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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Perhaps wrongly, "DevOps" has been associated with "new" and "that thing for the cool kids" and the "hipster developers". This is used both as an excuse and as a source of animosity ...

I am not a fan of metrics. Wait. That's not right. Let me try again. I am not a fan of singular metrics that stand by themselves. Nope. That’s still not right ...

Some big news in networking land at Interop this year revolved around Cisco's latest contribution to open source and the Internet, its proposed "OpFlex" control plane protocol. The protocol itself is focused ...

In my previous post I discussed how to take your DevOps to the next level by taking it beyond infrastructure automation, to the automation of your deployments and code pushes, through patches ...

 A large enterprise has institutionalized an incredible number of processes. Their fundamental approach to IT has been built over years if not decades of experience. Their leaders may have grown up with ...

When I look at the future of DevOps adoption and acceleration I contrast it with what I feel was the failure of ITIL to really move beyond large enterprise IT shops. I ...