DevOps and MLOps as one platform

Welcome to this webinar. There's a couple of different topics here, starting with DevOps and MLOps in one platform. If you notice the agenda, there is also an AWS topic coming out of Code Commit and what's available from GitLab. The neat thing here is that GitLab has been a really important part; Eficode is an independent company. We serve DevOps tools of all types and partners, but GitLab has been really good business for us because so many places have fragmentation in their tool chains for some reason. Individuals and interactions over process and tools in Agile was kind of reinterpreted as everybody using their own tools and doing things in their own manner, which resulted in a tremendous amount of fragmentation in tools. GitLab is one of the best solutions in the world to bring everything together. If you want more decentralized development and more empowerment in your teams, then actually having consolidated tool chains that provide a DevOps safety net is a wonderful way to do that. My name is Mark, and I am a principal consultant in the DevOps and Cloud Tower at Eficode. I've been in Finland for 19 winters now, which the number 19 started a week or two ago. I have with me the lovely and talented Yuri Aokas. Hello, Yuri! Hello from my end as well. I'm located in Helsinki, Finland. I'm an old IT warhorse, as I like to call myself, with a long background in DevOps. I've been setting up Nokia O store services, and you can imagine how old I am. I'm really interested in all things related to AWS, and of course, the DevOps SLA is super important for Eficode, so that's why I'm here today. We'll introduce Dan when he comes. You're going to have to listen to me a little bit. Eficode is the biggest DevOps house in Europe, with 650 people across the land. We've been doing DevOps since before it was really a well-known term. We have a large community around us. We just got back from the DevOps conference in Scandinavia, where we've had people like Patrick Debois, the guy who invented DevOps, in our communities. We do a lot of DevOps work, migrations, analysis, and assessments. One of the things we do at Eficode is we don't chop wood; we sharpen your axe and help ensure that you have the best possible software tools and processes available. I'd like to welcome Mr. Dan Plumley, number 40 something in the global DevOps Champions. Thank you very much, Mark, and sorry to everyone for being rather unfashionably late. I had a little bit of an argument with a Zoom update. Thank you, Mark, for stalling and vamping absolutely perfectly. Just a quick introduction from me: I'm Dan Plumley, the GitLab delivery lead in the UK for Eficode. It's my responsibility to ensure that people are using GitLab to the best of its and their ability. I do a lot of coaching, mentoring, support, and training. I love talking about GitLab, so this next hour is nothing unusual for me other than I've got a camera in my face. Hopefully, that passion comes across to you all today. Most importantly, we aim to educate, inspire, and explore at Eficode, and we don't want anything here to be taken too much as a sales pitch. GitLab's purpose has been to be the complete DevSecOps platform. You can do everything here: agile portfolio management, security, code building, verification, releasing, and post-release monitoring. It stands to reason that they would also incorporate MLOps as well, aiming to be the complete platform, the one-stop shop. One of their selling points is reducing context switching and simplifying the toolchain. However, that's not their only end game. GitLab is also a pick and mix; if you're buying a GitLab license, there's another offering you can use GitLab for. You may be using a different tool for project management or security scans, and that's fine. You still have the choice to use a different tool for modeling MLOps, but GitLab's way of saying is that you could use theirs, and it's probably comparable.