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?

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 🙂

In the field of modern cloud operations, multiple services continuously run on many different platforms, across a broad spectrum or hardware, network, and software environments. Broadly, they can be briefly summarised as having the following properties,

Currently I’m using the logging setup of Beaver shipping logs into an ELK stack, and metrics with collectd shipping metrics into a Graphite stack. Now that Elastic have Beats that do both logging and metrics, its worth exploring further.

Just as you start off on a Monday morning, at 9:01am, there’s a page, that crucial, heavily used site is broken, users are blocked from working and frustrated. What went wrong?