Adopting DevOps – Part III: Aligning the Dev and Ops Teams

DevOps as a philosophy has had as its centerpiece the principle that Dev and Ops teams need to align better. This is a people and organizational principle, not a process centric principle. To me this is more important when adopting DevOps than any other capability or tool. My last post focussed on the need to […]

Adopting DevOps – Part II: The Need for Organizational Change

One of the key goals of DevOps is to reduce the gap that exists between Dev and Ops. It is what causes water-SCRUM-fall, when it comes to the Dev and Ops communication and collaboration. (The gap between corporate teams like EA, Security and other ‘approval boards’ and ‘gates’ is another story for another post). Whether […]

My sessions at IBM Innovate 2013

IBM Innovate schedule of sessions is out! I have four sessions I am presenting – one for each day. Here is the schedule of my sessions: Number Name Where When 1147A DevOps 101 Swan – Swan 3 Sun, 2/Jun, 02:45 PM – 03:45 PM   1574A Mobile DevOps – Challenges and Best Practices (with Leigh […]

Chef for DevOps – an Introduction

Chef is a powerful tool from Opscode which makes Infrastructure as Code real! In the space of DevOps, where Continuous Delivery requires the ‘on-demand’ building, updating and management of Virtual Environments, technologies like Chef become essential. The slide deck attached is from a seminar I delivered recently. The session introduces Chef and its role in DevOps. The agenda of […]

The State of DevOps (by PuppetLabs)

Puppet Labs just published the 2013 State of DevOps Report.  They surveyed over 4,000 IT practitioners to get this report and I think it is an excellent snapshot in time of the current state of DevOps. I encourage all DevOps peeps (to use a technical term) to review this report. That being said, it is a […]