Angel Rivera
Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes space lift operations, software development, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management.
You can usually find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers.
Angel’s passions are positive disruption, learning, teaching, mentoring but most of all inspiring all forms of technologists & building awesome tech communities.
Sessions
Digital transformation initiatives drive teams and organizations to transition their technology architectures to more modern concepts such as microservices, APIs and serverless frameworks. The distributed nature of these composed architectures are surfacing significant obstacles in developing continuous delivery strategies that orchestrate and support effective CI/CD practices. In this talk, Angel will discuss some challenges associated with CI/CD and composed architectures. He will also offer some strategies on how to understand and potentially solve common challenges teams face.
DevOps adoptions usually includes an evolution of processes and tool chains that enable these teams to function optimally. Modern day computing and infrastructure management is definitely shifting away from “ClickOps” management and adopting the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) way of doing business. IaC enables teams to easily define, deploy and maintain compute infrastructures in the form of code. It also provides the ability to effortlessly scale, version and audit infrastructure resources.
In this workshop, attendees will gain a basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). They’ll be introduced to the core principles of IaC and have the opportunity to reinforce what they’ve learned in a hands on workshop featuring industry known tools such as Terraform. The workshop will demonstrate specifying, deploying and destroying a Kubernetes cluster via code. The participants will leave with a hands-on experience and understanding of what it takes to manage Infrastructure as Code using continuous delivery concepts.