Getting from XKCD 1296 to Automated Versioning in the Pipeline

April 16, 2024
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Description

CI/CD is more than just automating the build. It is about consuming change and releasing meaningful and reproducible software bound to the automation in your pipeline. Hands off release automation begins with the commit. In this presentation we will start, in some ways where my previous presentation on GitLab CI/CD left off and we take a deep dive to look at how mixed technology tooling can improve you and your team’s commit habits, providing meaningful and semantic messages to enable end-to-end automation.

Speaker: Tim Stone

Senior Solution Architect at Kinsale Insurance with 25 years of experience in web application and API delivery enabling business objectives. Tim’s diverse management and technology implementation background includes advanced Cloud and Serverless implementation that specializes in the implementation of open source tools, operating systems, development tools, web accessibility and usability in a REST API-driven, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, mobile ready, business environment and a commitment to the same with contributions. Tim was recently named a GitLab Hero and Notable Contributor for his collaboration with globally dispersed teams improving GitLab’s DevSecOps platform for Maven.

Date & Time

Tuesday April 16, 2024
06:00 PM to 08:00 PM EDT

Agenda

06:00 - 06:10 Welcome & Networking
06:10 - 06:15 Announcements
06:15 - 07:15 Main presentation
07:15 - 07:25 Q&A
07:25 - 07:30 Wrap-up

Venue

Kinsale Insurance Company
2035 Maywill St Ste 100
Richmond, VA 23230

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Special thanks to Kinsale Insurance for sponsoring the event and providing us with refreshments.

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