Global Agility: How a Remote-Only Workforce Stays Agile

Companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time.

Join Gary Gruver, author of Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise, as he covers how to analyze your current deployment pipeline to target your first improvements on the largest inefficiencies in software development and deployment. We’ll also explore the different approaches necessary for coordinating the work of small teams versus very large and complex organizations with many teams.

What we cover:
- Aligning your DevOps transformation to business objectives
- The basics of a deployment pipeline
- How to collect data and identify sources of inefficiency
- Applying DevOps principles

Software development and delivery professionals face an ever-increasing demand from their business customers to deliver software innovation at a rapid pace. Business leaders are focused on how to compete in a digital future where the speed of innovation determines winners and losers. When organizations reduce cycle time, they can outpace competitors to deliver the features that customers want.

In this webinar, our featured speaker, Diego Lo Giudice from Forrester will discuss his research on how ‘Faster Software Delivery Accelerates Digital Transformation.’

Just commit to joining us for this informative discussion so you can enable your organization to accelerate delivery.

During the discussion, we will cover:
- Why software delivery leaders play a vital role in the success of their digital transformations
- Key insights on how to lead your team’s transformation to Agile and DevOps practices
- How to remove bottlenecks, streamline your software development process, and accelerate software delivery

Kubernetes abstracts and simplifies many aspects of configuring and scaling infrastructure, but still requires DevOps. Traditionally, building CI/CD pipelines to correctly deploy to Kubernetes clusters is a time-consuming process.

Watch this webcast to discover a more automated solution. You will learn how to spin up development environments in just a few clicks with GitLab’s built-in container registry and robust Google Kubernetes integration.

We will demonstrate:
- GitLab’s AutoDevOps behind-the-scenes pipeline
- How to customize the pipelines
- How reusable code snippets will simplify your build process
- How the GitLab GKE integration simplifies the process of setting up and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster

Software development teams are under pressure to accelerate delivery, embrace ‘DevOps’, and meet the ever-increasing demands of their business customers.

However, a recent Gitlab-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting demonstrated that many software development teams are facing toolchain crisis - spending too much time and resources in piecing together disparate tools from different stages of the DevOps lifecycle, preventing them from achieving their full potential.

Hear our guest speaker, Christopher Condo, Senior Analyst at Forrester share key insights and best practices from this research. You’ll learn practical insights on how to overcome the toolchain challenge and get to productivity faster.

Through this research, you will learn:
- The extent of the toolchain complexity challenge across various industries
- Practical insights on how to overcome the toolchain challenge
- Potential business and IT benefits from solving the challenge

Commit to delivering secure applications with Zero Trust principles

The attributes of Cloud native and Serverless applications present unique challenges for application security.

Traditional network-based security becomes less relevant as software becomes abstracted from the hardware. In addition, the complexities of containers, orchestrators, function APIs and an explosion of dependencies give way to a plethora of new attack surfaces.

Watch this webcast to learn how to combat modern application security challenges by leveraging Zero Trust principles - protect and harden not only your data but the logic that transforms it, regardless of where the apps are run.

In this webcast, we’ll cover:
- Security challenges with Cloud-native and Serverless applications
- Zero Trust principles, applied to applications
- Specific steps you can take to protect and monitor these apps

See how GitLab can help you cure plugin overload.

*No third-party plugin headaches.
- Jenkins plugins vary in quality and may lose support without notice, which is a nightmare for you and your team.
- See how GitLab's seamless workflow between SCM & CI helps your team do better work at greater speeds.

*Reduce Risk
- Jenkins users frequently experience service instability from running bigger workloads with a large number of plugins.
- Learn how GitLab decreases toolchain downtime and eliminates risky integrations.

*Lower Cost and Increase Efficiency
- Jenkins requires dedicated resources, admins, and maintenance - increasing the total cost of ownership.
- GitLab requires fewer steps to deploy code and developers spend more time writing code and less time maintaining the toolchain.

Don’t let your tools slow you down. When applying continuous methods in your development practices, having the right application to support your initiative is critical for your success.

Traditional CI/CD plugins like Jenkins don’t scale, as connecting it to all of the different tools in your technology stack adds complexity and points of failure to the process. When your CI/CD tool works out-of-the-box, maintenance and management are simplified, allowing you to get to productivity faster.

Learn about continuous software development and how GitLab’s out-of-the-box CI/CD can help you speed up your software development cycle by 200%.

In this webcast, we’ll cover:
- Three main approaches to the continuous software development methodology
- The benefits of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment practices
- Demonstration of GitLab’s CI/CD pipeline to build, test, deploy, and monitor your code

A 2019 study by a leading independent research firm indicates when your CI/CD tool works out-of-the-box, your team’s productivity will improve by at least 10% due to less toolchain management.

GitLab built-in CI/CD does not only eliminate maintenance nightmare, it comes fully customizable, so teams can benefit from added automation with a few simple workflows.

Watch this webcast to hear 2 GitLab Engineers go over 7 GitLab CI advanced workflows that can help your team get to productivity faster.

Please note this session requires a working knowledge of GitLab CI/CD. For an introduction to GitLab CI/CD, watch our Mastering CI/CD webcast (available on BrightTALK).

In this webcast, we’ll cover:
- Continuous software development vs. traditional software development
- The benefits of a built-in CI/CD solution over a traditional plug-in solution like Jenkins
- Overview and demonstration of 7 GitLab CI advanced workflows to help your team get to productivity faster

Transparency is vital to an all-remote company (900+ employees) and contributes heavily to healthy collaboration at a company where no one works in a physical office. In this digital age of remote work, building out a successful, iterative process that leads to a culture that embraces diversity and provides a universal platform for all to contribute. Agile has been precedent in technical roles but this expands how the business side (Marketing, HR, Sales) also embraces being agile as they look to stay inline with the product side.

Security is often seen as the barrier to business agility in an effort to balance risk with speed. You want to stay out of the hackees-hall-of-fame headlines. At the same time, the business is pressuring IT to reduce costs and increase flexibility, necessitating a full tilt charge toward containers, open source, and cloud (whether public or private). DevOps tools enable faster velocity while orchestrating the increasingly complex moving parts. Security wants a lasso for that bull in the china shop.

How can you be the hero in this seemingly lose-lose situation? Join Cindy Blake, Senior Security Evangelist, GitLab as she talks about how to help reduce risk by repositioning app sec program to be more ubiquitous.

The average enterprise today leveraging hundreds of applications across multiple clouds. With the risk of cyber attacks and breaches looming large, application security is becoming a key area of focus for organizations.

Join this interactive Q&A panel of industry experts to learn more about:
- How to integrate application security testing into the DevOps process early on
- Why automation, speed and coverage are critical to the success of DevSecOps programs
- Speed vs Security: Where do you draw the line?
- Recommendations for improving security in 2019