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Service Delivery Best Practices?
So… DevOps. DevOps vs NoOps has been making the rounds lately. At Bazaarvoice we are spawning a bunch of decentralized teams not using that nasty centralized ops team, but wanting to do it all...
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Monitorin’ Ain’t Easy
The DevOps space has been aglow with discussion about monitoring. Monitoring, much like pimping, is not easy. Everyone does it, but few do it well. Luckily, here on the agile admin we are known for...
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DevOps: It’s Not Chef And Puppet
There’s a discussion on the devops Google group about how people are increasingly defining DevOps as “chef and/or puppet users” and that all DevOps is, is using one of these tools. This is both...
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DevOps Illustrated
Naturally, Ops is the Predator and Dev is Ahnuld. We Ops folks are individually fearsome and have cool technology. But the Devs have the numbers on us, and despite speaking somewhat incoherently, win...
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Want To Write For The Agile Admin?
At Velocity and DevOpsDays this week I had a couple people ask about contributing articles to the blog – yes, we’d love to have anyone write on cloud, DevOps, etc. Many folks don’t want to maintain a...
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Puppet and Chef do only half the job
Our first guest post on theagileadmin is by Schlomo Schapiro, Systems Architect and Open Source Evangelist at ImmobilienScout24. I met Schlomo and his colleagues at DevOpsDays and they piqued my...
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Velocity 2012 Day One
Hello all! The Velocity cadre grows as the agile admins spread out. I’m here with Chris, Larry, and Victor from Bazaarvoice and our new friends Kevin, Bob, and Morgan from Powerreviews which is now...
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Velocity 2012 Day Two
After John Allspaw and Steve Souders caper about in fake muscles, we get started with the keynotes. Building for a Billion Users (Facebook) Jay Parikh, Facebook, spoke about building for a billion...
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Speeding Up Releases
Hi all! New job’s been affording me few opportunities for blogging, but I’m getting into the groove, so you should see more of me now. Releasing All The Time! Continuous integration is the bomb. We...
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AppSec USA 2012 Is Here (in Austin)!
AppSec USA 2012, the big OWASP security convention, is here in Austin this year! And the agile admin’s own @wickett is coordinating it. “Why do I care if I’m not a security wonk,” you ask? Well, guess...
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DevOpsDays Austin 2013 Is Coming!
It’s been quiet here on the blog but we’ve been busy… And one of those items of busy-ness is setting up DevOpsDays Austin 2013! Many of you came to DevOpsDays Austin 2012, the largest super-awesome...
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Awesome Austin Events!
Besides the “big one,” DevOpsDays Austin 2013, there’s a bunch of great events going on in Austin for techies. The Agile Austin DevOps SIG meets every last Wednesday over lunch at Bazaarvoice; lunch is...
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Must Read: The Phoenix Project
Have you read the famous systems-management novel The Goal? No, I know you haven’t, don’t feel bad, I only got to it this year myself. Well, Gene Kim, entrepreneur, consultant, founder of Tripwire,...
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Chef your haproxy load balancer and add encryption
As of last September, HAProxy supports ssl so you no longer have to put stud/stunnel/nginx in front of HAProxy and it can also connect to SSL on backend servers so you can have encrypted traffic the...
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DevOpsDays Austin 2013 Is Upon Us
Well, I hope you got a ticket for next week’s event because we’re sold out, sponsor slots sold out, all filled up with volunteers, the train has left the station. It’s going to be a sweet ride. Check...
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Velocity 2013 Day 3 Liveblog: Getting Started With Configuration Management
Getting Started With Configuration Management By @sascha_d. Configuration management! define and idempotently enforce system state across a bunch of machines. But it’s not about the tool. But you need...
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Velocity 2013 Day 3: DevOps and metrics
We’re talking about the devops survey with Gene Kim, James Turnbull and Jez Humble 4039 survey responses! Lessons learned - Don’t change questions midway in a survey - Get a data analyst for survey...
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Velocity 2013 Day 3: benchmarking the new front end
By Emily Nakashima and Rachel Myers bitly.com/ostrichandyak Talking about their experiences at mod cloth….. Better performance is more user engagement, page views etc… Basically, we’re trying to...
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Velocity 2013 Liveblog Day 3: Managing Incidents In The Wild
Managing Incidents In The Wild Got here late! By Jonathan Reichhold (@jreichhold) from Twitter. “Facebook is for useless posts, Twitter is for making fun of celebrities, and Instagram is for young...
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Velocity 2013 Day 3 Liveblog: Retooling Adobe: A DevOps Journey from Packaged...
Retooling Adobe: A DevOps Journey from Packaged Software to Service Provider Srinivas Peri, Adobe and Alex Honor, SimplifyOPS/DTO Adobe needed to move from desktop, packaged software to a cloud...
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