2 Talks: Applying the CIS Baseline using Ansible & Packer + Staffing Your DevOps Organization: Agile Development & the Division of Labor
NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE 6:30!
6:30pm Doors open
6:30-7pm Social time
7pm: Speaker starts
9pm: Meeting ends
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Speaker 1: Richard Bullington-McGuire: Applying the CIS Baseline using Ansible & Packer
Description: In this presentation we will talk about how to use an Image Bakery pattern to lock down an operating system with the CIS Baseline using Ansible & Packer, & how to start down the path of getting the rest of the way there for compliance purposes. We will describe the CIS baseline in context, describe the approach, & show how we can improve our compliance with GitHub pull-request driven development, having Jenkins bake the images & perform a compliance scan. We will show a sample compliance matrix & show strategies to map issues requiring remediation to issues for tracking purposes. Viewers should leave with a solid strategy for dealing with sticky compliance issues where some open ended work might be required to fully remediate the situation.
Bio: Richard Bullington-McGuire is Principal Architect at Modus Create. Richard is a serial entrepreneur & versatile technologist with experience in agile processes, software development, system architecture, devops, mobile computing, for-profit & non-profit start-up companies, & design. He is a member of both IEEE & ACM.
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Speaker 2: Eugene Callahan: Staffing Your DevOps Organization: Agile Development & the Division of Labor
Description: The increased productivity brought about by the division of labor is a key insight of economics. This division reached in an extreme in the assembly lines of the 20th century, places where humans were asked not to think but to serve as capital goods, as flexible parts of a machine. The DevOps call to break down silos represents a reversal of that trend towards ever greater specialization. What is causing that reversal, & why is it happening now?
Bio: Gene Callahan is industry associate professor of computer science at New York University. He is the author of the books "Economics for Real People" & "Oakeshott on Rome & America," & has published dozens of papers & book reviews in academic & professional software engineering journals.
