Anthony Shortland /
I presented at #ChefConf 2012 in Burlingame last Thursday on using Rundeck and Chef to Build DevOps toolchains.
The heart of the presentation was a demonstration of continuous build and deployment showing Adam Jacob’s chef-rundeck plugin working as a Rundeck resource model source (node provider) and jobs using knife and the Chef server API to manage databag-based application configuration.
Damon Edwards /
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.
Damon Edwards /
Ok so it’s more of a semi-circle than a roundtable… I was at the first ever Kanban for DevOps class this past week in Sunnyvale, CA and after looking around the room I couldn’t let these folks go without getting them on video:
Damon Edwards /
Update: This and other related topics will be in the upcoming DevOps Cookbook.
DevOps problems are fundamentally flow problems. Work doesn’t flow properly from one end of the lifecycle (Dev) to the other end of the lifecycle (Ops).
Damon Edwards /
I normally don’t announce commercial classes… but this is a special case. On Thursday (3/22) and Friday (3/23) there is going to be a Kanban for DevOps class here in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale, CA to be precise).
Damon Edwards /
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”.
It’s the 5th Anniversary… October 21, 2014
Rundeck and Automating Operations… June 26, 2014
Common Objections to DevOps… June 25, 2014
How to initiate a… December 8, 2013
How Adobe turned operations… October 2, 2013