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31
Mar 14

Deciphering the “Docker Lifestyle”

Creating that initial environment for your application to run in is a solved problem. Or is it? On the market today, there are a seemingly ever-increasing number of tools to facilitate that process: CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Ansible, Salt Stack, Rundeck… the list goes on. In episode 39, the panel takes a closer look at one of these new tools: Docker. The panel is joined once again by Atlassian’s James Dumay, since the discussion was prompted by a question he tweeted: “[S]omeone thinks Docker can replace Chef/Puppet. I believe they are at least complementary.” Are they? And what workflows make sense for Docker? Join the panel as we try:

Deciphering the “Docker Lifestyle”

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review!

Or, download Episode 39, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

The team reviews Explain Git with D3.

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Is Docker conceptually inconsistent with Puppet/Chef/CFEngine?

How would Docker fit into your organization’s workflow?

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17
Apr 13

Asked & Answered

This episode, we delve into the always-squishy “DevOps culture” and take a closer look at the process of both asking and answering questions. If DevOps really is the incarnation of developers and operations groups working together, the ability to efficiently and accurately transfer information between those two groups is a critical skill to have and of paramount importance to organizations trying to promote their own DevOps culture. We discuss tips and talk through our experiences to look at questions as they are:

Asked & Answered

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and another DevOps Dear Abby!

Or, download Episode 18, or any of our previous shows!

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DevOps Dear Abby

@nywilken asks “I am looking for some solid resources, books, and docs on Chef-Solo. Do you have any good suggestions?”


@pwan asks “Are there any DevOps lessons to be learned from Project ORCA (besides redirect your http requests to https)?”

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What issues have you run into when asking questions or getting your questions answered? What are your strategies for getting the result you want?

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