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DevOps

DevOps

WebOps Principles

These principles are an overview of the culture, practices and motivations driving teams working in the WebOps profession.

December 26, 2016

DevOps

Big Bang Agile Delivery

What does it mean to deliver a service? Where does it’s value live? And, even if we know the answers, what do we actually practice in real life?

November 6, 2016

DevOps

SaltStack – The Problem Bucket

This is the home of the various salt stack errors and quirks that I come across, just a nice little bucket of frustrations so that I have a quick reference page that is not based on human memory 🙂

August 26, 2016

DevOps

ITIL and Agile

While we strive to deliver at pace there can be an over-confidence and a positioning of past policies and frameworks as being too rigid, of failing to allow the freedom with people to get on with their work.

February 16, 2016

DevOps

Modern DevOps

Opinionated mantra though it is, I believe that the improvements brought by automation, cloud architectures, and intelligent processing of the resultant data streams mean that new opportunities are available to benefit peoples lives through access to knowledge and services.

January 9, 2016

DevOps

Advanced RabbitMQ Containers

Basically, a RabbitMQ image that uses confd to capture some environment variables to set itself up. All sorts of queues, bindings, vhosts, users, etc can be set up using this method.

January 2, 2016

DevOps

The Psychology of Continuous Integration

Operations people, we love to automate. In the case of continuous integration we want to be able to deploy to production, every day, multiple times a day. Our commits trigger building, testing and deploying through a pipeline untouched by human hands. Or, so the theory goes…

January 2, 2016