#8 techBytes - DevOps: Journey towards a better infrastructure
[in-person event]
We’re excited to invite you to our next techBytes meetup @Ocado Technology. This time, we will delve into the world of infrastructure with two experienced speakers from Ocado Technology, Piotr Dindorf and Wojciech Penar.
Piotr will take us on a journey through the realm of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, while Wojciech will explore the critical aspect of Source Code Management in software development. Join us for an insightful and transformative evening.
Main organisational information:
- We’ll start at 18:00 at our office, located on Pawia 21 Street, next to the Main Train Station
- Our Ocado team will welcome you at the ground level and help you with the registration before the event.
- After the talks, we invite you to the networking part over beers and pizza :)
***Agenda***
18:00 - Grab a drink and take a seat
18:10 - Intro
18:15 - 19:00
Speaker: Piotr Dindorf, Cloud Engineer at Ocado Technology
Topic: IaC is not alchemy: our road to Terraform
Abstract:
Everyone has different experiences with various Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools in AWS environments. At Ocado Technology, we do too. During the talk, we will delve into our experience and explore available options, their strong and weak points and what finally convinced us to transition our stacks to Terraform. You will be able to gain valuable insights into our migration process, the challenges we faced along the way, and the core benefits that adopting Terraform brought to our cloud infrastructure management.
19:00 - 19:05
SHORT BREAK
19:05 - 19:50
Speaker: Wojciech Penar, DevOps Engineer at Ocado Technology
Topic: Introducing resiliency into self-hosted GitLab instance
Abstract:
Source code management plays a pivotal role in software development organizations, with the resilience and availability of this service being vital for seamless company operations. In this presentation, we will discuss our journey of implementing clustered Gitaly storage into our GitLab installation. Join us as we delve into the challenges we encountered and the valuable lessons we have learned along the way.
19:50 - 22:00
Networking over pizza and beer ;)
