Devops Needs Sushi
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)
No really .. it seems like everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon …Or just let us know they were already on the pulling the train ..
Brian Moon weighs in that it isn’t anything new. Hey .. it’s not like we’ve been claiming that Devops is new ..
The dev2ops guys give their views on stuff ..
The rPath crowd weighs in
And if that wasn’t enough … you really should have a listen to what Jono Bacon and his pall have to say about it
So John wrote down his experiences on deploying Drupal sites with Puppet .
It’s not a secret that I’ve been thinking about similar stuff and how I could get to the best possible setup.
John starts of with using Puppet to download Drush… while I want to use rpm for that …
I want my core infrastructure to be fully packaged… not downloaded and untarred. I want to be able to reproduce my platform in a couple of months , with the exact same versions I`m using now .. not with the version that happens to be on ftp.drupal.org at that point in time, or with ftp.drupal.org being down.
Over at the OPenARK blog Shlomi Noach argues that using apt-get or yum to install your MySQL instance will one day most likeley break your MySQL setup. Depdendencies, distros not shipping the MySQL version you want to use and on some distro’s indeed the mysql vs MySQL issue, agreed, it all makes things less trivial.
However why give up a clean packaged system if there are other ways out ?
First of all by claiming that such an installation can break a working production environment looks to me like admitting you don’t have a split development, production environment and that rather than testing stuff upfront indeed you just hack a long in production.
Over 1.5 decade ago, a bunch of us were addicted to irc, I lived on channels such as #coders, #nlcoders, #demoscene, sneaked in on #vlaanderen to see when the Leuven locals were heading to the pub, then started joining multiple Linux and Open Source related channels around 94…
Then some weirdos had an alternative way of chatting ICQ, then the folks from Redmond reinvented the wheel… Luckily XMPP arrived and Jabber became the open alternative, but still all of this time irc stayed
I would like to point the crowd to the Call For Presentaions of Loadays. , the Linux Open Administration Days .
The Linux Open Administration days 2010 will be the first edition of a new conference focusing on Linux and Open Administration, we are trying to fill a gap for System Engineers and Administrators using Open Source technologies"
More details on the Linux Open Administration Days site
I’ll probably be there .. given the fact that the event will be 5 minutes from where I live .