Application Configuration With Tim Gross and Adam Jacob
Posted on Monday, Aug 1, 2016
Show Notes
Tim Gross (Joyent) and Adam Jacob (Chef) independently started solving the problem of how to put applications in control of their own configuration. They discuss Habitat and ContainerPilot, to the edification of Matt and Bridget.
Checkouts
Tim
github.com/joyent/containerpilot and example applications at github.com/autopilotpattern
Adam
Bridget
The Art of Closing - open source maintainer advice from Jessie Frazelle
Badass by Kathy Sierra
Matt
DevOpsDictionary.com - I’m having a bit too much fun contributing to it.
Community & Event Stuff
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Upcoming conferences
For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.
Open CFPs
- Devopsdays.org!!!
- DevOpsDays Singapore open until August 15
- DevOpsDays Ohio open until August 26
- DevOpsDays Madison, Detroit, Cape Town, and Nashville open until August 31
- DevOpsDays Berlin open until September 1
- DevOpsDays Bangalore open until September 4
- DevOpsDays Ghent open until September 6
Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight
- Bridget - SpringOne Platform in Vegas Aug 1-4
- Matt - in Chicago. I am boring now. But you should all come see me at DevOpsDays Chicago Aug 30-31…a few tickets left, ADO2016. Plus now with extra Adam!
Guests
Tim Gross
Timothy Gross is a product manager for Joyent, providers of the Triton Elastic Container Service. Tim previously ran Ops at DramaFever, where he and his scrappy team ran Docker in production to serve a few million fans their daily dose of dramas, documentaries, and gross-out horror movies. In a previous life, Tim was an architect (buildings, not software). He took the leap into programming and operations after he discovered he could automate away almost everything boring in his life.
Adam Jacob
Adam Jacob is the creator of Chef and co-founder of Chef, Inc. in 2008 and currently serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Chef, Inc. Adam founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, Adam built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including Adam’s time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years on call for production (from enterprise to research to startups) and a couple of customer-facing adventures, she now herds cats and wrangles docs on the product side of engineering. In the wider tech community, she has done much conference speaking and organizing, and advises the global devopsdays organization after leading it for over five years. Living in Minneapolis, she enjoys snowshoeing in the winter and bicycling in the summer (with winter cycling as a stretch goal).
