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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

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

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/12/13)

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

Designing Configuration Management Schemas

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

A Manifest for Agile DevOps

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

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef – A Book Review

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

Observations on Dev / Ops Culture

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

Polling Subversion with Jenkins

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

The Economics of Continuous Deployment

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

The Never Shrinking Result of Consistent Review

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

Automate Your DB Releases with TeamCity and Red Gate

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

Who's Responsible for This? Strategies Ops Teams

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

Make your process your Rock Star, not individuals

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

A Twitter Experiment: @devops_jerk

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 can be done by anyone. Or can it?

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

Grails & Hudson / Jenkins: Monitoring Build Status

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