Last week, I was in London to attend the last ForgeRock IdentityLive summit of 2019. Once again, it was a great event, very well attended by over 250 customers and prospects, in locations close to London Bridge. The first day was packed with presentations from ForgeRock (keynote, roadmap, demos by the Product Management team…) and from 5 different customers: E-Trade, Hargreaves Lansdown, SwissCom, NHS Digital and BMW. I really enjoyed these customers’ testimony and I want to address special kudos to Anthony Wilson, Product Manager for Identity at NHS Digital, for running a live (and successful) demo of an iPad application specifically built for paramedics to allow them to access patients medical records, in a highly trusted yet password-less manner.

The second day is the usual unSummit, with more technical discussions and hands-on workshops. I ran a session about my favorite subject: Directory Services, and everyone else favorite subject: Containers and Kubernetes. I explained all the work we’re doing to automate the deployment of replicated DS instances and ran a live demonstration of deploying a 3 way replicated service on MiniKube on my laptop, in a couple of minutes; and also how to scale it up to 4 instances in just a click. Kudos to the Directory Services engineering team for reaching that milestone on the way to the 7.0 release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform.

During the event, we also showed our support for Women In Identity, a program I’m particularly fond of, as a father of 3 girls (although probably none of them will work in Identity or even IT).

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Finally, here’s the obligatory link to my photo album of IdentityLive London.