DevOps Chat

The most widely anticipated book in the DevOps world was officially released today. The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, John Willis, Patrick Debois and Jez Humble is here. We sit down with Gene how tells us about this labor of love and learning that was over 5 years in the making. With over 40 case studies of companies who have make the transformation to DevOps and high performing IT, this book serves as a guide to DevOps success. Gene gives us a preview to the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco this November. This is a great episode, not to be missed! Read full transcript here: https://devops.com/devops-chat-g/

Panzura is a company that has made its mark by offering tremendous savings and even bigger speed improvements for companies with distributed data systems. With that kind of advantage, it is almost a no brainer that this would be very useful for DevOps. More and more we are seeing Panzura used by DevOps teams. Two Panzura execs, Rich Weber and Barry Phillips give us the lowdown on Panzura, as well as how and why DevOps and Panzura are made for each other.

Dr. CJ Paul, distinguished engineeer, DevOps Methods & Tools, IBM Cloud sits down with DevOps.com editor in chief, Alan Shimel to discuss trends in ITSM and DevOps. Paul also discusses IBM BlueMix Garage and the BlueMix Garage Method among other topics.

DevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sits down with Michael Olson, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. Michael and I discuss a number of topics including the recent DevOps Salary survey that Puppet released. Another topic of discussion is the webinar Puppet is sponsoring and Michael is appearing on September 27, 2016 titled, "A Roadmap for DevOps Success."

This webinar is a great jumping off point for those who are looking to set off on their DevOps transformation or even anyone looking for a DevOps reset. Please click the link to register if you are interested. In the meantime, Michael gave us a great amount of information about the topic and DevOps in general. I think you will find it very interesting and useful.

DevOps.com chats with Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of cloud research at Trend Micro. Mark talks about cloud security in a hybrid cloud world. it is a good discussion around DevSecOps, cloud and the future. Enjoy!

DevOps Chats speaks with John Harris of LeftShift IT about the red hot DevOps consulting business, continuous testing and more. John has real experience in the field and some great insights to share!

DevOps.com chats with Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org about the current state of Scrum and Agile, how it interacts with DevOps and while both developers and ops people should care. This is a great conversation, a little longer than our usual but worth your time. Enjoy!

DevOps.com talks with Mohit Bhatnagar, VP of product at ClusterHQ, the container data people. Mohit talks about the results of a recent survey that ClusterHQ and DevOps.com partnered on. Mohit also discusses other trends in the container space. Mohit's views on the state of the container market are very informed and interesting. Enjoy!

I had a chance to speak with Jean Louis Vignaud of IBM about the recently announced GitHib Enteprise as a Service on IBM BlueMix. This allows enterprises who want to use the very popular Git service but for whatever reason cannot use the public cloud community version. Organizations can now run their own "private label" GitHub Enterprise on their own premises.

You can find out more about this exciting new offering at:

1. Blog : Introducing the first-ever GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service: https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2016/06/16/github-enterprise-hosted-service-on-bluemix/

2. Video : Benefits of GitHub Enterprise with IBM Bluemix Dedicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxGTFZzZ7vU

3. SlideShare: IBM Bluemix Dedicated – GitHub Enterprise: http://www.slideshare.net/IBMDevOps/ibm-bluemix-dedicated-github-enterprise

We had a chance to sit down with Steve Hazel of Sauce Labs. Steve is the CTO, co-founder of the Sauce Labs. There has been so much written lately about the role of automated testing in DevOps and what the role of QA is going forward. Listen to what an industry veteran and thought leader has to say on the subject.

Also Steve recommended The Phoenix Project in our interview as a great book to read. Afterwards he had another great selection that we wanted to include: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen is never going to be a best seller, but it's a real engineer's book on process. If you aspire to push the state of the art forward beyond today's Agile and DevOps ideas, this book will show you a deeper and more rigorous way of thinking about product development processes.