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Does Devops have a Culture Problem?
At the Devopsdays conference in Mountain View, Spike Morelli led an Open Space discussion on the importance of culture. He was concerned that when people think ...
Couchbase 101 : install, store and query data
Introduction In this post I just want to show how easily is to get started with Couchbase, and also explain how to “query” the data. The basic steps of this tutorial are: ...
DevOps is Culture – so is a lot of other stuff
I hung out in an excellent discussion at DevopsDays driven by Spike Morelli around culture. The premise was that DevOps started as an idea around culture – around behavior patterns ...
Serving Files with Puppet Standalone in Vagrant
If you use Puppet in the client-server mode to configure your production environment then you might want to be able to copy & paste from the prod configuration into the Vagrant’s ...
The importance of measuring your IT operations
How could one tell if an IT organisation is working well? A simple measure could be to check the delivered business functionalities versus the requested ones; if IT delivered all that ...
Apache HTTP server with Tomcat on SSL
Introduction I recently needed to simulate our production deployment environment in my local machine. Our production applications are running on Apache HTTP server. ...
Why do we insist on consensus on the role of Ops?
I’ve seen so many threads over the last few weeks about who should do what, why, and what you should do about it if you don’t conform. I don’t get it. Ops is a team in a company ...
Give your developers prod access – it’s trust
This isn’t a new idea and plenty of companies already do this. I had a discussion with a co-worker about this last week and wanted to get my thoughts down here so I can laugh at them ...
Establishing ownership in Ops Teams
I’ve been having some discussions about this lately so figured I would write something about the topic. Being a member of an Ops team can be pretty challenging at times. The job ...
Embedding Ops members in Dev teams
For about 2 months I was sitting with a dev team while we worked through how to build a new service which will be continuously deployed. I wanted to share my experiences here because ...
