There’s been a lot of discussion regarding DevOps and its role in fostering quality and continuous improvement through increased levels of automation. In turn, this automation is fostered through emerging infrastructure and software architectures that are exposing control plane and management programming interfaces, which has been dubbed in many circles as Infrastructure-as-Code. This movement allows […]
The DevOps value stream is not SOP
#devops #lean Don’t confuse doing something faster with greater efficiency. Much of the focus on DevOps remains at the implementation level – on gaining efficiencies through automation of tasks and orchestration of processes. While this is not a bad thing, such a micro-focus on the moving parts can result in the loss of efficiencies to […]
Five Top Tips for Cloud and DevOps Automation
A while back, I overheard someone asking why many of the ‘cloudy people’ have moved on to DevOps. One reason is certainly that cloud is at the heart of DevOps. Many of the grounding principles of DevOps – rapid iteration, agile development, automated testing, continuous delivery and continuous integration – are barely even possible without […]
Enterprise DevOps: organizational change a must
There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, including here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, lately about the challenges of adopting DevOps in the Enterprise space. These challenges at the end boil down to the need for organization change. There are organizational structures that appear to hinder DevOps adoption in large enterprises, that are inherent to […]
Lean versus the bandwagon, lean wins
I’ve just finished reading “The Phoenix Project,” by Kim, Behr and Spafford. To be honest, it was on my reading list but had I not picked up a copy at Camp DevOps I don’t know that I would have ever read the book. My main issue with books of this ilk, such as “Who Moved […]
Avoiding Parrot Processes
One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure. Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies and database servers are among the lengthy (and no doubt growing) list of “boxes” devops needs to get up and running to support just about any given application today. […]
Doing Devops: URL Management
A fairly common task for operations folks is managing URLs. URL management either uses redirection or rewrites to manage things like vanity URLs or marketing campaign URLs or even just getting users to current URLs from old, deprecated ones. The business purpose behind the need to manage URLs aside, the process for doing so can […]
The DevOps master process: design
In speaking, counseling and talking to people with regard to DevOps, I often frame the discussion in terms of the DevOps master process. While all of the parts of the master process are important, one aspect very often is overlooked. I call this often overlooked aspect the design stage. The design stage includes the gathering […]
The Push to Make Ops More Social
Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around the concept that when you’re holding the pager, you’re the one on the front lines, so that everyone else can sleep. Social operations, […]
DevOps and Change Management
In “The Phoenix Project”, the character Erik introduces the underpinning principles of DevOps as “The Three Ways”. Let’s talk about the First and Third Ways and how change management works with DevOps, but first let’s spend a few minutes talking about baseball caps. Last weekend I was looking for my Atlanta Brave’s baseball cap and […]