Casey Morton
Principal Consultant, Pinnacle Solutions Group
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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I am a seasoned veteran of 20+ years as an IT Professional. I have worked with numerous development teams ranging from 4 developers to 200+. I started my career as an application developer. Starting with my very first college internships, nearly every team I was on, somehow I always found myself in charge of the build systems, back before DevOps was even a term. At a certain point I found that I actually enjoyed working with CI/CD systems and cloud platforms. As my career continues to evolve, I find myself striking a balance between Software Developer and Platform Engineer, truly walking the fine line between these two personas that is the crux of DevOps. This experience has given me a somewhat unique view of my role in that, while recognizing the importance of SLOs, uptime and well orchestrated deployments, it is also just as important to maintain a good developer experience at the same time.
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One Does Not Simply "Do" Kubernetes
As much as we hate to admit it, running a production-ready EKS cluster at scale is very different than standing up MicroK8s on your workstation. While there are many ways to run a mature Kubernetes environment, there are a set of basic needs that must be met. This session will outline those needs and provide examples of how to satisfy them, using nothing but open source technologies.
Productize Your DevOps (or "What I really learned from playing with Legos")
In the early days of my career, a mentor once said to me "Everything is a product". He went on to say, "Its less about selling your software and more about creating well-defined (and documented), composable modules or Lego bricks..." This is a lesson that I keep close to my heart over 20 years later. In this session, we'll talk about how this mantra can apply to nearly everyone in IT and then we'll look at it, specifically as it applies to DevOps. What does it mean to "productize" something? Why does it matter? Why should I design for reuse even if I probably never will?We will talk through a couple of examples to better illustrate how to apply this to your daily work. Maybe its your CI/CD pipeline. Maybe its Terraform or Bicep scripts. Maybe its Helm Charts. Let's take a look at these very different scenarios and see how Productized DevOps can make your life easier and help make you more successful.
The intent of the examples is to look at real-world scenarios where this may apply, but without getting too much into the weeds of the implementation, such that attendees can still take away value from the session even if they are not familiar with the specific technology being discussed. The main takeaway for attendees is the understanding of what it really means to "Productize" something and what the benefits are.
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