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High Velocity Release Management with Alex Honor and Betsy Hearnsberger

Damon Edwards / May 9th, 2012

This one is for the managers out there who straddle the Dev and Ops divide.

Alex Honor and Betsy Hearnsberger have seen the importance of release management dramatically change over the past decade. Through their collective experiences working inside organizations like E*TRADE, Ask.com, NASA Ames, and Zynga (as well as Alex’s subsequent consulting work at DTO Solutions) they’ve each amassed a wealth of experience and insight into dealing with high velocity release engineering in large scale and complex organizations.

Crowbar is quietly getting more interesting

Damon Edwards / January 25th, 2012

Crowbar is an interesting project that I’ve covered before. Born out of Dell’s cloud group, much of the initial buzz described it as an installer for the cloud era… “kickstart on steroids”, if you will.

Crowbar’s close association with the OpenStack project has further cemented its reputation as an installer to watch. But’s it’s Crowbar’s quiet potential as a stack management tool that is the most interesting. Through the use of barclamps (Crowbar’s modules) you can tell Crowbar to build a full stack from the BIOS config all the way up to your middleware and applications. John Willis on an episode of DevOps Cafe called it “Data Center as Code”.

Video: Marten Mickos and Rich Wolski talk DevOps and Private Clouds

Damon Edwards / September 28th, 2011

I ran into Marten Mickos and Rich Wolski from Eucalyptus Systems at PuppetConf and got them to sit down for a quick video alongside my fellow dev2ops.org and DevOps Cafe contributor, John Willis.

I had just come out of Marten’s keynote where he spoke about DevOps far more than I would have expected. In this video we explore the deep connection between DevOps and Private Clouds as well as other industry changes for which they are planning.

Eucalyptus was one of the first private cloud technologies on the scene, and consequently got the benefit and burden of being the early mover. The community had some ups and downs along the way, but their product and industry vision seems encouraging and warrants a closer look (and never count out Marten Mickos in an open source software battle).

Matt Ray talks Crowbar, Chef, and OpenStack integration for building private clouds (VIDEO)

Damon Edwards / July 19th, 2011

Also while in Austin, I stopped by Opscode‘s satellite offices to talk to Matt Ray about the integration work he is doing with Crowbar (a soon to be open source bare-metal provisioning tool from Dell), Chef, and OpenStack. This toolchain stretches the concept of infrastructure as code all the way from the bios to the provisioning of a private cloud… it’s a “datacenter as code”.

See the short (06:39) video below:

DevOps in the Enterprise: Whiteboard Session at National Instruments (Video)

Damon Edwards / July 12th, 2011

I was recently in Austin, Texas and had a chance to visit National Instruments and talk DevOps.

National Instruments is a rare case study. While it’s common to hear DevOps stories coming from web startups, National Instruments definitely falls into the category of a traditional legacy enterprise.

After meeting the larger team, I settled into a conference room with Ernest Mueller and Peco Karayanev to get a deeper dive into both their DevOps and multi-vendor Cloud initiatives. Below is the video from that session.

0:00 – Intro
Topics include:

How Ernest, Peco, and National Instruments got from traditional legacy IT operations thinking to DevOps thinking
Scaling a single web app in a startup vs. managing the “long tail of long tails” in a heterogeneous enterprise environment
Challenge of moving developers from a desktop software mindset to developing for the cloud

10:37 – Whiteboard
Topics include:

“Sharing is the Devil”… Managing complexity through isolation by design
Overview of NI cloud architecture
“Operations as a Service”
Model-driven provisioning
Building cloud apps that span multiple clouds (Azure and AWS)
Working with deployment tools (and enabling developer self-service/maintenance)
Tools the team is publishing as open source projects (Only the second time that National Instruments has released something under an open source license)

DevOps Panel at Interop 2011 Las Vegas (Video)

Damon Edwards / May 18th, 2011

Interop is often thought of the land of big hardware and big networking. Take a tour around the massive exhibit hall and you’ll witness a sea of marketing dollars from hardware, networking, data center design, and storage vendors.

But as I walked around in on of my DevOps t-shirts (DevOps Days Boston to be precise) I was surprised by the number of conference attendees who made a comment or struck up a conversation with me about DevOps.

DevOps was definitely on a significant number of people’s minds. Further evidence? The DevOps panel was one of the last sessions of the 5 day conference yet a sizable crowd stuck around and peppered the panelists with engaging questions.

Below you’ll find the video from that lively “DevOps and You” panel at Interop Las Vegas on May 12, 2011

Panelists:
John Willis (DTO Solutions)
Shlomo Swidler (Orchestratus)
George Reese (enStratus)

Moderator:
Mike Fratto (Network Computing Magazine)

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Archive for the ‘Cloud’ Category

High Velocity Release Management with Alex Honor and Betsy Hearnsberger

Crowbar is quietly getting more interesting

Video: Marten Mickos and Rich Wolski talk DevOps and Private Clouds

Matt Ray talks Crowbar, Chef, and OpenStack integration for building private clouds (VIDEO)

DevOps in the Enterprise: Whiteboard Session at National Instruments (Video)

DevOps Panel at Interop 2011 Las Vegas (Video)

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