Die ist Beitrag 7 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021This year’s stackconf is over and was a big success. The three-day conference this summer was all about open source infrastructures where trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, top-level discussions and new perspectives have shaped the event. Besides our 30 amazing experts sessions we were also excited about the large amount of participants from all over the world. Our audience included renowned infrastructure spezialists, industry leaders, experienced administrators and IT architects as well as a wild bunch of open source community enthusiasts. For all of you who couldn’t join the Open Source Infrastructure Conference I’ve something awesome today. It’s all about Ricardo Castro’s talk „GitOps: yea or nay?“. It includes a demo of ArgoCD/Flux/Jenkins X on how to configure and use it to accelerate and simplify application deployments. Enjoy!   [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUd5PvNsNw0[/embedyt]   stackconf 2022 will take place from May 16-17 in Berlin. We are already looking forward to meeting you all again in person next year. If you want to learn more about infrastructure solutions in advance always keep in mind that there’s our archive where you can find all slides and videos of every stackconf speaker. Stay tuned!

Die ist Beitrag 8 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021This year’s stackconf is over and was a big success. The three-day conference this summer was all about open source infrastructures where trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, top-level discussions and new perspectives have shaped the event. Besides our 30 amazing experts sessions we were also excited about the large amount of participants from all over the world. Our audience included renowned infrastructure spezialists, industry leaders, experienced administrators and IT architects as well as a wild bunch of open source community enthusiasts. For all of you who couldn’t join the Open Source Infrastructure Conference I’ve something awesome today. Can you imagine to communicate the code concepts with images? Me neither. Tadeh Hakopian’s talk shows you how using geometry and modeling can acclimate novices to coding concepts using visual-spatial examples reinforced by coding concepts applicable anywhere. Enjoy!   [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWgVdWlPzFw[/embedyt]   stackconf 2022 will take place in Berlin. We are already looking forward to meeting you all again in person next year. The exact date of the event will be announced soon. If you want to learn more about infrastructure solutions in advance always keep in mind that there’s our archive where […]

Die ist Beitrag 9 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021This year’s stackconf is over and was a big success. The three-day conference this summer was all about open source infrastructures where trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, top-level discussions and new perspectives have shaped the event. Besides our 30 amazing experts sessions we were also excited about the large amount of participants from all over the world. Our audience included renowned infrastructure spezialists, industry leaders, experienced administrators and IT architects as well as a wild bunch of open source community enthusiasts. For all of you who couldn’t join the Open Source Infrastructure Conference I’ve something awesome today. Lawrence Finn gave us an introduction into Cloud Sidecar, how it works, how easy it is to modify your software to use it and how you can deploy it. Enjoy his talk: „Enabling multi-cloud and breaking vendor lock-in with Cloud Sidecar“!   [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFrvMOAYxcQ[/embedyt]   stackconf 2022 will take place in Berlin from May 16 – 17. We are already looking forward to meeting you all again in person next year. If you want to learn more about infrastructure solutions in advance always keep in mind that there’s our archive where you can […]

Die ist Beitrag 10 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021This year’s stackconf is over and was a big success. The three-day conference this summer was all about open source infrastructures where trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, top-level discussions and new perspectives have shaped the event. Besides our 30 amazing experts sessions we were also excited about the large amount of participants from all over the world. Our audience included renowned infrastructure spezialists, industry leaders, experienced administrators and IT architects as well as a wild bunch of open source community enthusiasts. For all of you who couldn’t join the Open Source Infrastructure Conference I’ve something awesome today. Nicolas Fränkel was one of our speakers and talked about „Pragmatic App Migration to the Cloud: Quarkus, Kotlin, Hazelcast and GraalVM in action“. In his talk, he created a simple URL shortener with a „standard“ stack: Kotlin, JAX-RS and Hazelcast. With the help of Quarkus and GraalVM, he turned this application into a native executable with all Cloud/Container related work has been moved to build the process. Doesn’t that sound exciting? Enjoy his lecture!   [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaFtbAKCzDo[/embedyt]   stackconf 2022 will take place in Berlin. We are already looking forward to meeting you […]

Die ist Beitrag 1 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021stackconf online 2021 is over and was a full success. It was all about open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. We’re still excited about all of our experts sessions and the large number of participants who joined us from all over the world. In the following you get an insight about one of our talks.   Stephane Jourdan, co-author of Infrastructure-as-Code Cookbook and co-founder of Driftctl lectures us in the talk „Why you should take care of infrastructure drift“ about infrastructure drift, why it’s causing issues and how to avoid and mitigate it. The talk starts off by looking for a definition for infrastructure drift, asking users and customers for their experiences. Infrastructure drift happens when the reality and the expectations don’t match is the definition given. This is supplemented by a technical explanation: the configuration provided by our management tools doesn’t match the configuration on our actual machines. For varying reasons, whatever configuration we have running in our cloud infrastructure, in our AWS machines, differs from the configuration we have provided in Terraform. That difference is infrastructure drift. It is […]

Die ist Beitrag 11 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021This year’s stackconf is over and was a big success. The three-day conference this summer was all about open source infrastructures where trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, top-level discussions and new perspectives have shaped the event. Besides our 30 amazing experts sessions we were also excited about the large amount of participants from all over the world. Our audience included renowned infrastructure spezialists, industry leaders, experienced administrators and IT architects as well as a wild bunch of open source community enthusiasts. For all of you who couldn’t join the Open Source Infrastructure Conference I’ve something awesome today. Have you ever heard of „Data Driven Security“? Peter Elmer outlines in the following video why this is more effective than traditional research methodologies, as it combines data, human experience and logic made by machines to define the verdict. Enjoy!   [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oXHngoauVE[/embedyt]   stackconf 2022 will take place in Berlin. We are already looking forward to meeting you all again in person next year. The exact date of the event will be announced soon. If you want to learn more about infrastructure solutions in advance always keep in mind that there’s our […]

Die ist Beitrag 3 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021stackconf online 2021 is over and was a full success. It was all about open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. We’re still excited about all of our experts sessions and the large number of participants who joined us from all over the world. In the following you get an insight about one of our talks. At stackconf online 2021 Matt Jarvis held a talk about the continuous security within pipelines. This is a great topic as security is not only extremly important, but more and more people are realising its importance. Matt started off by giving us an introduction as to how Dev-ops has progressed and in the pre-cloud era the developer wrote the application and then IT operations took over the security side of things. Nowadays developers write the code, check, deploy and manage almost everything. Which can be a lot! The line has become blurred and the responsibility of security doesn’t have a rightful place, which is where Snyk comes in. Security is usually considered to be an external practise and as it requires a higher responsibility, it needs […]

Die ist Beitrag 5 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021stackconf online 2021 is over and was a full success. It was all about open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. We’re still excited about all of our experts sessions and the large number of participants who joined us from all over the world. In the following you get an insight about one of our talks. At stackconf online 2021 Ara Pulido from Datadog talked about „Embracing change: Policy-as-code for Kubernetes with OPA and Gatekeeper“. What is Kubernetes Kubernetes is a Container orchestration platform to help you run your containerized applications in production. It provides Role-based Access Control (RBAC) which allows operators to define in a very granular manner which identity is allowed to create or manage which resource. But RBAC does not allow us to control the specification of those resources. So the use of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper. What is Open Policy Agent (OPA) A Policy Rule that governs the behavior of a software service. The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source project, a policy engine for Cloud Native environments and also a policy engine that […]

Die ist Beitrag 6 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021stackconf online 2021 is over and was a full success. It was all about open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. We’re still excited about all of our experts sessions and the large number of participants who joined us from all over the world. In the following you get an insight about one of our talks. At stackconf online 2021 Rosemary Wang was with us, and she had a great topic on how to extend a service network beyond clouds. At the beginning she told us about her work at an organization, where different environments were used. These environments were running applications, some in AWS, data centres, Kubernetes, virtual machines, or Azure. The last thing that is missing is a way to control everything from one point. So, what is needed is an infrastructure layer and an automation that controls the infrastructure layer. The combination of these is a service mesh. She showed us a solution with a Consul cluster, which is used in the datacenter and in the cloud. This means that everything that is service to service goes through the […]

Die ist Beitrag 6 von 27 der Serie stackconf online 2021stackconf online 2021 is over and was a full success. It was all about open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. We’re still excited about all of our experts sessions and the large number of participants who joined us from all over the world. In the following you get an insight about one of our talks. Arushi Jain, a senior software engineer at Reddit, talked about anti-pattern in her speech at stackconf 2021. The talk on “Spot the Anti-Pattern“ dives deep into the study of anti-patterns. How it helps to create a common language and focus the stakeholders on it. It helps to analyse the past and find out how to interrupt the patterns in the future to avoid the same mistakes. The presence of anti-patterns and how to find one, this information is properly communicated, such as a commonly implemented practice with negative effects when used in varying degrees of severity.  A common example of an anti-pattern is the fart system at work. Every system needs an upgrade after time and a variety of frameworks to develop the concerns and the […]

Meet the faces behind stackconf stackconf online 2021 is over. It was successfull once again and we’re happy everything has been gone as planned. For this we would like to thank anyone who was involved in the organizational process of our online conference this year. In the following we give you an impression of how it looked like behind the scenes.   Our awesome moderators If you were part of stackconf you certainly know these two faces. Christian and Bernd were moderating the conference for whole three days. They took care about making the required technology work, announcing all of our talks, entertaining the community during the breaks and interacting with participants and speakers via live chat. They did a great job the last few days and we hold them in high esteem for undertaking this demanding task.   A cake a day… …keeps the stress away. At least on the first day, when everyone of our team was a little bit nervous whether everything is going as planned. For this Jessica from the Marketing Team has baked a stackconf cake with an edible logo on top of it. It was very delicious and especially refreshing at the high temperatures. […]

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The stackconf countdown is running and in 7 days the conference will finally start! Therefore we’ve created a guide consisting of 7 steps, which will help you with your preparations for our online event next week:   7 – Register for free If you haven’t registered yet, then go, go, go! This year you have the chance to join stackconf for free. Up to now we already have over 250 registrations, so this year is going to be the greatest stackconf we’ve ever had. Make sure to save one of the coveted ticktes and become part of our interntional community!   6 – Create your program Now check out our three-day lecture program and see what’s in for you. Choose speakers and talks that interest you most, add them to your personal calendar and you won’t miss any of your favourite lectures.   5 – Prepare questions Let your hardest questions be answered by renowned international open source experts. Think about some questions in advance and you will find out what you always wanted to know. Also keep in mind to use our Rocket.Chat channel to ask the experts during the conference.   4 – Invite colleagues Enjoying stackconf together […]

Good Times Ahead! Are You Prepared? Yes, you heard right – in 14 days the time has finally come. And the preparations for stackconf are in full swing. Since we are almost ready with all the organizational and technical things for our online conference this year, we were thinking about how your preparations are going. If you haven’t started yet, we will now show you three tips which help you getting prepared for stackconf in less than two weeks.   In three steps to a successful online conference 1. Define your program As far as you know, the stackconf program is already set – for us at least. You still have the possibility to put together an individual program which suits you best. So check out our three-day lecture program and choose your favourite speakers and talks.   2. Have an open attitude If you want to get the best out of stackconf we recommend being open to new ways and possibilities to get in touch with each other. Use the chance to interact and network with participants from all over the world. Get in contact with like-minded people and let your hardest questions be answered by renowned international open source […]

Tick tock – time is runningIn less than 4 weeks it’s stackconf time and we can hardly wait for our three-day online conference. If you feel the same way and you already want to get in stackconf mood we have something suitable for you:Get in the mood!

The stackconf program Since the open source infrastructure conference approaches with big steps, we proudly announce the completion of our three-day lecture program. We finally created our program awaiting you at stackconf online from June 15 – 17, 2021.   Our international speakers The schedule consists of 34 open source related lectures of speakers from all over the world like USA, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, France, Israel, Brazil, Turkey, England, Holland and Germany. It includes talks by well-known open source experts such as the following:   Arushi Jain (Reddit): „Spot the Antipattern“ Spotting anti-patterns in any large scale production system is an art form, but it doesn’t need to be complicated. In this talk I will describe a ruleset to guide you in identifying anti patterns in your systems. While spotting deeply ingrained anti-patterns can require deep knowledge and expertise in the specific system, I believe that there is a certain amount of generalization in approach that can take you far and is good enough to get started.   Frank Karlitschek (Nextcloud GmbH): „First hand experience: How Nextcloud stayed productive during COVID-19“ We are all now experiencing that remote working and virtual conferencing are important tools to stay connected. This talk […]

Check out  the European tech conference for open source infrastructure solutions in the spectrum of agile methods, continuous integration, container, hybrid and cloud technologies. Get ready Bridge the gap between development, testing and operations! stackconf covers this paradigm from multiple perspectives. Get ready for trendsetting concepts, state-of-the-art technical expertise, Top-level discussions and new perspectives in dealing with complex IT infrastructures! You have a valid solution? Go for it! Call for Papers will be open until February 15, 2021. Share your insights and experiences! Choose your format There are three possible formats for your talk: IGNITE TALK | Five minutes to talk accompanied by 20 slides, 15 seconds each. MEDIUM TALK | The short lecture format limited to 30 minutes, including a Q&A session. FULL TALK | The long lecture format of 45 minutes, including a Q&A session. Please fill in the form on the event website to register your interest in presenting at the stackconf 2021. Save the date! Be part of a unique and inspiring open source event taking place on June 15 – 16, 2021 | ONLINE Find out more about stackconf, browse the conference archives & register for free at stackconf.eu.

Due to the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the concerns and restrictions coming with it we decided to take stackconf online.