Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

A successful platform is normally measured by adoption and usage — important metrics to track to ensure you’re serving your internal customers. From a business perspective, though, you also need to show that your platform delivers a worthy return on the investment your organization makes to build, run, maintain and evolve it.

As we have seen, the world can change quickly. What you were working on yesterday may not be what you work on today. How do you adapt and be able to existentially flex, stay ahead, and deliver quickly. This session will look at how to do this by building composable solutions with APIs to integrate, connect, and automate various infrastructure operations. Leverage various cloud APIs to build high quality solutions through reusability and sharing for quicker time to delivery.

Deepak and Kelsey have a long history in a shared industry — they both worked at Puppet when it was still called Puppet Labs, and collaborated on some of the most exciting projects that made Puppet what it is today. Join Deepak and Kelsey for a fireside chat during which they’ll discuss the evolution of configuration management and automation, how their careers have overlapped and diverged, and what they envision for the future of cloud and ops.

In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit. Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.

The classic view we have on the CMDB is no longer sufficient. Having a static database of Configuration Items that is heavily guarded by a Change Management process, no longer suffices in a modern, agile, or cloud-native environment. A modern CMDB should be the heart of your automation journey, both being managed by your automation as well as feed information back to your platform via automation. This session will tackle how focusing your efforts on a good, lean CMDB with the necessary (automated) processes around it, can greatly increase your platforms growth, maintenance and agility.

A meme filled wander thru how and why we created PuppetDB clusters at Splunk.

An overview of Puppet's compliance enforcement solution, including Puppet Enterprise, Comply, and CEM. Puppet automates the process of configuring and maintaining CIS benchmark compliance across your environment: Windows and Linux, Cloud and on-prem.

Ever wondered how to manage your macOS resources with Puppet? Look no further! Using Jamf and Puppet means you have full control over your macOS fleet, available in the next version of Puppet Enterprise.

On today's episode, Kenaz tells Lauren the story of how Relay came to be, the problems it solves, and what the future use cases might look like as gives a demo of its features and functionality.