Track host
About the track
This track explores the landscape of languages, techniques, tools, and burgeoning ecosystems dealing with the scale of problems we’ve reached today in modern infrastructure.
Modern infrastructure and operations extend beyond the setup and provisioning of machines, data centers, and cloud. It now includes delivery pipelines, processes, security operations, configuration, policy, compliance management, data management, and more. Correctly automating modern systems has become frustratingly complex and failures have substantial negative consequences. Static text-based data serialization like YAML is falling short of expressivity, and is seldom sufficient. To manage this growing complexity, the declarative approach to configuration has become more and more popular, led by the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) paradigm.
Audience members will learn
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various approaches to Infrastructure as Code from a wide range of industry experts.
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historical and contextual explanations of the problem space of IaC.
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IaC solutions, alongside constraints and tradeoffs.
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deeper understanding of modern system cross-cutting problems and solutions.
Sessions in this track
Monday 24 October. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session Modern Infrastructure Taming Configuration Complexity Made Fun with CUE Marcel van Lohuizen Creator of CUE Configuration has become the number one complexity problem to solve in infrastructure and beyond. Configuration is in more places than people imagine. Every part of your tech stack—databases, apps, schemas, services, workflows, policy, models, networking—must be configured. 11:50 Seacliff D Session Unconference: Language of Infrastructure Shane Hastie Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks. 13:40 Seacliff ABC Session Modern Infrastructure Programming Your Policies Justin Cormack CTO @Docker Software is eating the world, and this talk is about how it is coming to eat the world of policy. I will talk about why this is happening, what the business drivers are, and how it affects developers and compliance and security departments, and the cultural and communication changes there. 14:55 Seacliff ABC Session Modern Infrastructure Sprinkling eBPF Onto Your Observability Frederic Branczyk CEO & Founder @PolarSignalsIO, previously Senior Principal Engineer @Redhat When talking about Observability in 2022 there is no way around eBPF. However, eBPF is often seen as magic dust that can be sprinkled into infrastructure and magically do anything, when the reality is much more complicated. 16:10 Seacliff ABC Session Modern Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future Joe Duffy Founder and CEO @PulumiCorp Infrastructure as code enables us to automate and manage all sorts of infrastructure, from on-premises virtual machines to cloud resources, and everything in between. 17:25 Ballroom BC Session Panel: Languages of Infrastructure Frederic Branczyk, Marcel van Lohuizen, Justin Cormack, Joe Duffy, Adam Jacob Join us for a moderated panel from our speakers about the future of languages of Infrastructure, YAML, Infrastructure as Code, and more. We will have an online form for you to fill out questions in advance as you hear the talks throughout the day.QCon San Francisco 2022 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.