Server: SysAdmins, So-called 'Ops', Infrastructure-as-Code (More Buzzwords) and Kubernetes Hype
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5 ops hacks for sysadmins
As a sysadmin, every day I am faced with problems I need to solve quickly because there are users and managers who expect things to run smoothly. In a large environment like the one I manage, it's nearly impossible to know all of the systems and products from end to end, so I have to use creative techniques to find the source of the problems and (hopefully) come up with solutions.
This has been my daily experience for well over 20 years, and I love it! Coming to work each day, I never quite know what will happen. So, I have a few quick and dirty tricks that I default to when a problem lands on my lap, but I don't know where to start.
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Are you being the right person for DevOps?
What does it mean to be the "right" person in a DevOps environment? That's the question that Josh Atwell, senior tech advocate at Splunk, tried to answer in his Lightning Talk at All Things Open 2019.
"Being the right person for DevOps is being more than just your ops/dev role," says Josh. "In order to be the right person for DevOps, you have to be improving yourself, and you have to be working to improve for others."
Watch Josh's Lightning Talk, "Are you being the right person for DevOps?" to learn why you should add communication, selflessness, self-care, and celebration to your list of core DevOps traits.
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Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them
Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns by developing Juju, an open source DevOps tool, to allow it create multiple world-leading products.
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Juju is simple, secure devops tooling built to manage today’s complex applications wherever you run your software. Compute, storage, networking, service discovery and health monitoring come for free and work with Kubernetes, the cloud and the laptop.
Juju allows your software infrastructure to maintain always-optimal configuration. As your deployment changes, every applications’ configuration operations are dynamically adjusted by charms. Charms are software packages that are run alongside your applications. They encode business rules for adapting to environmental changes.
Using a model-driven mentality means raising the level of abstraction. Users of Juju quickly get used to a flexible, declarative syntax that is substrate-agnostic. Juju interacts with the infrastructure provider, but operations code remains the same across. Focusing on creating a software model of your product’s infrastructure increases productivity and reduces complexity.
Automating infrastructure at a low level of abstraction, DevOps has bought the industry from breathing space. But that breathing space is running out.
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5 Kubernetes trends to watch in 2020
“As more and more organizations continue to expand on their usage of containerized software, Kubernetes will increasingly become the de facto deployment and orchestration target moving forward,” says Josh Komoroske, senior DevOps engineer at StackRox.
Indeed, some of the same or similar catalysts of Kubernetes interest to this point – containerization among them – are poised to continue in 2020. The shift to microservices architecture for certain applications is another example.
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