DevOps in the Cloud: the intersection of Dev & Ops - Portland, OR

Discover the 7 pillars of an effective DevOps practice and find out which steps you can take, right now, to begin your DevOps transformation. Whether you’re part of development team or an engineer in operations, there are DevOps practices that need your expertise!

Target Audience

Developers and IT Operators

Schedule

Breakfast will be provided

8:30AM – 12:00PM

Join us as we uncover surprising benefits of a healthy DevOps practice and what your role is in making this transformation.

Infrastructure As Code/Configuration as Code

Automation makes your job simpler. It creates repeatability, enables predictability and keeps your eye on quality. Building your infrastructure manually is a recipe for unplanned challenges. Healthy DevOps organizations look for ways to automate and automating your infrastructure builds and configurations are a relatively easy first step. Discover tools and practices you can use to implement infrastructure and configuration as code!

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) can reduce rework, put a focus on the delivery of quality solutions and improve delivery timeframes. CI/CD is not easy to achieve, but many companies take the steps to do it because of the value it brings to an organization. Learn what a CI/CD pipeline can look like and the steps it takes to create one yourself.

Automated Testing

Quality, quality, quality. In the end, it's all about quality. Poor quality equals rework, late releases, unhappy customers and , lost revenue. Testing can ensure quality, but many organizations rely solely on requirements testing to validate the quality of an application. Relying solely on manual testing can contributing to technical debt. Solid code coverage focusing on unit testing and integration tests while implementing Coded UI tests can ensure developers do not introduce breaking changes. Discover some of the keys to implementing an automated testing discipline in your organization.

Release Management

When you have an automated release pipeline you have a controlled way to release your application into standardized environments, ensuring that what is being built and tested is what is going into production. Release Management provides powerful tooling to managing an entire release pipeline, from deployments and environment provisioning to logging approvals. Learn how Microsoft Release Management how can be easily configured to deploy to even some of the most complex environments.

Application Performance Monitoring

It isn't enough to get an application into production. Healthy DevOps organizations focus on releasing quality applications with an eye on delivering prioritized value to the customer. A DevOps pipeline enables fast feedback, feedback which allows the Team validate the delivery of value and provides a means to evaluating performance and utilization. Discover how Application Performance Monitoring solutions are a necessity for health DevOps organizations!

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