Feb 24, 2014

Valuable Links - Devops

Valuable Links for Devops

TL;DR - Watch this video and read the 10 myths of DevOps (which also links to what I now find is the best video on devops).

Since I first learned the term devops 4 years ago I’ve gone through many leaps in understanding. I really wish I saw this video (history of devops) before I got involved. As a software developer, I find delivering frequently highly motivating. Devops is a set of principles and practices that aim to ensure delivery goes as smooth as possible. I found this post, A Scientific Basis For Devops Success, to be a great introduction to why devops is important.

People

This list isn’t comprehensive, but you can’t go wrong by reading what these people have to say:

Patrick Debois - coined the term devops
Noah Sussman - provides excellent insights around QA
John Allspaw - has many excellent posts on the culture of devops
Gene Kim - co-author of The Phoenix Project
Jez Humble - co-author of Continuous Delivery

Devops is not a Role

It took me a while to realize that devops is not a role played on a team and that it’s got more in commong with Agile in the fact that it’s a collection of principles rather than straight up proceesses.

CAMS - John Willis’ posts a list of principles
Lusis’ rant - an excellent rant about the absurditity of devops being a role

Must Watch Videos

The Devops Transformation - Ben Rockwood does a most enlightening talk on the subject
Devops Demystified - Another Ben Rockwood talk that is awesome

Events

Mailing Lists

Tools

Devops Bookmarks - This is the ultimate one stop shop for all tools
Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Serf - Mitchell Hashimoto discusses some core concepts around devops tooling and provides examples

Links (need sorting and or context)

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