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Setting up a LAMP box with Puppet

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...

0 replies - 7617 views - 11/22/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Hiring and embedding new team members at Hyves

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....

1 replies - 3947 views - 11/22/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps State of the Union

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...

0 replies - 4097 views - 11/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Being Agile in Release Management

2 great things happened in 2005: Wales won the Grand Slam, and I had my first taste of “agile”. And after having worked on a 3-year-long waterfall...

0 replies - 6764 views - 11/17/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Should DevOps be Renamed "AllOps"?

AllOps certainly an idea that converges with a lot of the general opinions that we're hearing out of the major DevOps conferences.  Community leaders such as...

0 replies - 1933 views - 11/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Using Puppet to Deploy with a Push

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 - 5810 views - 11/16/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

The Misuse of End To End Tests - Testing Techniques 2

My last blog was the first in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code, outlining a simple scenario of retrieving an address from a database using...

0 replies - 4888 views - 11/16/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 11/14

Always entertaining are the insightful or agitated comments from developers and sysadmins on twitter.  The DevOps community has quite a strong twitter...

0 replies - 5338 views - 11/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The 5 whys: Another attempt

Towards the end of the week before last and the beginning of last week we’d been having quite a few problems with our QA environment to the point where...

2 replies - 2599 views - 11/14/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Sometimes it *IS* about the Tools—Solving Cultural Issues with Software

While it is generally true that you can't solve a soft skill issue with technology, there are cases where tooling can help promote greater cultural harmony...

0 replies - 3879 views - 11/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the Key to Success?

“Until your pretty code is in production, making money, or doing whatever it does, you've just wasted your time” - Chris Read whilst at London CI.In my...

1 replies - 4510 views - 11/14/11 by Paul Stack in Articles

7 Reasons why Continuous Delivery needs to be a BUSINESS initiative

One of the key practices of agile and lean teams is the idea of Continuous Delivery.  If not continuous, then at least very frequent! ThoughtWorks has an...

2 replies - 5560 views - 11/14/11 by Kelly Waters in Articles

Case Study Video: Puppet at Constant Contact

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 - 5896 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

DevOps Adoption and Case Studies - Free PDF

A new issue of Cutter IT's Journal just arrived, and this one's on DevOps… and it's free.  To get "Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?,"...

0 replies - 6060 views - 11/10/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Exporting MAVEN_OPTS not working for Freestyle Jenkins Projects

I’m running Jenkins version 1.428 and I have a “Freestyle” project. The aim of this project is to upload a large tar.gz file to an artifactory...

1 replies - 4024 views - 11/10/11 by James Betteley in Articles