Directions EMEA 2022
DevOps is the goal, but which way to choose?
Date: 09-11-2022 | From: 11:15 to 13:00 | Room: Hall Z
Over the last years, having a good DevOps practice in place with Continuous Integration and Deployment / Delivery has become a differentation factor in the Partner landscape, maybe even a requirement. So the goal is clear, but there are by now three great options how to get there: Microsoft offers AL-Go for GitHub, and we have ALOps and COSMO Alpaca as options for Azure DevOps. But what are the strenghts and differentation factors between those alternatives? How can you find out what the best option for you is? In this session, we will take a close look at the offerings to help you make that decision
Speakers:
Eric "waldo" Wauters
"Because you can doesn't mean you should"
Bio: Eric 'waldo' Wauters Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Dynex bv. With his 18 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams. As development manager he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto and Dynex. Apart from that, Eric is also very active in BC community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric’s posts, which he invariably signs with 'waldo'. Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on github. His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).
Freddy Kristiansen
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Bio: Freddy is the Lead for the Business Central MVP group and is trying to make sure that our Most Valuable Professionals gets the information, love and attention they need to assist and make sure we have a good and vibrant community around Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Freddy is responsible for everything around Docker, the BcContainerHelper PowerShell module and our plug-and-play DevOps solution AL-Go for GitHub, which can help partners and customers to run their DevOps processes without the need of a DevOps engineer. All these offerings are open source and Freddy uses among other things his blog (https://freddysblog.com) to evangelize these areas to the community.
Tobias Fenster
Managing Partner at 4PS Germany, Microsoft RD & dual Microsoft MVP
Bio: Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Partner at 4PS Germany. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure. He is blogging on tobiasfenster.io, where he writes about Business Applications, Docker and Windows Containers, but also tooling like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code and infrastructure automation. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container environments and SQL.