Rackspace DevOps automation service broadly available
Rackspace is the #1 player in managed cloud. While they recently announced they would be withdrawing from the pure IaaS market, they have now double-downed their bet on managed cloud with the general availability of the Rackspace DevOps automation service around managed cloud. Rackspace had previously announced their DevOps automation service a few months back, […]
New CEO wants to take MongoDB where NoSQL has gone before
MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database company that has raised about $220m in venture funding so far, announced a change at the helm today. Max Schireson who has been with the company for 4 years, first as President and then about two years ago taking over as CEO from founder and chairman Dwight Merriman, is stepping […]
Camp DevOps Houston: Call for speakers
I am very happy to announce that our next Camp DevOps event will be in Houston on October 28, 2014. The conference will take place at the Norris Conference Center in City Centre, Houston. Camp DevOps Houston will be a one day event featuring keynotes, business orientated and technical tracks. There will also be ad […]
devopsy.kinsta.cloud sponsors FlowCon
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is happy to be a media sponsor of FlowCon this year. FlowCon is a popular event held in San Francisco that focuses on lean product development, continuous delivery, lean UX, and (our favorite) DevOps. From the show producers: FlowCon brings together technologists and industry leaders passionate about innovation through lean product development, continuous delivery, lean […]
Docker acquires Orchard to extend platform leadership
Experienced team brings talent and technology to strategic developer initiatives San Francisco, CA – July 23, 2014 – Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor of the Docker open source project, today announced that it has acquired Orchard Laboratories, Ltd., for an undisclosed amount. Orchard is an early Docker community member and creator of solutions on the […]
Docker acquires Orchard, makers of Fig
First acquisition by Docker bring tools, talent and geography to hot container start up. Docker today announced that they are making their first acquisition. Docker is acquiring Orchard. In terms of scope of the acquired company they didn’t have to look to far. Orchard was an early member of the Docker community. They operated a […]
Web-scale IT drives Chef momentum
Chef today announced a series of metrics and features showing their support of and success as a result of what they call the shift to Web-Scale IT. As the picture below shows the Web-scale IT era has given rise to an exponentially larger, more scalable IT infrastructure. What is Web-sclae IT? According to Chef: Web-scale […]
DevOps Days Tel Aviv Strikes Again
It’s no secret that the technology scene in Israel is at the forefront of innovation, and so it’s certainly no surprise that the DevOps community in Israel is simply booming. And well, it’s that time of year again, and me and my awesome co-organizers have rolled up our sleeves and started working on DevOps Days […]
DevOps Rock Star dinner
I have been so busy running from conference to conference lately. Next on the agenda is the Velocity conference in Santa Clara, Ca. While I am sure the conference is going to be great, I am super psyched about attending a dinner on the 24th that promises to be a blockbuster. It is a “State […]
How Ansible makes automation easy
Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy especially with AWS. Hope you enjoy it. Alan Shimel
Log Data as a Valuable Tool in the DevOps Lifecycle (and Beyond)
As many of us embrace DevOps, developers have to think beyond delivering code that is taken by “operations” to be deployed, run and monitored in production environments. DevOps instead focuses on breaking down silos within organizations and sharing the responsibility of development and operations such that developers are now more conscious of how their code […]
Sold out Dockercon highlights Dockers coming of age
Docker grows up with release of version 1.0 There is little doubt that Docker is one of the hottest names in tech. Anything written about them seems to be a magnet for readers. When Solomon Hykes, CTO and co-founder keynoted the recent Gluecon 2014 conference it was standing room only. It’s pretty much the same […]
SecDevOps: the new black of IT
Much has been written about the role of Security in a DevOps culture. Almost universally the thought is that DevOps can help improve security. Why? How? Really? An old friend of mine from the security world Andrew Storms and I will discuss this and other issues around DevOps and security on June 11th at 1pm […]
Using Docker & Ansible by John Minnihan @Gluecon 2014
Continuing our series of videos from the DevOps track at Gluecon this past year, our next video is “Why Docker + Ansible Make Chef and Puppet 100% Unnecessary by John Minnihan, ModernRepo” Again many thanks to CloudSoft for recording and making these videos available to us to post. Also the picture above is from the […]
Amplifying Docker with AMP and Brooklyn
Here is the second video in our series of DevOps talks from Gluecon 2014. Again thanks much to our friends at CloudSoft for providing the video services and providing them to us to post here. In this session CloudSoft CTO Alex Heneveld talks about how to amplify Docker using the open source Brooklyn Project (now […]
6 things you didn’t know about SaltStack
I recently had the pleasure of moderating the first day of the DevOps track at Gluecon 2014. As I wrote about in a previous post, the good folks at CloudSoft were kind enough to have the days sessions video taped (OK I don’t know if they actually use tape anymore, but you know what I […]
Master Meetup Calendar is up and running!
Since we were first planning devopsy.kinsta.cloud part of the vision was to have a master Meetup calendar of all of the DevOps Meetup groups. My thought was you could go to one master calendar and see where and when local DevOps groups were meeting and on what topics. Doing this has proved easier said then […]
What’s new @DevOps.com
All of us here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud have been very busy. In addition to adding some new writers and great new content, we have been working “outside the 4 walls of the website”. Here is an update on what’s new: 1. Camp DevOps – We held our first Camp DevOps event last week in beautiful Boulder, […]
AppDynamics announces AppSphere 2014
AppDynamics, the application intelligence leader for software-defined businesses has announced its first every user conference, AppSphere 2014. The conference will take place November 3-5 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Featuring speakers from companies like Google, Lithium, and Microsoft, and a keynote by Bill Platt, GM of Amazon Web Services, AppSphere will be […]
Automating code helps businesses adapt to customer demand quickly
This is the first article in a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef (click here) community. How does the need for speed and scale affect businesses today? Let’s start with scale. As a technology company grows, its infrastructure grows – more machines […]
Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” goes viral
Many of you reading this have probably seen the tweet or one of the thousand or so retweets of Minneapolis based Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” twitter post. The tweet and attached pic are below: Printed up some DevOps Against Humanity cards, as one does. pic.twitter.com/TX09SqiFMQ — Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) May 1, 2014 For those […]
Some changes to devopsy.kinsta.cloud
Well if you are reading this you are one of almost 40,000 unique visitors to devopsy.kinsta.cloud in the last 6 or so weeks. In this relatively short time we have learned a few things. Based upon these we are making a few changes to devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Some you will see right away, some you will see […]
Security and DevOps showdown
George Hulme’s article on proceeding with caution on DevOps implementation offers some advice from a few well known security experts. Article here vs. Alan Shimel says today’s speed of business isn’t compatible with :go slow”. Security people have to understand that DevOps is our last best hope. But in order to have DevOps […]