@womanintech sehr nett gefunden habe ich die Idee beim #cfgmgmtcamp2025 einen womens lunch auszurichten, auch wenn ich selber nicht dabei war.
Bei bezahlten Veranstaltungen ist die Frage ob jemand ein paar Tickets z.b. für Studentinnen sponsert. Oder auch für andere unterrepräsentierte Gruppen. Wobei: gibt Konferenzen, die das machen und die kommen auch nicht auf mehr als 10%
On the way back from #CfgMgmtCamp - thanks for three days full of presentations and interesting conversations!
Participating in the #NixOS starter workshop today at @cfgmgmtcamp 
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent: Abnormal DevOps Round Table
A live discussion and round table about the past promises and the present and future challenges of Configuration Management and Infrastructures Automation, with some of the people who are working on the field and making impossible things possible. The session is going to be recorded and broadcasted in the Abnormal DevOps Iterations podcast (https://youtube.com/@AbnormalDevOpsIterations).
Infrastructure from Code: The Next Generation of Cloud Management
https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/AZVBV9/
Not really sold on it, because imho you get the least of all worlds.
While Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the standard for managing cloud resources using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Bicep, writing templates can still be a time-consuming task. But what if infrastructure could be automatically inferred from your application code? In this session, we’ll explore the emerging concept of "Infrastructure from Code" and evaluate the maturity of tools like Radius, Dapr, and Nitric. Are these tools ready to replace IaC? Join us to find out if it’s time to make the leap to a more seamless infrastructure experience.
You’re Doing Ansible Roles All Wrong
Ansible roles were introduced to simplify the organization and reuse of automation tasks, providing a structured, portable way to manage tasks, configurations, dependencies, and variables. Originally intended to streamline complex playbooks, roles have become a cornerstone of efficient Ansible usage. However, many users still fail to fully understand how to leverage their full potential. In this presentation, we will start by revisiting the foundational concepts of Ansible roles and their intended use. We will then explore the noteworthy enhancements and features added to Ansible roles in recent years. Attendees will learn recommended practices to maximize the utility of Ansible roles, including strategies for modular role design, effective use of variables, argument specifications, and defaults, and techniques for role testing and validation. By adopting these practices, you can enhance the maintainability and scalability of your automation projects. Finally, we will look ahead to upcoming developments aimed at further enhancing the portability and maintainability of Ansible roles. This includes new features and improvements that will make it easier to share, reuse, and manage roles across diverse environments. Join us to ensure you’re not just using Ansible roles, but using them right.
Securing Secrets at scale - Ansible and Conjur
As automation becomes ever more important, safe and secure management of secrets is paramount. It is vital that secrets are managed in a secure, centralized manner and that control is thus maintained over them. In this session we will explore the integration of Ansible with Conjur Open Source, and how this lends itself perfectly to secure, centralized secrets management. As a bonus, we'll even explore how Conjur Open Source can be used in a wider context to provide secrets to other platforms, and even rotation of credentials on a Linux server can be managed.
I'm on in 15! D.Aud, come in come in.
https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/FGLTVM/
For at least 30 years, the open source software community — and organisations that emulate its tried-and-true practices — demonstrate what you need to do in order to attract good people. And yet, there's a million things that companies can (and do!) stuff up. Many hiring organisations cheerfully run around with a double-barrelled shotgun pressed firmly against their feet, and happily pull the trigger again and again. In this talk, I cover some of the more-than-typical footguns that organisations employ, and what *your* team can do to be better.
At 2 pm our talk "Effective Infrastructure Testing: Lessons Learned from the Field" is taking place at #CfgMgmtCamp B.Con Main: https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/CJA9ER/
There is also an online stream available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8ORuvsqek
In modern IT environments, it is crucial that deployed systems are reliable and functional. We present how we use tools like testinfra to ensure the functionality of lab environments that are regularly deployed and changed. We also share our key insights and best practices from the field in terms of achieving security compliance. This session will give the participants an overview of different testing tools and their corresponding use cases. Also, we will focus on writing proper tests by the example of testinfra, serverspec and goss without neglecting simplicity. Participants will learn how to design tests that check the actual state of the system and receive practical tips for using Bash in combination with the proposed tools. As security often requires quick actions and system landscapes are becoming more complex, automation has quickly become a key component. Without the usage of frameworks such as DevSec implementing security compliance across your fleet can be a daunting task. In highly automated environments discovering configuration errors is challenging. Therefore infrastructure testing becomes important to detect configuration drift.
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Chris. R. 🎧🎼☕🍍
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