Open Source, DevOps, and Telework at NSA
summary
NSA has published open source for 20 years and now ships specific projects like Red Hawk (took 18 months to publicize), Guidera, and the newly released Skill Tree, and runs a GitLab on internal AWS deployment built with CloudFormation SaltStack and GitLab Ops that serves thousands of developers monthly. A centralized DevEx team builds a protected low-side development environment for unclassified work, adopts Microsoft 365/Teams for telework, and treats contribution workflows and DCO or inbound/outbound licensing as concrete, auditable policies.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:34About Me
- 2:51NSA has a rich OSS history
- 6:32Federal OSS Challenges & Support
- 9:33Releasing OSS
- 15:12DevX - Developer eXperience
- 18:25Scaling DevOps at NSA
- 22:32NSA, Telework, & Unclassified Work
- 23:58Our Approach
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