GitOps Days 2022: GitOps and Flux at State Farm Technical Deep Dive by Rayce Brossette & Perry Wu
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 19/07/2022

GitOps Days 2022 - Day 2 (June 9)
GitOps and Flux at State Farm Technical Deep Dive by Rayce Brossette & Perry Wu

GitOps and Flux at State Farm (Technical Deep Dive) – Rayce will join Perry Wu to explain the technical aspects of adopting Flux, tools and platforms they used, and where they are in their journey. Join us for this unique opportunity to chat with a GitOps practitioner!

Speakers:
Rayce Brossette
Senior Engineering Manager at State Farm
Rayce is a Senior Engineering Manager at State Farm supporting GitOps enablement and championing continuous delivery across several platforms. He has a varied career ranging from Cobol on the Mainframe (yikes), early adoption of Docker and Kubernetes at a large organization, and leading migrations of on-premise legacy applications to the Cloud. Rayce’s passion lies in making technology easier to consume and promoting best practices through community engagement. In addition to his day job driving GitOps adoption, he also maintains several inner-source solutions that make consumption of tools – such as Helm, GitLab Runner, Renovate Bot, Terraform, and many more – easier to use for State Farm Engineers.

Perry Wu
Lead Software Engineer at State Farm
Perry is a Lead Software Engineer at State Farm working on GitOps support and adoption as the automated software change tool to perform production deployments for on-prem and cloud platforms. He has worn many hats at State Farm, ranging from racking and stacking servers, to writing Java APIs and customer facing UIs, to being a DevOps engineer. Perry’s knowledge has most recently been leveraged for his expertise in EKS, cloud adoption, multi-tenancy on AWS accounts, and GitOps. Perry further encourages and adopts public cloud offerings in State Farm by contributing to inner sourced projects and running an internal guild to show off the latest public cloud technologies and architectures.