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7:30am - 9:00am   Registration & Coffee

9:00am  - 9:20am   Introduction to the Day & Overview of DevOps 
Speaker: David Blezard, Senior IT Manager, University of New Hampshire

9:20am  - 10:20am   DevOps on a Shoestring
Speaker: Chris Schneider, University of New Hampshire

Non-profit, education, and other non-commercial fields, take notice.  DevOps success can be achieved at little to no cost for tools.  Open source or community edition products offer plenty of functionality to achieve all of the increased value from DevOps practices while easy on your budget.

10:20am – 10:30am   Break
 
10:30am - 11:30am   High-Availability DevOps
Speaker:  Richard Nickle, Senior Technical Services Engineer, Holy Cross

Deploying and managing a highly-available DevOps environment requires attention to the elimination of single points of failure.  Using open-source High-Availability and Desired State Configuration tools to ensure the availability and maintainability of the overall DevOps environment and the resources and services required. The main tools covered will be Docker with native Swarm orchestration, Pacemaker, SaltStack and some scripting to glue it together.

 
11:30am - 12:30pm   DevSecOps
Speaker: David Blezard,  Senior IT Manager, University of New Hampshire

Development + Operations = DevOps.  Automation, pipelines, and continuous integration and delivery mean more rapid, reliable, and nimble service and application delivery.

Development + Security + Operations = DevSecOps.  Adding in the Security roles in the middle may seem counter to those goals at first.  Won’t running everything through a security audit before it goes out the door just slow things down?  While it is true that could be the case, proper integration of security practices into a DevOps workflow means improved reliability, better protection of confidential data, and more robust services without creating roadblocks.  This session will introduce the concept of DevSecOps, consider key security concerns that exist, and show ways in which the security processes can be integrated into the flow as opposed to blocking it or having to be tacked on at the end.

12:30pm - 1:30pm   Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm   Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm - An Operational Comparison
Speaker: George (Gaf) Fitch, Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Tumblr.com

In this presentation, we will compare the main features between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes and the operational implications regarding developing, deploying, and maintaining services within. Attendees should come away with an understanding of both and which is best suited for their particular environments. 

2:30pm - 2:40pm   Break

2:40pm - 3:15pm   Panel Discussion

Ask your questions of all of the presenters from today.  We will gather ideas for topics of discussion throughout the course of the day.  Starting with those gathered plus other things that come up in the course of the discussion, this is a chance to bring up your school’s unique concerns and situations to see how we can collectively tackle those challenges.

3:15pm   End

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