[clue] Devops at work?

[Sruthi Annamnidu]

Hi Quentin,

    If you have few minutes, how about presenting a basic talk on DevOps
next month? You do not have to present any slides or anything but just a
quick overview would help. What do you think?

Thank you,
Sruthi Kumar

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have time to give a detailed answer now, but I "use devops" at
> work, and it's generally a postiive change. I'll try to respond in more
> detail later...
>
> QH
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Charles Burton <charles.d.burton at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I'm starting to push us down that road, which is a fairly interesting
>> transition in research.  It's a slow process, but I'm laying the groundwork
>> for it right now.  For instance I've setup Salt to handle all the steps
>> involved in setting up new systems and built images that people can load on
>> the VM servers that just require setting the hostname and enabling Salt.
>> Then I tied it into Foreman and I've been working on building application
>> profiles so that people just select one from Foreman for whatever work they
>> want to do on their systems.  Next up is building the provisioning, but as
>> our leadership chose Citrix Xen a few years ago it's a bit tricky at the
>> moment.  That and we're dealing with lots of old crufty baggage from years
>> of cowboy ops that I'm still working on cleaning up.  I'm the biggest
>> change agent right now, but there is a lot coming down from above as well.
>> We're NOAA so we're subject to rules from the Government and those have
>> been the stick I've been using to effect change lately.  Basically I got
>> senior management on board, the Federal security  team, and started by
>> offering the carrot of a really good and easy to use platform backed by the
>> stick of if the DHS tells me to shut something off I'll do it immediately.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone doing devops thing at work? Depending on what that may mean, of
>>> course...there is of course more the mindset and the collaboration and
>>> the processes and politics that may be updated or maybe completely
>>> disrupted (possibly in very good ways), but I'm also interested in
>>> specific technical/engineering practices. (*)
>>>
>>> Things like "literate devops", for example:
>>>
>>> http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html
>>>
>>> What about pipelines in Jenkins and tools like
>>> Puppet/Chef/Docker/Vagrant/Ansible/Salt to provision systems and start
>>> incorporating more development practices (such as SCM) within the wider
>>> IT organization?
>>>
>>> How do you use those things? Have they paid off? Have you been a "change
>>> agent" pushing these sort of things to make your life better, or has it
>>> come from an external force (i.e., part of the command-and-control
>>> structure of a corporation) and "devops" means something quite different
>>> to them?
>>>
>>> I ask because I went to Denver BSides last year (and this year) and they
>>> had a panel of people to talk about DevOps, but not nearly enough time
>>> for all the questions they were getting from the audience. I got only
>>> one question in, and it was just before lunch, so there was a hard stop.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (*) For instance, see here: http://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/
>>> What "devops" means seems to be a very fluid definition, much like
>>> "Agile" itself. There is definitely both engineering practices as well
>>> as the "what is visible to management, especially non-technical
>>> management" part within "Agile", especially Scrum, and that presents a
>>> very real problem when trying to talk about these subjects.
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