Speaker

Rob Bos

Rob Bos

DevOps Consultant | GitHub Trainer @ Xpirit

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines.

Rob is a Trainer (Azure + GitHub), a Microsoft MVP and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor.

Awards

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure
  • Azure DevOps
  • Visual Studio / .NET
  • .net core
  • Entity Framework
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Advanced Security

Hands-on workshop GitHub Code to Cloud

In this Hands-on workshop we will teach you how to use all the great features GitHub has to offer. We will start with an overview how to come from Idea to Code by using GitHub Discussions, Issues, Pages and Wiki. Next we will move the idea's to code and start using the Git features. From here we dive in to the use of Branch Protection Rules, Code Owners, Actions for CI, CD and Deployments to the Azure Cloud. We will also have a look at how GitHub can help you in your Secure Development Lifecycle with Credential scanning, Package Vulnerability Scanning and Code Scanning to expose programming mistakes that might lead to vulnerabilities in the future. After this Hands-on workshop, you know what GitHub has to offer to you and your organization to implement Secure and Compliant DevOps with ease.

Protect your code with GitHub security features

Creating modern software has a lot of moving parts. We all build on top of the shoulders of giants by leveraging closed/open source packages or containers that other people have shared. That makes securing our software a lot more complex as well!

In this session you'll learn what possible attack vectors you need to look for, how to protect yourself against them and how to leverage GitHub's features to make your life easier!

Topics:
- Signed Commits
- Dependabot updates
- Dependency scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Secret scanning (and revoking) out of the box
- Using CodeQL

How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind

When working in the real world with continuous integration / continuous deployment, you have to take care of your pipelines and the things they have access to.

- Who can push code into to an environment?
- Who could read and change the connection strings to the database?
- Who can create new resources in your cloud environment?
- Do you trust your third party extensions?
- What part of the network does your pipeline have access to?

I'll go over each of these aspects of your GitHub Actions Workflows and show you what to look for and how to improve your security stance without locking every DevOps engineer out.

Target audience: DevOps engineers on GitHub

Protect yourself against supply chain attacks

As an industry, we are using third party packages and building components for lots of things. In this supply chain, there are lots of places for vulnerabilities. They can then be used to attack your DevOps pipelines!

In this session, I will go over some common attack examples and show you a way to prevent them from happening. There are frameworks available in the industry that guide you through the process of becoming more mature in protecting not only your source code and application but also the packages you use and the pipelines you build them with. I'll demo some of GitHub's features that help preventing these types of attacks

Given at NDC Security in Oslo - April 2022

GitHub Actions: beyond CI/CD

With GitHub Actions you can do so much more then just CI/CD! I’ve validated the links on my blogposts, automated my issue management and provided easy configuration of my trainings that sets up entire environments for the attendees!

Join this session for more examples how you can use GitHub Actions to make your life easier!

Brand new session!

A trip around GitHub Copilot X

GitHub Copilot X is an AI-powered code assistant that helps developers write better code faster. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the features and capabilities of GitHub Copilot. We’ll explore how it works, what it can do, and how it can help you write better code. We’ll also look at some real-world examples of how developers are using GitHub Copilot to improve their workflows and productivity. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, this session will give you a comprehensive overview of GitHub Copilot X and how it can help you write better code.

Not a product review, just an enthusiast sharing knowledge on it.

Techorama Netherlands 2023 Upcoming

October 2023 Utrecht, Netherlands

VS Live! Nashville 2023

3 sessions:

W19 GitHub Actions: Beyond CI/CD
W23 Protect Yourself against Supply Chain Attacks
TH05 Protect your Code with GitHub Security Features

May 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

GOTO; Aarhus

2 sessions planned and a workshop on secure coding with GitHub and Azure

March 2023

DevTalks Romania

As an industry, we are using third party packages and building components for lots of things. In this supply chain, there are lots of places for vulnerabilities. They can then be used to attack your DevOps pipelines! In this session, I will go over some common attack examples and show you a way to prevent them from happening. There are frameworks available in the industry that guide you through the process of becoming more mature in protecting not only your source code and application but also the packages you use and the pipelines you build them with.

June 2022

Code Europe

One conference, one country, three different cities in one week!

I spoke on "Protect your code with GitHub's security features".
More info here: https://devopsjournal.io/blog/2022/05/30/Code-Europe

May 2022 Gdańsk, Poland

Techorama 2022 BE

May 2022 Antwerpen, Belgium

NDC Security 2022

April 2022 Oslo, Norway

DDD 2021

November 2021 Reading, United Kingdom

VisugXL 2021

November 2021 Brussels, Belgium

GitHub Universe 2021

How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind

October 2021

Techorama 2021 Spring Edition

May 2021 Antwerpen, Belgium

NDC London 2021

January 2021 London, United Kingdom

DevOps Pro Europe 2020

Workshop: Building an End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline in Azure DevOps (Full day)
Session: How to Run a Global, Cloud Scale Event for 10.000 People

March 2020 Vilnius, Lithuania

DevOps Fest 2020

Session: How to run a global, cloud scale event for 10.000 people

March 2020 Kyiv, Ukraine

Evolve Conference 2019

October 2019 Birmingham, United Kingdom

DevNetNoord - Meetup (130 attendees)

This year was the third edition of the Global DevOps Bootcamp. 92 venues, 35 countries and 1200 teams participated in this global hackathon. Since Global DevOps Bootcamp is an event out of the box, we, as global organizer, provisioned all infrastructure on both Azure and Azure DevOps, so participants could get a kickstart and focus on the real value.

Behind the scenes this means a lot of things. 1200 WebApps, 4 AKS clusters, load balanced websites for the challenges, 1500 AAD users and a Global Scoreboard. On Azure DevOps teams had their own Team Project, prepopulated with Repos, pipelines and service connections.

In this talk I will walk through all the the architecture, design choices and automation we created to run this Global Event.

September 2019 Groningen, Netherlands

Rob Bos

DevOps Consultant | GitHub Trainer @ Xpirit

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands