DevOps Makes Web Developers & Operations Talk To Each Other

In our DevOps category you find a collection of articles helping you improve cooperation between your developers and sysadmins.

The main advantage of the DevOps approach is streamlining the flow of your features and fixes from development into production. It will make you faster and more flexible by tearing down obstacles existing between developers and sysadmins. Especially if your development team is already working with agile or kanban, it specifically helps extend the reach of agile into the data center.

Devops in a Regulated Mainframe Environment

by Matthias Marschall on March 1, 2011

Striving for real world experiences with agile, kanban, lean, and devops I ran a series of email interviews. Today I want to share the answers of Manu Khronis, NRB, Belgium. Please tell me a little about your current situation, your team and your job I am responsible for IT change management at Network Resource Belgium, [...]

What DevOps Means for Enterprises

by Dan Ackerson on January 18, 2011 · 3 comments

Jez Humble

This is a guest post by Jez Humble (@jezhumble) The DevOps movement only came to my attention in the final year of writing my book, Continuous Delivery. The book, based on experiences that are described by Chris Read in his earlier guest post in this series, describes principles and practices that are necessary for repeatable, [...]

2011: Time to Escape the DevOps Echo Chamber

by Dan Ackerson on January 14, 2011 · 1 comment

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This is a guest post by Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) DevOps is a hit! Everyone is talking about it! Everyone is doing it! Everyone is going to meetups and conferences! Everyone…. oh wait, EVERYONE isn’t. It just feels likes it is everyone. Why? Because we live in the DevOps echo chamber.

Devops – a Romance of Many Dimensions

by Matthias Marschall on December 22, 2010 · 3 comments

Flatland

This is a guest post from @patrickdebois Great men have blogged before me. What else can I possibly add? That was my feeling when I set out to write this post. As some of you might have noticed in the past, I always like to start with a good metaphor. It gets me thinking in [...]

Approaching Legacy Environment Management with DevOps

by Matthias Marschall on December 20, 2010 · 2 comments

Tim Driggers

This is a guest post by Tim Driggers (@timdriggers) Moving to DevOps? Buyoff from the business? Teams bought in? Angels are singing, Unicorns are dancing, and the stars are aligning. You have no doubt already built a roadmap to your DevOps implementation; have projects lined up and are working on new team processes and interactions. [...]

Challenges for the Devops Crowd

by Matthias Marschall on December 17, 2010 · 1 comment

Kris Buytaert

This is a guest post by Kris Buytaert (@krisbuytaert) Over the past couple of years Devops grew out of experienced Ops people, some with a development background. At least that’s how I see it. Some people think devops came out of the cloud and others think it was the devs that started doing ops, but [...]

The Implications of Infrastructure as Code

by Matthias Marschall on December 15, 2010 · 8 comments

Stephen Nelson-Smith

This is a guest post by Stephen Nelson-Smith (@lordcope) Puppet, Chef, Fabric, Capistrano, Ruby, Python, Github, EC2, Heroku – the list goes on. These are just some of the disruptive forces that have revolutionised what it means to manage systems in the twenty first century. One of the most interesting and important trends to emerge [...]

The State Of DevOps

by Matthias Marschall on December 13, 2010

James Turnbull

This is a guest post by James Turnbull (@kartar) The first two guys I worked for in Ops jobs were old school mainframe guys. Both of them were kind of rough around the edges. Both heavy smokers who liked a drink and who been around before there were PCs, thought client-server was a passing fad [...]

DevOps: These Soft Parts

by Matthias Marschall on December 9, 2010 · 2 comments

John Allspaw

This is a guest post by John Allspaw (@allspaw) It’s been said by a number of smart people that DevOps is largely founded in an organization’s skillful collaboration and communication, and the culture that results. I agree with that idea, and I also think that it’s one of the reasons why the term DevOps is [...]

Devops: cleans and shines without harsh scratching

by Matthias Marschall on December 7, 2010 · 2 comments

This is a guest post by Julian Simpson “The Build Doctor” (@builddoctor) Out of the frying pan Just as the .com boom turned to bust, I worked with a guy who had developed his own system for managing change: You backed any file youʼd change, with permissions, and a particular file extension. You copied the [...]