Mitch Pronschinske12/05/11
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After the quiet Thanksgiving holiday week here in the States, the the DevOps community on twitter is buzzing again. More fun and interesting tweets have been compiled once again. Here are some of the best tweets I found from
last week.
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Mitch Pronschinske12/04/11
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Sharif Nassar: In this talk I will cover the design and setup of a high availability puppetmaster setup both for redundancy and scaling.See our HA puppetmaster configuration that automagically configures:ApachePassengerPuppetLVSGlusterfs
Gareth Rushgrove12/03/11
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I had the pleasure of speaking at Cambridge Geek Night in April, the topic of conversation being using Ganglia to collect more than just base systems metrics.The audience of web developers, the odd sysadmin and business folk
seemed to enjoy it and we had...
Mitch Pronschinske12/03/11
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The practices and technologies of DevOps have begun to spread into what
I'd call "the mainstream," which is fantastic: DevOps has a lot to offer
to all IT organizations. IBM has taken notice and started getting
involved. Here, while at the IBM...
Simon Brown12/02/11
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Or everything you should know about building software!
While in London last year I met up with Dave Ingram, author of Design-Build-Run.
It's subtitled "Applied Practices and Principles for Production-Ready...
Daniel Doubrovkine12/02/11
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You can use Jenkins Batch Task Plugin
if you want to deploy the latest revision to Heroku. Our deployment has
two steps: a rake task that pushes assets to S3/Cloudfront and a git
push. So the batch task attached to our repo looks like this. git...
Mitch Pronschinske12/01/11
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I felt compelled to respond to a well-reasoned article written today by Infoworld veteran Neil McAllister. The article does a nice job of pointing out a lot of the confusion and dissonance in the DevOps movment—for example, is DevOps occuring because of...
Matthias Marschall12/01/11
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Instead of escalating wars between departments by driving them to ever
more ambitious, local goals, we need to break down the wall between
development and operations. Defining overarching goals which resonate
for both departments creates an environment...
Dawn Cannan12/01/11
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So, this next one, for me, points out something that I felt was a difficulty in being a tester with development experience. See part one here.I
don't believe I handled it the best way, but hope that I can use it as
an example and teach, perhaps, better...
Andrew Phillips12/01/11
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Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a “plain
old” efficiency drive or process improvement initiative,
forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve
their application release processes through automation. In...
Kris Buytaert11/30/11
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I have had most of my test environment, aka
puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple
of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production
environments, but we've also been using KVM for a while already .. it's a
...
Sean Hull11/30/11
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First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against
developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is
the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse
operations team.It is almost by default that developers...
Jim Bird11/30/11
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Thanks to the Lean Startup movement, Iterationless Development and Continuous Deployment
have become the New New Thing in software development methods.
Apparently this has gone so far that “there are venture firms in Silicon
Valley that won’t even...
Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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I promised an update with the information that I received from my survey of pay types, and here it is.This post was originally authored by Matt Simmons, the Standalone Sysadmin
Over the past several days, I received 567 responses from people,
both in the...
Gareth Rushgrove11/29/11
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I’m a huge Jenkins fan now, but that wasn’t always the
case. I started (and still have a soft spot for) Cruise Control, mainly
building .NET and PHP applications. I then jumped to much simpler projects like Integrity
mainly for Python...
Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Today Puppet Labs revealed that it has received $8.5 million from Google Ventures, VMware, and Cisco—three companies that are dominating various facets of the tech industry. With the unprecedented injection of $8.5M in Series C funding, Puppet Labs now...
Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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There are two very nice and reflective posts on DevOps this month by Lori MacVittie over at the f5 blog. The first one was an interesting take on risk and opportunity costs for operations called "The Pythagorean Theorem of Operational Risk":[about...
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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User experience in Puppet is more than just
the GUI; it includes the command line, the Puppet language, and our
APIs. It's easy to think of these as disparate systems, but it's
important to us that they all act like parts of a whole.
Puppet must...
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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Not unlike most technology
choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for
managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark debate among
opinionated technologists. There are certainly a number of choices
available all of...
Patrick Debois11/28/11
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Over the years I've moved from Production to Test to Development and back to Production.
This presentation is a summary of my learnings along the way:
After running larger production environments I wondered how it would be...
Mitch Pronschinske11/27/11
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DevOps: Design to Implementation in Big EnterpriseWe Can’t Hug Out Way to Success: The Need for a DevOps Definition of People, Process, and Tools Talking ITIL for Agile Folks (Learning Standard Change) The Good, the Bad & the Embarrassing: How Ops...
Mitch Pronschinske11/26/11
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Abstract John Clapham and Paul Swartout: The presentation will give an insight into how the whole of Nokia Entertainment has embraced DevOps:
The Journey: Start-up mentality to Corporate and back again
A short history on how Nokia Entertainment came to...
David Pell11/26/11
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It seems that concepts related to DevOps are starting to become more mainstream. This interview, featuring IBM's Pete Marshall and Peter Spung at Innovate 2011, reflects on DevOps, where it's headed, and how large companies like IBM can contribute.
Mitch Pronschinske11/25/11
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Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a
average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing with
log analysis and too little doing storage, but them's the breaks).
After discovering the...
David Pell11/25/11
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Sometimes you don't need all of the features that a powerful tool has to offer, and you'd be better off finding something lighter that only does what you need it to do. That's the situation developer Dennis Reimann was facing when he wanted to setup an...
