Murriel is a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud, and works with enterprise customers to solve technical and business challenges and build applications on the cloud. She is currently enthusiastic about DevOps and Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, and the Developer Experience. She leads the Social Impact committee for the local chapter of Women@Google and is an advocate for mentorship and community building. Murriel also holds a position on the executive committee for Surfrider Long Beach. When outdoors, she can often be spotted on a bike or on skates, by the coastline, in the garden, or covered in sawdust.

Presentations

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Bringing Joy to Kubernetes Deployments

In this talk, Murriel and Elizabeth will be your guides on a brief tour of several open source tools for deploying a workload into Kubernetes. Our journey will begin with manual hello world deployments and from there we will explore some of the most common modern tools for CI/CD, including a demo speedrun! 

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Secrets Management

This talk will review strategies and tools for managing secrets in different environments, with a particular focus on cloud infrastructure, application secrets, and secrets within the DevOps CI/CD pipeline. We will look at different approaches to secrets management, exploring processes and methodologies, best practices and anti-patterns. From here we will dive into specific tools and technologies, from open source to commercial tools.

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Self-Care for Systems at any Scale

Maintenance is not exciting or revolutionary, but still remains as a critical component in your systems infrastructure. This talk will review some approaches for maintaining healthy, happy, and well-tuned systems, whether you are caring for pets or cattle, or a mix of both. Modern infrastructure has evolved from on premise hardware and data centers to hybrid environments, cloud infrastructure, containers, servers, serverless, and more—often with various SaaS products thrown into the mix for fun and profit.

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