This is undoubtedly the major DevOps event in France. In just four editions, it has become a must-attend event for everyone involved in Dev, Ops, DevOps, and DevSecOps. Squad visited the Cité des Sciences in Paris to take part in devopsREX. Here is our analysis.
Why attend DevOpsREX?
For Jordan Assouline, Technical Evangelist at Squad, this type of event is essential. By drawing on the positive feedback from other IT professionals, Squad can only grow and offer the best to its customers.
What's more, the rise of the DevOps philosophy also involves sharing. It is therefore crucial for our experts to gain expertise and exchange ideas with their peers.
DevOpsREX by Jonathan Clarke, its founder
Participating in DevOpsREX is great, but interviewing its founder is even better! We had the opportunity to ask Jonathan Clarke, founder of the event, a few questions.
According to him, "DevOps is the shared desire of an entire team and organization to work together by sharing, communicating, and automating to produce value."
What lessons can be learned from the 2019 edition?
We spent a whole day at DevOpsREX, attending technical conferences and listening to more pragmatic feedback. This event allows everyone to exchange ideas and learn from the experiences of other professionals in the field. In this respect, DevOpsREX meets all our expectations.
What should we take away from such an event? Certainly kindness, because it is fundamental to any feedback, but also just as useful if we want to successfully adopt a DevOps philosophy.
Jordan Assouline, Technical Evangelist Squad, summarizes the 2019 edition:
Before any technical approach, the DevOps culture requires a complete overhaul of processes and mindsets. The compartmentalization of information, "siloing," or a narrow view of the scope of each of the business lines involved gives way to goodwill, continuous training, and sharing.
Beyond these fundamental aspects, Jordan provides us with an in-depth analysis of the event:
Some interesting questions were asked during DevOpsREX: both general ones such as " Does the position of DevOps engineer really exist?" and more practical ones such as "How can you be an OPS in a DEV team? "
DevSecOps is the big new feature of the 2019 edition, with a whole series of tracks dedicated to this issue to understand how to integrate security into a DevOps transformation or to learn more about securing with Docker ("The life of a secure container, told to my son"), all with a strong focus on the Agile method.
Technology was not left behind either, with numerous use cases. We saw concrete examples of "building a database cluster deployment factory" and implementing an "auto-remediation" systemon high-density infrastructures.
The big winner in terms of representation remains containerization, with several case studies on Docker and Kubernetes tools, all in environments where security is increasingly omnipresent, with numerous automated technical and functional tests. Also worth noting is an interesting presentation of the Terraform tool, so as not to leave DevOps out of the picture in a context that is more "network" than system or application-based.
Conclusion
Ahead of the 2020 edition, for which Squad will be fully mobilized, we are pleased to share with you the complete playlist of DevOpsREX2019 talks: http://bit.ly/DevOpsREX2019yt
