Session Title

Devops Automated Governance

Abstract

This presentation is intended to guide organizations on implementing an automated process for tracking governance throughout the deployment pipeline, by providing a reference architecture. A sample use case is also provided to further enforce these best practices. Ultimately, a DevOps automated governance process can give organizations the assurance that the delivery of their software and services are trusted.

Bio

John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.