Continuous Lifecycle London 2017
Last week I had the honour to speak about ChatOps at Continuous Lifecycle conference in London. The conference is organised by The Register and heise Developer and is dedicated to all things DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery. There were 2 days of talks and one day of workshops. Regretfully I couldn’t attend the last day, but I heard some of the workshops were really great. The Venue The venue was great! Situated right in the historical centre of London city, a few steps away from Big Ben, the QEII Center has a breathtaking view and a lot of space. The talks took place in 3 rooms : one large auditorium and 2 — smaller ones. It is quite hard to predict which talks will attract the most audience and it was hit and miss this time around too. Some talks were over-crowded while others felt a bit empty. Between the talks everybody gathered…
Openstack CI infrastructure Overview
Openstack is one of the largest OSS projects today with hundreds of commits flowing in daily. This high rate of change requires an advanced CI infrastructure. The purpose of the talk is to provide an overview of this infrastructure, explaining the role of each tool and the pipelines along which changes have to travel before they find their way into the approved Openstack codebase. Talk delivered by Anton Weiss at Openstack Day Israel 2016 : http://www.openstack-israel.org/#!agenda/cjg9
Devops Enablers vs. DevOps Engineers
A lot has been said and written in these last 3 years in an attempt to define what DevOps really stands for. One thing most of us agree upon is that DevOps is not a job definition – it’s a culture, a mindset, a software manufacturing practice which is focused on breaking the walls between the developers and the operations. And it is a very cool and hip practice, one that everybody likes and everybody wants a piece of. So job postings for “DevOps engineers” pop up each day like mushrooms after a summer rain. And we adapt ourselves to the new realities and start calling ourselves DevOps engineers, even though half a year ago we were called CM, or integrators, or system engineers, or whatever. I myself just signed a new contract for “DevOps” role. And yes – I’m going to do DevOps. But I know that if we…
GO is now open source!
http://www.go.cd/2014/02/25/go-moving-to-open-source.html ThoughtWorks have been industry acknowledged experts in everything related to the practices of Continuous Integration and Delivery throughout the last decade. They were the creators of CruiseControl which was a de-facto standard tool for CI before all the new tools arrived. Neverthless their own commercial Conitnous Delivery platform named ‘Go’ has never come close to the popularity of even Bamboo or TeamCity ( not to mention Jenkins ). Two days ago they announced they are making Go open-source, obviously as an attempt to increase market share. I gave GO a test-drive a couple of years ago and it seemed like a good tool back then. Now it’s open-source I’ll definitely want to look at it again. I promise to update on my impressons.