2024-05-03 –, Connally Ballroom
In a world where Cloud gives us the ease and flexibility to deploy and scale your apps we often overlook security and control. The fact that resources in the cloud are still shared, the hardware is shared, the network is shared, there is not much insight into the infrastructure unless the logs are exposed by the cloud provider. Even an air gap environment in the cloud is truly not air gapped, it's a pseudo-private network. Moreover, the general trend in the industry is shifting towards cloud repatriation, it's a fancy term for bringing your apps and services from cloud back to on-prem, like old school how things were run before the cloud was even a thing. This shift has caused what I call a knowledge gap where engineers are only familiar with interacting with infrastructure via APIs but not the hardware or networks their application runs on. In this talk I aim to demystify on-prem environments and more importantly show engineers how easy and smooth it is to repatriate data from cloud to an on-prem air gap environment.
Engineers and Developers should not only be familiar with the cloud but the hybrid nature of it. We’ll educate them on how to overcome the pain points and challenges during an on-prem migration. We’ll also educate them how to design an Air gapped environment on-prem using cloud native best practices. By the end of the talk the expectation is developers will have a good understanding of how to secure their hardware and networks running on-prem infrastructure just like they would on the cloud. By doing this not only will they save money, they will have a more secure and robust ecosystem with 100% control of everything from the type of hardware to the logs they can fetch from networking devices such as routers and switches.
AJ is a Specialist in the field of DevOps/SRE with over 20 years of empirical operational experience. He not only architects and designs, but also implements and maintains the infrastructure thereafter, the whole nine yards, soup to nuts. He ventures out to learn unfamiliar things, digging in to finding the root cause and coming up with tangible solutions.