
This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...
0 replies - 3415 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Bill Gates AMA
If you haven't already done so, you should check out the comments from Bill Gates' AMA. My favorite part was when someone asked...
0 replies - 4116 views - 02/12/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

One important issue that comes up when undertaking a configuration management effort is how to design “the schema” for configuration management data....
0 replies - 4189 views - 11/28/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

I’ve decided. We need to start doing points poker here at Baseblack if we’re going to carry on this Agile DevOps thing.
I’ve got to admit, the first...
1 replies - 4233 views - 03/24/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles

0 replies - 14193 views - 03/22/12 by James Betteley in Book Reviews

I am and always will be a student of leadership & design. I like
to see things work, but I like it more when things work a little better
or a little...
1 replies - 6516 views - 03/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

There are many advantages Jenkins can offer Apache Subversion
users, one of which is the option of automatically polling Subversion
repositories for...
1 replies - 11661 views - 02/18/12 by Jessica Thornsby in Articles

One of the things that I did, almost by accident, when we started
Hibernating Rhinos was to create a CI server and a public daily build
server. And...
1 replies - 6235 views - 02/13/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

So you have an awesome post-mortem process. You retro every 2 weeks
and you list out all the stuff that isn’t working. You diligently
collect all the...
0 replies - 3207 views - 02/11/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Databases have long been the poor cousin of the application tier when
it comes to many of the processes we take for granted in the .NET
world. Source...
1 replies - 5814 views - 02/08/12 by Troy Hunt in Articles

I’ve been having some discussions about this lately so figured I
would write something about the topic. Being a member of an Ops team can
be pretty...
0 replies - 3062 views - 02/08/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

I recall a few jobs ago I was managing the Systems Engineering team
and trying to grow it into a group that could handle the daily onslaught
of issues that...
4 replies - 5835 views - 02/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

I am @devops_jerk. I’m not a jerk – but I have played one on Twitter.
On the 15th of October I setup the account on Twitter. Today, not quite
2 months...
1 replies - 7239 views - 01/31/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Configuration Management was always my passion.
Somehow, I have always had this thing for builds. I don’t know why,
it just happens to be that way. Over...
1 replies - 5586 views - 01/30/12 by Evgeny Goldin in Articles

There are a number of ways you can monitor the progress of your
Grails build: using the Hudson / Jenkins web app; or leveraging the API:
from your IDE,...
0 replies - 9147 views - 01/30/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles