Ops All The Things!

Ops All The Things!

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  • 005 - Revision Control

    Take a listen to the first version of our thoughts on revision control.

    Overview

    In this episode, we discuss revision control. Revision control is a topic that is near and dear to both Chris and I and we’ve got some strong opinions on how it should be used.

    (SPOILER ALERT: For lots of things!)

    We cover what revision control is, why it matters, and what should be revision controlled. We also talk a bit about how to deal with secrets or sensitive data that may need to pass through revision control.

    We go on a bit of a tangent on why tooling that generates artifacts that can be revision controlled are preferable to tooling that is just “magic”. That discussion is thanks to Chris digging up this article on declarative configuration management versus VM templates.

    News and Tools
    • Redhat and Centos join forces.
    • Steve uses Pester for PowerShell testing.
    • Chris uses jq to parse and play with JSON.
    • The So Cal Linux Expo is coming up. (REALLY SOON NOW, since Steve took a month to get this edited together).

      • Stay tuned for our next show on Time Management, with our first guest!

      54 min
    • 004 - The Holidays

      Now that the holidays are over, here are some thoughts Chris and I have on them.

      Overview

      In this episode, we talk about the holidays, specifically how they impact operations personnel. We cover on-call considerations, bonding with family and co-workers over alcohol holiday parties, and code freezes.

      News Items
      • Check out SysAdvent (and thanks to Chris for his hard work organizing it this year!)
      • Thanks to Brandon Burton (@solarce) for the gift of HangOps this year!
      • The Winter Scripting Games are upon us! Get your team together and join in!

        • Hope you all had a great holiday season and have had a great start to 2014!

        32 min
      • 003 - Documentation
        Overview

        In this episode we talk about documentation. Really taking a big picture view of how to document things and what should be documented. Along with that we try to talk a bit about the types of documentation that are not necessarily obvious, like monitoring.

        During the show, Steve mentioned the Stack Exchange data center move. If you are interested, here are some pictures and commentary: http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/comments/1bcxfi/a_few_photos_from_the_stack_overflow_data_center/

        News Items
        • Etsy’s Morgue tool for creating post-mortems: https://github.com/etsy/morgue
        • Windows Management Framework 4 (including Desired State Configuration) is available for Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/10/25/windows-management-framework-4-0-is-now-available.aspx
        • There are a few Calls for Proposals/Papers (though since Steve was late posting the show, Cascadia’s ends today – 12/9): Cascadia IT Conference and the Southern California Linux Expo
        • Great little story on how queuing of work can slow things down: http://kief.com/change-management-fail.html

          • Hope you enjoy the show.

          41 min
        • 002 - Ops is Value Add
          Overview

          This episode is really focuses on how Ops adds value and discusses lots of aspects around the roles of traditional IT and WebOps.

          News Items
          • Launch of puppetbestpractices.com: http://www.puppetbestpractices.com
          • Launch of OpServer – Stack Exchange’s status dashboard: https://github.com/opserver/Opserver
          • DevOps in your job title is doing you harm: http://blog.petecheslock.com/2013/05/03/devops-in-your-job-title-is-doing-you-harm/
          • I’m Not a DevOps…Are You an Agile?: http://tech.mangot.com/blog/2013/05/29/-im-not-a-devops-dot-dot-dot-are-you-an-agile/
            • 50 min
          • 001 - The Beginning
            Overview

            This episode provides an introduction into the goals of the podcast and a little bit of info about Chris and Steve.

            News Items

            We skipped the news section this episode but will pick it up in the future.

            Topics Discussed
            • About Us
            • Vision for the podcast
            • What is Ops?
              • 30 min

            About Ops All The Things!

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            A Podcast about all things Operations, DevOps and Systems Administration