Kris Buytaert01/27/12
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Actually it didn't , but now I got your attention.
We just adopted the use of adding headers to all of our files that are managed by puppet so people will know not to touch it file {
"/etc/xen/scripts/network-custom-vlan-bridges":
...
Mitch Pronschinske01/26/12
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One of the most bewildering things about the DevOps community is all of the small libraries and obscure open source tools that are mentioned by various practitioners. That's why leaders like Patrick Dubois have made entire series of articles explaining...
Chris Smith01/26/12
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Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the
root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as
branches with files as leaves....
Kris Buytaert01/26/12
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Given that @patrickdebois is working on
improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe
the setup I currently have hacked together.
(Something which can be used as a starting point to improve stuff, and I have to write...
Mitch Pronschinske01/25/12
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Since modifying Puppet manifiests, a lot of errors can... manifest :) So Puppet Labs was kind enough to put together a small post on verifying your Puppet manifests for infrastructure automation with a nice list and description of a few syntax checking...
Mark Needham01/25/12
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As I mentioned in a post last week
we’ve been automating the setup of our developer machines with puppet
over the last week and one thing that we’ve learnt is that you need to
be careful about how you define dependencies.
The aim is to get your...
Carlos Sanchez01/24/12
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One of the main ideas behind DevOps adoption is the concept of “infrastructure as code”.
Tools like Puppet or Chef allow you to programmatically define your
infrastructure, the provisioning of your servers: what packages are
installed, what is the...
Eric Genesky01/24/12
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DevOps tweets for your consideration, including a clever reference to a Carrie Underwood song . . .
@cixelsyd
Steve modifying firewall rules w/o console access is the #devops version of unprotected sex
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Chris Smith01/24/12
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The concept of DevOps is on the rise: there's a conference, ThoughtWorks developed a tool and has a well-received book out on the subject and there's a Wikipedia page.
So, what is DevOps, anyway? From my perspective it's the agile idea of a...
Chris Smith01/23/12
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Fujitsu, the word's third-largest IT services provider, recently announced the it will offer Data Utilization Platform Services, using cloud services to leverage big data.Services Offered:Data Management & IntegrationMassive amounts of diverse sensor data...
Chris Smith01/23/12
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Key members of the Etsy engineering team, along with special surprise
guests, offer a series of small rapid talks providing a fast-paced
and intensive overview of tools, processes, and cultural practices that
make moving fast easy. Talks...
Willie Wheeler01/23/12
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Hi all, Willie here.
In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data,
I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and
others have attempted in the past. Most of these approaches were
variants of asking people for...
Tom O'connor01/23/12
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I've been writing Java in one sense or another for a few years now.
I learnt stuff at university, then used it in a few jobs. I've written
Beans and Applets, and various bits of stuff in between.
It's fairly safe to say, that I like Java.
One...
Dave Farley01/22/12
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I recently attended the Devoxx conference.
One of the speakers was talking on a topic close to my heart,
Continuous Delivery. His presentation was essentially a tools
demonstration, but one of the significant themes of his presentation was
the...
James Betteley01/21/12
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I just installed VirtualBox on my laptop, so that I can run one or
two VMs on there, and the installation and setup are really quite
straightforward. The “First Steps” section in the documentation here
is good enough to see you through the, er,...
Patrick Debois01/20/12
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The final installment of Patrick Dubois' Monitoring Wonderland series, which shows you many options for visualizing all the data you've been collecting from his previous tutorials. Here is part 1 if you missed the beginning of the series....
Chris Smith01/19/12
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Scott Ambler, IBM Rational’s chief methodologist for IT, had some predictions regarding what will be the new IT buzzword for 2012. Unfortunately, he doesn't take much of a leap in declaring "DevOps" to be the new hot ticket in the IT...
Eric Genesky01/19/12
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The end of days is nigh for the profession of systems administration according to Julian Dunn, a digital media systems designer and architect. At a recent meeting of the New York City Linux Users' Group, a presentation using the configuration management...
Chris Smith01/18/12
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Rackspace has announced that Dreadnot, a Node.js application aimed at helping software developers better monitor their projects as they are deployed, will be open-source. The goal of Dreadnot is to facilitate a continuous development methodology that allows...
Mark Needham01/18/12
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Oracle Linux builds have a list of public yum repositories on the Oracle website, and they don't come configured with the builds, so if you're trying to install Puppet, you'll want to avoid this pitfall, along with a few others.We’ve been spending some...
Paul Jenson01/17/12
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The problem between dev and ops is primarily a terminology,
communication and respect problem resulting in poor operational support.
The two organizations say common things backed by different
definitions that are not in agreement. For example,...
Chris Smith01/17/12
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The web has made things simpler, and as our lives revolve more and more around it, the way we interact with it has become simpler, too. As James Governor puts it:The most obvious strategic imperative we can learn from the web is
simplification. Web...
Chris Smith01/16/12
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Project took time out after his busy CES schedule to do a quick interview about Ubuntu with regards to Developers, DevOps and the Cloud.In response to a question about Ubuntu's use of OpenStack and the Cloud ,...
Patrick Debois01/16/12
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Controlling the tool everybody hates, but still uses
This blog post mainly contains my findings on getting data in and out
of Nagios. That data can be status information, performance information
and notifications.
At the end there are...
Cody Powell01/16/12
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I have said this before but it bears repeating. If you are making a
change and you want people to know you have made a change, add a note
where someone is most likely to come in contact with your note.
If you are editing a file, add a comment to the...
