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Registration is open for the Global DevOps Bootcamp 2020 @ Black Marble

 

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I am really pleased to say that we at Black Marble are again hosting a venue for this year’s edition of the Global DevOps Bootcamp on Saturday May 30th 2020.

For those who have not been to a previous GDBC event at Black Marble, or any of the other 70+ venues across the work, what can you expect on the day?

  • A video keynote from an Industry Leader in the DevOps field
  • A local keynote developing the topics of the bootcamp
  • The remainder of the day is made up of team based hands on exercises.

Lat years content can be seen here, this years will be all new.

It is worth stressing that this event is not a competition. It is a day of learning for people of all levels of experience. We encourage the forming of teams that are cross skill and include all levels of experience. The key aims for the day are that everyone learns and has a great time.

Oh, and did I mention it is a FREE event and lunch will be provided.

For more details have a look at that the central GDBC 2020 site

We do have limited spaces so if you are interested in booking your place please register here

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Registration open for free Black Marble events on modern process adoption using the cloud

Registration for the new season of Black Marble events have just been opened. If you can make it to Yorkshire why not come to an event (or two)

If you are stuck in the grim south, why not look out for us at Future Decoded in London at the end of the month

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Still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble

There are still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble

Come and learn about all things cool in DevOps, including

  • Video keynote by Microsoft
  • Local keynote: Breaking down the Monolith
  • Hackathon/HandsOn DevOps challenges. The hands-on part with be based on a common application where we try to solve as many challenges as possible, including ideas like
    • How to containerize an existing application
    • How to add telemetry (app insights) to the application and gather hypothesis information
    • How to use telemetry to monitor availability
    • How to use feature toggles to move application into production without disrupting end users
    • How to use release gates
    • How to make DB schema changes
    • Use Blue Green Deployments

And there is free lunch too!

To register click here

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Book your free place at a Global DevOps Bootcamp venue for the 17th June 2017 event

Are you enthused by the all news at Build 2017?

Do you want to find out more about VSTS, DevOps and Continuous Delivery?

 

Well why not take the chance to join us on June 17th at Black Marble, or one of the over 25 other venues around the world for the first Global DevOps Bootcamp?

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The Global DevOps Bootcamp is a free one-day event hosted by local passionate DevOps communities around the globe. Find your local venue on the Global DevOps Bootcamp website or search for Global DevOps Bootcamp on EventBrite

Learn about the latest DevOps trends, ‘get your hands dirty during the Hackaton’, gain insights in new technologies and share experiences with other community members. All based around the concept of “From Server to Serverless in a DevOps world”. The Global DevOps Bootcamp is all about DevOps on the Microsoft Stack

 

Remember, places are limited at all venues so make sure you get your name down soon to avoid disappointment

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Presenting at an event in Leeds – Making it easy to migrate your ALM process to the Cloud

Do you find your TFS server gets forgotten?

  • It is not owned by the IT department and the Development team don’t have the time to support it fully, it never gets patched or upgrades?
  • Or maybe you are adopting a cloud first strategy for all you systems?

Well maybe it is time to consider moving your on-premises TFS instance to VSTS?

On the 9th of May at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Leeds I will be presenting at a Black Marble /Microsoft event where we will be looking at Microsoft’s new high fidelity VSTS database import tools that can be used to move a TFS instance to VSTS.

I will also be considering the pros and cons of the other migration options available to you. Hopefully making this a very useful session if you are considering a move to VSTS from TFS or any other source control ALM solution.

Hope to see you there, to register click here

 

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Leeds venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp

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I m really pleased to say that we at Black Marble are hosting a Yorkshire venue for the upcoming Global DevOps Bootcamp, to quote the main bootcamp site…

“Global DevOps Bootcamp is a global event that will be held on Saturday June 17th and is all about DevOps on the Microsoft Stack. Centrally organized by Xpirit and Solidify and offered to you by Black Marble. During this 1-day event we will join (Microsoft) DevOps communities all around the world to talk, learn and play with DevOps concepts.

Goals of the GlobalDevOpsBootcamp:
* DevOps in general
* Insights into where we are heading when it comes to DevOps and new technologies
* Get people’s hands dirty and let them play with all the good Microsoft DevOps stuff

This year’s theme will be “From server to serverless in a DevOps world”.
We will kick off with an introduction of no one less than Donovan Brown, followed by a keynote from the local partner about where we are heading with DevOps.

After that it’s time to get your hands dirty! Competing in groups you will transform an existing “traditional” application into a fully-fledged, containerized or Serverless application. Naturally you need to take care of all the DevOps practices like monitoring, pipelines and collaboration.”

 

 There is a specific site register for the Black Marble venue

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Devils with Arms and Cats – the new name for DevOps?

Great day at DDDNorth yesterday, hope everyone enjoyed it. Thanks to all the team who helped during the preparation and on the day.

The slides from Rik Hepworth and my presentation on ‘Living the dream – Real world DevOps with Azure and VSTS’ are up at Github. 

We were a late stand in session  to cover for a presenter who could not attend on the day. So I hope it was not too much of let down, that we were not the speaker on the agenda, covered a different subject and did not match the title the spell checker converted out session title too. Though ‘Devils with Arms and Cats’  is maybe a good term for DevOps?

As to the grok talk I did at lunchtime on developing VSTS extension with VS Code, there are no slides; but look at these past posts, building VSTS tasks with Powershell and putting a release process around vsts extension development they are on similar subjects.