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...
0 replies - 2534 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Not unlike most technology
choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for
managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark...
1 replies - 7023 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Prior to Fiesta my
ops background was pretty minimal. Managing ops for Fiesta quickly
taught me the value of a configuration management system like...
0 replies - 6011 views - 11/16/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles
Constant Contact's use of Puppet has evolved from being an operations
tool for system configuration management to playing a central role in
our software...
0 replies - 5966 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Most of you have probably heard the term "Technical Debt". It's basically those bugs in a code base that add up after messy quickfixes that don't...
8 replies - 5539 views - 11/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
What a difference a month makes with one new tool. For Bryan Berry, the author of DevOpsAnywhere, it fundamentally changed the way he views system...
0 replies - 2936 views - 10/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
When a developer searches for solutions to an issue, they search for people who have dealt with a similar situation. This search usually results in finding...
1 replies - 2772 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
You may have noticed major performance issues with Firefox Sync over the last few days if you use the feature. The Mozilla Service Operations have written up...
3 replies - 3867 views - 10/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Sysadmins commonly ask questions like "will documentation or automation of my tasks put me out of a job?" Tom Limoncelli, better known as the...
0 replies - 2202 views - 10/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
There are a couple of useful nuggets of advice for implementing DevOps philosophies in a new post on HP's blog. While many of the points have been mentioned...
0 replies - 2392 views - 10/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Today Opscode announced new Chef cookbooks for integration with server instances running Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2,...
0 replies - 6320 views - 10/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
A lot of great ideas come out of twitter conversations, and one tweet inspired 'ahiro' to make an evolving article on Esotericsystems Blog that explains what...
0 replies - 2941 views - 10/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Logging useful information from running systems for
monitoring purposes is pretty important if you want to see how your
software is behaving in the real...
0 replies - 3460 views - 10/21/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
As IT continues its tectonic shift from cost center to profit center,
the importance of IT operations is also being redefined. If you are
primarily worried...
0 replies - 2443 views - 10/19/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
At PuppetConf this year, there was a great DevOps roundtable discussion hosted by John Willis and Damon Edwards, the guys who run DevOps Cafe. A must watch...
0 replies - 2467 views - 10/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
