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A discussion of the important difference between automation and devops, in particular with regards hiring for impact. Don't hire an automation specialist as your devops strategy.

Although Puppet Enterprise gives you the wonderful tools to automate your Linux administration, you still cannot deploy a server with a single command. With the following script, you can. Why is this so cool? When, for instance, a new Tomcat server is needed, I create a DNS entry for that server and give a single command and get some coffee. Before it has cooled down enough to drink, the developer has his Tomcat-app deployed and the server is operational. (It takes about 8 minutes to get from scratch to a fully operational server.)

A great starting point for anyone interested in the state of automation on Windows, especially if you're coming from a lInux environment. Lots of snippets to get started with powershell, Chocolatey packages and winrm.

Until recently I was not able to clearly articulate what DevOps is. Then one day, when trying to describe what we are building at Nirmata to an investor, I said something to the effect of, "its all about enabling developers to perform operations, using automation". That made sense to them; and, I've since started using the following definition for DevOps: Developers doing Operations using Automation

Vagrant automates creation and provisioning of virtual machines within VirtualBox via the command line, whilst also allowing for easy distribution and reuse across multiple projects. In this article, I'm going to look at how it can make life considerably easier when dealing with development environments.

... things can be put right with Vagrant, a tool to create and distribute virtualized environments and Puppet, a tool which helps you with your configuration management. This article will illustrate their use with an example of how to construct a simple Java web application stack.

A good set of four values to help drive a devops flavoured transformation. Work lean, embrace failure, automate everything and demand diversity.

Devops is still a new topic for lots of people, and this introduction is a nice place to start. It provides a bit of the history, along with explaining Devops with a focus on culture, automation, measurement and sharing.

Webistrano is a easy-to-use graphical deployment tool. It is based on the deployment tool Capistrano and offers a substantial graphic interface including user-management and logging. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.

This is the official Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in the HP Cloud.

An Opscode Chef knife plugin to manage Chef Servers. Currently only bootstrapping new Chef Servers is supported (on Amazon's EC2) but node data backup and restore is planned.

"Where does Packer, the image creation tool, fit into your workflow?"

... created a tool which will allows their customer-facing engineers to programmatically deploy infrastructure for new customers and to update the infrastructure of existing customers through a single, defined interface. This tool uses Consul as the foundation for continuous deployment to these environments. Consul's DNS, Key-Value store, and GUI have given DeltaForce a simple mechanism for reliably delivering software.