Mark Burgess joins Damon and John for a chat about Mark's personal journey, cfengine, the new cfengine 3, promise theory, convergence, orchestration, and other fascinating topics. 

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon chat with the creator of Chef and the co-founder of Opscode, Adam Jacob. 

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon chat with Mark Imbriaco (Living Social) about the value of an internal platform for operations, building a "Developer Happiness Team", solving DevOps problems from a managers perspective, and much more. 

Show notes: http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon talk with Sean Porter (@portertech) about cool tools like Sensu and DevOps best practices.

Show notes: http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon chat with Ben Rockwood (Joyent) about his path to DevOps, his recent keynote at LISA 2111, and what's getting him excited these days.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Meet a DevOps toolsmith. John and Damon interview Jordan Sissel, author of the popular fpm and logstash. Show notes at: http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon are back in the saddle again. No guests this time. Just a quick catch-up (lots of changes!) and discussion on what is in store for DevOps, Cloud, and the podcast in 2012.

Devops tools fools and other smart things

http://ow.ly/6V0BG 

-Craftsman vs artist...

-It’s not about the tools it’s about the craftsmanship

-Tools as objects to think with

-Create places and spaces to create boundary objects

-Boundary objects give way to technical debt...

-Craftsman swaps (Week) Craftsman journey (week)... 

-Automation free up time to do more design... 

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Evolving Continuous Deliver - Chris Read (GotoCon 2011)

http://ow.ly/6TRTW 

What we were told... (the ROE)

-Single Source Repository

-Automate Build and Testing

-Publish Latest Distributable

-Every Commit Builds

-Test in Production Like Environment

-Keep Builds Fast

-Use Information Radiators

-Automate Deployment

-Build Binary Once

-Promote Binary Through Stages

Initial State

-Releasing daily from developer

-workstations to production

-No Continuous Integration!

-Using Fig for dependency management

Stage 1 

-Standardize and Re-factor the build scripts

- Add Continuous Integration server

-Set up an Information Radiator

Later Stages....

-Sideline the Continuous Integration loop

-Bake the Continuous Integration safeties

into the deployment scripts

-Automate server builds

-Start to scale services out

-Fracture services out into stacks

-Stage the binaries

-Fast rollbacks

-1 Week to 30 minutes... 

-Requires architectural vision & discipline

-Short code half life & unix philosophy

-Minimize risk by co-locating customers

-Prodigious monitoring

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Information radiator

http://alistair.cockburn.us/Information+radiator

An Information radiator is a display posted in a place where people can see it as they work or walk by. It shows readers information they care about without having to ask anyone a question. This means more communication with fewer interruptions.

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Launch EC2 Spot Instances in a Virtual Private Cloud

http://ow.ly/6UFbW 

We've combined two popular AWS features, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). You can now create a private, isolated section of the AWS cloud and make requests for Spot Instances to be launched within it.

Launching Spot Instances into Amazon VPC requires special capacity behind the scenes, which means that the Spot Price for Spot Instances in an Amazon VPC will float independently from those launched outside of Amazon VPC.

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IBM to Acquire System Software Company Platform Computing to Extend Reach of Technical Computing

http://ow.ly/6TRS6 

Clusters, Grids and Clouds... 

IBM is a weird bird.. They buy overpriced companies just before they are about to go obsolete.  Cognos... Big Data?  Platform Computing... Cycle Computing.. Openstack.. 

Either they are stupid or they run the numbers and release there is money to make in the interim.. 

IBM's recent acquisitions (last 3 yrs) seem to be untimely unlike their prior 10 years...

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Opscode Community Summit

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Opscode+Community+Summit

Nov 29 & 30 2011 Seattle

-What is the roadmap for Opscode & Chef?-

-What must we do to expand & thrive?-

-What best practices have emerged & how should we share them?

-How will our community grow while serving experts and welcoming newcomers?

-What should the Opscode Conference & other events in 2012 cover?

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Russian Nginx raises $3 million from international investors

http://ow.ly/6TRO4 

Russian company Nginx raised $3 million from German BV Capital, Russian Runa Capital andMSD Capital, Michael Dell‘s venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily.

Untethered, CFEngine hitches a lift on Android

http://www.cfengine.com/blog/cfengine-android

The latest chapter of this story is the touching of two branches of this freedom: the internet information ecology and mobile communications. We are talking, of course, about smartphones and their heavier brethren `pads'. What about configuration management of these devices?

-encryption of memory,

-pin code or password protection,

-software updates, 

-application version control, are pressing.

Open Source android does not allow the notion of a privileged monitor on which most management frameworks are built.

 CFEngine has an andriod prototype.. 

Android 2.2 introduces support for enterprise applications byhttp://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html

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The next five years of cloud and client computing, Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu - YouTube

http://ow.ly/6TS06

Mark Shuttleworth....  Get past the initial introductions in French.. then initial talk about tablets and smart devices... About 1/2 of the way in the data center...

Lingua Franca-  http for api's, Iaas for cloud, openstack as the apache of cloud.

Leadership is key factor from spinning out of control.. 

Virt platofrms... 

virt ... kvm .... standard virt platform... 

lxc .. containers ... (trade isolation fro performance)  trusted workloads choice lxc... 

Ubuntu ... Openstack work with LXC...

Cloudfoundry.... savy move... generic harness for PaaS... bridging layer...   

Openstack.. Cloudfoundry ... 

Efficiency... ARM... ARM in the datacenter.  Ubuntu 11.10 first widely release Ubuntu that will treat ARM as a first class

power density, performance density.. 

Human scalability...

  Ops became much more of an eng/dev opposed to maint.. server rations up 10 to 20x

1 to 10k or higher in the future... 

How to scale in non flat orgs (legacy IT) .. Chef and Puppet... Spray it... 

Devops... Defining the language that we speak.. turnover... 

New service deployment... Config doesn't address.  Which 10k machines need that change..what order

Key driver .. scaling CM.. "Service Orchestration"  blurs the line between IaaS and PaaS.. Juju.. Ubuntu means Humans. Juju means super natural humans..

pkg metaphor...  for services... like a package knows where all the pieces for a software pkgs need to go juju knows where all the 

In the next five years everything will change except the beauty of paris... 

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Multi-Platform Messaging with RabbitMQ

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Multi-Platform-Messaging-with-RabbitMQ

Rob Harrop 

5 different Languages and two different protocols...  

Java2days 2009 - Java Concurrency in 5 Languages ( Scala, Java, Erlang, Clojure, Groovy).

Rob Harrop demoes how to use RabbitMQ from a variety of languages (Java, Python, Ruby and Erlang) and different environments using AMQP and STOMP to achieve for multi-platform communication.

4 Languages... 

Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Erlang, and Telnet....

RabbitMQ is naitivly multiprotocal . stomp, amqp. .... 

Great overview of RabbitMQ... 

Most important thing in RabbotMQ is it is not JMS.   Forget what you know about JMS and re-discover...

Examples

Java Consumer to Pyhton publisher... w/AMQP

Java Consumer to Erlang publisher... w/AMQP

Examples

STOMP Adapter (ActiveMQ) 

Ruby Consumner Telnet publisher 

Then gets xrazy... 

Multiple languages ruby, telnet, NodeJS... 

Demo

NodeJS and SocketIO to link RabbitMQ and Node together... 

https://github.com/robharrop/presentations/tree/master/2011/whats-next-paris

Recommend book for Javascript 

http://ow.ly/6TRWS 

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Got open source cloud storage? Red Hat buys Gluster

http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2011/10/05/got-open-source-cloud-storage-red-hat-buys-gluster/

-Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss

-GWOS and Zenoss rumors... 

-Given its recent quarterly earnings report and topping the $1 billion annual revenue mark, Red Hat seems again to be bucking the bad economy.

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1 Million User Party: Mon Oct 17 in SF

Openbar till 11pm... Wish I could be there.... 

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2012 Fukuoka Ruby Award Competition & FOG

Wesley Beary

@geemus 

https://gist.github.com/1248281

http://www.myfukuoka.com/events/2012-fukuoka-ruby-award-competition

Grand Prize (1 Million Yen)

Outstanding Performance Awards (100,000 Yen)

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Ubuntu and the Cloud...

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ubuntu-cloud-live/

Ubuntu Orchestra

JUJU using LXC on a Laptop .. can run it in virtulization.. openstack or EC2.... 

In the front of the stage, we have a portable rack of servers (a 40-core Intel Emerald Ridge, a 24-core HP Proliant, a 16-core Dell Precision, with a System76 local Ubuntu mirror, and Cisco networking hardware).  We've used Ubuntu Orchestra to remotely install the systems, and we've deployed OpenStack to the rack.  Once OpenStack is running, Clint has a series of Hadoop jobs that he spins up and runs against dozens of instances on the local Nova compute node.  And for the real whiz-bang, Clint uses gource for dynamic visualization of the Hadoop cluster, the various nodes, and their relationships.  It is absolutely stunning to behold!

To get started download the image from:

http://people.canonical.com/~akarama/binary.img

Ubuntu 11.10 Oct 13...

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Open Stack Summit Summary...

Matt Ray... Bell of the ball.... I worked my ass off to hire him at Opscode... 

Ironic story... 

User adoption is really taking off, and we’ll be hearing from MercardoLibre, CERN, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Fidelity, Disney, and NeCTAR Summit...

Rackspace’s intention to form an OpenStack Foundation in 2012

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/10/openstack-foundation/

-organizations backing OpenStack is now well over 110, including industry giants such as Cisco, HP, and Dell.

-Clouscaling, Piston and Nebula

-Techstars recently announced an incubator program for Cloud start ups

-User adoption is really taking off, and we’ll be hearing from MercardoLibre, CERN, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Fidelity, Disney, and NeCTAR

-HP using Openstack huge contributor... 

-They also plan on posting their own Chef cookbooks and apparently they have their own crowbar like implementation. 

-Dell w/Crowbar was giving demos... 

Complete list for blueprints...

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack

Git support for gt/jenkins....

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Windows Registry-based Idempotence Check with Chef

http://delivermind.blogspot.com/2011/10/windows-msi-idempotence-with-chef.html

registry_helper.rb is used to check for an already installed product... 

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Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!

http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2011/10/puppet-vs-chef-fight.html

If you aren't yet using Puppet or Chef for managing your *nix infrastructure, you should seriously consider it.

The Criteria

-Community Strength

-Leadership

-Corporate Adoption

-Technical Merits

-Hands-on Experience

Community Size

Number of people on IRC on Sunday Oct 9th, 2011 10 AM GMT

#puppet   541 users

#chef       233 users

Mailing Lists

puppet-users  3363 members, 5961 topics

chef: 600 members, # of topics unknown

Quality of Cookbook Sites

http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks

http://forge.puppetlabs.com/

Github Repositories:

puppet:  1622 repositories

chef:      1299 repositories

 Pro Puppet, by Puppet Labs engineer James Turnbull, is an awesome introduction to Puppet. I found it immensely helpful. There is a 50-page O'Reilly publication on Chef, Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef, but it cannot match the breadth of Pro Puppet...

Leadership

Luke... I spoke to Luke .. he told me he actually put a lot of efford into becoming a CEO... 

Scott Johnston new VP or Product and Marketing

Director, Product Management, New Business Ventures atCisco Systems

Director, Customer Operations at Loudcloud

Director, Product Management at Geocast Network Systems

Director, Product Management, Web/Application Servers atNetscape

 Partner at Alloy Ventures

 

Opscode now has Mitch Hill: Chief Executive Officer

8 guys to almost 1bill exit...

Opscode has battery and Puppet kliener perkins