Niklas Werker
Niklas Werker is Technical Lead and Solution Architect at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH in Germany.
Having a background in automotive engineering, Niklas shifted his focus to DevOps Engineering. His passion lies in automation, IaC, Linux, Hybrid Clouds, CI/CD and open-source software.
Sessions
Nowadays, everybody seems to be talking about Platform Engineering. The world of software development and cloud native technologies have been flooded with new tools and frameworks under the label of Platform Engineering. This talk aims to unpack these technologies by exploring their underlying principles and addressing the following questions:
- What is Platform Engineering?
- What are the core principles that define Platform Engineering and differentiate it from traditional DevOps?
- How do Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management interplay with Platform Engineering?
- Can we build platforms tailored to the needs of infrastructure automation developers and how would they look like?
The session concludes with a live demo of an Infrastructure Automation Platform that combines the following technologies:
- Backstage
- Ansible
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitLab
- Eclipse Che
This demonstration showcases a practical approach to architecting, building and maintaining an Infrastructure Automation Platform - an approach that can be adapted to platforms composed out of other tech stacks as well. Finally, we will take a glimpse in the future of possible platform capabilities and how they might reshape the way we collaborate.