2018 Abstracts

Habitat is designed to be one of the quickest ways to build, deploy, and manage cloud native applications, but every company has legacy applications that are challenges to your overall cloud migration strategy. This talk will be a practical demo in how to use Habitat to migrate a Java/Tomcat application from a legacy infrastructure to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We will start with explaining what Habitat is, how it can make your application portable and more service oriented without major code modifications, so you can package it up and ship it into GKE. This talk will include all live coding and walking through the steps that are required to show how quickly you can get going with Habitat and GKE. The ideal audience of this topic is anyone who may have a Java application that is interested in moving to a Cloud Native application, or someone who wants to see how easy it is to use Habitat to get their application to GKE.

Expected time: 30-45 mins

VMware and Chef have multiple places to integrate. From ESXi to vRA, Chef can drive or be driven via VMware. In this talk I will go over the majority of the integrations and the places that as a VMware user, you should be able to identify how Chef can play in your environment. I’ll demo some of the original integrations, show off the new test-kitchen integration with vCenter and 6.5 compare it to the legacy way. I will also show off the possible ways to integrate Chef with vRealize Automation both internally in the typical vRA workflow, to driving vRA as a cloud. Finally throughout the presentation I’ll highlight best practices and concepts to make Chef and VMware as delightful as possible.

Expected time: 30-60 mins

InSpec is an open source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security, and policy requirements. Using a combination of command-line and remote-execution tools, InSpec can help you keep your infrastructure aligned with security and compliance guidelines on an ongoing basis, rather than waiting for and then remediating from arduous annual audits. InSpec’s flexibility makes it a key tool choice for incorporating security into a complete continuous delivery workflow, reducing the risk of new features and releases breaking established host-based security guidelines. This talk covers the basics of working with InSpec, writing tests to reflect your organization’s security guidelines, and managing InSpec as part of a high-velocity workflow.

Expected time: 30-45 mins

InSpec is an open source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security, and policy requirements. I'll be showing off how to use InSpec in a few different ways. I want to show how it can make your day in, and day out, better with the different ways you can use such a powerful tool. Ideally walking away from this talk you'll be able to take it and start using it as soon as you want to for free.

Expected time: 30-45 mins

I'll be demoing using test-kitchen with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Salt, and have InSpec behind it to validate the changes. This won't be a religious war, but a conversation and the way to show leveraging two Open Source and Free tools you can gain confidence in your changes. Walking away from this talk will hopefully inspire you to not have to YOLO things out to production, but give you the tools to start on a path to an infrastructure based CI pipeline.

Expected time: 30-45 mins