Microservice Development Toolkits part 1 – Otto
Otomato is happy to announce we’re collaborating with Codefresh on their great continuous delivery for docker containers solution. (If you’re using docker in your development/production or only thinking of doing it – go check out http://codefresh.io. ) Our collaboration is mostly focused on industry analysis and docker development ecosystem research with the goal of identifying pain points and providing effective solutions. With quite a bit of evangelism on top. The linked post is the first fruit of that. https://codefresh.io/microservice-development-workflow-otto/
Have you heard of Wajig?
We love productivity tools of all kind and believe that software should be making our lives easier. For some reason many software products we have to work with don’t really feel like their creators agree. They may have great architecture, reliability and functionality but it looks like usability is snapped on as an afterthought. One example of this is apt – the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. While a great tool in itself, for some reason it provides a number of different user interfaces for different purposes. To install/remove/upgrade/download a package there’s the apt-get tool: apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update and install. Commands: update – Retrieve new lists of packages upgrade – Perform an upgrade install – Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb) remove – Remove packages …
Jenkins User Conference Israel 2016 Announced
Reposted from the official event page: Jenkins User Conference hits Israel fifth year in a row! Come learn how to optimize Jenkins across the software delivery process! With more than 100,000 active installations and more than 1,000 plugins Jenkins is no doubt a leader in the CI and CD domain. Our 2015 Jenkins User Conference in Israel drew more than 700 developers, and was so successful that this year we know it will be a blast! The Jenkins User Conference focuses on the use of Jenkins for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) as the fundamental best practice for enterprise software delivery. Our presenters are experienced Jenkins developers, build managers, QA, DevOps practitioners, IT managers/executives, architects and IT operations who are luminaries within the Jenkins community. They represent the many organizations around the world that are leveraging the use of Jenkins within the software delivery lifecycle. We welcome you…
DevConTlv update
Just went to DevConTLV pre-conf speaker dinner. Had a lot of fun talking about tech, life and business with some of the finest minds in the industry. Now – it figures I was wrong regarding the conference format. This one isn’t going to have beers and live music… But! It will have great speakers who are going to rock the stage with talks on cutting edge software development tools and metodologies. On my part I will do my best to keep the audience entertained. So if you want to be a ninja – make sure to attend.
Service-Oriented Collaboration
This post is yet another take on how we should be creating software together. I’m now working on a book named “Coding Together” that will be reviewing all the challenges of collaborative software delivery and the ways of overcoming them for maximum creativity and efficiency. As I’m gathering materials – my understanding not only deepens but shifts – complex systems viewed holistically definitely cannot be analyzed as a sum of their parts. Two years ago I gave a few talks and wrote about the importance of enabling self-service principle in a smart and secure way for smooth and effective value delivery in software engineering organisations. I still hold a strong belief in self-service builds, tests, deployments and infrastructure provisioning. All these can greatly enhance the rate of innovation and the quality of produced software. If done correctly, that is… But it can be quite disastrous when this self-service concept implementation isn’t…
Cloud-aware, provider-agnostic monitoring
I’ve never had to deal so much with monitoring. I’ve established a few Nagios instances in earlier days, I’ve used Amazon CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic lately for cloud setups, but I don’t consider myself a monitoring expert. At Otomato we are currently mainly focused on software delivery processes, on how to get those bits from dev machines and into production in the most effective and agile manner without compromising quality. Monitoring, although an important part of running software and assuring successful value delivery (should I say an important part of DevOps?) , has been largely out of our scope. But now we are working on a new project where we had to deal with the full-full cycle – building, deploying and running. Moreover – the requirement was for cloud-provider-agnostic solutions as this is going to be a multicloud setup. And with that came the most exciting part of any project – the research!…
DevConTLV is only 2 days away!!!
If you’ve never been to DevConTLV – you are seriously missing out!!! Running under the banners of “Server Side Development and Rock’n’Roll” this is the grooviest software conference in Middle East, (or maybe even in the whole world?!) Great speakers, free beer and live music – what more can a geek ask for? The one taking place on the 22nd of March is probably the largest, the most bombastic DevConTLV ever. Featuring speakers from all parts of the planet, a Terraform training day and no other than Otomato’s own Ant Weiss as the DevOps track MC. There are only late bird ticket left now, they are a bit pricey, but you can use the ‘ANTWEISS‘ coupon to get a very nice discount. Hoping to see you all! P.S: and this is a sweet memory from the last year DevConTLV : Sputnik Hi-FI feat. Ant Weiss – Software is Eating the World!
Otomato – separating scopes.
If you’ve been reading the posts on this blog – you know that until now this was a mixed bag of professional articles, technical tips and personal impressions. Now that Otomato is going to become a full-blown consulting firm I feel it’s time to separate the personal from the professional. There still may be some shared context here and there, but starting today I’m moving my personal blogging to a Hugo-based site hosted on Github pages – http://antweiss.com
Going full time and looking for partners.
Dear friends, colleagues and clients! As some of you may know – I’ve decided to finally dedicate all of my working time to developing Otomato into the best in class DevOps and Software Delivery consultancy and training company. Starting March 10th this will be the focus of my business activity and I’m now open for projects, collaborations and partnerships. If you’re enthusiastic about DevOps and improving software delivery practices, if you need help with streamlining your workfows or enabling infrastructure automation – drop me a note and I’m sure we’ll find a way to do some great stuff together. Ant Weiss
User-friendly monitoring for your Jenkins server
We all love Jenkins. It’s flexible, scalable, has unbelievable community support (more than 1010 plugins available) and is very easy to get started with. No wonder Jenkins is the CI/CD server used in at least 70% of IT and R&D organisations around the globe. Once you start using Jenkins you quickly get hooked. It’s so easy to automate any development or system task, add a button and let your users push it whenever needed. And your Jenkins instance begins to grow. Very soon you have views, nested views, pipeline views, dozens of plugins for every little thing, jobs for dev, jobs for QA, jobs for project managers, an ever growing bunch of slave nodes, you name it.Everyone in the organisation is using Jenkins, everyone falls in love with it as much as you originally did. But then the day comes and your Jenkins that was so lively and fast when you installed it and ran…