DevOps UMN 2017

What is it?

DevOps UMN is a one day conference which will feature a mixture of talks, panels, and open space discussions.

Who should attend?

Anyone currently affiliated with the University of Minnesota

When and Where

Monday March 13th - Bruininks Hall 230

Cost

Free!

Conference Themes

  • Promote awareness of services offered by others, reduce duplication of effort
  • Discover what other groups are doing
  • Improve communication amongst IT groups at the U
  • Discuss DevOps practices and tools

Talk Submission - Deadline Past

Sorry, but we are past the deadline for talk submissions for this year's conference.  Check back in 6 months for next year's conference.

Open Space Idea Submission

Have an idea for an open space discussion topic? Head on over to our Coeventer page, click register, and under the "Submit an Idea" section, type your topic and provide a brief description. These topics will be scheduled for the open space time during the conference where you can discuss freely with other attendees.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Official Program

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration, networking 312
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Opening remarks: Debbie Gillespie 230
9:10 - 10:10 a.m. Talk: Andy Domeir, SPS Commerce: "DevOps is a Verb" 230
10:10 - 10:35 a.m. Talk: Wynn Richardson, University of Minnesota: "Marvel-ous Automation in a Windows Environment" 230
10:35 - 10:50 a.m. Break  
10:50 - 11:35 a.m. Panel: The Birth of Github Enterprise at the U 230
11:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lightning talks 230
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch 312, 330
1:00- 1:30 p.m.

Open spaces

117, 121, 123, 131B
1:30 - 1:40 p.m. Break  
1:40 - 2:10 p.m. Open spaces 117, 121, 123, 131B
2:10 - 2:20 p.m.

Break

 
2:20 - 3:05 p.m. Panel: How does your group DevOps? 230
3:05 - 3:15 p.m. Break  
3:15 - 4:15 p.m. Talk: Ben Zvan, Target: "The DevOps Oversight Subcommittee of the Architecture Review Board" 230
4:15 - 4:30 p.m. Closing remarks: Debbie Gillespie 230

 

Open Spaces

 

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Monitoring and Observability 131B
Building Empathy 121
How can we improve the diversity of IT@UMN 123
Experiences with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery 117
Collaboration success stories 330
How to give a lightning talk 330
Blameless PostMortems 330
Implementing Digital Accessibility 330
Blockers 330

 

1:40 - 2:10

Working with OIT virtual infrastructure 131B
Using Git without losing your mind 121
What tools/services do you wish existed? 123
Containers! 117
Communities Of Practice 330
Google drive file/content command line automation  330
DevOps and ITIL 330
Automation 330

 

Code of Conduct

 

Questions?

 

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