Peter Souter
Peter Souter is a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog, working with customers to help them with their observability needs.
He's previously worked at HashiCorp and Puppet, been in the IaC and DevOps space for over a decade, and has attended and spoken in the Config Management track at FOSDEM and at Cfgmgmtcamp several times, many moons ago... (2016, 2017, 2018)
NB: This will be his 7th Cfgmgmtcamp (first was 2014), time flies!
Sessions
Most teams have observability and monitoring strategies to fix problems with their applications in production, but what if the issue is actually earlier in the delivery process?
You might have CI/CD systems to test and deploy your applications, but what happens when your CI/CD tools themselves become the issue?
Without granular visibility into the performance of your pre-production testing and deployment pipelines, organizations often experience development outages due to slow builds or increases in failing or flaky tests.
In this session, Peter Souter will talk about how to fix that, move observability left, and bring observability into your pipelines and test runs. He’ll go through tracking key CI/CD metrics over time, catching those pesky flaky tests, and building out a DORA-based culture to improve your pre-production processes.
In the course of their module stewardship over community Puppet code and tooling, the Vox Pupuli organzation maintains a sprawling ecosystem of Puppet modules with lint, spec, and acceptance tests across many OS/version matrices. This Ignite shows how they turned noisy CI into signal by wiring GitHub Actions to Datadog CI Visibility - surfacing flaky tests, speeding triage, and tracing bottlenecks. We’ll share the dashboards, alerts, and tags that keep regressions at bay- and how to reuse the pattern in your repos.