DevOpsDays Rockies 2016
who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, operations engineers, platform engineers, release engineers, security engineers, engineering managers, tooling and automation engineers
topics
Netflix devops practices; hybrid cloud operations; security automation; systems administration culture; monitoring-driven production testing; incident response and postmortems; organizational change leadership; value stream mapping; software supply chain management; blue green deployments with Terraform Packer Jenkins
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Netflix Thinks About DevOps | Dave Hahn | 31m |
Netflix claims engineers have full access to production with no push windows or gatekeeping, runs 2.5 billion time series metrics per minute and serves ~81.5… | ||
| Living in a Hybrid World | Courtney Kissler | 35m |
Product page code moves from a monolith into microservices with CI/CD so the release cadence shifts from a five‑week batch to multiple releases per day… | ||
| Security Automation for DevOps | Alan Robertson | 25m |
An automation system called the Assimilation project inventories IPs and MACs, tracks RPMs pips rubygems and npm packages, and computes checksums of… | ||
| Fear and Loathing in Systems Administration | H. "Waldo" Grunenwald | 37m |
Argues that operations pain is social not technical and prescribes concrete fixes: stop hoarding access, adopt pull requests for config, centralize logs with… | ||
| Production Testing Through Monitoring | Leon Fayer | 28m |
Testing alone fails to catch real failures so monitoring must track concrete business and system signals and be iterated. Examples: a social site returns HTTP… | ||
| Gokart to Grand Prix: How It Feels To Actually Go Fast | Seth Goings | 28m |
Deus replaces a brittle fleet+etcd+cloudconfig platform with Kubernetes and many smaller git repos plus Jenkins CI and parallel test workers, cutting a 90… | ||
| Pilot your Project: Avoiding Anti-Patterns While Handling Incidents and Planning | Jessica Breckenridge | 30m |
Claim: human error causes most failures and aviation fixes prove methods work. Evidence: FAA regulation and training cut accidents dramatically and a runway… | ||
| Leading Grassroots Organizational Change | Nicholas Aaron | 21m |
Individuals can lead bottom-up organizational change without authority by proving value: build a prototype at a hackathon or after hours, demo it, and recruit… | ||
| Ignite - Go Rin No Sno - What DevOps Can Learn From a ... | Matthew Boeckman | 06m |
Nine samurai principles map to concrete DevOps habits: adopt open honest post-mortems with factual data to build pattern recognition, define clear success… | ||
| Ignite - A DevOps Necessary Evil: Marketing | Claudia Ring | 06m |
Pilot projects include sales and marketing on the team, identify management sponsors to get past review boards, and track KPIs from day zero with a… | ||
| Ignite - Crisis Communication Breakdown | Michael Merideth | 06m |
Claims that building a staffed, trained process measurably reduces damage and speeds recovery: a cross-functional crisis communication team with on-call… | ||
| Ignite - Are you There God? It's Me, Sanity | Nicole Baumgart | 05m |
Claims: interruptions happen every 3 minutes 5 seconds and it takes 23 minutes 15 seconds to get back to work, and a seven‑day week yields about three… | ||
| Ignite - Managing Your Software Supply Chain | Chip Digirolamo | 06m |
Claims that 80% of application code comes from third‑party components and that 25% contain security and/or license risk, shows a quality gap. Uses Sonatype’s… | ||
| Ignite - Meet AnsibleDK: Yes, Thats a Thing Now | Clinton Wolfe | 05m |
AnsibleDK claims to be an omnibus-packaged bundle that installs as a single OS package under /opt/ansibleDK and produces rpms debs and dmgs with no external… | ||
| Ignite - Critical Incident? WTF (Whats The Format)? - ... | Will La | 05m |
Claim: lightweight Minimum Viable Runbooks cut chaos by capturing tribal knowledge from Slack and HipChat then converting it into actionable items on a wiki… | ||
| Ignites - Value Stream Mapping & Analysis | John W Spangler | 06m |
A quick, data-first rundown: a mapped pipeline reveals 100 items in 90 days piled into queues, with value-add 16% and non-value 63%, and a monthly deployment… | ||
| Ignite - DevOpsDays Spelunking | Chris Corriere | 05m |
Argues that situational awareness hinges on environmental boundaries using cave ecology examples — bats, bat-guano-powered ecosystem, blind cave fish — to show… | ||
| Ignite - Hello, I'm Jarvis! Let's #ChatOps ! | Adam Zolyak | 06m |
Eighteen teams and over 100 people use a Flowdock integrated chat bot called Jarvis bot to run ChatOps, tie Splunk and VictorOps into alerts, and declare P1s… | ||
| Ignite - Summon: Secrets and Source Control | Dustin Collins | 06m |
summon is a CLI that resolves secret references into environment variables and memory mapped files so tools get paths not raw secrets; it ships as a single… | ||
| Ignite - Blue Green Deployments Using Terraform + Packer + Jenkins | Christopher L Proto | 06m |
A migration from a rigid weekly release (every Tuesday with a Thursday code freeze and ~2.5 days of QA) to a pipeline that bakes AMIs with Packer, defines… | ||
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