Devopsweekly246.txt

DEVOPS WEEKLY
ISSUE #246 - 20th September 2015

I mentioned last week it was conference season. This week’s issue features lots of content from event last week, in particular the excellent looking Automacon. Next week I’m hoping WinOps and Operability both in London have similar high quality content.

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Lots of people work in large traditional IT environments where change is hard and costly. This talk covers a number of tips for getting started with automation in those brownfield environments.

https://speakerdeck.com/stahnma/automating-in-a-brownfield-environment

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As we use more and more tools to manage system our expectations of having good tools right increases. This presentation has tips; from research to design to marketing, about how to build good tools.

http://www.slideshare.net/jamtur01/developing-good-operations-tools

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Another of the presentations from Automacon, entitled infrastructure as code might be literally impossible. Some good points about the inherent complexity of the things we’re managing.

http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/09/15/automacon-infrastructure-as-code-might-be-literally-impossible/


An interesting talk on the design of Sensu, in particular focusing on making configuration friendly to automation. Some good tips for anyone building modern infrastructure systems.

https://speakerdeck.com/portertech/infrastructure-as-code-and-monitoring