The (Comedic) Truth about DevOps

Many serious words have been written about DevOps, including my own "What is DevOps?" post. But sometimes a bit of comedy helps drive home some fundamental truth.

Behold Adam Jacob (CTO of Opscode): 

Note: this was part of Adam's "Choose Your Own Adventure" talk at Velocity. Be sure to check out the other videos from his show talk. 2 drink minimum not required.

Panel discussion from OpsCamp San Francisco (video)

My fellow dev2ops.org contributor, Lee Thompson, and I were asked to be a part of an impromptu panel discussion that kicked off OpsCamp San Francisco.

The results were an interesting and organic conversation that ranged from "DevOps", to "repository and dependency management", to "security is not compliance", to "managing multiple data centers", and to a variety of other topics in the span of 24 minutes.

Luckily, we got it all on video.  (Special thanks to Erica Brescia from Bitnami for doing the camera work!)

OpsCamp San Francisco 2010 Panel Discussion from dev2ops.org on Vimeo.

Videos: Jesse Robbins, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Colleen Smith at Cloud Connect 2010

Here's another round of "3 Questions" interviews that I shot at Cloud Connect 2010 in San Jose, CA on March 17, 2010.

 

Jesse Robbins (Opscode / Chef), Ezra Zygmuntowicz (Engine Yard), and Colleen Smith (Symantec) were asked:

1. What brought you to Cloud Connect?

2. What aspect of the Cloud excites you the most these days?

3. Wildcard question!...

 

Jesse Robbins is the CEO of Opscode and one of the creators of Chef.

Wildcard question: How does "infrastructure as code" unlock the promise of the Cloud?

Ezra Zygmuntowicz is a Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of Engine Yard.
Wildcard question: What tooling changes are needed to make DevOps a reality?  

Colleen Smith is an Information Technology Architect at Symantec
Wildcard question: How will Clouds impact the culture of internal enterprise IT?

Thanks to all for playing along!

Videos: Michael Coté, Travis Campbell, Erica Brescia, Andrew Shafer at OpsCamp Austin 2010

Here's the second round of "3 Questions" style interviews I filmed at OpsCamp Austin 2010. For the first round, go here.

Michael Coté (Redmonk), Travis Campbell (University of Texas / LOPSA), Erica Brescia (BitRock / BitNami.org), and Andrew Shafer (Agile Infrastructure developer and speaker) were asked:

1. What brought you to OpsCamp?
2. What excites you in 2010?
3. Wilcard question!... 

Michael Coté is noted analyst and blogger/podcaster at RedMonk covering primarily enterprise software.
Wildcard question: How can open source projects better interface with analysts?

Travis Campbell is a Senior Systems Administrator at UT Austin and is on the board of directors of LOPSA.
Wildcard question: What does the HPC community think of "cloud computing"? 

Erica Brescia is the CEO of BitRock (sponsors of BitNami.org)
Wildcard question: How does BitRock's unique legacy set it up for success today? 

Andrew Shafer is a blogger, speaker, and developer currently focused on Agile Infrastructure. 
Wildcard question: What advice would you give people looking into the topic of Agile Operations? 

Videos: Luke Kanies, Bill Karpovich, Ernest Mueller at OpsCamp Austin 2010

Here's the first round of "3 Questions" style interviews I filmed at OpsCamp Austin 2010. 

Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs / Puppet), Bill Karpovich (Zenoss), and Ernest Mueller (National Instruments) were asked:

1. What brought you to OpsCamp?
2. What excites you in 2010?
3. Wildcard question!...

Luke Kanies is the CEO of Reductive Labs and the original author of Puppet.
Wildcard question: How did you enable the Puppet Community's early success?

Bill Karpovich is the CEO & Co-Founder of Zenoss.
Wildcard question: Where is the innovation happening in monitoring?

Ernest Mueller is a Web Systems Architect at National Instruments.
Wildcard question: What advice do you have for open source toolmakers?