Devopsdays 2009
Late last october the IBBT in Gent was the host for the first edition of DevopsDays
The conference was announced as follows
"Some call this phenomenon devops, others agile system administration
Truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes it work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API. So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration, or a sysadmin interested in development."
This obviously triggered our interrest, so we threw in our support , and money, Development and Engineering are two things we combine a lot, we design and develop infrastructures, and we write code and we assist in building automated toolchains.
DevopsDays turned out to be exactly what we expected from it , a small but vibrant community where a whole range of different interresting topics were tackled. We discussed different Version control mechanisms , how to take an existing IT infrastructure and migrate towards a manageable and automated infrastructure , kanban for sysadmins, the different available cloud computing platforms, kvm vs xen and much much more.
DevopsDays was a good start of what undoubtly become a bigger conference in the next couple of years !
