Provisioning infrastructure through machine readable configuration has been a key enabler of the cloud and the growth of automation. But to move away from manual and non repeatable work we have instead ended up with megabytes, sometimes gigabytes of YAML and similar languages, with a variety of templating and generation tools. A new generation of tools is moving away from this YAML sprawl towards code and other approaches. This track explores a variety of these approaches, with talks both from practitioners and from those who have brought new tools and processes into creation because they have a strong vision beyond the status quo.
From this track
Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure Beyond YAML
Monday Oct 2 / 10:35AM PDT
In recent times and as technology keeps evolving, the boundary between software engineering and DevOps continues to blur, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for software engineers.
Adora Nwodo
Community Engineer
Framework Defined Infrastructure (FdI) – an Evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Monday Oct 2 / 11:45AM PDT
Discover the future of infrastructure management with Framework-defined Infrastructure (FdI), an evolution of the industry-standard Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Malte Ubl
CTO @Vercel
What if Infrastructure as Code Never Existed?
Monday Oct 2 / 01:35PM PDT
We rewind the clock and ask ourselves: what if Infrastructure as Code never existed? What different solutions might we have come up with to the problems we faced? We’ll leave you full of possibilities about the future.
Adam Jacob
CEO @System Initiative, CTO @Chef; Systems Administrator who loves building products
Unconference: Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
Monday Oct 2 / 02:45PM PDT
What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.
CI/CD Beyond YAML
Monday Oct 2 / 03:55PM PDT
This session explores the evolution of infrastructure strategy, focusing on the shift from traditional YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code.
Conor Barber
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure @Airbyte, Over a Decade of Experience in Data and Infrastructure Engineering, Previously @Apple
Kubernetes without YAML
Monday Oct 2 / 05:05PM PDT
Kubernetes ONLY understands JSON, yet we all write a ton of YAML. This is because it's meant to be easier for us to write ... but writing our manifests in YAML can be complex, error-prone, and damn right opaque as we adopt more custom resources.
David Flanagan
Kubernetes Whisperer
Track Host
Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
