Name: DZone: NetApp, Automating the Ops in DevOps Using SaltStack and Kubernetes
Start: 2019-07-11T16:05:00Z
End: 2019-07-11T16:05:40.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Salt project one of the largest,  friendliest, and most-active open source communities in the world. Dedicated to IT automation, configuration management, cloud automation, and more.

The Salt labs team have been hard at work cooking up some incredible new innovations to help IT, security and devops teams tackle the challenges facing them today—and we want to share some of the best with you!

Join SaltStack Co-Founder and CTO, Thomas Hatch, as he takes us through powerful new features and innovations from the brightest minds at SaltStack and throughout the Salt community.

Topics include:
- A million minions: Reaching absurd levels of scale with SaltStack
- Salt and Azure are now an Idem: Optimizing Azure Cloud management with Idem
- POP culture: Plugging in to the most powerful plugin-oriented dev platform
- Phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space: Deploying Salt in a single binary

Straight from the Lab: Salt Project innovations showcase

Organizations continue to grapple with security challenges associated with running applications in the cloud and on-premise. In today's multi-cloud world, applications are deployed on not just one cloud provider, but across multiple cloud providers. This brings extra complexity, especially in the context of avoiding cloud configuration mistakes, controlling access and authentication, as well as scanning for vulnerabilities.

Join industry cloud leaders and security experts for a Q&A roundtable discussion on strategies for improved cloud security and to learn more about:
- Biggest challenges for cloud security 
- Cloud misconfiguration and how to avoid common mistakes
- Cloud vulnerability scanning
- Digital identity, authentication and cloud access 
- How to continue offering your customers and users the agility they have come to expect employing data protection measures
- Recommendations for CISO for improving cloud security in 2020 and beyond

Speakers:
Terence Jackson, Chief Information Security Officer, Thycotic
Tim Bach, Vice President of Engineering, AppOmni
Michelle McLean, Vice President of Marketing, StackRox
Thomas Hatch, Founder and CTO, SaltStack

Strategies for Multi-Cloud Security in 2020

Infrastructure management in 2020 is a different game to the one it was in previous decades. In 2020, automation is the key differentiator, making waves across data center software and hardware and bringing in the ability to automatically detect and monitor connectivity, document the presence of network devices, update records with any modifications - and much more.

This intelligent approach to the data center is fast becoming mission-critical, but there are challenges that need to be overcome in order to ensure the approach taken is the right one.

Join this panel of experts as they discuss these automation infrastructure challenges and how to overcome them, including:

- How data scale and edge-to-core data center architectures impact automation management strategies
- How to overcome the hurdle of integrating DCIM automation tools
- How to ensure automation management is a benefit to data center teams, not a threat

Speakers: 
Alex Peay, Senior Vice President of Product, SaltStack (Moderator)
John Gentry, CTO, Virtana
Nital Gandhi, Founder, BOIT Consulting
Craig Theriac, Director of Product Management, Scale Computing

A 2020 Approach to Automating Infrastructure Management

Progressive Leasing needed a better way to audit and automate infrastructure deployment as part a more scalable DevOps toolchain. Configuration management and versioning using SaltStack Enterprise integrated with ServiceNow CMDB did the trick. 

Attend this webinar to learn how Progressive Leasing used SaltStack and GitFS for automated, full-stack deployment across multiple repos, and how they addressed performance issues at scale. Learn how they ultimately created an integrated and automated DevOps toolchain using Salt Runners for GitLab, and how integrating with ServiceNow allows them to deploy and audit server infrastructure based on desired-state versions for efficient, repeatable, and consistent enterprise infrastructure.

Building a Scalable DevOps Toolchain using SaltStack and ServiceNow

In this webinar Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO and creator of the Salt open source project, will introduce three new open source projects from SaltStack. 

Join this webinar to learn why Tom created the POP, Heist, and Umbra open source projects and how they can be used standalone or to extend and enhance the power of Salt for infrastructure automation and configuration management. Tom will also share his vision for these projects and detail roadmap highlights for each.

The open source projects that will be covered in this session include: 
- POP: Plugin-Oriented Programming 
- Heist: Dissolvable agents
- Umbra: Plugin-based AI/ML engine 

For more details on each project, visit https://www.saltstack.com/open-source-projects/

SaltStack Open Source Innovation - A First Look at POP, Heist, and Umbra

Find out why Security and Operations teams have competing interests, how to break down those barriers and get them working on the same team.

ActualTech Virtual Summit: Architecting and Supporting the Pillars of IT in 2020

There is too much talk in IT security and not enough action. But the reality is you probably don't have the people or the tools to effectively act to secure your IT infrastructure. There is hope. Let's fix IT. Join the CTO of SaltStack, Tom Hatch, for a presentation on hope for the future of IT security. 

The pace of infrastructure growth and resulting complexity is overwhelming. Old security tech and processes, combined with overwhelmed and understaffed IT and security teams, simply can't protect against a new and evolving threat landscape. Security exploits are proliferating faster than ever before.

You already know this, but according to SC Magazine in the first half of 2019 there were almost 4000 unique data breaches resulting in more than 4 billion records being compromised. 

The hard truth is almost all of these security breaches could've been avoided. Gartner said 99% of exploited vulnerabilities occur on misconfigured, unpatched systems KNOWN to IT security teams.

Security and IT teams need help winning security roulette. Let's fix IT with fully automated, truly collaborative vulnerability remediation.

The Secret to Winning IT Security Roulette

DevOps is changing the way we deploy Infrastructure. Just like applications, infrastructure is now deployed as code, as pre-configured templates. Paul Asadoorian and Matt Alderman will discuss the challenges of measuring and maintaining the secure configuration of infrastructure that is now delivered as code. Alex Peay, VP of Product from SaltStack, will then demonstrate how to define, detect, and enforce secure configuration of this infrastructure, including:

- Using industry-standard CIS benchmarks to assess infrastructure compliance 
- Maintaining continuous secure configuration with event-driven automation
- Bringing harmony to IT and security teams through a “DevOps approach” to SecOps

Alex's Bio: Alex is the Vice President of Product at SaltStack Inc. Alex has been building software for over 20 years and worked in a variety of companies ranging from small start-ups to IBM. Throughout his career, he has always worked to develop software that enables users to simplify their lives through the use of technology. This drive for simplicity included launching one of the first SaaS products at IBM, using cloud-based software to democratize data at Domo, and now, with the development of SaltStack Enterprise, delivering content on the Salt platform to automate the identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities in complex infrastructures. This spring SaltStack released their SaltStack SecOps product at RSA where it was recognized by CSO Magazine as one of the hottest new products at RSA Conference 2019

Security Weekly webcast: Automating Secure Configuration at Scale

- Security and IT teams must to work together to keep digital business safe and compliant. But conflicting priorities, toolsets, increasing complexity and make it easier said than done. 
- SaltStack SecOps is a new solution that allows IT and security teams to work together to define compliance policies, scan complex systems against them, and remediate issues with intelligent automation.
- SaltStack can help teams manage and secure their entire environment—from servers and cloud instances, to network devices, IoT, and endpoints at the edge. 
- SaltStack works with CIS to create curated, certified CIS benchmark checks for dozens of compliance profiles, including: PCI, HIPAA, NIST, DISA STIGs, and others. 
- SaltStack empowers security and IT teams to work together out of a single platform to harden business-critical systems and protect key business assets.

Emerging Enterprise IT Security Innovations EcoCast

Real-world systems are inherently complex. This is continually more apparent in the digital ecosystems that run modern business. The challenge to control, optimize, and secure these digital systems is becoming more and more daunting for IT operations teams. We must recognize and embrace emerging patterns to help efficiently manage infrastructure at scale.

On this 30-minute webinar, Mike Place, SaltStack director of engineering and maintainer of the Salt open source project, will provide an introduction to an event-driven approach for systems management, blending traditional monitoring and configuration management techniques to build resilient and autonomous systems. The goal -- to learn how to abstract infrastructure command and control through event-driven IT automation workflows sophisticated enough to wrangle the complexity of the modern data center.

An Event-Driven Approach to Systems Management at Scale

IT operations teams are on the hook to hold up their end of the DevOps bargain and help keep development teams productive and efficient. The DevOps handshake is in effect at NetApp and the NetApp Core Infrastructure team is driving substantial efficiencies in to their DevOps process. Attend this webinar to learn how NetApp leveraged the power of SaltStack and Kubernetes to help their development teams provision cloud infrastructure in minutes instead of months. Jacob Weinstock, NetApp infrastructure engineer, describes how he utilized intelligent automation and a restful API to provide fully orchestrated, self-service virtual machine clusters to the NetApp development teams in the true spirit of DevOps.

DZone: NetApp, Automating the Ops in DevOps Using SaltStack and Kubernetes

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