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DrupalSouth Canberra Recap



DrupalSouth is one of the longest-running Drupal events in the Asia-Pacific region. This year we partnered with Salsa Digital to sponsor this fantastic event and had an opportunity to present, attend, and enjoy the community in Canberra.


Sponsorship

Along with Salsa Digital, our booth at the event was a great opportunity to talk about Lagoon and its role as the platform for the new generation of GovCMS.


We were also excited to give out copies of The Open Revolution, a book that shares much of the inspiration and values of amazee.io and our role in establishing a completely open source hosting platform.



As part of our sponsorship, we co-hosted the opening night cocktail hour, which was a great time to meet friends old and new.


Sessions

Thom Toogood gave a session on Monday called: How To Build simplytest.me with Kubernetes, an introduction into K8s. He made the point that although Kubernetes can seem intimidating, once you get the hang of it you can build complicated things in a much simpler way. The example Thom gave in this session was of building a testing tool like simplytest.me with only a couple hundred lines of code.


On Tuesday I was part of a panel on Security, DevOps, and Your Digital Ecosystem. One of the points that came up was that DevOps is here to stay, and isn’t something that can be implemented once but rather a culture that should be continually encouraged.


Another important point made was about security, and moving away from the idea that we should build something and then make it secure. Instead, security needs to be part of the entire process.



Alfred Deeb from Salsa Digital spoke as part of a panel on open source for open government. This panel discussed how open source can promote transparency, citizen participation/collaboration, and accountability to produce better governments.


Another session that was really interesting was Migrations at Scale from Alex Skrypnyk and Stuart Rowlands that gave an inside view into how they created system utilizing AWX-based runners, building an automated workflow that can be continuously used and reused to migrate sites of different level of complexity to Lagoon easily.


During the sprints on Wednesday, we migrated some sites onto the amazee.io cloud in Australia. This new cloud is a great choice for anyone in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients can benefit from local support with convenient maintenance schedules all while taking advantage of our groundbreaking, open source hosting solution Lagoon. Learn more here or get in touch with us today.


A big thank you to everyone who sponsored and attended DrupalSouth and especially all the organizers and volunteers from all of us at amazee.io. See you again next year!


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