Get Started with Flux - Priyanka Ravi & Tamao Nakahara
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 02/02/2022

Is your team stuck working weekends during an upgrade? Dealing with long deployment windows due to manual processes? Are you tired of dealing with too many vendor tools, or not having an audit trail for compliance?

There's got to be a better way!

There is, and during this session Priyanka "Pinky" Ravi will give you an overview of how to get better security, velocity, and reliability with GitOps, and then how to get GitOps going on your own machine!

By the end of this talk, you'll see two easy paths to getting GitOps up and running using Flux on Kubernetes. You'll see GitOps in action with a sample app that you deploy and then customize using configs. And then you'll hear ways that delivery and platform teams today are benefitting from GitOps, saving them from headaches, boredom, fires, and saving them time and money. Join us!

Resources:
⭐️ Weave GitOps - https://docs.gitops.weave.works/docs/getting-started/
⭐️  Flux - the GitOps family of projects: fluxcd.io
⭐️  Get Started with Flux Guide: https://fluxcd.io/docs/get-started/
⭐️  Flux GitHub Repo: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
⭐️  Flux on CNCF Slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/messages/flux
(or get an invite here: https://slack.cncf.io/)
⭐️ Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/weaveworks/get-started-with-flux

Speaker: Priyanka Ravi, DX Engineer, Weaveworks
Bio: Priyanka is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks. She has worked on a multitude of topics including front end development, UI automation for testing and API development. Previously she was a software developer at State Farm where she was on the delivery engineering team working on GitOps enablement. She was instrumental in the multi-tenancy migration to utilize Flux for an internal Kubernetes offering. Outside of work, Priyanka enjoys hanging out with her husband and two rescue dogs as well as traveling around the globe.

Host: Tamao Nakahara, Head of Developer Experience, Weaveworks 
Bio: Tamao is passionate about Developer Experience and co-organizes devxcon.com. She has over 20 years of DevEx, ecosystem alliances, and event experience, including as Director of Developer Relations at New Relic, running open source community programs at VMware and Pivotal for Cloud Foundry, Spring, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, and Redis, and helping customers with Oracle virtualization at VMware.