Linuxcon Europe, Barcelona
I`m in Barcelona this week for LinuxCon Europe .. I`ll be hosting 3 sessions this week.Today I`ll be helping Sebastien Goasguen with his session Building Foss Clouds, I`ll be talking about how to use...
View Article#devops Conference Season heating up...
My last post has been a while ... in that I announced that there would be another event right before FOSDEM ... I totally forgot to announce it here but I`m sure that most of you already know. Yes....
View Articlecheck_graphite
During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked ,e how to do that.First lets quickly explain why you might want to do...
View ArticleLove, MonitoringLove
Last year we were pretty negative about Monitoring, We shouted out that MonitoringSucked ... A year has passed and a lot has changed ... most importantly our new found love for monitoring, thanks to an...
View ArticleInitial loadays speakers announced
Loadays is coming up soon .. 6 and 7 april .. Loadays is the Linux and Open Administration conference of the low lands , held in Antwerp, Belgium We've just published the initial batch of speakers...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn't hire a devops
Lately there have been a lot of organisations trying to hire a devops engineer. I myselve have been asked to fill in devops roles .. There's a number of issues with that.The biggest problem is that I...
View ArticleDocker vs Reality , 0 - 1
(aka the opinionated summary of the #devopsdays London November OpenSpace on , Containers and the new flood of Image Sprawl)There's a bunch of people out there that think I don't like docker, they are...
View ArticleJenkins, Puppet, Graphite, Logstash and YOU
This is a repost of an article I wrote for the Acquia Blog some time ago.As mentioned before, devops can be summarized by talking about culture, automation, monitoring metrics and sharing. Although...
View Article2014 vs 2015 interest in Open Source Configuration Management
A couple of people asked me to results of the survey of the 2015 vs 2014 Configuration Management Camp room interrests.This is a bunch of 350 last year and 420 people telling us what tools they are...
View ArticleLies, Damn Lies and Statistics, 2016 Edition
When people sign up for Configuration Management Camp, we ask them what community room they are mostly interested in. We ask this question because we have rooms in different sizes and we don't want to...
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