How to Eff Up Devops

Posted on Monday, Jul 7, 2014

DevOps ‘Thought Leaders’ Pete Cheslock, Nathen Harvey, and Randi Harper help us understand all the things you can do wrong when ‘doing the DevOps’.

Show Notes

Transcript

What are some common misconceptions about what DevOps is?
What are some symptoms of "DevOps Smell"[1]?
Development Operations vs Dev + Ops
Is it really just about culture?
Can the opinions of a tool help drive the culture? This is a theory Matt is marinating upon, and might be totally wrong.
How can we avoid the "echo chamber" of DevOps discussion?

Pete

Ansible

Nathen

Remap your CAPS LOCK key as Ctrl key. Also new Supermarket site for Chef - supermarket.getchef.com

Randi

Anything BUT Jenkins.

Trevor

A little bit of Hodor and the Google Now voice thing.

Matt

Sunrise calendar for iOS and OS X.

Guests

Pete Cheslock

Pete is currently the head of Operations and Support for Threat Stack, a continuous security monitoring company. Pete is a 15 year veteran of the technology industry and sees Threat Stack solving a critical problem around continuous security monitoring with dynamic, cloud based infrastructure. Previously, he built out the automation and release engineering teams at Dyn, managing and deploying mission critical global DNS infrastructure. Prior to Dyn, Pete was the Director of Technical Operations for Amazon-Backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he developed and managed a Petabyte scale archiving application across multiple public clouds.

Nathen Harvey

VP of Community Development at Chef, helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef platform. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, continuous delivery, and high velocity organizations. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. He is also an occasional farmer who loves eggs and actively supports #hugops.

Randi Harper

Randi didn’t give us a bio

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.

Trevor Hess

Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.

Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.

Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.