Devops Needs Sushi
Ages ago the folks over at Packt asked me if I was interested in writing a book about Zabbix, I kindly declined, I didn’t have time to write a book ,
Months later we got back in touch and I got involved in reviewing the book
It just arrived in the mail .
There’s a couple of things I’d have done different , but overall it’s a good read if you are interrested in Zabbix.
So about 4 monts ago there was the crazy idea to start a new FOSS event in Belgium targeted at sysadmins.
What started out as an event for local people to meet local people with some local speakers actually ended up being a small local event with some top international speakers on onfiguration mananagement and system administration mixed with a bunch of good local ones !
I had the honour to open the conference with an extremely short version of the Devops talk I gave earlier last year.. extremely short as I knew that over the course of the weekend the topic would reoccur a lot.
Last week I was in Manchester for the 2010 UKUUG Spring Conference, right .. make that 2 weeks ago , :)
The UKUUG usually hosts the more interesting conferences around … , it’s not just the schedule that attrackts me , yes there’s the strong focus towards Larger Scale Unix (and mostly Linux) deployments and how to manage them, but there’s also the opportunity to chat in real life with the Devops from across the chunnel.
Apparently I started a collection ..
Of DNS books signed by their author …
As already mentioned on twitter, Jan-Piet Mens kindly gave me a signed copy of his alternative DNS Servers book, last week at the UKUUG 2010 Spring Conference
When I got that book I didn’t even know yet that this morning I was going to be at a seminar on DNS sec by Cricket Liu
and because of having registered so late for the event I certainly wasn’t expecting to get one of the books that were going to be handed out to the first 50 people that signed up … but I was lucky ..
That’s right .. only 11 more …
The schedule looks promising, there will be some devops juice, some open spaces, some tutorials, som regular talks .. it really looks promising … the schedule is packed ,
Apart from the talks, tutorials and open spaces there’s also the
Pizza party and the Beer event on saturday …
No need to register .. just show up ..
Joshua Timberman will be in town, (Antwerpen) that is, for Loadays as he is arriving on thursday Botchagalupe suggested we should have a Devops / Ruby get together.
So I’m dutyfully announcing the Devops/Ruby meetup next thursday april 8th, in Antwerp
The plan is to meet up for beers and chatter in our favourite Antwerp geek pub in , Kulminator , Vleminckveld 32 , Antwerp , around 20h00 ish..
Topics will be devops, ruby and much more :)
I`m very sad, I won’t be able to make it to the @AndroidPartybe tonight, and neither will I be making it to @plugg tomorrow :(
I have to sit back and watch you hand out Xperia X10’s to people that plan on selling it to buy a new iPad or a Nexus, people that don’t realize what a great piece of technolgy Sony Ericsson usually delivers or just kids that want any cool phone and all that while being forced to use an HTC Hero
This post is long overdue, as the idea struck me when dicussing with Lefred while preparing his Fosdem talk on Maintaining too big tables
I got triggered finishing this post by Mr BuidlDoctor
Fred has been struggling with a typical DevOps problem resulting in the most unmanageable database setup possible, there’s little room for him to move but he managed is way out .. because he is good at his job
It set the mark for me that because in different organisations even the Opsteam is fragmented `in different groups that there also we need to get the Devops idea going.
A couple of weeks a go Brian Profitt pinged me for a chat about Devops , the result of that chat , his article can now be found on the Zenoss blog, it’s titled Datacenter Barometer: Better days arrive when dev meets ops
It’s a very nice read with some pointers to places regular readers of my blog should already know ;)
So with lots of leading Open Source infrastructure companies on different levels, such as config management (OpsCode and Reductive Labs) , monitoring (Zenoss) , deployment (openQRM, RPath, and obviously Consultancy companies , the upcoming Devops conferences around the planet promise to be a lot of fun ! ;)
Devops, Devops, Devops, everybody talks about it but we’re still defining it …
There’s so many different interpretations possible for the term Devops , It’s automated infrastructure, it’s agile infrastucture, it’s getting devs and ops closer to eachother, it’s briding the gap between devs and ops , it’s agile system administration, it’s the movement , it’s the mindset , it’s the spirit.
Lots of people, lots of opinions .. Indeed some people have been doing this kind of work for ages, some claim the cloud is what makes devops become visible (but we’ve been doing cloud since before the cloud marketeers called it cloud)