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The DevOps team is "a growing group of people practicing a new way of combining development and system administration for more speed, quality, revenues and fun."

Whether devops consulting is a valid thing. Here's my take

A recent study of Dev and Ops professionals in large enterprises found that those with the least mature DevOps implementations were seeing the most success. While that sounds like a paradox, it's the approach the teams took that matters.

DevOps: A culture where people, regardless of title or background, work together to imagine, develop, deploy and operate a system.

One of the tenets of devops is sharing. But how do you best facilitate sharing in your own organisation? This essay and talk go into detail about the importance of communication, tips for asking questions and other good advice.

Juju is DevOps DistilledTM. Through the use of charms, juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it's there, remove it and it's completely gone.

Nice writeup of one organisations adoption of devops ideas, in particular to help improve the quality and maintainability of deployed software.

"Here are some of the DevOps tools that we use at New Relic and a few more worth mentioning."

An excellent piece on leadership, mentoring and the soft skills required to help build a high functioning devops team.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there, writes Michael Coté as he looks at management's strategic use of DevOps, or lack thereof.

Devops isn't just about tools, or only about large organisations and complex software. This post introduces some of the practices from the point of view of the Wordpress administrator.

"Sinds de dagen van de zogeheten watervalsoftwareontwikkeling hebben IT-organisaties met Agile-methoden zoals Scrum al veel gewonnen aan snelheid en flexibiliteit. Gebruikers sturen voortdurend op de door henzelf gewenste functionaliteit en zien die snel terug in productierijpe projectresultaten. Hoe zorgt u er echter vervolgens voor dat die gebruikers ook snel kunnen beschikken over die in productie genomen functionaliteit? DevOps is het antwoord om projectresultaten snel in productie te nemen en tegelijkertijd de impact en frequentie van incidenten te beperken."

DevOps is a very successful meme in our industry. Most organizations these days seem to be saying that they aspire to it, though they don't necessarily know what it is.

DevOps isn't just about Dev and Ops. It's about corporate management as a whole.

Community Interactions in DevOps

A path to DevOps When Lara Hogan asked Bridget Kroumhout (on stage, at Velocity), "So, how did you get tricked into operations?" it was funny, but it got Kroumhout thinking. It's a question she's been asked before, and has sometimes been at a loss for an answer since she didn't follow a plan originally. Kroumhout now offers a plan-a wonderfully thoughtful and pragmatic set of resources beginning with culture (e.g., if you work in tech for even a little while, you'll notice that you have a lot of social and economic privilege, no matter your demographic identity, because you have more choices in your work and life than do many of your fellow humans), tools, education, community, and how to launch your career. Even if you're already well established, this is worth a read if only to rekindle your fire.

This months talk from DevOps.Net's James Betteley, gives us an experience report on how easy it is to get it wrong when key individuals don't get "on message". What's interesting is the differences in the behaviour and the language used by the teams who don't get it compared to the teams that do.

A good write-up of an open spaces session at Devopsdays Berlin about the simplest ways of getting started with devops practices. Some good tips for anyone thinking about starting something.