Todays' episode

Devops requires a cultural change to failure... Failure is the new black..

turned failure into success

"Failure is not an option," Gene Kranz

http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/201-250/article236_body.html

Stop Wasting Money On WebLogic, WebSphere, And JBoss Application Servers

Mike Gualtieri at Forester\Use tomcat it's free...

http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/11-07-15-stop_wasting_money_on_weblogic_websphere_and_jboss_application_servers

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Amazon S3 Bucket Public Access Considerations

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/5050

Different access control options in Amazon S3 and helps you choose the best option for your use case

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DTO KB 

http://kb.dtosolutions.com/wiki/Main_Page/ensemble

A little tricky w/ the keys setup... also wrote a simple #chef recipe to install it...

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Chef-gelf by jellybob

https://github.com/jellybob/chef-gelf

Provides a Chef handler which can report run status, including any changes that were made, to a Graylog2 server. In the case of failed runs a backtrace will be included in the details reported.

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Forget Chef or Puppet – Automate with Sprinkle

http://engineering.gomiso.com/2011/08/26/forget-chef-or-puppet-automate-with-sprinkle/

argument is that a simple non large VPS's doesn't need to fat Puppet and Chef. agentless...

lot of foo-bar examples....

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Dry run Chef...

Adam makes a great case for why noop dones't work well with #chef .. lie to me mode....

http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2009-11/msg00026.html

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IT Skeptic....

I like Rob alot and I need not take it personally; however, I fell if you attack Devops you are attacking me... 

Lame arguments.  

Cowboys

Doesn't scale...

Super race of sysadmins

And we have tools so far up out ass...