What’s new at DevOps World this year? Aside from the fact that this year’s event, happening today through Sept. 24, is being held virtually and is free of charge, DevOps World is also reorganizing the conference into three new tracks: Leadership, Community and CDF (Continuous Delivery Foundation).
Together, the three tracks illustrate the broad-ranging focus DevOps World strives to achieve. The conference aims to educate, entertain and elevate the DevOps community with informative, thought-provoking content. The Leadership track will spark conversations about DevOps now and into the future. The Community track focuses on how Jenkins devotees can better leverage the CI/CD resource inside their organizations. CDF track outlines best practices for CI/CD implementations.
DevOps World Tracks
Here are a few highlights from the new tracks at DevOps World 2020.
Leadership
Leaders aren’t born with their skills fully formed. They grow into their positions over time, growing stronger with training and experience along the way. This new track, chaired by independent analyst firm Accelerated Strategies Group (ASG), is designed to provide attendees access to strategic business thinking and deep technical expertise. The mix of presentations, panels, hands-on exercises and interaction with peers will equip a whole new generation of digital leaders.
What’s included in the Leadership track? Sessions will explore the ins and outs of everything from software quality to DevSecOps, from value stream thinking to the future of open source and DevOps in the enterprise. You’ll hear from CloudBees customers including T-Mobile and Fidelity Investments and thought leaders from ASG and IBM.
Do you want to know how to “Put Customers At The Center Of Software Delivery Management”? Forrester analyst Margo Visitacion has a session covering how leading companies are implementing this new, customer-centric operating model.
What can the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency doctrine teach you about advancing DevOps internally? Lindsay Holmwood, an engineering leader from Australia, will explain to attendees not only how to push DevOps forward but also how to fend off threats to its success. Naysayers will try to derail DevOps initiatives. Understanding the strategies and tactics used by the U.S. military to stop insurgencies can help you build a strong DevOps culture in your organization.
Community
This track pulls together the best elements of the movement that sparked the DevOps World conference into what it is today. It focuses on Jenkins, the world’s leading continuous integration and continuous delivery server, along with CI/CD tools, concepts and technologies that enthusiasts can use to do a better job delivering software.
Many sessions focus on Jenkins itself. CloudBees’ Oleg Nenashev’s breakout session, “Jenkins: Where It Is and Where It is Going,” provides an overview of the Jenkins configuration-as-code (CaC) ecosystem, Docker/Kubernetes support and environments as well as new Jenkins Pipeline features that create a shared vision for modern and cloud-friendly Jenkins. Other sessions include, “Machine Learning Plugins for Data Science in Jenkins,” “External Fingerprint Storage for Jenkins,” and “Jenkins UI Gets a Makeover.”
Practitioners from companies ranging in size from Wintellect to Salesforce will share other lessons of interest to the community. Ken Muse of Wintellect will give a talk on “Hyperscale Migrations – Tricks for Supporting Large Migrations with DevOps,” while Salesforce’s Scott Glaser will discuss his company’s “Culture of Collaboration and Sharing at Scale.” AKELESS’s Oded Hareven has pointers on how to “Streamline Your CI/CD Pipeline by Adopting a Just-in-Time Access Approach.” Splunk Inc.’s Chris Riley will outline ways to empower engineering teams in a breakout session, “How A Culture of ‘Be Yourself’ Generates More Revenue for the Business.”
CDF
This track is coordinated by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, a group created by the Linux Foundation to serve as a vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery. It pulls together nearly two dozen sessions on DevOps trends, technology resources such as Kubernetes and initiatives driven by the CDF itself.
One trend that’s catching on is the use of new organizational models to break down silos that can inhibit DevOps transformations. Capital Carbon Consulting’s Garima Bajpai discusses how a “Continuous Product Oriented Practice” can transform the qualitative way products are built and tracked into a quantitative way by identifying and measuring “value” in practice. The CDF’s Tracy Miranda and DeployHub’s Tracy Ragan present thoughts about how to bring more women into DevOps and help the open source community become more inclusive.
Kubernetes has become a de facto standard in container orchestration, so it’s probably no surprise there’s so much interest in the subject at DevOps World 2020. CircleCI’s Angel Rivera presents an overview of the containerization trend, arguing that a better understanding of runtime-related concepts will better prepare DevOps teams for the future. Cloud costs are on the agenda in Harness’ Tiffany Jachja’s session, which outlines ways attendees can optimize Kubernetes workloads.
What’s happening with CDF? A panel discussion with six CDF leaders will offer insights on the direction of the CDF, cover some of the strategic goals and review what’s next for the upcoming year.
To take advantage of these exciting new tracks, join us today!
