Jason Farrell
Sr Consultant @ Microsoft - Containers, DevOps, and Kubernetes
Suwanee, Georgia, United States
Jason Farrell is Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. His main goal is to help customers build solutions, solve problems, and bring value. He accomplishes this by using his nearly 20yrs as an engineer and focusing on the optimizations possible the Azure Cloud, DevOps, and advanced architectures. He has spent much of his career in consulting and regularly speaks at conferences and user groups.
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Take Control of Kubernetes
So, you are using Kubernetes? That is awesome but, what controls do you have in place? How do you ensure a strong security posture? How do you enforce rules within the cluster to ensure people play nice? Open Policy Agent is a tool which allows Cloud Native policy definition using Rego and enforcement using Gatekeeper. Come to learn how you can improve your consistency and security in your Kubernetes cluster!!
An Introduction to Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the defacto tool for orchestrating containerized applications. It changes the way we view deploying and operating applications giving teams immense flexibility which automating many aspects. Yet, it remains difficult to learn and can seem quite foreign to those just getting started with it. In this talk, I will take you through the origins of the platforms, what problem it solves, and its basic concepts.
By the end attendees will understand:
- What is Kubernetes and where it came from?
- Core concepts of Pod, Ingress, Service, Deployment, Node, and Cluster
- How to use of YAML to define minimum state
- How applications are deployed and executed within Kubernetes
Kubernetes for beginners and all skills levels
What are Graph databases?
Graph databases take the conventional though process to databases and flip it on its head. Whereas most database systems are concerned with the data they are storing in Graph it is the relationships between the data that is given a higher level of importance. For this reason, they are key in systems where value is derived not so much from the data itself but by its internal relationships, ala Facebook and Twitter. The goal in this talk is to showcase this approach and see the difference from contemporary RDBMS systems, with a focus on the Gremlin API within CosmosDB. In understanding Graph Databases, attendees will gain a unique perspective for organizing their next set of data.