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Here’s a look at everything happening at SaltConf20!
Log in to SaltConf20 as early as 8:30am MDT to be ready for the keynote kickoff at 9am MDT. See post-registration email for instructions on how to enter the conference.
SaltStack leadership team
SaltConf20 keynote begins at 9am MDT and features Marc Chenn, CEO and co-founder of SaltStack, Tom Hatch, CTO and co-founder of SaltStack, and Purnima Padmanabhan, VP of Automation at VMware. The keynote will be immediately followed by several exciting community announcements and awards. Find out who will be our SaltConf20 Salt Community Champion, Top Contributor to Salt, and SaltStack Top Customer!
Stoyan Markov, CTO at Do IT Wise
We’ll show how we use SaltStack and ServiceNow to enable end-to-end service orchestration with service function chaining/network service chaining capabilities
Nicholas Hughes, CEO at EITR Technologies
Let’s get ready to rumble! Join a head-to-head comparison of Salt and Idem cloud capabilities in the context of Microsoft Azure.
Thomas Hatch, SaltStack Founder and Director of SaltStack Engineering at VMware
Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Open Source Officer at VMware
Learn more about VMware’s vision for open source and how Salt will play a critical role in the quest to empower customers to build their multi-cloud future.
Kristoffer Granberg Cauchi, CEO/Founder of TurtleTraction Limited
We’ll showcase our Atlassian integration package that combines the power of Atlassian and SaltStack, giving you limitless options for Enterprise automation.
Giorgio Tavecchia, Data Engineer at Quantyca
Matteo Di Pierro, Data Engineer at Quantyca
Join this session to see how Salt can be used to address challenges in Lambda Architectures via custom practices for states development and testing.
Hands-on, instructor-led
This free instructor-led, hands-on lab is available for beginners still discovering Salt and those completely new to it. This lab will repeat during each breakout throughout the day.
Space is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Request a spot now.
SaltConf20 attendees go head-to-head
Ready to show off your mad Salt skills? In this hands-on Salt troubleshooting lab, ten contestants will be presented with 12 scenarios; the first one to complete all 12 will score a SaltStack branded laptop bag and serious bragging rights. Request your spot now.
*The contest resets every session. Attendees may sign up to compete in ONE contest.
Mircea Ulinic, Senior Network Developer at DigitalOcean
Salt is traditionally agent based or SSH agentless. Join us to learn how Salt Proxy can be used to manage network, services and applications—with no agent installed.
Elias Probst, Consultant at SSC-Services GmbH
I’ll discuss the past, present and future of Salt and show why its unique architecture, components and ideas will stand the test of time.
Alex Peay, Director of SaltStack Product Management at VMware
See SaltStack SecOps products in action and learn how they leverage the Salt automation engine to deliver continuous enterprise security and compliance.
Thomas Hatch, SaltStack Founder and Director of SaltStack Engineering at VMware
Join Tom Hatch to learn more about the POP (Plugin-oriented programming) project and how it’s revolutionizing micro-service-driven app development
Gareth Greenaway, Staff Engineer II, SaltStack at VMware
We’ll look at some real-life ITOps issues and show how Saltstack’s unique Beacon / Reactor system can help automatically remediate them.
Instructor-led, hands-on
This free instructor-led, hands-on lab is available for beginners still discovering Salt and those completely new to it. This lab will repeat during each breakout throughout the day.
Space is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Request a spot now.
SaltConf20 attendees go head-to-head
Ready to show off your mad Salt skills? In this hands-on Salt troubleshooting lab, ten contestants will be presented with 12 scenarios; the first one to complete all 12 will score a SaltStack branded laptop bag and serious bragging rights. Request your spot now.
*The contest resets every session. Attendees may sign up to compete in ONE contest.
Said van de Klundert, Network Automation Engineer at IBM
Nathan Rogers, Network Automation Engineer at IBM
A look into the Cisco Native Minion and how IBM uses SaltStack to manage complex network infrastructure
Felipe Lima Morais, DevOps Engineer at SSYS
Lucas Sanches, DevOps Engineer at SSYS
Learn how SSYS helps their clients manage a distributed set of Fortinet firewalls using the Salt Reactor system
Derek Ardolf, SaltStack Senior Technical Writer at VMware
SaltStack has spent the year building the foundation for better documentation. But, what’s changed and what’s coming next? Attend this session to find out.
Tyler Johnson, SaltStack Staff Engineer at VMware
You’ve had the introduction to POP, but now it’s time to start using it! Come learn how to migrate an execution module from Salt into POP.
Max Litnitskiy, CIO + CEO at Odooist
I’m a seasoned Asterisk IP-PBX pro and I’ll demonstrate how I use Salt to do everything from installation / pkg management to blocking hackers on the firewall.
Instructor-led, hands-on
This free instructor-led, hands-on lab is available for beginners still discovering Salt and those completely new to it. This lab will repeat during each breakout throughout the day.
Space is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Request a spot now.
SaltConf20 attendees go head-to-head
Ready to show off your mad Salt skills? In this hands-on Salt troubleshooting lab, ten contestants will be presented with 12 scenarios; the first one to complete all 12 will score a SaltStack branded laptop bag and serious bragging rights. Request your spot now.
*The contest resets every session. Attendees may sign up to compete in ONE contest.
Expo hall is open to explore sponsor booths, network with other Salt community members and customers, participate in an AMA with Tom, connect with the docs team, meet other working groups, learn more about Salt, and so much more. One-on-one networking features are also available.
Thomas Hatch, SaltStack Founder and Director of SaltStack Engineering at VMware
Various SaltStack Experts
Time for something completely different! Watch SaltStack team members go head-to-head with rapid-fire demos that show off cool, helpful, or underrated Salt capabilities
Matt Wanless, Director at Wanless Systems Limited
A foray into compliance-driven remediation and reporting using SaltStack Beacons and Reactors.
Erik Richter, Systems Development Engineer at AWS
With help from a few AWS services, we explore ephemeral, CI/CD Salt Masters in the AWS Cloud.
Liam Greenwood, IT Manager, Research Computing at University of North Carolina
Learn how the University of North Carolina uses Salt to configure and orchestrate research clusters
Instructor-led, Hands-on
This free instructor-led, hands-on lab is available for beginners still discovering Salt and those completely new to it. This lab will repeat during each breakout throughout the day.
Space is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Request a spot now.
SaltConf20 attendees go head-to-head
Ready to show off your mad Salt skills? In this hands-on Salt troubleshooting lab, ten contestants will be presented with 12 scenarios; the first one to complete all 12 will score a SaltStack branded laptop bag and serious bragging rights. Request your spot now.
*The contest resets every session. Attendees may sign up to compete in ONE contest.
Thomas Hatch, SaltStack Founder and Director of SaltStack Engineering at VMware
Bananas and IT infrastructure have more in common than you think. Join Tom Hatch for a discussion on the pros and cons of ubiquitous tech in a digital world.
Chloé Messdaghi, Point3 Security/WoSEC/WeAreHackerz
Learn why ethical hacking is a critical component of cyber security and how we can change the perception and the corporate policies that discourage it.
Randy Thompson, Sr. Software Development Engineer at GoDaddy
This talk will introduce Tiamat, provide insight into the challenges GoDaddy wanted to address with it, and demo the build and resultant tooling of the solution
Brian Ford, System Architect at Caesars Entertainment
In the gaming industry, IT automation and security are paramount. Learn how SaltStack is used to deliver policy-driven config and automation across AIX systems.
Instructor-led, hands-on
This free instructor-led, hands-on lab is available for beginners still discovering Salt and those completely new to it. This lab will repeat during each breakout throughout the day.
Space is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Request a spot now.
SaltConf20 attendees go head-to-head
Ready to show off your mad Salt skills? In this hands-on Salt troubleshooting lab, ten contestants will be presented with 12 scenarios; the first one to complete all 12 will score a SaltStack branded laptop bag and serious bragging rights. Request your spot now.
*The contest resets every session. Attendees may sign up to compete in ONE contest.
Expo hall is open to explore sponsor booths, network with other Salt community members and customers, participate in an AMA with Tom, connect with the docs team, meet other working groups, learn more about Salt, and so much more. One-on-one networking features are also available.
CTO and co-founder of SaltStack, Creator of Salt
CEO and co-founder of SaltStack
VP of Automation, VMware
Principal Engineer, VMware
SVP of Product and Marketing, SaltStack
VP & Chief Open Source Officer, VMware