Computers

The cause of – and the solution to – all of life's problems.

A Brief History of Computing

Mainframe

Punch Cards

Personal Computers

Users . . . The Wall . . . Operations

Patrick Dubois

The 'Godfather' of DevOps

10+ Deploys Per Day:

Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr

John Allspaw and Paul Hammond

@ Velocity Conference 2009, San Jose

#devops

Culture

Tools

... habits [tools & culture] that allow us to survive in The Danger Zone.

TurboTax

165 new-feature experiments in the 3 month tax season

Economist conference 2011

Puppet: State of DevOps Report

'DevOps' up 50% on Linkedin keyword searches

Puppet: What is a DevOps Engineer?

Coding/Scripting
Strong grasp of automation tools
Process re-engineering
A focus on business outcomes
Communication & Collaboration

Questions?

Puppet & Chef

Configuration Management
Portable
Repeatable

Puppet

http://puppetlabs.com/
Ruby-like
Modules @ Puppet Forge

            
              package { "gtypist":
                ensure   => installed,
                provider => homebrew,
              }
              package { "redis":
                ensure   => installed,
                provider => homebrew,
              }

Chef

http://www.getchef.com/
Opscode
Ruby
Cookbooks @ Opscode Community

            
              package "mysql" do
                action :install
              end

              package "redis" do
                action :install
              end

Vagrant

http://www.vagrantup.com/

            
              Vagrant.configure do |config|
                config.vm.provision "puppet" do |puppet|
                  puppet.manifests_path = "my_manifests"
                  puppet.manifest_file = "default.pp"
                end
              end