Tech Tribes Talks: Full Schedule

A conference focused on diverse topics within the information technology field. This conference will bring together IT specialists and companies from around the globe to connect, share insights, and have an amazing experience.

9:55am CET

The PAAS Operator: Your Ticket Out of Tech Ticket Hell

Thursday November 21, 2024 9:55am - 10:55am CET

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The Dutch Tax Office faces a massive hurdle: modernizing their legacy technology stack. HCS tackled this challenge head-on, not just by implementing OpenShift-based solutions, but by focusing on team enablement and scalability. The result was the birth of the PAAS Operator, a game-changer for self-service DevOps at scale.

Key Points:

- The Challenge: Bridging the tech gap for a complex, large-scale organization.
- The Journey: From hands-on enablement to streamlined automation and self-service.
- The Innovation: The PAAS Operator simplifies platform management, empowering DevOps teams with standard configurations for Tekton, Grafana, SSO, ArgoCD, and more.
- Demo Time: See the PAAS Operator in action!
- Community Call: We've open-sourced the PAAS Operator! Join us in building and extending its capabilities beyond OpenShift. (DISCLAIMER, by the time it is November it should be opensource)

Why Attend?

- Discover how to empower your DevOps teams for long-term - success.
- Learn best practices for scaling technology initiatives within large organizations.
- See how self-service can revolutionize platform management.
- Explore the PAAS Operator and contribute to its open-source future.

Let us know if you'd like any refinements!

Speakers

Benoit Schipper

HCS Company

I am the Field-CTO within a Dutch IT Company called HCS (Helping Clients Succeed). As a consultant I have been involved with many Kubernetes, DevOps and SRE Implementations with both the private and government sector within the Benelux region. I also wrote a book on SRE and how it... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 9:55am - 10:55am CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

DevOps & Containerization, 200 - Intermediate

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

11:00am CET

From Docker zero to hero with Portainer.io

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:00am - 11:20am CET

Room 1

Containers are weird, and I don't get them. Why perform some weird voodoo magic when you can simply install everything bare-metal like I've always been doing? Docker is a scary word that I tried to avoid as long as possible.

Until my parents-in-law asked me if I wanted to revamp their network. So I needed a controller for the hardware. They also wanted a Home Assistant install. And a PiHole to get rid of those pesky ads. And an NVR for the security camera they wanted to install in their shed... And who knows what else they want in the future?

The hardware? A simple Raspberry Pi.
The goal? All of the above requirements and more.

Embark with me on a journey where I went from skeptic to believer, and where I used Docker for the first time in my life with Portainer.

Speakers

Matthias van den Elsacker

I started out my IT Career as all-round IT support for small to medium-sized businesses. After a few years I joined Axxes IT Consultancy in 2014, where I still work today as a System and Network Engineer.Today, I am primarily working with Cisco networking equipment. Past experiences... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:00am - 11:20am CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

DevOps & Containerization, 100 - Introductory & Overview

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

11:50am CET

Bridging On-Premises and Azure: handling the struggles of a hybrid azure environment

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:50am - 12:50pm CET

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Setting up a hybrid environment presents its own set of challenges, with DNS serving as a cornerstone for infrastructure stability. Achieving seamless resolution between on-premises and Azure DNS zones is crucial. While historically, many applications were hosted on-premises, there’s been a recent trend of migrating them to Azure. Despite this shift, maintaining a standardized authentication method remains essential. Leveraging Entra ID authentication can provide a uniform login experience for both on-premises and Azure applications, enabling the implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for on-premises applications as well. Entra-ID has it’s limitations with nested groups (enterprise-applications) what are the options and how can we get rid of this painfull issue?

Speakers

Toon Tijtgat

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:50am - 12:50pm CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

Other (mention below), 200 - Intermediate

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

12:55pm CET

Platform Engineering AND/OR A Buffet served to Devs

Thursday November 21, 2024 12:55pm - 1:15pm CET

Room 1

Do you want your devs to be able to deploy and their own VM's?
Self service, yes, please. Time saving for ops, big yes as well.
Let's have an architectural dive into the effort that was put into creating a Platform for Automated VM Deployment and Configuration Management

Speakers

Stijn Maes

Linux/Devops/Platform (what's in a name) Engineer

Thursday November 21, 2024 12:55pm - 1:15pm CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

Other (mention below), 200 - Intermediate

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

2:15pm CET

Unraveling the k8s complexity for daily use… and introducing OpenShift

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CET

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Jochen walks you through the historic complexity of Kubernetes and provides you with tips and tricks to make your life easier. He explains common issues that Kubernetes users face and how to understand and solve them. Additionally, he explores the added value of OpenShift and how Red Hat aims to prevent these issues from occurring in the first place.

Speakers

Jochen Maes

Jochen is a System Engineer enjoying both guiding companies on their Infrastructure As Code track as jumping in the trenches and automate himself. As Senior engineer @ Kangaroot he enjoys the full spectrum of the functions from managing projects/people/code!

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

Open Source Technologies, 200 - Intermediate

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

3:20pm CET

Upping your resilience game (Being prepared for the moment that s&%^ hits the fan)

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:20pm - 3:40pm CET

Room 1

Complex software systems will fail, that’s not a threat, merely a reality. Building resilience into those systems is not about trying to avoid failure at all cost, but about embracing failure and learning to handle failure when it occurs.

This talk focusses on changing mindset from building systems that are highly available by design towards building systems that are capable of tolerating failure. We can achieve this by applying the discipline of Chaos Engineering to learn from failure and continuously improve your system’s reliability.

You will learn the basic principles of resilient applications, the best practices of Chaos Engineering and how to get started and identify weaknesses in your applications before you’re paged out of bed at 4 AM.

Speakers

Patrick van der Bleek

Patrick is a Platform & Infrastructure Architect at HCS company.With over 25 years of IT experience he has developed a passion for Linux, Kubernetes and Open Source Solutions in general.Today he focusses on using those technologies to design platforms that solve real world challenges... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:20pm - 3:40pm CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

4:10pm CET

(Ab)Using CI/CD for self-service access requests

Thursday November 21, 2024 4:10pm - 5:10pm CET

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Giving consultants access to customers internal documentation, infrastructure and secrets is a sensitive matter that we deal with regularly. Consultants need to get access quickly to be able to get up to speed and become productive for any given customer. Customers want to know who their data and infrastructure is exposed, and ensure access is limited to those that need it.

We've solved this issue in true DevOps fashion by leveraging the mechanisms behind Ansible, GitLab and CI/CD. Our implementation provides for an auditable self-service process that allows consultants to onboard themselves, while still ensuring all access is traceable. GIT ensures all changes are always logged and can be limited through the use of pull requests and approvals. Ansible provides the configuration management that allows us to provision the access for a new user in an automated fashion for a wide variety of tools.

Speakers

Ruben de Smet

Software Engineer, Systems Administrator, Solution Architect and Security Enthusiast. Ruben enjoys analyzing technical problems, finding a root cause, and solving them persistently.He specializes in Linux System Administration, Cloud Design and Management, Infrastructure Automation... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 4:10pm - 5:10pm CET
Room 1 Groenendaallaan 394, 2030 Antwerpen

Open Source Technologies, 200 - Intermediate

Host Organization www.techtribes.eu

Tech Tribes Talks

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