Config Management Camp 2023 Ghent

Nicolas CHARLES

Nicolas is Customer Success Manager at Rudder, where he helps customers and users in their deployments and uses of RUDDER, both from an organizational and technical point of view.

In his spare time, Nicolas is a father of 3 young kids, and loves Eurovision


Sessions

02-07
14:50
50min
A journey from Configuration Management to Security of IT systems
Nicolas CHARLES

Configuration Management is nearly ubiquituous and a solved problem. It allows system administrator and developpers to excel at their job and many uses cases which would hardly be feasible without it.
Most notably, the main features of configuration management, continuous configuration and compliance are enabler for hardening of systems by security team, and to reach and maintain an improved Security Posture.

This talk will present how and why Rudder is evolving to incorporate operational security into its core features while strenghtening the fundamentals of configuration management. We'll show the impacts on the product, mainly on the compliance aspect with integration of compliance information from other sources and making the compliance queryable using GraphQL, and what it changes on the software principle.

Main
D Aud
02-06
12:15
5min
Rudder users and uses - tales from a survey
Nicolas CHARLES

A quick overview of the Rudder users: their IT size, number and type of people working on configuration management, metrics about their uses and most common use cases.
To have the most extensive infos we sent a survey to our Rudder users to gather this data and we'll present here the results and insights from this survey.

Ignite
D Aud
02-06
14:25
50min
Rudder: Come and hack with us
Nicolas CHARLES

This is a free slot in the Rudder room to come and talk with us, get help about your uses cases with Rudder, tell what you miss and what you like, and hack with us

Rudder
B.2.009
02-06
14:00
25min
Rudder: What is it, and what makes it different?
Nicolas CHARLES

Rudder is an open source security and configuration management tool that focuses on compliance and continuous audit. It allows users from different teams and background to configure and extract data through both the UI and API, providing a fast feedback loop. Since its first release 10 years ago, Rudder has been used by organizations of all sizes, from small installations to large deployments of over 15,000 nodes.

In this talk, we will introduce Rudder and explain what sets it apart from similar tools. We will also discuss the current evolution of Rudder towards operational security and its impact on the product. If you are new to Rudder or interested in learning more about compliance and configuration management, this talk is for you.

Rudder
B.2.009