem, testing, and GitOps
• Closing arguments, final Q/A, discussion

Instructions

Please visit https://github.com/looselytyped/terraform-workshop/ for detailed instructions. They might seem a tad arduous but it's not as bad as it looks :)

Terraform-ing your Cloud

A large part of embracing DevOps involves embracing automation. Over the last decade we have seen the emergence of “as Code” — Build-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code. The benefits to utilizing such tools are huge! We can codify the state of the world around our applications, giving us the ability to treat everything that our code needs like we treat the code itself. Version control, release management, tagging, even rolling backs are now possible.

Terraform, an open-source tool from HashiCorp allows us to build, control and modify our infrastructure. Terraform exposes a Domain-specific language (DSL) that we can use to express what our infrastructure should look like. Terraform can work with all the major cloud providers, including Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure.

We will be using AWS as our playground for this workshop

Agenda

• The place for, and benefits of “Everything as Code” alongside GitOps
• Terraform's architecture
• Terraform 101
• Introduction to HCL
• What are providers?
• Initializing terraform and providers
• Dive right in! Creating your first resource in AWS using Terraform
• Understanding references, dependencies
• apply-ing terraform
• Variables and the HCL type-system
• Using data and output in your terraform scripts
• Understanding how Terraform manages state
• Using S3 as a backend
• DRY with Terraform modules
• Collaboration using Terraform
• Terraform ecosystem, testing, and GitOps
• Closing arguments, final Q/A, discussion

Instructions

Please visit https://github.com/looselytyped/terraform-workshop/ for detailed instructions. They might seem a tad arduous but it's not as bad as it looks :)

Container Security Fundamentals Part I

Containers are everywhere. Of course, a large part of the appeal of containers is the ease with which you can get started. However, productionizing containers is a wholly different beast. From orchestration to scheduling, containers offer significantly different challenges than VMs.

In particular, in terms of security. Securing and hardening VMs is very different than that for containers.

In this twopart session, we will see what securing containers involves.

We'll be covering a wide range of topics, including

Understanding Cgroups and namespaces
What it takes to create your own container technology as a basis of understanding how containers really work
Securing the build and runtime
Secrets management
Shifting left with security in mind

Container Security Fundamentals Part II

Containers are everywhere. Of course, a large part of the appeal of containers is the ease with which you can get started. However, productionizing containers is a wholly different beast. From orchestration to scheduling, containers offer significantly different challenges than VMs.

In particular, in terms of security. Securing and hardening VMs is very different than that for containers.

In this twopart session, we will see what securing containers involves.

We'll be covering a wide range of topics, including

Understanding Cgroups and namespaces
What it takes to create your own container technology as a basis of understanding how containers really work
Securing the build and runtime
Secrets management
Shifting left with security in mind