More (inter) action in 2018

Our next meeting will be the beginning of an experiment to bring less Powerpoint and more interaction to our user group. As we announced last year, we will try to define a topic for each meeting (so you know what to expect) and will give you as much opportunity to talk about these topics with each others and experts as possible. If at all possible around live demo environments, so that things can be discussed hands-on.

And ok, we confess, we called the first one "Battle of the Build Servers" to get your attention and because we liked the Pixel Knights. So for those of you who were looking forward to the clash of iron (or the zapping of lightsabers), sorry to disappoint you, not THAT kind of hands-on. ;-)

You may come in your Jedi robe (or suit of armor, if you have one) but weapons have to be left at home, or checked at the counter.

We want a lively battle of wits but within the boundaries of civil society. Be nice to each other and may the force be with you while we take...

A closer look at a cornerstone of DevOps

Continuous Integration - or: the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day (Wikipedia) - has been called "a cornerstone of DevOps" (s. here) and the automated build of software applications from scratch and subsequent deployment - or Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) -  is essential to any DevOps  toolchain. There are literally hundreds of possible combinations to build such a toolchain (see the beautiful interactive Periodic Table of DevOps Tools and their DevOps Diagram Generator here at Xebialabs) but we want to have a closer look at two options for CI servers:

• Bamboo - the native Atlassian server solution
  
• Jenkins - the "Juggernaut of CI" (not my words)
  

and have a hands-on, side-by side comparison of both in an Atlassian environment. 

Both our experts will bring live Demo environments and in an OpenSpace type of format you can wander between the two and ask your questions or bring your own expertise to the discussion.

After that we assemble again in a panel to compare notes and maybe even share some Heureka moments.

We promise as little Powerpoint as possible.

Meet our experts

Andreas Caternberg (CloudBees for Jenkins)

Andreas Caternberg is a Professional Service Consultant at CloudBees. CloudBees is a US company that offers the enterprise product based on Jenkins. Andreas has more than 15 years of experience in software development. His main focus is on Jenkins and Dev-Ops relevant topics such as Pipeline-as-Code, Docker, CI / CD, as well as scaling and high availability of Jenkins.

Samantha Webber (PSI Software AG for Bamboo)

Samantha Webber is working for Team International at PSI Software AG Berlin. She recently automated build processes used for a major client – a train manufacturer - in China and also set up processes for internal purposes in JIRA. She studies Informatik BSc at TU Berlin and has lived in Berlin for three years; originally she comes from Florida, USA and speaks English, German, and (somewhat fluently) Hungarian.

Lightning Talks

Christian Reichert (re:solution)

Jira automation: How a small team supports thousands of customers.

David Klemme (kreuzwerker)

All Bases Covered: Jira für Accounting, Inventory, Invoicing & CRM

Jörg Müller-Kindt (NetworkedAssets)

Editing documents in Git via Confluence.