DTO at Velocity 2011

Meet the DTO team at Velocity 2011.  Damon, Alex, myself and the rest of the gang will be attending Velocity in full force thus year.  We will have a booth again this year and we will also have a special guest @lusis (a.k.a. John Vincent) the author of Noah.  John, Alex, and myself plan on giving a killer booth demo using Rundeck, Chef, and Noah integrating command and control, orchestraion, convergence and good old fashion configuration management.  The demo will highlight multiple components of what we call the “Loosely Coupled Toolchain”.  Damon and Lee Thompson will be giving a presentation “Automating for Success: Production Begins in Development” and of course we will be attending and speaking at DevopsDays Mountainview.  Please stop by to spread some #devops love at the booth if you don’t see us in the hall.

 Thanks

John (a.k.a. @botchagalupe ) 

Mitchell Hashimoto shows why Vagrant is a cool and useful tool (video)

At last night's San Francisco DevOps Meetup, Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant) was the featured speaker.

Mitchell gave a quick overview of why Vagrant is important and then gets into some interesting and useful tips and tricks. 

Vagrant is one of those interesting tools that has bubbled up from the DevOps community. It's relatively easy to use and shows that there is a better way to do things (in this case, using virtualization to improve the development and testing lifecycle).

DevOps Panel at Interop 2011 Las Vegas (Video)

Interop is often thought of the land of big hardware and big networking. Take a tour around the massive exhibit hall and you'll witness a sea of marketing dollars from hardware, networking, data center design, and storage vendors.

But as I walked around in on of my DevOps t-shirts (DevOps Days Boston to be precise) I was surprised by the number of conference attendees who made a comment or struck up a conversation with me about DevOps.

DevOps was definitely on a significant number of people's minds. Further evidence? The DevOps panel was one of the last sessions of the 5 day conference yet a sizable crowd stuck around and peppered the panelists with engaging questions.

Below you'll find the video from that lively "DevOps and You" panel at Interop Las Vegas on May 12, 2011

Panelists:
John Willis (DTO Solutions)
Shlomo Swidler (Orchestratus)
George Reese (enStratus)

Moderator:
Mike Fratto (Network Computing Magazine) 

Devops Driven Demand

I'm honored to have a guest post on the "Agile Web Development and Operations" blog this morning.  Here is a tease... 

What if DevOps created more defects, tickets, requests, and more overall work? Would that be a good thing or bad. Let’s take a look.

Read the rest here...

Getting Started With Devops

This week I spoke at Interop in Las Vegas and the term "Devops" was new to a lot of people. I was asked if I could put a getting started list together. Here goes...

Good First Reads

What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway?

What is DevOps?

What Devops Means to Me

Great Videos

DevopsCafe Episode 14

DevopsCafe Episode 2

Optimizing the Business One Shell Script at a Time

Devops Events

Devops Days