Date: Tuesday, Feb 27th, 18:00 GMT, Download here
Guest
Stephen Nelson-Smith, Principal Consultant Atalanta Systems
Twitter/IRC/GitHub: LordCope
Guest
Stephen Nelson-Smith, Principal Consultant Atalanta Systems
Twitter/IRC/GitHub: LordCope
Author of Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef
Working on `Definitive Guide to Chef`, due out this summer from O’Reilly
I come from a long line of sysadmins. My father was a sysadmin, as was his father before him. I have apprenticed at the feet of some of the greatest sysadmins American BankCorp has ever seen.
Yes, I consider the DevOps movement to be an affront to my craft. How could I not? How could I look at their smug build scripts and their repeatable processes and not see it for what it is: a crass commercialization of server creation!
Sure, you might get your precious “predictability”, but at what cost? I mean, can you even still remember that rush of intrigue and anticipation you get when your application refuses to work on two of the twelve servers it was deployed to? The thrill of the hunt as you figure out exactly which configuration settings are different and, of those, which one is causing the problem? The sweet taste of relief that you get after hours upon hours of debugging finally narrowed it down to a rogue registry setting?
Documentation is just never enough and it just isn’t sexy
Matt
better services health care, transport, and AWESOME beer. Any geek would be
extremely happy there.
Stephen
Wrap-up: please send questions and show ideas to @foodfightshow on twitter. We are looking for someone to record a regular 2-3 minute segment on cookbook news. I am also looking for technical advice on how to improve the audio quality of this podcast. If you have experience with audio production on Mac OS X and constructive criticism, please send an mail to Bryan
Working on `Definitive Guide to Chef`, due out this summer from O’Reilly
”Cut me and I bleed UNIX,
specifically Solaris”
– Stephen Nelson-Smith
Your Hosts- Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com, Twitter/IRC/GitHub: bryanwb, blog: http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com
- Matt Ray matt@opscode.com Twitter/IRC/GitHub: mattray blog: http://leastresistance.net
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News & Events
- toft, wrapper for spinning up lxc containers
- Toft provides deb and rpm packages to simplify the usage of lxc; it also provides pre-created linux images(lucid, natty and centos-6) and scripts to create these images so user can play with lxc containers by simply installing a package and download an images file.
- Toft also provides a ruby gem, wrapping common tasks such as managing nodes, running chef recipes, running ssh commands and verifying system status in ruby API; therefore you can use it with test framework such as rspec, cucumber to write tests against chef receipes, packages, scripts.
- How infochimps wants to become heroku for hadoop, more Infochimps news http://blog.infochimps.com/2012/02/22/infochimps-platform/
- Celluloid, actors for Ruby
- The Ironfan challenge https://twitter.com/#!/mrflip/status/172916921606471680 describe an app that plausibly exercises all parts of Ironfan’s el_ridiculoso cluster: http://bit.ly/el_ridiculoso
- info-chimps-code mailing list
- ChefSpec is a gem that makes it easy to write RSpec examples for Opscode Chef cookbooks. Get fast feedback on cookbook changes before you spin up a node to do integration testing against
- Ranjib Dey’s infrastructure tooling patterns
- John Allspaw hiring more due to automation, not less https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/devops/wwF4afRA7a0
- Jordan Sissel on Devops Cafe http://devopscafe.org/show/2012/2/25/devops-cafe-episode-22.html
- “devops is ruining my craft” http://tatiyants.com/devops-is-ruining-my-craft/
I come from a long line of sysadmins. My father was a sysadmin, as was his father before him. I have apprenticed at the feet of some of the greatest sysadmins American BankCorp has ever seen.
Yes, I consider the DevOps movement to be an affront to my craft. How could I not? How could I look at their smug build scripts and their repeatable processes and not see it for what it is: a crass commercialization of server creation!
Sure, you might get your precious “predictability”, but at what cost? I mean, can you even still remember that rush of intrigue and anticipation you get when your application refuses to work on two of the twelve servers it was deployed to? The thrill of the hunt as you figure out exactly which configuration settings are different and, of those, which one is causing the problem? The sweet taste of relief that you get after hours upon hours of debugging finally narrowed it down to a rogue registry setting?
- Chef Fundamentals March 14-16 NYC
- Cloud Fair April 17-19 Seattle
- OpenStack Developer Summit/Conference April 16-20 San Francisco
- ChefConf May 15-17 San Francisco
Topic: Chef for n00bs
Documentation is just never enough and it just isn’t sexy
It’s a myth that Chef is only for Programmers
Best way to learn Chef – start with an account on Hosted Chef, free for 5 machines
Chef Basics and the Fast Start Guide
Resources for Learning Ruby
- learn to program – from Pragmatic Programmers, easiest introduction
- Peter Cooper’s ruby programming from novice to professional
- Well-Grounded Rubyist
- Eloquent Ruby, his favorite
Picks
Matt
- Radiolab: Is There an Edge to the Heavens?
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| emacs, horizontally split with ruby-mode in top buffer and ansi-term running pry in bottom |
- Berlin, favorite city in Europe, a cross between Portland, OR and NYC
better services health care, transport, and AWESOME beer. Any geek would be
extremely happy there.
Stephen
- emacs - wrap-region minor mode, put markers on both ends, available through package-install on emacs24
- resident advisor podcast - awesome review of electronic musics
Wrap-up: please send questions and show ideas to @foodfightshow on twitter. We are looking for someone to record a regular 2-3 minute segment on cookbook news. I am also looking for technical advice on how to improve the audio quality of this podcast. If you have experience with audio production on Mac OS X and constructive criticism, please send an mail to Bryan