Atlanta, GA, April 11, 2018, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta Perimeter at Villa Christina, 4000 Summit Blvd NE, Atlanta, GA
- Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. EST
- Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018
What you'll learn
Dev Team Track:
- Introduction to cloud-native applications
- Building microservices with Wildfly Swarm, Spring Boot, and Eclipse Vert.x
- Increasing developer productivity with containers
- Resilient and fault-tolerant microservices' continuous integration and continuous delivery
Ops Team Track:
- OpenShift and container-native storage fundamentals
- Introduction to OpenShift platform management
- Introduction to application management on OpenShift
- Application storage management with container-native storage
About the event
The Containers and Cloud-Native Roadshow is a unique hands-on experience for building, deploying, and managing containerized cloud-native applications using industry-standard open source technologies. Focused on educating and enabling attendees based on their role (Ops or Dev), you'll learn how Red Hat® OpenShift changes the way you run mission-critical applications.
Who should attend
Dev Track:
- Developer
- DevOps engineer
- Application architect
Ops Track:
- Directors
- Infrastructure architect
- Infrastructure specialist
- Enterprise architect
Know before you go
Operations Track:
Participants should have a systems administration/storage/operations focus, with the following suggested tools and/or skills:
- An SSH client on your laptop (PuTTY for Windows preferred)
- Competency on the Linux® command line
- A general/high-level understanding of Linux containers (e.g., Docker, CRI-O, etc.)
- A general/high-level understanding of authentication (e.g., LDAP/AD)
Developer Track:
Participants are expected to be familiar with general application development concepts and have basic skills with the following:
- Java programming
- Apache Maven build tool
- Linux command line
- Containers and Docker
About Red Hat OpenShift
Built on proven open source technologies, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform lets you streamline and automate development processes and accelerate product life cycles by giving developers more control over their environment and a wider choice of tools and components.
Requirements
For all attendees:
- A laptop with Windows, Linux, or MacOS
- Wi-Fi
Ops Track:
- An SSH client is required with the ability to use private key authentication.
- Windows users are recommended to use PuTTY.
Dev Track:
- A modern browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled
Wednesday, April 11
8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration/networking – break into Ops and Dev tracks |
9 – 9:30 a.m. | Introductions and overview – what to expect from the day |
9:40 – 10:20 a.m. | Hands-on lab |
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break |
10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Hands-on lab |
12 – 1 p.m. | Lunch |
1 – 2:30 p.m. | Hands-on lab |
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Break |
2:45 – 4 p.m. | Closing remarks and questions |
4 p.m. | Day ends |
Thank you for your interest. Online registration is closed at this time. Questions? Please contact infrastructure@redhat.com.
About the hosts
Nick Schuetz
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Nick is a senior specialist solutions architect with the OpenShift Tiger Team at Red Hat. He has been working professionally with software and infrastructure for almost 20 years across multiple industries. His work today is focused around helping businesses and communities throughout the nation learn and implement OpenShift.

Veer Muchandi
Principal Architect
Red Hat
Veer is a principal architect and container/PaaS evangelist with RedHat. He specializes in containerization, microservices, PaaS and DevOps. Veer is a well-known blogger, teacher and speaker. Spreading the awesomeness of OpenShift, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform to run your container workloads, is his passion.
Travel Information
Location
Hyatt Regency Atlanta Perimeter at Villa Christina
4000 Summit Blvd NE
Atlanta, GA