Kong / Destination: Automation

The promise of hybrid multi-cloud applications has been something the industry has been touting for as long as we have had cloud computing. The reality though is sorely disappointing, with only a few super technical teams coming even close. This talk poses the challenge of identifying why it is so complex and what we can do about it. Attendees will see
– a view of why Multi-cloud deployments are interesting
– background on the challenges we are seeing across companies in going multi-cloud
– strategies to put in place to make it easier to get started

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Automation is required for our companies to manage their massive amounts of APIs with speed, quality and security while also scaling to new heights — but it’s also a requirement for your career progression. Between May and June 2021, over 16,400 technical API-related jobs were posted requiring automation skills. Join Reza Shafii, VP of Products at Kong, to learn about how automation is powering the next evolution of API delivery, skills needed to automate the lifecycle and how you can practice these learnings in your existing role with tools you are already using.

Destination: Automation is a free, digital event exploring ways organizations can embrace automation to make their applications and underlying tech stacks more efficient, secure and resilient.

In this session recording, Annie Talvasto goes over the eight ways you can reduce your Kubernetes cloud costs.

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#Kubernetes #K8s #CloudOptimization

In this session recording, Rick Sherman summarizes his DevOps evolution from a high level. For most of Rick's software engineering career, his experience with DevOps was all about configuration management. But after many years of experience with some key mentors, he began to see DevOps as so much more.

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#DevOps #Observability #Config

You feel like you need to clone yourself to scale and maintain security — there simply aren’t enough hours in the year to do it all. Luckily, there’s an automation solution that allows you to get close to cloning how you would normally manage your full API delivery pipeline. Join Peggy Guyott, senior customer experience manager at Kong, and Ned Harris, solutions engineer at Kong, as they share ways you can eliminate the conflict between developers’ need for autonomy and freedom to innovate, and the need to maintain control of governance and security.

This session will leave you with tools you can use to further your influence in your organization by understanding how automation helps all the teams work together to delight your customers and be secure at the same time.

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In this session recording, Anuj Sharma from AWS dives into applying Twelve-Factor application development principles to achieve API automation using AWS and Kong Konnect Enterprise.

For even more on this topic, register for our August 18 Kong and AWS webinar: https://bit.ly/3fW95HV

0:00 - Intro
06:53 - Path to API Automation Using Kong and AWS
09:00 - Codebase
10:00 - Dependencies
10:57 - Config
12:13 - Backing Services
13:04 - Build, Release, Run
13:51 - Process
15:07 - Port Binding
15:45 - Concurrency
16:39 - Logs
17:26 - Admin Processes
18:10 - Q&A

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#API #AWS #APIgateway #APIAutomation #AmazonEKS #Kong #KongKonnect

Software is being developed faster and released more often than ever before. With the rise of microservices and cloud native technologies, CI/CD has become increasingly important to take full advantage of what these architectures have to offer to modern software development.

In response, the CI/CD landscape has exploded over the last few years with many innovative approaches to evolving software deployment. Join our panel of Continuous Delivery experts to learn the best ways to deploy your code quickly without sacrificing security and scalability. We’ll take a deep dive into what the current CI/CD landscape looks like, the most important changes you need to understand and what the future of CI/CD promises.



Destination: Automation is a free, digital event exploring ways organizations can embrace automation to make their applications and underlying tech stacks more efficient, secure and resilient.

In this interactive demo, we will show how to encrypt and protect all services inside a service mesh using the Kuma Mutual TLS policy. We will then demonstrate how to control traffic permissions among each individual service using the TrafficPermission policy. In addition to security, Kuma provides traffic metrics using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, as well as traffic tracing (APM) and traffic logging integrated into managed cloud logging and analytics services. In this example, we will be using Stackdriver on GCP.

As we grow our businesses, we transform our applications to become distributed and decoupled to iterate faster on customer feedback, adapt quicker to market transitions and improve reliability and availability.

In this new distributed and decoupled era, we introduce service connectivity at the backbone of our applications at an unprecedented scale, and we need to adopt a new kind of platform to abstract away service connectivity from the application teams so that the business can innovate with minimal fragmentation and maximum speed. We need a service connectivity platform that allows the organization to break down vertical silos like API management and service mesh for a fully integrated connectivity abstraction.

In this session, we will explore the market transitions that are defining this new distributed and decoupled era, and we will identify the main foundations for the new service connectivity platform category.

Building a tech stack in today’s world means constantly making decisions about whether to automate or abstract challenges, but the goals are always the same – simplicity, security and speed. As organizations embrace myriad technologies, such as Kubernetes, to abstract away DevOps challenges, they also increase the need for automation to help them manage increasingly complex processes across platforms. In this session, Kong’s VP of Product Reza Shafii will explore how organizations can use automation to reduce friction in adopting new platforms, eliminate repetitive, error-prone tasks and increase the overall effectiveness of their development teams.

Destination: Automation is a free, digital event exploring ways organizations can embrace automation to make their applications and underlying tech stacks more efficient, secure and resilient.