Top 5 Sessions for Beginners at HashiConf Global

Top 5 Sessions for Beginners at HashiConf Global

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👉 After two years as a fully digital conference, HashiConf is returning to an in-person conference this year. HashiConf Global will be a hybrid event and take place in Los Angeles, California, and online from 4th-6th Oct, 2022.Due to complications with my US visa appointments, I would be unable to attend the event in person; instead, I would take part remotely🙏

What is HashiConf Global ?

👉 HashiConf is HashiCorp’s annual community conference where developers, system engineers, architects, and security professionals from organizations of all sizes gather in-person and online to share how the products in HashiCorp’s product stack help them provision, secure, connect, and run their business-critical applications.

👉 Get ready for two days of inspirational speakers, community connection, and a front-row seat to discussing infrastructure and security automation, modern application delivery, and the future of cloud with others who build and use HashiCorp tools every day.

👉 Over the past few years, HashiCorp has created a number of Open Source tools that provide cross-cutting infrastructure management in cloud and on-premises systems. Infrastructure automation standards have been established by these products.

👉 The conference is the ideal venue for those who wish to start learning about hashiCorp tools. You may find a wide range of information here, including technical workshops, product updates, and keynote addresses.

👉 Here are the 5 sessions at the top of my list for HashiConf Global, for Beginners!

👉 Before I continue, I should mention that you can get virtual tickets to HashiConf Global here, enabling you to remotely join live keynotes and other sessions. There are both live events and virtual events on this list.

Top 5 Sessions for Beginners at HashiConf Global

How HashiCorp Implements SRE - SESSION

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Date: OCTOBER 06 Time: 12:00 AM - 12:30 AM (GMT+5:30) Session type: SESSION | IN-PERSON (DIAMOND BALLROOM) Description:

We've built HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), a cloud hosting option for our productions. And to keep them reliable, HashiCorp has built an SRE team. We'll present how HashiCorp plans and executes site reliability engineering practice, how operating HCP is integrated into an overall product strategy, and how HashiCorp measures itself on operational excellence. We’ll also cover how the HashiCorp SRE team plans work, gets results, and measures itself on operational excellence.

👉 People who are interested in learning how an SRE team operates, what best practices they adhere to, and what they have accomplished should definitely attend this presentation.

Terraforming Success - SESSION

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Date: OCTOBER 06 Time: 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM (GMT+5:30) Session type: SESSION | IN-PERSON (PLATINUM A-C) Description:

When is a module a module? How do you support one, dozens, hundreds of workspaces? These are many common problems that face companies as their utilization of Terraform expands. This talk strives to answer a few important ones around adoption and growth pains.

👉 For those who are expanding Terraform across several workspaces, this session is crucial. Is there a standard procedure that must be followed in order to guarantee adoption of Terraform? This talk will answer all of these questions and much more.

Enabling Infrastructure as Code at LinkedIn - SESSION

Date: OCTOBER 06 Time: 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM (GMT+5:30) Session type: SESSION | IN-PERSON (PLATINUM A-C) Description:

LinkedIn uses Terraform as a service to enable infrastructure-as-code uniformly across its teams. In this talk, learn why LinkedIn built its own service. We'll dive into the architecture and see how we solve complex issues at scale around storing state, drift detection, and remediation as we discuss the company-wide adoption strategy. Finally, we'll show you some of the common use cases, including bootstrapping new fabrics and migrating on-prem infrastructure to Kubernetes using this platform.

👉 Terraform as a service sounds really cool, This session will discuss how LinkedIn used Terraform to create its own infrastructure. In order to ensure ongoing success, they will also offer firm adoption methods and best practices. I'm excited to hear about the use cases they'll be providing.

Terraform Practices to Enable Infrastructure Scaling - SESSION

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Date: OCTOBER 06 Time: 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM (GMT+5:30) Session type: SESSION | IN-PERSON (PLATINUM F-J) Description:

How do you make the most of Terraform when scaling your infrastructure as your organization grows? In this talk, Hila will cover useful best practices, pitfalls to avoid and major obstacles to anticipate so that you can scale them across many teams, avoid refactoring, and get a flying start now -- AND optimize for the future.

👉 Hila Fish from Wix is giving a talk, and I am eager to hear her. This will be a wonderful session for anyone looking to increase their terraform code without experiencing refactoring issues.

Should My Team Really Need to Know Terraform? - SESSION

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Date: OCTOBER 07 Time: 04:00 AM - 04:45 AM (GMT+5:30) Session type: SESSION | IN-PERSON (PLATINUM D-E) Description:

Terraform is a great tool, but is it the right interface for platform teams to expose to their customers? At Grainger we’re building a customer-centric Delivery Platform that enables engineering teams to ship working software quickly and reliably. We’ve found there’s tension between creating simple experiences for customer teams and ensuring our platform teams are not bottlenecks. In this talk we will debate the tradeoffs and describe our journey to find the right balance.

👉 How to guarantee easy experiences for customer teams while also assuring platform teams are working with the necessary tools and delivering essential software.


👉 By attending these talks, you can ensure that your implementations of these fresh concepts are responsible and inclusive. Everyone comes to HashiCorp to learn how to create better goods, and ideally this session will guarantee that when you use your new knowledge, you create those things for everyone.


👉 Check out my blog post about Top 5 Sessions for AWS Developers at HashiConf Global here


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