So this might sound like a really odd question coming from me considering most people think I am a DevOps consultant (whatever that means) or that I was running and building DevOps teams before that. The truth is that under the DevOps name I’ve been promoting the idea that, as some have put it “Products
If you are doing any work in the DevOps space you have probably heard about Ansible. Ansible, currently is the fastest growing configuration management and orchestration tool on the market right now. As infrastructure teams move toward infrastructure development teams these teams need to start thinking like standard development teams. As infrastructure development teams start
Recently I addended Docker’s MTA (Modernize Traditional Apps) program. My company was the first 4-5 companies that has ever attended this training and it was an honor to be part of such an exclusive group. The biggest take away for me was that Docker is the new VMware. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve
I’ve spent my entire career in operations and or infrastructure related roles, and over the years I’ve come to understand why most operations teams don’t scale and why they become the bottleneck for most companies. Now this isn’t going to be an argument for just using Heroku, or AWS, or CloudFoundy I’m going to explain
As I always do I was checking out the DevOps group on LinkedIn and a question caught my attention “How can you gauge a company’s commitment to DevOps philosophy?” I thought that was an interesting question, and it turned out to be a very interesting discussion. Below is my reply.