Show Date: Thursday, June 21 15:00 EDT

Monitoringsucks, a Status Update, Download Here!
Warning! Lusis curses extensively during this episode

Panel

Patrick Debois github, twitter, irc: jedi4ever, blog
Lusis github, twitter, irc: lusis, blog
MattRay github, twitter, irc: mattray, blog
Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog
Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere

In the News

Chef Cuts - Tips, Tricks and Short ‘cuts’ for Chef. site, twitter
Data center pros push systems automation limits with Chef - SearchDataCenter that talks about both Edmunds.com and Ancestry.com. Edmunds made the jump to Chef after realizing the potential for disaster recovery and Ancestry for continuous deployment.
Opscode Roadtrip! Opscode is on the road this summer! If you plan on attending any of the following events, stop by the Opscode booth and get answers to your automation questions.
- Velocity
- Google I/O
- DevOps Days Mountain View
- VMWorld
- CloudOpen
- HPC on Wall St.
New to Chef? Just getting started? Check out the New One Day Introduction to Chef Workshops from Opscode. Opscode will be offering this class in Santa Clara, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco
Attending Velocity? Check-out the special Chef Full Day Workshop on Thursday, June 28.
DevOps Prisoner’s Dilemma - Does development “rat out” operations?

Cookbook Updates

spice v1.0.0 - danryan

A zesty Chef server API wrapper that lets you easily integrate your apps with a Chef server. Spice provides support for the Chef API and has recently undergone a complete rewrite!
Returned results are now full interactive objects and not just hashes. Create, update, and destroy resources with an ORM-like interface.
Note: this version of Spice is a major version bump, which means it is not backwards-compatible with previous versions.

minitest-handler v0.0.10 - btm

now has Windows support thanks to David Petzel
and automated foodcritic tests thanks to Bryan Berry

pxe_dust v1.2.4 - opscode

Support for Ubuntu 12.04, aka Precise Pangolin support

easyapache v0.0.3 - bobloblaw

Chef cookbook for orchestration of easyapache upgrades for cPanel

smbfs v0.2.0 - peter_donald

Installs/Configures smbfs and adds mount points according to data driven pattern

More Cookbook Updates

Here’s a list of other cookbooks that were updated recently:

Now with TravisCI & Foodcritic…

Bryan, have you noticed the recent trend with adding TravisCI build status widgets to a cookbook’s README? Most of them are using TravisCI to run Foodcritic tests. About 30% of the cookbooks we’ve mentioned today have TravisCI integration. I think you recently set this up for the minitest-handler cookbook. How difficult was it?

MVT: Foodcritic and TravisCI

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Topic: Monitoring Sucks

Original blog post
Lusis recently you wrote a status update
What’s gotten better? what’s coming?
- Presence-based Discovery
- Self-service & culture
- application health by default
What about crazy math stuff by moving averages and reservoir sampling (Coda Hale)? Coda Hale’s Metrics library
The monitoringsucks github repo
Jim Hopp runs his integration tests along w/ regular chef runs, does that blur the line b/w monitoring and testing? should we use testing for monitoring?
Boundary
Zenoss
Sensu
Graphite
Logstash

Picks

Bryan
- The Singularity is Near
- Stephen Eley, founder of escapepod and contributor to Cucumber-Chef

nathen

lusis

patrick

continuous integration with puppet
the all-American roadtrip

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Episode 18: #monitoringsucks With Lusis and Patrick Debois