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.

Community Interactions in DevOps

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

DevOps Days has celebrated 5 years since the initial conference in Ghent in 2009. With events in Helsinki, Vancouver and Tel Aviv just in the month of November, the DevOps Days series has taken place across multiple cities all over the world in these 5 years. InfoQ talked to Patrick Debois and Kris Buytaert, part of the team that organized the first event 5 years ago.

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.

Discover tools and frameworks in the DevOps landscape. There are new awesome tools and frameworks being released everyday. This is an open and transparent attempt at aggregating all those. The entire source code and list of tools can be found at github.com/devopsbookmarks, and you are encouraged to contribute anything you come across. Pick tags to start exploring!

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 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.

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.

RSpec tests for your servers configured by Puppet, Chef or anything else.

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.

We wrote back in August about 3 "litmus test" questions about #DevOps in your organisation. We'd like to add 3 more questions that focus on the more operational aspects of DevOps.

In a fit of rage caused by reading yet another email in which one of our customers proposed creating a "devops team" so as to "implement" devops, I tweeted that "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEVOPS TEAM." Like all slogans, there's plenty of heat to go with the light, so here's the scoop [...]

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

Hosted continuous integration and deployment service built on docker.

Hosted continuous integration and deployment service built on docker.

"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."