DevOpsDays Kansas City 2016
2016-10-20..2016-10-21
Kansas City, United States
as the organisers put it
Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 - Friday, Oct 21, 2016 DevOpsDays is coming to Musical Theater Heritage in Kansas City! Where large enterprise software companies and a growing startup community are fueled by the fastest internet in the world. With more than 500 members in the local DevOps Meetup group, this conference will draw an elite group. Come and enjoy excellent presentations from local and international experts as well as the famous hallway track.
who it's for
devops engineers, engineering managers, platform engineers, operations staff, release managers, network administrators, security engineers
topics
continuous delivery journeys; docker container lifecycles; container network security; human factors in DevOps; application modeling techniques; Ansible configuration practices; release management escape strategies; building enterprise DevOps culture; bizops and business-ops alignment; scaling trust in organizations; bulletproof logging practices; introduction to Habitat
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building a DevOps Enterprise Community Across 10 Businesses | Pauly Comtois | 29m |
Builds a single DevOps community across 10 Hearst Business Media units, starting with an opt‑in chat that grows from ~50 to 1,000+ members and seeds… | ||
| Docker Container Lifecycles – Problem or Opportunity? | Baruch Sadogursky | 33m |
Shows that Docker builds are usually nonreproducible so promotion of built images beats rebuilding at each stage, with a concrete claim that audience… | ||
| Human Factors and DevOps | Kevin O'Brien | 36m |
Argues that human factors shapes how DevOps tools actually get used and gives concrete examples: cobbling up Jenkins-style local VMs to bypass ops delays… | ||
| Secure Your Containers! What Network Administrators Should Know.. | Cynthia Thomas | 36m |
Claim: Courier translates Docker/CNM and Kubernetes/CNI calls into OpenStack Neutron so existing Neutron plugins provide IPAM, isolation and services… | ||
| Ignite: Failure and the Third Way | Aaron Blythe | 06m |
Clear, actionable specifics: just culture (Google Sydney Decker) and four short courses totalling one hour to watch with a team or manager; insist on blameless… | ||
| Ignite: Introduction to Habitat | Kyle Sexton | 05m |
Habitat is a Chef product that packages application automation so each deployment includes a supervisor per app that listens for config changes and exposes a… | ||
| Ignite: Cheat Codes from Occupy | AJ Bowen | 06m |
Claims that a set of simple hand signals and a rotating facilitator reliably cut meeting times in half by replacing long debates with parallel signaled… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke 1-DevOps | David Blank-Edleman | 09m |
Sporadic anecdotes and riffs claim that laptop-to-projector sync remains unsolved and AV problems dominate the evening; no reproducible fix or tool appears… | ||
| Our Continuous Delivery Journey | Suzie Prince | 30m |
Shows concrete outcomes: reduced release-end testing from ~25% of a quarter to ~5% (days not weeks) by moving installer tests earlier and automating them… | ||
| BizOps and you | Leon Fayer | 28m |
Argues that business units join DevOps processes to reduce costly surprises, with concrete examples: a Subversion-to-GitLab migration because GitHub violates… | ||
| How can you Scale if you Don’t Trust It? | David N. Blank-Edelman | 27m |
Argues that scaling requires enforceable, pervasive guard rails not meetings or manuals: a machine‑enforced policy layer that constrains CPU/memory, per‑port… | ||
| Outgrowing a Startup Culture | Caleb Hyde | 22m |
Covers concrete steps: writes Ansible playbooks for legacy and QA platforms, builds a greenfield streaming stack with Storm and Zookeeper, and uses the AWS… | ||
| Ignite: Innovating is not about tech, but psych | Alyssa Nicoll | 06m |
Claim: innovation depends on psychology not tech, backed by repeated reports of fear of learning, fear of failing, fear of looking dumb and a personal episode… | ||
| Ignite: Bulletproof Logging | Scott Smerchek | 06m |
Advocates writing structured logs and shows how to do it: write JSON logs directly with fields for request, status, URL, hostname and separate event timestamps… | ||
| Ignite: Magic of Application Modeling | Charles Butler | 05m |
Claims that logical application models let teams share operations as code and reason about relationships between components, with concrete examples: a… | ||
| Ignite: Ansible Wizardry 101 | Ashmita Sarma | 06m |
Claims Ansible is learnable in hours and useful from a laptop to cloud: it requires only SSH and Python on managed hosts, uses YAML playbooks, and its module… | ||
| Ignite: Escaping the Black Hole of Release Management | Jeffrey Sykes | 06m |
Teams spend 65% of time on release management across five languages, ten enterprise CMSs, five databases and 40–50 concurrent projects. The claim is that… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke KC | Thien-An Mac | 06m |
A breezy, improvised ignite karaoke set that offers no claims, benchmarks, code or demos—just travel anecdotes about streetcars, airports and a dead phone… | ||
| Ignite karaoke Canada | Todd Brees | 06m |
Lighthearted closing set that offers anecdotes and cultural riffs rather than technical substance: it centers on the DevOps journey as metaphor, throws in… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke 2 | Timothy Dryers | 06m |
Six months ago a Windows server admin starts moving toward platform‑agnostic automation, claiming real workable change not theory: using PowerShell for… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke1 | Daniel Doughty | 06m |
Slides offer a stream of surreal proposals and images rather than testable claims: a 20-pound laptop that impresses new funders, a campaign to kill Zika using… | ||
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