Show Date: Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Outline
John and Nathen sat down with Marc Watts, Mark Jennings, and David Lutzy to discuss the DevOps culture and history at Lonely Planet, performance, metrics-driven engineering, and more.
- 0:40 - In the News
- 2:08 - Meetup Groups & Events
- 3:38 - Google+ Chef Hangouts
- 3:55 - Special Offer
- 4:20 - New Cookbooks
- 5:35 - Updated Cookbooks
- 6:35 - Panel Introductions
- 7:53 - What is Lonely Planet?
- 11:00 - History of DevOps at Lonely Planet
- 13:35 - Size and Organization of Lonely Planet
- 17:02 - How Lonely Planet lost it’s way…but found it again.
- 18:16 - Infrastructure of Lonely Planet and moving to the cloud
- 19:50 - Content caching
- 21:55 - Software stack at Lonely Planet
- 25:40 - Does performance matter?
- 30:00 - Enabling developers to implement metrics
- 35:46 - Open Source contributions, including Fozzie
- 38:26 - Self-service metrics
- 43:36 - Using Chef at Lonely Planet
- 49:50 - Picks
- 56:40 - Close
Panel
- Marc Watts github, twitter
- Mark Jennings twitter, blog
- David Lutz github, twitter
- John Vincent, aka Lusis twitter, github
- Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog
In the News
Now that Velocity EU and DevOpsDays Rome are over, presentations, blog posts, and videos are starting to appear all over the web. A little google-fu should help you find what you’re looking for. What were some of your favorites? Email us at info@foodfightshow.org and we’ll mention them on the next show.
A couple of highlights from VelocityEU include
Six themes from Velocity Europe - Performance matters more, importance of the human factor in web operations, and more.
Obfuscurity’s DevOpsDays Rome Presentation on The State of Open-source Monitoring is available over on SpeakerDeck.
In other conference news, the PuppetConf Videos are now available, too.
knife-env-diff - a knife plugin which will diff the cookbook versions of two or more environments.
Part 1 of the Chef PeepCode Screencast is now available.
Upcoming Meetup Groups and Events
There’s a new Chef Users Group in Los Angeles! If you live or work near LA, go signup for this group.
Chef Cafe meetings are informal gatherings that are a great place to ask questions about Chef and establish connections with people that can help you in the future. The Bay Area Chef User Group is hosting Chef Cafe meetings on October 18 and the Chicago Chef Users’ Group is holding one on October 11.
The Chef-NYC group is meeting on October 16th for an An Introduction to Shef, The Chef Shell
The Triangle Devops group will meet on October 17 in Raleigh, NC. The topic for the night: Lean About Illumos
Gigaom will be hosting a webinar on October 18th. The webinar will look at Continuous delivery: develop, deliver and deploy software on demand. You can register for the free webinar today.
The Continuous Integration Testing Conference will be hosting CITCON Europe in Budapest on October 19 & 20.
The Opscode Community Summit #2 is coming up on October 23 and 24. Please come out to Seattle to meet with your tribe and share ideas about making this community even better!
DevOps Days NYC have been announced for November 1st and 2nd. Registration is now open and you can send in your talk proposals or become a sponsor now.
Would you be interested in joining a Google+ hangout with some fellow Chefs? We’re thinking about setting up some regulary Chef hangouts, let us know ifthis is something you’d be interested by emailing me at nharvey@opscode.com.
Cookbook News
New Cookbooks
ubuntu_nvidia_gpu v0.1.0 - fnichol Installs/Configures NVIDIA graphics drivers on Ubuntu Linux
tarsnap v0.0.10 - andreacampi This cookbook installs and configures tarsnap. Optionally it can also install and configure tarsnapper. Tarsnap is a secure online backup service. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts. Tarsnapper is a wrapper around tarsnap that allows you to define “backup jobs” and expire old backups.
chocolatey v0.0.2 - guilhemfr Install chocolatey and packages on Windows. Chocolately NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind.
naglite2 v0.1.3 - sjourdan This Chef cookbook deploys naglite2, which is a full screen nagios viewer intended for NOC/monitoring screens. Naglite2 on github, Naglite2 in action
Updated Cookbooks
- s3fs-c v0.0.2 - leeky
- ipmitool v1.1.0 - retr0h
- splunkstorm v0.0.3 - d2kagw
- sol v0.2.0 - retr0h
- cpan v0.0.20 - melezhik
- tar v0.0.1 - smith
- graphite_handler v0.0.8 - peter_donald
lusis
Nathen
Marc
Mark
David
Here’s a vidoe from Three Trapped Tigers, one of David’s picks:
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