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Bristol DevOps & Cloud Native Meetup

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m giving a talk on GreenOps in the cloud at Bristol DevOps & Cloud Native Meetup. The slides of my presentation are here.

DevOpsDays London 2023

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m giving a talk on GreenOps in the cloud at DevOpsDays London, the slides of my presentation are here.

It’s a great conference with very interesting presentations and a relaxed atmosphere. Kudos to the organizers for the organization and for making this conference such an inclusive event!

Update: the organisers published the videos of the conference on their YouTube channel, you can watch my presentation on YouTube.

DevOpsDays Geneva 2022

Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m giving a talk on Docs-as-Code at DevOpsDays Geneva, the slides of my presentation are here. It’s a great conference with lots of interesting presentations on DevOps culture and tooling and I’m very glad to be part of it. Kudos to the organizers for the organization and for making it such a friendly event!

Update: the organisers published the videos of the conference on their YouTube channel, you can find my presentation on YouTube.

How to Validate a Jenkinsfile

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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As I’m using more and more often Jenkins Pipelines, I found the need to validate a Jenkinsfile in order to fix syntax errors before committing the file into version control and running the pipeline job in Jenkins. This can saves some time during development and allows to follow best practices when writing a Jenkinsfile as validation returns both errors and warnings.

There are several ways to validate a Jenkinsfile and some editors like VS Code even have a built-in linter. Personally, the easiest way I found is to validate a Jenkinsfile is to run the following command from the command line (provided you have Jenkins running somewhere):

CD Summit and Jenkins Days 2016

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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This week I’m giving a talk about Continuous Security with Jenkins, Docker Bench, and Amazon Inspector at CD Summit & Jenkins Days in Amsterdam and in Berlin. CD Summit & Jenkins Days are a series of conferences in the US and in Europe focusing on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

This is the abstract of my talk:

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Amazon Inspector

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows to identify security vulnerabilities at operating system and network levels by scanning the host against a knowledge base of security best practices and rules.

I recently integrated Amazon Inspector to run in a Jenkins job so that security testing can be automated and performed prior to deployment to production.

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Docker Bench

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Docker Bench is an open source tool for automatically validating the configuration of a host running Docker containers. The tool has been written among others by Diogo Mónica, security lead at Docker, and performs security checks at the container level following Docker’s CIS Benchmark recommendations.

As you would expect, the easiest way to run Docker Bench is via a Docker container. Just make sure you have Docker 1.10 or better, download the Docker image:

DevOps Oxford Meetup

Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m presenting at DevOps Oxford Meetup at the Oxford Centre for Innovation in my ‘home town’ Oxford. This is a short version of the talk Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose I gave at DockerCon Europe 2015 but with a few updates. The slides of the talk are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

API Days Nordic 2016

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending API Days Nordic at the University of Tampere (Finland), a technical conference on heavy industry and APIs, government driven API platforms, and APIOps (APIs, DevOps, containers, testing, micro services, and monitoring). This is part of the API Days series of conferences and it is the first time that it is organised in Finland.

My presentation focuses on how to deploy an API gateway with Docker. The slides are available here and the code is on GitHub. This is the summary of my presentation:

DockerCon Europe 2015

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This week I am attending DockerCon Europe 2015 in Barcelona where I am going to talk about Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose. This is a reviewed version of a previous blog post on Jenkins and Docker. The slides or my presentation are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Oxford University Press (OUP) recently started the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative which aims at providing language resources for digitally under represented languages. In August 2015 OUP launched two African languages websites for Zulu and Northern Sotho. The backend of these websites is based on an API retrieving data in RDF from a triple store and delivering data to the frontend in JSON-LD.

The entire micro-service infrastructure for development, staging, and production runs on Docker containers in Amazon EC2 instances. In particular, we use Jenkins to rebuild the Docker image for the API based on a Python Flask application and Docker Compose to orchestrate the containers. A typical CI workflow is as follows:

XML London 2015

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend I am attending XML London at University College London, a 2 day conference on XML and Semantic Web technologies. I am presenting a paper on Continuous Integration for XML and RDF Data. The paper is available here and the slides of my presentation are available here.

Update: XML London put online the full video of the presentation: