Wasup@DTO
By John | August 18, 2011
Most of you probably already know that I have been working over at DTO Solutions for the past few months. I wanted to post some information about things we are doing over here at DTO.
Devops Hack Days
We are ran a couple of customer and internal hackdays. What we try to do in the hackday is complete the continuous delivery loop (Git to Prod or better knows as the Aha to Kaching). Here are some links of past and upcoming public Hack Days.
CloudFoundry
We are going CloudFoundry crazy over here at DTO. One of our new customers is building their greenfield cloud on OpenStack and CloudFoundry. We have been bought in to automate the Application Life Cycle (ALM) part of this architecture. Here are some links…
Crowbar and Barmclamps
We also have been spending a lot of time working on the Cloudfoundry Cookbooks. Currently the Cloudfoundry VCAP repo has a set of cookbooks for installing with Chef Solo. It is also complicated by the fact that you have to run two wrapper scripts to build the JSON data used by solo invocation. We had to re-factor those cookbooks to work with Chef Server in order to work as a Barclamp (Crowbar Module). This work is on going….
Running Crowbar under VMWare Fusion
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Devops Driven Demand
By John | May 17, 2011
We are honored to have a guest post on the “Agile Web Development and Operations” blog this morning. Here is a tease…
What if DevOps created more defects, tickets, requests, and more overall work? Would that be a good thing or bad. Let’s take a look.
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The Five Why’s of Cloud
By John | May 9, 2011
In my “cloudy” travels from Cannonical, to Opscode, to DTO Solutions, I often ask a seemingly simple question to the companies I meet – “Why do you want to use the cloud?” – and I get an array of amazingly unsatisfying answers.
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Devops at SXSW
By John | March 13, 2011
Dave Nielsen, Cloudcamp.com founder, has allocated some #devops time at his SXSW Cloudcamp meetup Monday 3/14 at Valhalla Lounge (710 Red River). Ernest Mueller, a local Austin #devops orginizer, and myself will be organizing a series of lighting talks starting with the breakout sessions. If you want to have some fun and learn about and/or talk aout #devops please join us. Also, if you are interested in giving a 5 minute #devops lighting talk please send me an email at john at opscode dot com.
Price: Free
Location:
Valhalla Lounge (map)
710 Red River
Austin, TX 78701
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Biggest Cloudies Disappointment
By John | March 11, 2011
When I first created the “Cloudies” awards two years ago it was supposed to be a joke with a touch of insight. I noticed that a lot of people got a kick out of it so the following year I tried a little harder to be more serious; however, still keeping the “fun” part. Last year Dave Nielsen asked me if we could do the 2010 Cloudies as part of Cloudcamp.com and I thought it was a great idea. I gave him my list of categories and early this week he put up the voting site. In previous years I picked the nominations and winners, and if there were disappointed people I took the heat. More to the point, I meant the specific category of “Biggest Cloud Disappointment” to be fun with again a touch of insight. Hell, IBM and Microsoft are big kids and they can $afford$ to take the heat. This year the category already seems to have become a little mean spirited. I am also a little disappointed in the “gaming” that is going on but I am not naive enough to think that can be controlled. However, even though I have agreed to shift the “2010 Cloudies” from an autocratic system to a democratic process, I have asked Dave to please pull the “Biggest Disappointment” category. If there are any complaints please feel free to throw the heat my way…
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