Alex is a Product Manager for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform and is focused on enabling multi-cloud services using Cloud Foundry and BOSH. Previously, Alex was a committer to the container engine Garden Linux, used by Cloud Foundry, and worked in London's FinTech startup scene. Alex is also contributing to the Open Service Broker API initiative as a member of the project management committee. You can regularly find Alex talking about Cloud Native technologies and agile working practices at conferences around Europe and the US.
He is primarily focused on bringing data services to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform such as Redis, RabbitMQ and Cassandra, while supporting partner companies creating their own service offerings. Alex also contributes to the open source components of Cloud Foundry including the containerization engine.
Talks I've Given
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Providing Cloud Services to Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes with the OSBAPI with Alex Ley!
Featuring Alex Ley
Come and join Alex where you’ll learn exactly what the Open Service Broker API specification is, explore its history, how the cross-ecosystem collaboration on the API specification is happening and especially how you can offer services to Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes platform at this month muCon...
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Continuous Delivery with Concourse & Cloud Foundry
Featuring Alex Ley
Building a continuous delivery pipeline for your micro-service based architecture can be a real challenge when using more conventional CI systems like Jenkins and GoCD. How do you get a clear picture of the CI workflow and status? What artifact was deployed and when? How is this all configured?
continuous-delivery cloudfoundry microservice-architecture microservices -
The 12 Factor Team
Featuring Alex Ley
The '12 Factor App' principles are agreed on as the foundation of Cloud Native applications, but can the same principles be applied to teams? This talk explores if the 12 factors can be re-purposed to create high functioning teams that are ready to build and support Cloud Native...
mucon microservices 12-factor-app cloud-native agile cross-functional-teams devops