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Videos from DevOps Day 2010 panels!

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InfoQ.com has posted the videos they recorded at DevOps Day USA 2010. You can watch six of the seven panels now on the InfoQ.com site. There was a production problem with the seventh panel (“DevOps outside of WebOps”) that, if it can be fixed, will be posted as well. InfoQ decided that the lightening talks didn’t fit into their format so they have sent my co-organizer, Andrew Shafer the raw video and he’s going to look into posting them himself.

You can also download audio only versions (.mp3)

Here are the links to the 6 panels…

Your mileage may vary: Experiences and lessons learned facing DevOps problems in the IT trenches (even if they weren’t calling it DevOps!). The good, the bad, the surprises, and ideas for the future.
Stefan Apitz – LinkedIn
Ernest Muller – National Instruments
Dan Nemec – SilverPop
Burzin Engineer – Shopzilla
Kevin Rae – PowerReviews
moderator: Andrew Shafer
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/your-mileage-may-vary
 
 
 
Infrastructure as code: Automation is essential to DevOps. The infrastructure as code concept drives many of today’s cutting edge automaton techniques. What is it all about? Where are its limitations?
Theo Schlossnagle – OmniTI
Luke Kanies – Puppet Labs
Adam Jacob – Opscode
Erik Troan – rPath
moderator: Patrick Debois
 
 
 
Changing culture to enable DevOps: Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and processes. How can we cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems?
John Allspaw – Etsy
Lee Thompson – DTO Solutions
Israel Gat – The Agile Executive
Lloyd Taylor – Netelder Associates
moderator: Andrew Shafer
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/changing-culture-to-enable-DevOps
 
 
Does the Cloud needs DevOps? Does DevOps need the Cloud?: Examining the role that cloud technologies can play in solving DevOps problems and the role that DevOps solutions can play in getting the most out of cloud technologies.
James Urquhart – Cisco
Adrian Cole – Jclouds
Justin Dean – Shopzilla
Joe Arnold – Cloudscaling
moderator: John Willis
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/does-Cloud-need-DevOps
 
 
 
DevOps requires visibility: monitoring, testing, and performance: Examining the (often overlooked) role of monitoring and testing techniques in solving DevOps problems.
Jyoti Bansal – AppDynamics
Gareth Bowles – Appscio
Matt Ray – Zenoss
Eishay Smith – kaChing
Javier Soltero – SpringSource
moderator: Damon Edwards
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/DevOps-requires-visibility
 
 
Making the business case: We know that solving DevOps problems improves your business operations and improves the bottom line, but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?
Kurt Milne – IT Process Institute
Jay Lyman – The 451 Group
Rolf Andrew Russell – ThoughtWorks
Jody Mulkey – Shopzilla
moderator: Damon Edwards
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Making-the-business-case

 

EDIT: The recording for seventh panel was rescued from technical oblivion and is now live!…

DevOps outside of Web Operations: Much of the public discussion about DevOps focuses on Web Operations. This panel is about taking the lessons of DevOps to other types of IT.
Adam Fletcher – ITA Software
Gene Kim – Tripwire
Michael Stahnke –
James Turnbull – Puppet Labs
John Willis – Opscode
moderator: Patrick Debois
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/DevOps-outside-Web-Operations

OpenStack leaves out the “extra” you’ll only find in Amazon AWS

OpenStack leaves out the “extra” you’ll only find in Amazon AWS

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Often I’ve heard the off hand comment that it is just a matter of time before there is another rival to Amazon’s EC2. The private cloud has always been looming around the corner for those with large pocket books, and yet one rarely hears about a cloud offering the beats AWS’s EC2. Even Rich Wolski, CTO of Eucalypus, has no delusions as to the scale pre-package software can tackle out of the box.

“One of the misconceptions about Eucalyptus is that it is able to allow an org to compete with Amazon,” Wolski told us. “The Amazon AWS [Amazon Web Services] cloud is far more than a collection of software components. It operates on a gigantic scale, multiple time zones, multiple data centers, human resources that must be committed to maintain it so it can operate at that scale. It’s not likely — maybe even impossible — that you’re going to download something from the internet that is going to be able to operate at that scale. Eucalyptus can’t really be used for that purpose.” [1]

So what gives EC2 the “extra” everyone wants to replicate?

First and foremost, AWS’s EC2 is not a product of technology, but instead a product of operational excellence. It is in their culture, all the way down to their infamous door desks [2] and Jeff Bezos mediations on waste to shareholders in 2008 [3]. They took existing open source software and wrapped a service interface around it, while quietly offering some pretty amazing feats (vm startups measured in minutes from some mysterious cloud storage). Don’t let their technology stack fool you, their value is in their operational discipline. AWS keeps their operational practices under wraps because they believe it gives them an advantage, and even if they did divulge them, they’re likely nontransferable to your organization.

With the recent announcement of OpenStack, folks can consider another set of software components to implement their cloud and try to replicate the “extra” they get from AWS. However, without a solid focus on operations, they’re not going to get much further than they would have gotten with Eucalyptus.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/20/whynasaisdroppingeucalyptusfromitsnebulacloud/
[2] http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desks.html
[3] http://gigaom.com/2009/05/09/why-jeff-bezos-is-obsessed-with-waste/

This post is by the newest dev2ops.org blogger, Noah Campbell. Noah is a consultant specializing in automated infrastructure and DevOps process improvement.

 

 

DevOps (live) at OSCON

DevOps (live) at OSCON

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Early reports from OSCON are that DevOps is a topic of much discussion. My fellow dev2ops.org contributor Alex Honor and I are headed to Portland this morning to give DevOps related talks at OSCON. If you are there Wednesday or Thursday, please come by and say hello!

 

Wednesday (7/21) 1:40pm in room Portland 251 is Alex’s presentation…
Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing 

Thursday (7/22) 10:40am in room D135 is Damon’s presentation… 
The IT Philharmonic: How Out of Tune Are Your Operations? 

 

Both talks feature lots of new content (even though the titles and outdated descriptions on the OSCON site are similar to our Velocity talks) 

 

 

Velocity and DevOps Day US was a success, now what?

Velocity and DevOps Day US was a success, now what?

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Now that DevOps Day US and Velocity are in the past, where can you go for in person DevOps discussions?

Below are the DevOps Meetups that I know about:

In the San Francisco Bay area…
Tonight (!) Tuesday July 6 is the Silicon Valley DevOps Meetup

In the Los Angeles area…
Wednesday July 14 is the SoCal DevOps Meetup

In the Boston area…
Tonight (!) Tuesday July 6 is the Boston DevOps Meetup 

Across the pond in the London area…
The London DevOps Group meets regularly and has a great site.

And of course don’t forget about the second installment of DevOps Days 2010 Europe October 15 – 16 in Hamburg Germany.

If you are looking for some online discussion, you can check out the following lists/groups:
DevOps Toolchain Google Group
Agile Systems Administration Google Group
DevOps LinkedIn Group
DevOps Google Group

Don’t forget #devops on Twitter.

 

and don’t forget to subscribe to the DevOps Cafe podcast!

 

Bonus: Here’s an interesting video interview with Patrick Debois (instigator of the DevOps Days conferences) by Daniel Cukier at the DevOps Day 2010 after-party.

The (Comedic) Truth about DevOps

The (Comedic) Truth about DevOps

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Many serious words have been written about DevOps, including my own “What is DevOps?” post. But sometimes a bit of comedy helps drive home some fundamental truth.

Behold Adam Jacob (CTO of Opscode): 

Note: this was part of Adam’s “Choose Your Own Adventure” talk at Velocity. Be sure to check out the other videos from his show talk. 2 drink minimum not required.

Should you attend Velocity and DevOps Day? Yes.

Should you attend Velocity and DevOps Day? Yes.

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 Quick questions…

  • Is IT Operations important to you?
  • Do you build and/or operate a revenue producing online service?
  • Do you want to meet and learn from the best in the business?
  • Are you looking for a job? or looking to hire IT rock stars? 

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”… then you need to be in Silicon Valley the week of June 22 – 25, 2010.

First up, we’ve got O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference from June 22 – 24 in Santa Clara, CA.

Velocity is the premier Web Operations and Performance conference (and from what I understand is O’Reilly’s fastest growing conference). If you want to hear from the people who are pushing IT Operations to new heights and powering the biggest successes on the Web, Velocity is the place to be.

This isn’t hyperbole. I’ve been to all of the Velocity Conferences and the hallway conversation alone is worth the price of admission. And that’s before you add in value of the the excellent presentations. It’s one of those conferences that always seems to manage to produce a handful of presentations that are talked about and referenced for the rest of the year (if not longer). 

This year, three of the the dev2ops.org contributors (Alex Honor, Lee Thompson, and myself) are speakers. Hopefully we’ll live up to the high standards that those who have come before us have set.

Click on the banner below for more information and use the code vel10fsp for a 20% discount.

 

The day after Velocity, Friday June 25, is the DevOps Day Conference in Mountain View, CA (about 10 minutes from Santa Clara). DevOps Day is a one day free conference dedicated to discussing all topics around improving the interaction between what is traditionally considered development activity and that which is traditionally considered operations activity. As the name suggests… it’s a day dedicated to an open discussion about all things related to DevOps! 

The event is following a unique single-track all panel format (with a few sets of “ignite style” lightening talks sprinkled in for good measure). The panels are designed to be highly interactive with the full audience. As you can see from the panelist list and the registered attendee list, the panels and the audience will be full of rock stars in our field.

Perhaps I’m biased since I’m one of the organizers, but this is shaping up to be a truly great event.

The conference is free, lunch will be provided, and there’s going to be free beer afterwards! 

Click on the graphic below for more information and to secure your spot.

 

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