Devops

Much has been written on how to effect culture change in an organization. It's a large undertaking and difficult to know where to begin-or if, indeed, it's even possible. Anju Jain provides a brief and clear list of actions that you can take to get started.

Job titles are important because they describe what we do, which shapes our identity and guides our activity. It's important that job titles are rational and make sense. If they don't, it causes confusion and stress for individuals, teams and organizations. This is why I have a problem with using the term "DevOps" in job titles. This is becoming more and more prevalent in our industry, mainly for self- promotional and recruiting reasons. DevOps is hot… and therefore marketable.

Arrested DevOps is hosted by Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, and Bridget Kromhout. ADO is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and business for maximum DevOps awesomeness.

A wiki of Guides, Scripts, Tutorials related to devops

What follows is a countdown of the people whom, if you pay attention to today, will supply you with practical knowledge, wisdom even, that you can put to work in the real world of IT as early as tomorrow.

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.

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.

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

"Byobu"

Security + DevOps Automatic Server Hardening

Security + DevOps Automatic Server Hardening