With DevOps being an emerging set of cultural ideas, traits, and practices, catalyzed into a movement which is rapidly spreading throughout the technical community, at the end of the day you might ask yourself…

Is it a new process? A new technology? A job title? Or just a way of thinking?

We believe DevOps is about people working in teams, toward common goals. There is not one path, there is just what works for your organization.

If you are on the DevOps path, the thing that makes the most sense is to go and seek a community, since the community is a key part of the practice.

We are making it our mission to help grow this community by creating the first DevOps dedicated conference in Cluj-Napoca - Rise of the DevOps!

Join us on 10th of June, at Impact Hub, Cluj-Napoca, for a whole day of talks, hands-on workshops & great networking - in short - join the Rise of the DevOps.

AGENDA

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 9:40 Welcoming - Bogdan Mureșan

9:40 - 10:10 Jonathan Rivers

10:10 - 10:40 Alina Perde

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Silvian Crețu

11:30 - 12:00 Adi Biriș

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 16:00 Cassian Lup

13:00 - 16:00 Adi Biriș

13:00 - 16:00 Silvian Crețu

Speaking at the conference, our best and brightest:

Jonathan Rivers - CTO
Jonathan Rivers is the Chief Technology Officer at 3Pillar Global. In this role, he leads 3Pillar’s Product and Engineering organizations. This includes more than 600 software engineers, product consultants, product managers, quality assurance, and user experience professionals. He has 20+ years in System Administration, Data Center Operations, Cloud Infrastructure, Orchestration and Automation. Prior to joining 3Pillar, Rivers was the Interim CTO at The Telegraph of London, where he served as Director of Service Delivery and Operations before becoming Interim CTO. He was part of the leadership team that transformed PBS into a digital leader as their Sr. Director of Web Operations and Customer Support.

Silvian Crețu - Technical Operations Lead - Manager
Silvian is a DevOps Engineer and Technical Operations Lead - Manager at 3Pillar Global. With more than 15 years of experience in this field, he’s currently leading a sysadmin/DevOps team that manages, maintains and improves an infrastructure that is built on Linux with Python, PHP and Perl and is hosted on more than 800 instances in Amazon AWS. He uses Chef and tools alike to automate provisioning, deployments, scaling and so on.

Adi Biriș - Senior DevOps Engineer
For the past five years, Adrian has been one of the DevOps/SRE working at 3Pillar Global. His career has taken him through different working environments, ISP, corporate and software development. His main focus now is cloud infrastructure, in particular, AWS.

Alina Perde - Technical Lead
Alina is a passionate Full Stack Developer, currently acting as a Technical Lead for 3Pillar Global. She is working on an Automation Platform for one of the Network Security leaders on the market. For more than 5 years, her enthusiasm and passion for technology have taken her from different technologies such as Java and JavaScript to Python, exploring Docker and all the different sides of Full Stack Development.

Cassian Lup - Technical Lead
Cassi is a Technical Lead for 3Pillar Global and a co-organizer of tim.js. He has a passion for understanding how things work and enjoys solving problems. He has been working on web-related projects for the past 9 years, from configuring servers all the way to styling web components. When not coding, he enjoys being a superhero for his two kids.

Presentation Details

Death of the Sysadmin - with Jonathan Rivers
“With the rise of Cloud Computing, IaaS and Paas, the DevOps movement has gained momentum. However, over the years, system administrators have been quietly hired by the cloud providers and are no longer on the marketplace. This is further compounded by there being no entry path for new System Administrators to the market. This is leading to a deficit in skills on product teams, with DevOps Engineers having the programming chops, but not the fundamentals to build and operate web properties as scale. This talk will examine the problem, the skill gap, and the path to a successful DevOps career.”

Choose Chef! Choose High Availability, Consistency and Speed! - with Silvian Crețu
“An introduction to why you should use infrastructure automation, mostly focused on Chef.”

Automate AWS Infrastructure with Open Source Tools

- with Adi Biriș

“In an Agile software development environment where continuous integration and continuous deployment are the main policy, fast resource delivery is very important. Today’s presentation will focus on some of the many tools available. We will walk through the main concepts and advantages of using Packer, Terraform and Ansible to build and deploy your infrastructure and your applications.”

Infrastructure as Code - with Alina Perde
“Traditionally, server automation, infrastructure and configuration management tools were meant to simplify IT operations, but many people have found that this could only lead to a faster growing unmanageable system. This is where Infrastructure as Code comes to help.”

Workshop Details

Docker for Web Devs - with Cassian Lup

“Have you ever, as a Web Dev, wished that it'd be easier to setup your environment? Or have you ever had issues with context switching in terms of your stack or your local config across projects? Containers have created a name for themselves in the recent years. And now they've become a buzzword in the Web World. Come join us as we explore the basics of Docker, we familiarize ourselves with the experience of starting a new environment and we learn how we can leverage the power of containers in Web Development. As part of this workshop, we'll be building an API and consuming it via a SPA, all running through Docker. See you there! :)”

Cooking with Chef in Amazon AWS - with Silvian Crețu

“Practical examples of using Amazon AWS, OpsWorks and Chef 12. We'll be creating OpsWorks stacks and writing Chef cookbooks, and once we have them, we'll be provisioning EC2 instances and doing code deployments. This workshop assumes you have at least basic AWS experience.”

Terraform with Ansible from Zero to Deployment

- with Adi Biriș

“I will do a demo on how to build from scratch an AWS VPC and start a basic web service. Together we will do exercises that will be focused on managing your AWS resources using terraform. We will "terraform" basic AWS resources like EC2, S3, CloudFront and other.”

See you on June 10th @ Impact Hub, Cluj-Napoca!