Kris Buytaert01/03/12
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I`m parsing the responses of the Deploying Drupal survey I started a couple of months ago (more on that later)
One of the questions in the survey is "What is devops" , apparently
when you ask a zillion people (ok ok, just a large bunch of...
Tom O'connor01/02/12
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Personally, I hate the idea of using a desktop as a server in a
production environment. I'm going to define the term "production
environment" first. If you've got an environment, any environment where
the service provided is relied on by...
Nikhil Mungel01/02/12
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While working on deploying a web-application
recently, I needed to transfer a 'build artifact' (fancy name for a
.tgz) from a Continuous Integration server to an RPM repository server.
We already have an existing...
Ben Kepes01/02/12
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In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and
which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating.
In the report we advised organizations to look at applications...
Kris Buytaert01/01/12
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(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose
apt-get install rubygems
gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop.
Well it's not. after that I was greeted...
Mitch Pronschinske12/31/11
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Mark
Burgess, a provocative thinker about system administration since the
1990s, recently wrote a controversial blog about three ideas that he
believes are holding the field of system administration in the past. In
this talk he outlines those and...
Aaron Nichols12/31/11
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I’m doing some work in EC2 and wanted to get a sense for what other
folks were doing and what issues they’ve run into. I know that
personally, I don’t really research the state of anything until I’m
dealing with it day to day. I also know that...
Mitch Pronschinske12/30/11
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During a hiring search, I talked to far too many sysadmins who wanted to
use best practices at their workplace (configuration management, DevOps
techniques, etc.) but felt personally disempowered to do anything but
fight fires or perpetuate the current...
Mitch Pronschinske12/29/11
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Apache Whirr version 0.7.0 has just been released with some nice new support features for DevOps folks and Machine Learning buffs. The release also fixed 50 issues (4 of them were blockers). Whirr was recently promoted to a Top Level Project at Apache and...
Aaron Nichols12/29/11
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The decision of whether or not to ask permission comes up a lot in
Ops. I’m sure you’ve heard that sometimes it’s better to ask for
forgiveness than to ask for permission. As with most things in life, try
to put yourself in the other folk’s...
Mitch Pronschinske12/28/11
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Gameday is an exercise designed to increase resilience through large-scale fault injection across critical systems where resilience is seen as the ability of a system to adapt to changes, failures, & disturbances. By “system”, he means: people,...
Nikhil Mungel12/28/11
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Presented earlier this year, we put forth a few practices that we followwhen working with a variety of large enterprise clients on software delivery and enablement.
We start right from the basics of what lifecycle does a line of code typically follow to...
Daniel Doubrovkine12/26/11
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We’ve switched from CIJoe to Jenkins.
I guess we’ve “graduated” to Jenkins, but in retrospect we should have
just used that in the first place. I think CIJoe is fine, we did
thousands of builds with it, thank you CIJoe. But it’s actually...
Mitch Pronschinske12/26/11
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Merry DevOps holidays to you all! DZone brought you some funny and interesting tweets as a present!@jpoesen: Joery PoesenEvery time you postpone automating dev environment creation, it bites you in the ass. Every. Single. Time. #devops
@anderiasch...
Mitch Pronschinske12/25/11
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Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management
of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra.
Using Whirr, you can in a single line startup a cluster from scratch in
the cloud provider of choice, or even...
Mitch Pronschinske12/24/11
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Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management
of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra.
Using Whirr, you can (in a single line) startup a cluster from scratch
in your cloud provider of choice, or even...
Johanna Rothman12/23/11
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I like continuous integration. A lot. I started being an aficionado
of continuous integration back in my senior year of university . It was
my very first (and last) team project in my college career. There were
three of us. The project manager waited...
Mitch Pronschinske12/22/11
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Learn about how you can harness monitoring, escalation, and capacity planning to implement continuous deployment in your organization.Continuous deployment has significant advantages for getting code
changes into production with short turnaround times. We...
Tom O'connor12/21/11
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So you wanna be a good sysadmin? I don't blame you. It's fun, and it's lucrative. Especially if you do it right.
The difference between a good admin and a bad one are many and varied.
Most importantly, it boils down to a level of devotion to the company....
Mitch Pronschinske12/21/11
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There are as many ways of managing the configuration of heterogeneous
systems as there are engineers trying to solve this problem. This talk
explores one way of converting an ad-hoc configuration management system
into one codified in Chef. We will...
Jez Humble12/21/11
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When implementing continuous
delivery, it’s easy to focus on automation and tooling because these are
usually the easiest things to start with. However continuous delivery
also relies for its success on optimizing your organizational structure
for...
Nikhil Mungel12/21/11
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@AjeyGore and I present deployment patterns and paradigms that we've
observed and influenced while consulting and enabling numerous clients.
The ones at the beginning are ideal for smaller scale applications that do not typically need to scale fast.We
...
Kris Buytaert12/20/11
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This is a repost of my article earlier posted at Jordan Sissel's awesome SysAdvent
Be sure to tell us how you like your Java in our latest Ask DZ postAfter years of working in Java-based environments, there are a number
of things that I like to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/20/11
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Config management is a big deal for any IT organization that intends to scale up its operations, and it's certainly getting more attention and broader application with the DevOps movement. I found an interesting CM crossroads blog by Joe Farah that tries to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/19/11
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At Scholastic, Inc., the Web Hosting Department practices DevOps in
action, leveraging both their development abilities and their sysadmin
skills to improve and modify the behavior of software using ops and
infrastructure tweaks. A diverse but very...
