WinOps

Yesterday I went to the WinOps Conference (www.winops.org) in London.

There was a great mixture of speakers,

The event started with Jeffrey Snover, the Lead Architect for Windows Server, talking all about the new Windows Server 2016. It was really interesting to hear, at a high level, how the new version has been built with DevOps in mind. Also how the path limit issue has finally been resolved in the Nano server at least!

After the break, Ed Wilson, aka Scriping Guy, took to the stage. He talked about how the DSC (Desired State Configuration) feature in Azure Automation in OMS (Operations Management Suite) makes it easier to manage at scale.

Michael Greene, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in the Enterprise Cloud Group division, was up next to talk about adopting a DevOps culture. I'm off to read his whitepaper from here: http://aka.ms/thereleasepipelinemodel

I attended three optional sessions (in that there were 6 talks / demos going on).

I chose to see Richard Siddaway. He was talking about DevOps with Nano Servers/Containers in Server 2016. The impressive part of this was deploying a VM and a container running IIS in under 5 minutes.

Next was a panel session on DevOps Culture in Windows World. This was 4 panelists answering questions about - you guessed it - DevOps!

The next session was a presentation from Peter Mounce of Just Eat. He talked about the Just Eat success in using DevOps and AWS.

The final session was another panel Q & A. All very interesting.

I left, disappointed to not win the Lego prize despite waving my arm in the air enthusiastically. Still, at least I got a free t-shirt, stress ball and some fruit pastilles for the train home!