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What Does Today's SysAdmin Actually Do?

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 - 2874 views - 10/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Automation: You're Doing it Wrong

There's a common antipattern in build automation that Eric Minick of UrbanCode described quite well in his blog today:A common pattern I see is deployment (or...

0 replies - 6796 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Advice for Breaking Down Dev and Ops Silos In The Real World

Today Paul Mueller from HP shared some insights from a customer and friend of his who leads the Systems Management at a major health insurance provider.  In...

1 replies - 2504 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Ops Needs their own TDD: Test -Driven Infrastructure

The recently published book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" is not a proscriptive book as far as tooling, despite having "Chef" in...

0 replies - 4722 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Adding Continuous Deployment to Atlassian Bamboo

If you're using Atlassian's Bamboo CI server, you might want to check out the XebiaLabs Deployit plugin.  It can help you achieve this continuous...

1 replies - 6208 views - 10/20/11 by Vincent Partington in News

5 Steps for Continuous Deployment

Peter Blair recently blogged about his thoughts on setting up a CI (he suggests Jenkins) in tandem with a continuous deployment system.  Here was his...

0 replies - 4965 views - 10/19/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Video: Operations is a Strategic Weapon

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 - 2401 views - 10/19/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Video: DevOps Roundtable Hosted By DevOps Cafe

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 - 2419 views - 10/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Video: DevOps & BigData at Massive Scale

The MIT TR35 presentations hosted an awesome session today with Jeff Hammerbacher, a Data specialist who worked at Facebook, and Jesse Robbins, the CEO of...

0 replies - 4742 views - 10/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Harmony is beauty - Developers and Testers

First and foremost, if you read my blog. I have to suggest that you go grab yourself a copy of Beautiful Testing. It's a great read, and has inspired this...

0 replies - 2233 views - 10/18/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

DevOps for Devs in 3 Steps

A presentation entitled "DevOps for Developers" was given at the WebTech 2011 conference and now the slides are up online for all to see.  I'll...

1 replies - 4292 views - 10/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Why You Shouldn't Have to Deploy Overnight

Are you still doing deployments at 3:00am?  If you are, you should have taken a look at Brian Crescimanno's post: "Why are you still deploying...

2 replies - 7615 views - 10/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Devops Twitter Aggregator

I’ve been hacking on appengine again and have thrown up a simple twitter aggregator for devops. It’s again based on TwitterEngine with an increasing number...

2 replies - 3713 views - 10/17/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

You can’t be Agile in Maintenance?

I’ve been going over a couple of posts by Steve Kilner that question whether Agile methods can be used effectively in software maintenance. It’s a...

1 replies - 6836 views - 10/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Devops tools fools and other smart things

In this phrase I try to tackle the phrase "Devops is not about the tools, it's about culture". In this presentation I gave at gotocon I try to...

1 replies - 2585 views - 10/12/11 by Patrick Debois in News