Johan Abildskov

Inspirational speaker, author, and teacher

Johan Abildskov works as a DevOps Transformation Lead at Eficode in Denmark. He spends his time consulting on DevOps tooling and culture.

He is a geek and a teacher at heart. He was on the All Things Git podcast with Ed Thomson, talking about teaching Git. His first book was recently published: Practical Git - Confident Git Through Practice.

Active in meetup groups and the DevOpsDays community, Johan also gave talks at many conferences like DevOpsDays and Git Merge. He hosts the DevOps Dojo podcast.

You can find him on Twitter @randomsort

"I didn't write the book on DevOps, but I did write the song."

Watch the video from DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2018

DevOps trends 2021

Get inspired by Johan and Kalle Mäkelä for 2021

As the DevOps movement is growing into its teens, it shows no signs of slowing down. DevOps started as an initiative to break down the silo between development and operations departments. But these days DevOps encompasses everything that makes modern software engineering faster, safer, and better.

In this brief guide, you will find short and visual summaries of what we believe to be the significant topics in 2021: psychological safety, scaling, platforms and design systems, SaaS, edge cloud, 5G, and data challenges.

Watch DevOps explained by Johan Abildskov

DevOps explained

Shift left

“Shifting left” is a key DevOps concept. It’s all about feedback. But how to implement this practice and why should you care about shifting left?

Johan Abildskov tells you in less than 2 minutes.

DevOps explained

CALMS

What is DevOps all about? We will tell you in less than 2 minutes using one of the common definitions: CALMS - Collaboration, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing.

DevOps explained

Infrastructure as code

Scaling and deploying environments as you need in a reproducible manner is essential for high performance in IT.

Watch Johan Abildskov explain why infrastructure as code matters in our #DevOpsexplained series.

Misused figures of DevOps

Watch Johan's talk at DevOpsDays Zurich 2019

2019 State of DevOps

DevOps sauna podcast with Johan

"The way we think about automation, the way we work with automation, the mindsets that we build around automation becomes tremendously important because it's our first step towards DevOps. And that's just where there are so many misconceptions that we have. Things like, is automation a luxury?," said Johan.

Teaching Git to students and professionals

Johan has been teaching Git to students of Aarhus University several times, including within our DevOps Academy. He also gives Mastering Git training to professionals, who want to make the most of version control.

"The course was awesome and gave a deeper understanding of the magical world of git," wrote a student after a course with Johan.

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