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Cloud GossipEvolution of DevOps with Martyn CouplandMartyn Coupland is a Principal Solution Architect at Ensono, Azure MVP, and DevOps Ambassador at DevOps Institute, as well as an author, speaker, and blogger.Martyn is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, published author, and has previously worked for a Microsoft Azure managed service provider leading engineering teams.He works with clients on their Microsoft Azure deployments, works on creative solutions to unleash the power of cloud for clients, and speaks to them about the adoption of DevOps.He’s been in technology all of his working life, ever since lea...
2021-03-0857 min
The CollabTalk PodcastMVPbuzzChat Episode 108 with Martyn CouplandEpisode 108 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Microsoft Azure MVP Martyn Coupland (@mrcoups), a UK-based Senior Azure Consultant with Ensono, where he focuses on Microsoft Azure deployments and the adoption of DevOps.
In this episode, Martyn and I discuss his path to becoming an MVP (he was awarded for the first time this week!) and his career within the IT and engineering operations world. Martyn credits much of his growth and success on his participation in the community, providing a great perspective for those who want...
2020-11-0526 min
DevOps SquaredS1.E22 - DevSecOps with Mark PetersThis week I am joined by Mark Peters, talking about the impact of security within DevOps and DevSecOps.
2020-09-2647 minDevOps SquaredS1.E21 - Improving Your DevOps Skills as a Developer with Yuval OrenThis week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the second installment we are discussing how to improve your DevOps skills as a developer. We discuss how the approach to DevOps for developers is different to operations engineers, how to further your understanding of DevOps as a developer, how to transition to a DevOps Engineer and answer the question do developers make better DevOps Engineers?
Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech...
2020-09-1849 minDevOps SquaredS1.E20 - How to Become a Better DevOps Engineer with Yuval OrenThis week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the first installment we are discussing how to become a better DevOps engineer. We discuss what it means to be a DevOps Engineer, as well as dive into how to grow as an engineer looking for a promotion to your next opportunity.
Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech companies improve developer productivity.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuvalo
Blog: https...
2020-09-1145 minDevOps SquaredS1.E19 - DevOps and Microservices with Tracy RaganThis week I am joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO and Co-Founder at DeployHub. This week we are talking about the rise of microservices, what they are, how you should approach them, the pros and cons, as well as it's relationship with DevOps.
Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice management platform designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and deployments of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board...
2020-09-0443 minDevOps SquaredS1.E18 - DevOps on AWS with Nadeem AugustineJoining me this week is Nadeem Augustine, Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. This week we are discussing the implementation of DevOps tooling on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Nadeem is also a DevOps Ambassador with the DevOps Institute and for his day to day role is the Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. He is responsible for setting the enterprise release management strategy as well as developing and implementing release governance and defining the strategic direction for release management tools.
2020-08-2841 minDevOps SquaredS1.E17 - DevOps War Stories with April Edwards, Will Hall and Joshua BoylesThis week, we have a panel episode with April Edwards from Microsoft, Will Hall of HeleCloud, and Joshua Boyles of Elsevier. This week we are discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly of DevOps transformation, the panel shares their tips, successes, and war stories from working in the field of DevOps.
April is a senior software engineer and cloud advocate for Microsoft specializing in datacentre modernization and application transformation. Her focus is on advocating the cloud to customers and taking them on a journey to what is possible in the cloud. Migrating customers away from legacy methods into the ne...
2020-08-2149 minDevOps SquaredS1.E16 - DevOps Institute with Jayne Groll and Helen BealThis week I am very pleased to be joined by both Jayne Groll the CEO of the DevOps Institute and also Helen Beal who is the Chief Ambassador with the DevOps Institute. We discuss a great pizza metaphor for DevOps courtesy of Jayne, discuss the role of the DevOps Institute, learn about the Chief Ambassador role from Helen and also hear about an exciting initiative with scholars and the DevOps Institute, not to mention the usual opening comments on what does DevOps mean to you.
2020-08-0751 minDevOps SquaredS1.E15 - DevOps on Azure with Gregor SuttieIn this episode, I am talking to Gregor Suttie who is the Head of Development at Sword and a Microsoft Azure MVP. We discuss using Azure DevOps to enable DevOps in your organisation and Gregor discusses his favourite aspects of working with Azure.
2020-07-311h 06DevOps SquaredS1.E14 - DevOps Recruitment with Marcus Gardiner-HillIn this episode, I am talking to Marcus Gardiner-Hill, who is a Principal DevOps Consultant with Prism Digital. We are discussing the effects of DevOps on the recruitment industry, what Marcus looks for when hiring for roles, and what makes a great CV.
Marcus Gardiner-Hill is the Principal DevOps Consultant at Prism Digital, he helps to build teams through headhunting and talent attraction on a permanent and project basis in companies from startups to FTSE 100 companies who are looking to instate DevOps culture.
2020-07-2451 minDevOps SquaredS1.E13 - Scrum Masters and DevOps with Georgia CowlardIn this episode, we are talking about the relationship between Scrum masters and DevOps. Discussing how important DevOps is within a successful Scrum project, how important the tooling is, how Scrum needs to adapt for DevOps, and what we can take into other Scrum projects from DevOps.
This week I am joined by Georgia Cowlard who is a certified Scrum Master with the Scrum Alliance and is a Project Manager with Allianz Insurance. Previous to this she worked as a Senior Scrum Master with Virgin Atlantic leading the delivery of one of the most valuable programmes for 2020 over five business...
2020-07-1756 minDevOps SquaredS1.E12 - DevOps at The Very Group with Jamal WalshThis week I am joined by Jamal Walsh who is a Senior Solutions Architect at The Very Group. We are discussing how DevOps functions day to day at The Very Group and dig into the culture and the technology used at the organisation.
Jamal is a Senior Solutions Architect at The Very Group, he is a passionate Agile, and DevOps practitioner with a keen interest in the human side of Agile and DevOps practices. Possessing effective cross-functional leadership skills and experience working with different business functions, engineering, and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and...
2020-07-1052 minDevOps SquaredS1.E11 - DevOps for CxOs with Amit DalviThis week, Martyn is talking to Amit Dalvi about engaging with CxOs on DevOps. Join us for this fascinating discussion on how to ensure you engage your executives.
Amit is an IT transformation consultant/architect providing valuable consultancy and advisory services to business decision-makers typically at CxO level forums to influence key strategic decisions. Helping businesses to achieve their digital goals by combining technology, people, and processes delivering small/incremental but the complex transition and business transformation programs. Creating strategies to achieve competitive advantage and realise cost, performance, and scalability benefits to business stakeholders.
Working within...
2020-07-0353 minDevOps SquaredS1.E10 - DevOps at Microsoft with April EdwardsThis week Martyn is chatting to April Edwards from Microsoft about the organisations move to DevOps and the impact it has had on them as an organisation.
April is a senior software engineer and cloud advocate for Microsoft specializing in datacentre modernization and application transformation. Her focus is advocating the cloud to customers and taking them on a journey to what is possible in the cloud. Migrating customers away from legacy methods into the new world of serverless and containers, where code comes first. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and bri...
2020-06-261h 03DevOps SquaredS1.E9 - Enterprise DevOps with Nic WhittakerThis week Martyn is joined by Nic Whittaker who are discussing the adoption of DevOps in the enterprise.
Currently Head of Platform Engineering & DevOps (and acting Head of Enterprise PMO) at Virgin Atlantic Airways, Nic is a seasoned technology veteran who has come "the long way round". Nic started out as a chemistry teacher before moving into technology as a junior developer in 2000 and has since inhabited various technical roles across a variety of industries including airline, post-production & broadcast, manufacturing, insurance and education. When not working, Nic strangles guitars, rides a motorbike, destroys his knees doing long distance running and...
2020-06-191h 06DevOps SquaredS1.E8 - Leadership in DevOps with Garima BajpaiThis week Martyn is joined by Garima Bajpai from Capital Carbon Consulting who is discussing DevOps and leadership.
Garima is an industry speaker on a number of DevOps subjects including Digital Twins, product practices and AI-Ops. She is also the co-founder of the DevOps Community Practice in Canada with over 500 contributors, the co-organiser of the DevOps Summit - Canada, co-creator of the Continuous Product Oriented Practice and a DevOps Ambassador with the DevOps Institute.
She is also a board member for Capital Carbon Consulting and Advisor Health 4.0 Institute. In 2019 she was nominated for Young Leader...
2020-06-121h 02DevOps SquaredS1.E7 - Delivering Business Value in DevOps with John ThompsonThis week, Martyn is joined by John Thompson who is a DevOps Engineer with Atmosera, discussing the value of DevOps within the business.
John Thompson is an Azure DevOps Engineer at Atmosera, a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider. He believes in leveraging automation to solve complex business problems and to deliver value to the business and it's customers. His career has been focused on Azure cloud development, SharePoint / Web development and operations automation since 2014, as Principle Software Engineer at Con-way Trucking and XPO Logistics to mention a few.
2020-06-051h 07DevOps SquaredS1.E6 - Shift Left with Ravi LachhmanJoin Martyn and Ravi Lachhman from Harness as they discuss the concept of shift left in DevOps and also start the discussion of shift right.
Ravi Lachhman is an evangelist at Harness. Prior to Harness, Ravi was an evangelist at AppDynamics. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi enjoys traveling the world with his stomach and is obsessed with Korean BBQ.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravilach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravilachhman/
2020-05-2957 minDevOps SquaredS1.E5 - DevOps Maturity with Will HallJoin Martyn and Will Hall from HeleCloud as they discuss maturity in DevOps.
Will is a DevOps Consultant at HeleCloud, GitLab Hero and Docker Community Leader. He has been architecting and delivering successful solutions with software since 2005, most recently using DevOps tools and processes with Terraform, Vault, GitLab and Ansible. He is interested in the evolution of DevOps, exploring the great opportunities to modernise existing applications and infrastructure to run them alongside new tools and services. These include containerisation, serverless and infrastructure as code.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hn_will
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c...
2020-05-2247 min
Lisa at the EdgeEP9 - DevOps - A conversation not about TechIn this episode I am joined by Martyn Coupland.
Martyn is the DevOps Technical Lead at Virgin Atlantic.
I first met Martyn a few years ago at a user group and was blown away by his infrastructure as code skills.
Martyn has just launched his own podcast called DevOps Squared so be sure to check that out.
In this episode we discuss what is DevOps and surprisingly don't mention any technology. I ask the questions 'Is there such a thing as a DevOps engineer?' and is 'DevOps only for the publ...
2020-05-161h 04DevOps SquaredS1.E4 - The Culture of DevOps with Tiffany JachjaJoin Martyn in this episode where we talk about culture in DevOps and why it’s so important. In this episode we are joined by Tiffany Jachja.
Tiffany Jachja is a Technical Evangelist at Harness. She is an advocate for better software delivery, sharing applicable practices, stories, and content around modern technologies. Before joining Harness, Tiffany was a consultant with Red Hat’s Consulting practice. There she used her experience to help customers build their software applications living in the cloud.
You can find Tiffany online in the following locations:
Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2020-05-1551 minDevOps SquaredS1.E3 - DevOps Outsourcing with Anthony HodsonJoin Martyn along with Anthony Hodson from Ensono as they discuss DevOps and outsourcing in this weeks episode.
Anthony Hodson is an AWS Solution Architect working for Ensono, a Managed Service Provider. His career has seen him work as an implementer in FinTech, a Solution Architect at Chef and many years and many roles in Managed Services. As well as contributing to the occasional webinar / podcast / blog he’s also a returning judge for the UK Cloud Awards. His interests in Cloud include Machine Learning as well as the age-old problem of motivating people to do things differently.
LinkedIn: https://www...
2020-05-0851 minDevOps SquaredS1.E2 - Containers with Katie GamanjiThis week Martyn is joined by Katie Gamanji to discuss containers. We discuss what DevOps means to Katie, what containers are and how they help American Express as well as discuss Katie's role at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
As a Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express, Katie Gamanji contributes to the build-out of a platform that gravitates towards cloud-native principles and open-source tooling, with Kubernetes as the focal point. In previous roles, maintained and automated application delivery on OpenStack based infrastructure, which transitioned to the creation of a centralised, globally distributed platform at Condé Nast.
2020-05-0152 minDevOps SquaredS1.E1 - DevOps at MSPs with Rob Stainsby and Tim ShackletonThis week Martyn is joined by guests Rob Stainsby (Director, Vendira) and Tim Shackleton (Senior Product Manager, Ensono) talk about the DevOps in Managed Service Providers.
What does DevOps mean to you?
Does DevOps work for an MSP?
What effect does DevOps have on product management?
How does DevOps create a challenge for service providers?
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2020-04-2440 minDevOps SquaredDevOps Squared TrailerHi everyone! Welcome to my new podcast DevOps Squared. I will be discussing everything DevOps including people, process, technology and culture. Guests include both seasoned DevOps professionals and newcomers to the community giving them the ability talk about their experiences and expertise on a wide variety of subjects.
One week we will go from discussing the culture shift in DevOps and what that means for organisations to the implementation of technology to drive the adoption of DevOps. I hope this mix of subjects will give everyone something they can take away.
We will also give the opportunity to send in...
2020-04-2201 min