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Notes on ‘team responsibilities in cloud-native operations’ (Pete Mounce)

Posted on July 10, 2015July 31, 2015 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

Summary: Pete Mounce (@petemounce) from Just Eat gave a compelling talk at the London Continuous Delivery meetup group on ‘team responsibilities in cloud-native operations’. I found the talk hugely engaging, with loads of detail applicable to many organisations. Here are my notes from the meetup.

I captured my notes as slides:

Update: the video of Pete’s talk is here on Vimeo:

There were several specific points made by Pete that were interesting for me:

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Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law – slides from QCon London

Posted on March 6, 2015November 12, 2017 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

Using Chef for infrastructure automation – reading list

Posted on August 28, 2014August 28, 2014 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

I have recently read (and re-read) several books on Chef in order that I can recommend books to clients who are starting with infrastructure automation (and to remind myself of the more obscure uses of knife, encrypted databags, and so on). In this post I comment on these books:

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook by Matthias Marschall
Managing Windows Servers with Chef by John Ewart
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef (2nd Edition) by Stephen Nelson-Smith
Automation Through Chef Opscode by Navin Sabharwal and Manak Wadhwa

Summary: read Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook for a good introduction to Chef on both Linux and Windows; read Managing Windows Servers with Chef if you manage many Windows machines; but most of all read Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef because without a test-driven approach your infrastructure code will rapidly become tangled, unsupported, and obsolete.

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The most common DevOps adoption mistake, and other answers – interview for DevOpsFriday5

Posted on August 11, 2014August 2, 2014 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

I was interviewed recently by the folks at Ranger4 for their #DevOpsFriday5 question series. Since June 2014 (when I was interviewed) I have published a couple of things which expand on the original answers, so I have outlined these here. The questions were: