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04
Jun 13

Going, Going… Gone

In episode 21, the panel discusses the delicate topic of when “enough is enough”: whether it’s organizational dysfunction, discovering that the role isn’t right for you and your skills or passions, abusive management, or unethical requests, we look at the nagging yellow flags that pile up and can ignite into red flags that seriously starts your mind down the road of:

Going, Going… Gone.

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

Or, download Episode 21, or any of our previous shows!

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Review

Paul reviews the RELENG 2013 Workshop, held as part of the International Conference on Software Engineering, held in San Francisco on May 20th.


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What yellow flags have you run into in your career? What was the “last straw” before you gave notice? And what did the organization try to do, if anything, to change your mind?

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14
May 13

Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version control tools. Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be expected, what level of training should be provided, and whether those are different for different teams or different tools. Plus, we poke a lil’ fun at git, as we try to answer:

Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new Tool Tip!

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Tool Tip

Youssuf introduces us to tig, an ncurses-frontend for git, similar to gitk, but great for machines where you don’t have Tcl or X!


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Do you run into lack-of-proficiency with version control or other tools with teammates? Does it slow your team down? Is there a point in having “integration engineers” or “tool/language lawyers” anymore?

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01
May 13

ChefConf 2013 Revue

It’s that time of year again where chefs (and sous-chefs!) come together to talk all-things Chef! This year’s ChefConf took place last week in San Francisco, and the crew of the Ship Show attended to experience it all first hand. We took in the sights and sounds of the workshops and presentations, as well as the all-important hallway track! We join forces with the cast of Chef community’s premier podcast, the Food Fight Show—”Where chefs do battle!”—for a:

ChefConf 2013 Revue

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and some conference word games!

Or, download Episode 19, or any of our previous shows!

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Roaming ChefConf Word Association Game

We asked a number of ChefConf attendees to blurt out the first word that came into their head when prompted by a number of words relevant to our industry.

See what they had to say!

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Did you attend ChefConf? Watch the live stream? Or look at the videos posted online?

What do you think 2013 has for Chef and its community?

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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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29
Mar 13

Automate Everything in 48 Hours or Your Pizza Is Free

Imagine waking up to find your site and service hacked. Everyone is running around, trying to find out what went wrong; you’re tasked with repairing the damage. But unfortunately, that automation project you’ve been promising yourself you’d get done has always taken a backburner to more pressing matters and features. With everyone breathing down your neck, wonder where to start. We talk with a panel of engineers who found themselves in exactly this nightmare scenario and follow them as they:

Automate Everything in 48 Hours or Your Pizza Is Free

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 a new Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 17, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Paul takes a look at NagiosTV, Chris Carey’s tool for displaying Nagios alerts on your metrics/status flatscreens in the office!

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What are you own experiences with security incident responses and automation? Where’s the line of infrastructure improvement vs. response? And are there ways to avoid this issue altogether?

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14
Mar 13

PaaS: Play or Passé?

As more and more services move into the cloud, organizations are trying to find ways to realize the tenets of “DevOps culture” by making it easier for developers interface directly with their infrastructure. But managing this can be a big task; for episode 16, we sit down with Brandon Burton, aka @solarce to discuss Platform-as-a-Service. We look at the technical and organizational challenges of PaaS, discuss what specific problems it tries to solve—and those it doesn’t—and try to answer:

PaaS: Play or Passé?

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and we take a peek the Comment Block!

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The Comment Block

Sascha explains why not getting stuck, a point raised by Etsy’s Rafe Colburn, is a really important mantra to have if you’re ever going to get to the continuous delivery promised land!

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What do you think of platform-as-a-service? Is it the future of the infrastructure environment in which DevOps will flourish? What are the hurdles? What’s your experience with PaaS?

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25
Feb 13

Demystifying DevOps: A Chat with Damon Edwards

For episode 15, we sit down for a chat with the host of The DevOps Cafe, Damon Edwards to talk through the finer points of DevOps. We ask some pointed questions in an attempt to get a good, concrete definition of “DevOps,” but without the hype that often comes prepackaged with the discussion. Watch Paul put Damon through the “curmudgeon gauntlet” as we attempt:

Demystifying DevOps: A Chat with Damon Edwards

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng,Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review!

Or, download Episode 15, or any of our previous shows!

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Book Review

Design Is A Job by Mike Monteiro.

Get it from A Book Apart.


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07
Feb 13

What’s in a Version?

Episode 14 gives some love to an often-discussed, yet seemingly under-appreciated topic: versioning! We discuss versioning and build numbers, whether these things are different “in the cloud” and for web-based services, and tackle the “customers don’t care about version numbers”-mantra. Stop by the bikeshed for a look at:

What’s in a Version?

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and the return of #DevOpsDearAbby!

Or, download Episode 14, or any of our previous shows!

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DevOps Dear Abby

Dave Thomas asks via email:

I’ve done maybe 30-40% of my career as a linux admin and 55+% as a developer and the rest in management etc.

But it’s become kind of a sore subject for me. I’ve been doing devops activities for years before the term was coined and was constantly getting caught in the middle of the two warring factions. From the beginning, I was completely dissatisfied with the available tools out there so I struck out to built a toolset of my own.

So I put my resume out there and though everyone thought the project was cool, I discovered I had some huge hurdles that make me doubt whether a career in devops was realistic.

[E]ven if I were to work for cheap or with an employer with deep
pockets … my sysadmin skills are not as current. Also writing apps I’m excellent in Java but my Python, Ruby, and Perl skills are getting rustier and rustier and I doubt I could even pass a coding interview.

Is my career as a devops tools developer over? Help!


@solarce asks “What #devops thing (conference, book, tool) are you most excited to attend/use/read in 2013?”


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What does “versioning” mean to you and your organization? When you hear “build number,” what does that mean to you? What’s the worst versioning scheme you’ve ever seen? What are we in a “post-version number world?”

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17
Jan 13

Out with The 2012, In with The 2013

For the first episode of the new year, the panel looks back at the trends and events of the past year that were part of DevOps daily life and notable in build/release engineering. We also take a look forward at 2013 and make some predictions about what the year will hold and put us on the hook for revisiting our predictions next year. Join us for our pro-/retrospective:

Out with The 2012, In with The 2013

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and the soft under-belly of The Ship Show!

Or, download Episode 13, or any of our previous shows!

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Pulling Back the Ship Show Curtain

If at first you don’t succeed, there’s always post-production…

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What do you think the defining events of 2012 in the RelEng/DevOps sphere were? And what do you think we should all be looking at in 2013?

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19
Dec 12

In the NOC for the Holidays

Firmly in the holiday season, the Crew discusses the duties this time of year for RelEng and DevOps teams: what kind of activities are these teams taking care of this time of year, should releases be going out the door, and does it make sense to keep these teams “spun up” this time of year? Join us as we discuss what it’s like to be stuck:

In the NOC for Holidays

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a story to get us all into the holiday spirit!

Or, download Episode 12, or any of our previous shows!

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Some Holiday Silliness

‘Twas the Night Before One-dot-0, by The Crew and David Lutz.

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How does your organization handle release engineering and ops issues during the holiday season?
Are you on-call? Are releases planned? How do they show you they’re appreciative?

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