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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.

Hosted continuous integration and deployment service built on docker.

Hosted continuous integration and deployment service built on docker.

... 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.

Elegant deployment with Fabric and Puppet. Loom does the stuff Puppet doesn't do well or at all: bootstrapping machines, giving them roles, deploying Puppet code and installing reusable Puppet modules. It's useful for both serverless and master/agent Puppet installations.

As a developer and sometimes system administrator, one of the scariest things I ever encounter is a server that's been running for ages which has seen multiple upgrades of system and application software. Why? Because an old system inevitably grows warts. They start as one-time hacks during outages. A quick edit to a config file saves the day. "We'll put it back into Chef later," we say, as we finally head off to sleep after a marathon fire fighting session.

Vagabond is an alternative take on the Vagrant tool, but one based on LXC rather than virtual machines after the realisation that VMs can be quite slow. Maybe worth a look if you run Linux and find lots of performance or stability issues with virtual machines.

Orchestrate From Above. Most software does not run on a single machine. Ansible parallelizes complex multi-tier rollouts across app servers, databases, monitoring servers, and load balancers.

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.

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.

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

There is lots of talk about what DevOps is and means, even a Wikipedia page, to which I may soon give some much needed love. However, a friend recently asked if I knew anyone worth hiring for a "devops" role, and I found myself asking clarifying questions about the sort of person he had in mind. Seemed worth writing down. The friend was looking for engineers. So what does it mean for an engineer to be devops-y?

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.