Ben Pritchett | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Ben Pritchett is a platform architect within Red Hat IT, focused on container platforms and hybrid cloud. His primary responsibilities are designing and managing container platforms for enterprise IT. This requires a broad understanding of IT, including knowledge of application development workflows all the way to public/private cloud infrastructure management. Since 2015 he has worked on production deployments of Kubernetes and Openshift.

Ben has 9 years of experience in application development and systems engineering. Ben received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Graduate Certificate in Medical Devices. He has participated in talks at conferences including DrupalCon and Red Hat Summit.

Current position (1)

Platform Architect

Red Hat

Degrees (1)

Electrical Engineering

North Carolina State University

2004 to 2010

Presentations

Presentations (2)

Developing and Deploying Applications in a Multi-Site Hybrid Cloud

You have access to clouds. You can build containers. How do you make them useful? Trying to build scalable and resilient services and deploying them across multiple sites and cloud providers can be tricky. Find out how Red Hat IT does it.

In this session, we’ll review the patterns, processes, and tools Red Hat IT uses to deliver business critical application services across multiple sites, with Red Hat OpenShift Container platform. We’ll cover:
• The Red Hat IT standard development and deployment pattern.
• How to automate your CI/CD delivery pipeline, from merge request to release.
• How to implement basic supply chain security to support application integrity.
• How we deal with security and change management requirements.
• The tools and processes needed to implement this model.

You'll leave with insight into how Red Hat and open source tools are used today to for fast, high-quality, more secure, and efficient digital delivery.

IT brokering: Automating the Path to Production

How long does it take a new application to get to production in your organization? In larger organizations, it can sometimes take longer to have architectures reviewed and complete the right paperwork than is needed to actually build an application. And developers often don't know all of the processes or requirements at the start.
In Red Hat IT, we’ve transformed how IT services are brokered to the application teams that need them. By centralizing and automating the business logic of application ownership, and integrating it with development and deployment automation provided by OpenShift Operators, we can get applications to production faster and more reliably than ever.

Past talks (2)

IT Brokering: Automating the Path to Production

Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience

Virtual

April 28, 2020

Developing and Deploying applications in a multisite Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat Summit

BCEC, Boston, MA

May 8, 2019