Episode 6: DevOps for IT Ops
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 1, 2020
Show Notes
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Episode 6 is here! This week Jack & Ryan are joined again by our friend & colleague April Edwards (Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft) for her 2nd appearance at our user group, however this time virtually!
As a 3 we discuss why DevOps is not just for developers and how it is super useful for everyone in IT Ops or Sys Admin roles. We discuss what we all believe the definition of DevOps to be and what Microsoft define it as! As well as all of our journeys from on-premise infrastructure backgrounds to DevOps!
This is one certainly not to miss if your are hearing of Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps or DevOps in general but aren’t sure where to start, especially if your from an infrastructure background.
Links Shared from the Episode
- Scott Hanselman’s Git 101 Basics on YouTube
- Scott Hanselman’s Git Pull Requests Explained on YouTube
- GitHub Learning Lab
- Ramp up on Git & GitHub
- Microsoft Learn
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Podcast Music
Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama - License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Guests
April Edwards
In her own words “April is a senior cloud developer advocate and the DevOps practice lead at Microsoft, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey.
In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons."
Hosts
Jack Tracey
Jack lives in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom just north of Brighton. He is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft in the Customer Architecture and Engineering team.
He can be found maintaining and updating solutions like Enterprise Scale and Azure Landing Zones most of the time. And when not in those worlds, you can find him assisting customers with all things Azure Infrastructure, Security & Governance.
Jack is also a former Microsoft MVP for Azure!
Ryan Littlemore
Ryan lives in East Sussex, United Kingdom just outside of Eastbourne.
He is a Senior Azure Infrastructure Specialist at Microsoft, currently working in the Media, Telecoms & Professional Services sectors in the UK.