DevOps is about operations, right? And about applying tools and processes from the Dev space to operations. But QA? Really? What I personally experience driving DevOps transitions is that continuous integration and operations need to work together. People need to realize that these are two sides of the same coin. One of the biggest challenges is that people often do not see it this way.
(read more …)Continuous Integration is pretty important today even for small to mid sized companies and their software development teams. When it comes to choosing a continuous integration server there are many proprietary and open source solutions available. In the enterprise world Jenkins appears to be the default option these days.
In my opinion CI servers are today becoming more important than ever. If you do DevOps and infrastructure-as-code you need tools that you can rely on for your automation tasks which are easy to maintain. I think Jenkins is not there (yet).
(read more …)This week I am visiting Gotocon Berlin 2015. Today I took part in a crazy workshop by Jez Humble and by crazy I mean crazy-good. We were discussing how difficult it actually is to implement sufficiently good Agile practices in todays enterprises. Jez made multiple reports on what he calls Water-Scrum-Fall. But the workshop was not at all problem-centered. Jez outlined useful approaches on how to improve the situation and gave us many useful references on companies who successfully made the transition.
(read more …)Hi All,
I am currently working on an online course for Prometheus monitoring tools.
(read more …)I am currently preparing for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification. I enrolled in a two part course at Udemy:
In order to follow the course and to study the exercises it is required to use different Linux distributions. I use Vagrant at work so I thought "hey, why not use it to run different Linux distributions on my laptop". The remainder of the article describes how I setup Vagrant and used it to run virtual machines of CentOS and Debian distributions on my local machine.
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