Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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User experience in Puppet is more than just
the GUI; it includes the command line, the Puppet language, and our
APIs. It's easy to think of these as disparate systems, but it's
important to us that they all act like parts of a whole.
Puppet must...
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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Not unlike most technology
choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for
managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark debate among
opinionated technologists. There are certainly a number of choices
available all of...
Patrick Debois11/28/11
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Over the years I've moved from Production to Test to Development and back to Production.
This presentation is a summary of my learnings along the way:
After running larger production environments I wondered how it would be...
Mitch Pronschinske11/27/11
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DevOps: Design to Implementation in Big EnterpriseWe Can’t Hug Out Way to Success: The Need for a DevOps Definition of People, Process, and Tools Talking ITIL for Agile Folks (Learning Standard Change) The Good, the Bad & the Embarrassing: How Ops...
Mitch Pronschinske11/26/11
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Abstract John Clapham and Paul Swartout: The presentation will give an insight into how the whole of Nokia Entertainment has embraced DevOps:
The Journey: Start-up mentality to Corporate and back again
A short history on how Nokia Entertainment came to...
David Pell11/26/11
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It seems that concepts related to DevOps are starting to become more mainstream. This interview, featuring IBM's Pete Marshall and Peter Spung at Innovate 2011, reflects on DevOps, where it's headed, and how large companies like IBM can contribute.
Mitch Pronschinske11/25/11
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Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a
average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing with
log analysis and too little doing storage, but them's the breaks).
After discovering the...
David Pell11/25/11
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Sometimes you don't need all of the features that a powerful tool has to offer, and you'd be better off finding something lighter that only does what you need it to do. That's the situation developer Dennis Reimann was facing when he wanted to setup an...
Mitch Pronschinske11/24/11
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Abstract Mattias Jansson, Noa Resare: We have lots of material to draw from talking about how we work with integration between operations and software development.
This talk will be around a narrative about how we have grown
as a company and how our...
David Pell11/24/11
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Have you ever thought about whether the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics applies to software applications? Do you see your applications as something static - something that, once completed, simply is? In your projects, how much attention do you devote to...
Jim Bird11/24/11
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There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people
that are worth listening to and learning from. There’s more and more
marketing from vendors and consultants jumping on the...
Mitch Pronschinske11/23/11
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Abstract by Mitchell Hashimoto: Many still consider and talk about DevOps as an absolute thing: developers and operations are
the same thing. Of course, this is not the case. DevOps is a range,
where on the far left we have old-style ops (very exclusive)...
David Pell11/22/11
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Three years ago Tony Morris asserted that Agile is a non-idea, an unfalsifiable pseudo-science. To illustrate his claims he drew an analogy between Agile and his conception of religion:Hitherto Agile and religions exhibit common traits; ill-definition...
Giorgio Sironi11/22/11
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In the last weeks, we saw how VirtualBox can build empty virtual machines, provided at the hardware level. We also configured a Linux virtual server with Vagrant, which is able to quickly build a virtual machine from a template (called box).This time I want...
Mitch Pronschinske11/22/11
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The leaders at Hyves stumbled into DevOps by accident five years ago, when nobody
(including them) was aware that it was actually a cultural movement. They've been practicing with trial and error on how to go about this
DevOps thing ever since...
How...
Mitch Pronschinske11/21/11
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John "Botchagalupe" Willis knows how to give a lively and humorous presentation. He starts this one off saying it's going to be all about PUPPET VS CHEF! And then he says 'oh, wrong slides'. And he continues to give a great talk (video and...
Sean Hull11/21/11
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With traditional managed hosting solutions, we have best practices,
we have business continuity plans, we have disaster recovery, we
document our processes and all the moving parts in our infrastructure.
At least we pay lip service to these goals,...
Mitch Pronschinske11/20/11
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Sure, configuration management systems are a must in large IT environments, but what about small environments? Do we really need them?Yes, according to the SysAdmin blogger cwebber. When you don't have a lot of people in a smaller company, it helps that...
Mitch Pronschinske11/20/11
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A new tutorial for Pennyworth has arrived. For those of you who haven't heard of this obscure tool from the DevOps community, it's a continuous packager that is built around Chef, Jenkins, and the "effing package manger".At Heavy Water operations...
Abhishek Kumar11/18/11
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Another guide from Tech Express below. If you're interested in graph-based monitoring, you should also check out a pretty popular tool among DevOp'ers right now - Graphite
@Slideshare:...
Mitch Pronschinske11/18/11
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No longer can we treat our infrastucture as a mass of isolated systems.
Complex dependencies exist between components and we find node-centric
tools increasingly limited in expressing those dependencies. Noah is
here to help.Noah is an application that...
Mitch Pronschinske11/18/11
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Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI) takes us on a whirlwind tour through the
world of web operations and try to get a handle on both why it is a
challenging occupation and how to be better. Theo Schlossnagle is a Founder and Principal at OmniTI where he
designs...
Martin Fowler11/18/11
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I was attending a workshop at XP/Agile Universe in 2002 when the
phrase 'Specification By Example' struck me as a way to describe one
of roles of testing in XP.
This is a 2011 Retread of post orginally made on 18 Mar 2004 (These days it's terribly...
Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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A bill is currently making its way through the United States Senate that effectively eliminates overtime pay for IT professionals. Matt Simmons, aka. the Standalone SysAdmin, is trying to gather information on this issue and we've republished his article...
Ben Kepes11/17/11
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Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide
the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to
the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there
is a significant amount of activity in...
