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 … Continue reading Devops – a Romance of Many Dimensions

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. … Continue reading Approaching Legacy Environment Management with DevOps

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 … Continue reading Challenges for the Devops Crowd

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 … Continue reading The Implications of Infrastructure as Code

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 … Continue reading DevOps: These Soft Parts

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 … Continue reading Devops: cleans and shines without harsh scratching

This is a guest post by R.I. Pienaar (@ripienaar) Many blog posts have been written about what DevOps is or what it means to specific people. While these blog posts are fantastic and well worth reading, there still seems to be a lot of misconception around its meaning. I'd like to point out some of … Continue reading What DevOps Is Not