Devops

By John Willis

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.

HOW DEV VS. OPS BECAME DEVOPS The founder of DevOps explains how the movement started and where it's headed.

DevOps is een reactie op de onderlinge afhankelijkheid van software development (Dev) en operations (Ops). De spreekwoordelijke muurtjes tussen de Dev en Ops afdeling bestaan niet meer binnen DevOps. De implementatie van DevOps resulteert in een versnelling van de ' time to market' en een verhoging van de kwaliteit van delivery. DevOps gaat een stap verder in de richting die met Agile werken al is ingezet. Waar bij Agile werken frequent werkende software met de meeste toegevoegde waarde wordt opgeleverd, gaat DevOps nog een stap verder door de applicatie delivery te versnellen.

The Top 5 DevOps Dashboards Every Engineer Should Consider

With CloudSlang you can orchestrate popular DevOps technologies, such as Docker and CoreOS in an agentless manner. You can also define custom workflows that are reusable, shareable and easy to understand.

Discover what top companies are using Learn about the tech stack behind some of the world's best software companies. See which tools and services they use, and how they're using them.

Why tools like Docker, Vagrant, and Ansible are hotter than ever

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

... 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.

Security + DevOps Automatic Server Hardening

System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess. I'm not complaining about old-school sysadmins. They know how to keep systems running, manage update and upgrade paths. This rant is about containers, prebuilt VMs, and the incredible mess they cause because their concept lacks notions of "trust" and "upgrades".