Talks on Yves Brissaud

The rise of local CI tooling. Thanks AI coding agents!

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In september 2025 I gave a talk at AI Engineer Paris ⤤ about the rise of local CI tooling, thanks to coding agents.

AI-powered coding agents are everywhere. They help us write boilerplate and boring code, surprise us by generating features, or even build entire applications. And this is more than a passing trend: agents are already part of our daily workflow. But the unwritten aspect is that our role as developers is shifting. Our code is no longer written by us alone. We now need to review, orchestrate, integrate the work of multiple autonomous agents, sometimes across multiple codebases. In a sense, we are becoming something that once sounded outdated: integrators. To help us in this new, critical, role, we need tools. We need local Continuous Integration tools: the kind that also integrates well with coding agents. And the good news is those tools already exist in the open-source world, container-use to offer a proper isolated environment for coding agents, and dagger to continuously integrate the generated code.

Abstracting CI into Portable, Reusable Modules That Run Anywhere...Fast!

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In september 2025, I gave a workshop on Dagger at DevOpsDays Vilnius ⤤.

In large organizations, CI is often a battlefield between platform engineering teams and application development teams. The former likes standardized workflows, the latter demands customization. The conflict between these two approaches can lead to fragmented outcomes, typically resulting in frustration and lost productivity.

Any solution to this conflict must first understand that modern development takes place in a mix of languages, tools and platforms. In these environments, no one language or tool can “win”; every component must be interoperable with every other.

Manifests, blobs and tags: container images finally digest(ible)

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In June 2025, I was in Montpellier at SunnyTech to present a talk, in French, “Manifests, blobs and tags: container images finally digest(ible)”.

This is an updated version of the one I gave at Dockercon.

For some time now, containers and their images have been everywhere, on development machines, in production systems, or simply as a means of packaging. But what exactly is an OCI (Open Container Initiative) image?

In this session, we’ll explore, in the most interactive way possible, what an image really is:

For a different take on CI: on the developer's machine with Dagger

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In April 2025, I was in Paris at DevoxxFR 2025 to present a talk, in French, “For a different take on CI: on the developer’s machine with Dagger”.

In computing, we often talk about cycles over and over again—thick clients, thin clients, server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and so on. Yet if there’s one area that hasn’t evolved much, it’s CI, continuous integration. For years now, we’ve primarily relied on solutions like Jenkins or GitHub Actions that execute, in a more or less centralized fashion, all the necessary tasks remotely. The developer pushes the code, and the CI servers take care of everything that needs to be done.

Manifests, blobs and tags: container images finally digest(ible)

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In April 2025, I was in Paris at DevoxxFR 2025 to present a talk, in French, “Manifests, blobs and tags: container images finally digest(ible)”.

This is an updated version of the one I gave at Dockercon.

For some time now, containers and their images have been everywhere, on development machines, in production systems, or simply as a means of packaging. But what exactly is an OCI (Open Container Initiative) image?

In this session, we’ll explore, in the most interactive way possible, what an image really is:

Dagger and Docker Model Runner

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

During KubeCon London, I participated in the Docker + Dagger event and I showed some demos of Dagger working with models running on Docker Model Runner.

You can find the source code of the main demo, with all the necessary instructions, here: local-agent

And I had the chance to give this presentation alongside Solomon Hykes!

Securing the software supply chain with Docker Scout and Amazon ECR

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:00:00 -0700

During AWS re:Invent 23 I presented a lightning talk.

It was in Las Vegas, on November 29 at 2pm PDT.

Securing the software supply chain with Docker Scout and Amazon ECR

Join this session to learn how to secure the complete software supply chain through real-time vulnerability identification, remediation recommendations, and continuous policy evaluation. Learn how Docker Scout integrates with Amazon ECR and why the registry integration is key to having a complete, secure software supply chain from inner loop to production, with Scout as the system of record for the software development lifecycle.

What’s in My Container? Docker Scout CLI and CI to the Rescue

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:50:00 -0700

My Dockercon 23 talk about Docker Scout!

The recording is now available!

Are you sure to know what’s inside the container you are running? What is the impact of a change in your Dockerfile, base image, or application dependency? Are you introducing new vulnerabilities? Or are you fixing them?

Let’s see how the Docker Scout CLI tools and CI/CD integrations can help on your day to day activities.

Container Images: Interactive Deep Dive

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:15:00 -0700

My Dockercon 23 talk about Container Images!

The recording is now available!

Containers are everywhere — from local tools to production systems, including serverless, AI, etc. But on the other hand, we have the images. While we mostly know them as a kind of packaging system to embed our software, they are more than that. Have you ever wondered what an image really is? Let’s dive into OCI (Open Container Initiative) Images:

Secure Development with Docker

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:00:00 -0700

This is a 4h workshop at Dockercon 23

The recording is now available!

Modern applications are composed of many libraries and components from various sources being built and deployed on various systems, making it difficult for developers, platform teams, and security professionals to know what software is running and whether it is secure. Issues may arise from your own code, its dependencies, base images, and many other sources — and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all the time! If you want to secure your software supply chain, this is the workshop for you.

What if micro services had nothing to do with technique?

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:15:00 +0200

I presented at AlpesCraft my conference (in French) What if micro services had nothing to do with technique?.

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What if micro services had nothing to do with technique?

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:15:00 +0200

I presented at DevoxxFR my conference (in French) What if micro services had nothing to do with technique?.

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Cloud Native Application Bundle: the missing link

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:15:00 +0200

I was at DevoxxFR to present my talk about Cloud Native Application Bundle: the missing link

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CNAB: the missing link

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0200

I was at Snowcamp for the fourth time in 2020. On January 24th I presented my talk CNAB: the missing link.

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Consul Connect

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:15:00 +0200

I was at Paris Container Day on June 4th, to talk about Consul Connect.

Cloud Native: behind buzzwords, the cloud

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0200

On April 9th, I presented a definition of Cloud Native at HumanTalks Grenoble.

The french version contains the transcript of this presentation.

Hashistack: orchestrate Cloud Native application with ease

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0200

For my third participation to Snowcamp, I presented a talk about some of our technical choices at SquareScale « Hashistack : orchestrer des applications Cloud Native avec simplicité ».

When we speak about container orchestration, running Cloud Native applications, everybody look at kubernetes. But some other solutions are also possible. One of them, pretty efficient, use Open Source tools developped by Hashicorp: Consul and Nomad are the main tools.

When I grow up, I'll create a full remote team!

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:55:00 +0200

For my first time at DevoxxFR, I had the great pleasure to present a conference about a subject that is close to my heart: remote work.

Application metrics with prometheus and grafana

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0200

For my second participation at Snowcamp, I presented a conference about application metrics with prometheus and grafana: « Métriques applicatives avec prometheus et grafana ».

It’s a more longer version of the talk I presented to the HumanTalk (45 minutes instead of 10).

Contract programming in ruby

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:00:00 +0200

On December 12th, I presented a small talk at HumanTalks Grenoble. It’s about contract programming and how to implement it in ruby.

The content has not been translated, but you can find commented slides in the french version of this page.

mgmt : next generation config management

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 19:00:00 +0200

On April 11th, I presented a talk about « mgmt: next generation config management » at HumanTalks Grenoble.

In the french version of the article, you will find slides, code examples, videos, etc.

Application metrics with prometheus and grafana

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200

Slides in pdf.

Docker Multi Stage Builds

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200

Slides contain examples with Go and Node (react).

Slides in pdf.

Serverless: transition from monolith to distributed

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:10:00 +0200

Presentation of my conference « Serverless : transition du monolithique au système distribué » at MiXiT.

Serverless : du Monolithique au Système Distribué — Yves Brissaud — MiXiT 2017 from MiXiT on Vimeo.

Containers from scratch

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0200

For HumanTalks of March 2017 I choose to do something different: no slides, only live coding.

The goal was to realize, only with basic commands like chroot and cgroups, a system that is able to run a Docker image.

It was a very interesting experience. A little short in 10 minutes (in fact I took a little more…) but very exciting to perform.

Serverless: transition from monolith to distributed

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0200

For my first participation to Snowcamp, I’ve presented a talk about our usage of serverless, through AWS Lambda: « Serverless : transition du monolithique au système distribué »

Practical introduction to CoreOS and Terraform - for the developer

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:00:00 +0200

On November 8th, I presented a practical introduction to CoreOS and Terraform — for the developers, at HumanTalks Grenoble.

Here are the slides and presented demos.

Slides in pdf.

Demo #1: Provisionning of an AWS server

Demo #2: Deploy of ElasticSearch in CoreOS

Demo: Destruction of the infrastructure

Some resources

Terraform
CoreOS
humantalks-coreos-terraform: GitHub project containing the code used

It's the story of a web app, that meets serverless

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:00:00 +0200

On May 13th, I presented a HumanTalk at Grenoble about the development of a web app. From something classical, some parts has been migrated to serverless.

Slides in pdf.