Bringing DevOps to organizations, teams and humans

Bringing DevOps to your teams, organization and projects is no easy task. It requires evangelization, support from business, management and teams and an understanding of DevOps culture, practices and technologies. I can help you through this process:

• Help your organization and people understand the value of DevOps, working with C-level, managers, teams and individual contributors.
• Organize your teams and projects go get the most out of DevOps, helping them communicate and collaborate through short feedback loops and continuous improvement.
• Define your DevOps Architecture, Roadmap & Toolchain, and follow through its implementation and various project management phases

DevOps practices and methodologies are numerous. Knowing where to start, neither doing too much nor too little and implementing them the right way requires good counseling - without forgetting we’re working with humans all along. A few well known DevOps practices I can help you with:

• CI/CD - Continuous Integration, Deployment & Delivery
• Cloud-first approach with AWS and Kubernetes
• Kanban project management and Agile workflows
• Software Development Lifecycle Automation
• Security without sacrificing efficiency
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) & GitOps
• Observability: Monitoring, Alerting & Logging
• Continuous Feedback and short feedback loops
• Developer Experience and human-first approach

DevOps practices and methodologies

Technical expertise

My foremost passion is for software development, infrastructure & tech. I can provide expertise for:

• Public Clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH
• Kubernetes
  • Cluster deployment and administration (autoscaling, monitoring, etc.)
  • Helm, Kustomize, Traefik, Cert Manager, kubectl, K9S
• Infrastructure as Code: Pulumi, Terraform, NixOS, Ansible
• CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Action, ArgoCD, Jenkins
• Linux administration: Debian, Ubuntu, NixOS & various shells
• Security tools: Hashicorp Vault, SOPS
• Monitoring: Datadog, Elastic stacks (ELK…), Prometheus + Grafana
• Development: Typescript, NodeJS, Rust, Python, Java, C
• Web servers: Traefik, Nginx, Apache
• Database engines: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB

OSS projects I maintain (see my GitHub):

• Novops - Secure cross-platform secret loader for development and CI environment
• Cloud Sandbox Manager - Automatic provisioning of Cloud Linux instances for trainings

Mastering Docker from Development to Production

3-days training (or 3h on-demand sessions) to learn Docker from Development to Production. Training is strongly oriented towards practice and use of real-world examples from the industry.

Overview:

• Introduction: Docker, images & containers
• Docker Compose
• Deep-dive: build, images, volumes & networks
• Production with Docker & advanced concepts:
  • Scalability
  • Reverse proxying
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • CI/CD & software dev lifecycle with Docker
• Tools ecosystem and related practices
• Orchestration & Kubernetes introduction

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Sessions and talks around various DevOps practices and methodologies

• The Kanban method: visualize your workflow
• DevOps practices and the value they provide
• DevOps intro: Culture, Principles and Practices
• CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Deployment): methodologies and tools
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): concept and tools
• Microservice Architecture: do and don’t

Each session is about 2h to 3h and is strongly oriented towards practice, serious games and real-life examples.

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DevOps Culture, Principles and Practices

On-demand training and mentoring

You want a training on a specific subject or technology? You want to become a DevOps Engineer and wonder about the path to follow? You’re looking for a dedicated trainer or mentor for yourself or your team?

I regularly help teams and individuals evolve toward DevOps Engineering, either by formal training or by a period of mentoring during transition to a DevOps-oriented role. Contact me to discuss it in details !