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Episode 22 - 5 tips to taking the fear out of automation projects
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A lot of people new to automation are very nervous about letting a script or program like Chef change a production system. That fear can really slow the advance of a DevOps movement. But ignoring those people's fears is not the answer. So here are some tips and tricks to get everyone, including yourself, to be more confident about writing world cha…
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Episode 21 - You did know there is a script for that?
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Bob from Minneapolis sent us some great feedback and a couple of great questions. In this post we are going to tackle communicating what scripts are available and what they do. I spend a lot of my time as a consultant writing up documentation. At most sites I am pretty sure the work is lost before I get out the door on my last day. So how did I try…
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Episode 20 - Devopsmastery.com - Don't be a tool about tools...
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Everyone loves a new toy. New tools help us do our jobs better, faster and more accurately. Which is great when you understand exactly what you want the tool to do for you. How often does that really happen though?As an Enterprise Architect I am asked on a regular basis to help companies deploy tools. The problem I run into the most is they don't c…
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Episode 19 - Devopsmastery.com - Six tips for more effectively DevOps communications
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If you are really going to master DevOps you need to master communications. At least the ability to clearly motivate and pull people into the discussion and the goal you are trying to achieve. Spending an extra fifteen or twenty minutes writing an E-Mail can save you days and sometimes weeks of discussions, arguments and apologies. I have a lot of …
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Episode 18 - Devops Mastery Choosing what to automate first, second, and so on.
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What follows are the criteria I use to determine what to script or automate first, second, and so on. It's another of the "it depends" questions that never have an easy answer. I will try to help you make some rational decisions but ultimately it's your world to live and you need to decide.The thing I see everyone want to do first is automate and t…
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Episode 17 - Automated Build and Deploy DevOps Tools - Devops Mastery
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Automated Deployment or Automated Build tools are all complicated to give a true evaluation. Before you even try to evaluate the tools, working through the complete process manually is normally the best place to start. You need to understand how the deployment process works before you can figure out what tool will meet your needs. Things to take no…
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Devops Mastery - Episode 16 - Code Management DevOps Tools
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Before we begin this discussion remember this one thing while you read this; what you use to manage code is less important than making sure you manage it. Management in this context means version tracking, an ability to roll back changes in code, and being able to compare two versions of the code in question. The time people spend trying to track w…
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Devops Mastery - Episode 15 Monitoring DevOps Tools
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If you think there are a lot of tools to configure your systems you haven't looked at the tools available to monitor your stuff. The set is so large that it is easy to get overwhelmed. So again in this article I am going to give you a list that I use to narrow the field. Then I am going to give you a list of my favorites. Is it agent, agentless, or…
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Devops Mastery - Episode 14 Configuration Management - DevOps Tools
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Configuration Management DevOps Tools are plentiful. So we will start this primer off with what I look for in a tool and why. Then we will talk about my current top paid and open source choices. When I am evaluating new tools in this class look at the following things:* Is it OS restricted? If I need to manage Windows Machines and it only supports …
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