Devops Chat

DevOps.com catches up with Nigel Kersten, Chief Technical Strategist at Puppet. While Nigel is a wealth of information and we could take days speaking with him, todays chat is all about the 2017 DevOps Survey presented by Puppet and DORA and is open now. After listening to this great 15 minute interview, head on over and take the survey at: https://devops-survey.com/register.php

Our first DevOps Chat of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. When not writing Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. Over the course of her career Aruna has been a code writing engineer, in addition to a business executive, so she brings a great perspective to what it takes to successfully lead DevOps transformations. Our chat is actually a pre-cursor to a full Q & A webinar we will be producing with Aruna, where we will dive much deeper into the book's subject matter. The webinar is January 17th and you can sign up to attend for free at http://webinars.devops.com/devops-digital-leaders. Aruna is a very interesting person and the book is great. It is also available for free in electronic form, as well for sale in hardcover on Amazon and other book outlets. All proceeds from the book go to charity to enable gifted student to attend university who would otherwise be challenged due to economic hardship. Just another reason to listen to the chat, attend the

DevOps.com sits down with Jeff Schaeffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. Jeff discusses the launch of the new CD community on DevOps.com sponsored by CA, as well as the impact of Continuous Delivery on the way businesses are delivering software today. It seems we are moving to everything being done continuously. Jeff gives us some keen insight on this.

Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies is our guest on this DevOps Chat. Huw and Alan Shimel discuss Automation. Specifically that automation for automation's sake alone is not always a good thing. Building the right automation is key. Organizations need to understand what and why they are automating something before investing in automating it. Huw will be discussing this topic further in an upcoming webinar on DevOps.com.

Our guest for this DevOps Chat is Lucas Carlson, VP of Strategy, Automic. Carlson is fairly new to Automic, but no stranger to technology. He has founded several companies, had successful exits, worked in key positions at larger companies such as CenturyLink where he ran their lab and also written several books, both fiction and non-fiction. Lucas discusses what he thinks is a fundamental challenge in DevOps. That is that DevOps appears to be Developer led and is by and for Developers. In Lucas's view it doesn't work as well for Ops and fundamentally something has to change to make it work. Have a listen to this provocative discussion and stay tuned for a deeper dive on this subject with Lucas and others soon!

IBM InterConnect 2017 is coming in March. The call for speakers is open until March 11th. You can get more info at http://www.ibm.com/interconnect. In the meantime I had a chance to catch up with Randy Newell, Director WorldWide Marketing DevOps. Randy gives us his own take on what the highlights of InterConnect 2017 will be, as well as upcoming IBM sessions at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco. Randy is very knowledgable about the market and a great conversation. Enjoy!

DevOps.com sits down with Tim Butel, VP Products at XebiaLabs to discuss what is the latest in DevOps, Continuous Delivery and at XebiaLabs. He talks to us about his own job duties, what he sees in the DevOps market and how XebiaLabs is setting its mark in the market.

Our guest in this DevOps Chat is Hayden Lindsey, VP of DevOps and Enterprise Systems and distinguished engineer at IBM. Beyond the title though, Hayden is a great gentlemen who I have had the pleasure of interviewing several times over the years. Hayden and his team have done a great job of not only keeping the "big iron" systems working the world over, but in fact teaching some of these "old dogs new tricks". Hayden and IBM's Enterprise System Group have leveraged technologies like DevOps and Agile to make todays enterprise systems work better and faster, keeping up with even the highest performing IT teams. Hayden tells us about the latest offerings from his team as well as discussing "Cognitive DevOps." I think you will enjoy Hayden's view of the market right now.

The most widely anticipated book in the DevOps world was officially released today. The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, John Willis, Patrick Debois and Jez Humble is here. We sit down with Gene how tells us about this labor of love and learning that was over 5 years in the making. With over 40 case studies of companies who have make the transformation to DevOps and high performing IT, this book serves as a guide to DevOps success. Gene gives us a preview to the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco this November. This is a great episode, not to be missed! Read full transcript here: https://devops.com/devops-chat-g/

Panzura is a company that has made its mark by offering tremendous savings and even bigger speed improvements for companies with distributed data systems. With that kind of advantage, it is almost a no brainer that this would be very useful for DevOps. More and more we are seeing Panzura used by DevOps teams. Two Panzura execs, Rich Weber and Barry Phillips give us the lowdown on Panzura, as well as how and why DevOps and Panzura are made for each other.

Dr. CJ Paul, distinguished engineeer, DevOps Methods & Tools, IBM Cloud sits down with DevOps.com editor in chief, Alan Shimel to discuss trends in ITSM and DevOps. Paul also discusses IBM BlueMix Garage and the BlueMix Garage Method among other topics.

DevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sits down with Michael Olson, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. Michael and I discuss a number of topics including the recent DevOps Salary survey that Puppet released. Another topic of discussion is the webinar Puppet is sponsoring and Michael is appearing on September 27, 2016 titled, "A Roadmap for DevOps Success." This webinar is a great jumping off point for those who are looking to set off on their DevOps transformation or even anyone looking for a DevOps reset. Please click the link to register if you are interested. In the meantime, Michael gave us a great amount of information about the topic and DevOps in general. I think you will find it very interesting and useful.

DevOps.com chats with Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of cloud research at Trend Micro. Mark talks about cloud security in a hybrid cloud world. it is a good discussion around DevSecOps, cloud and the future. Enjoy!

DevOps Chats speaks with John Harris of LeftShift IT about the red hot DevOps consulting business, continuous testing and more. John has real experience in the field and some great insights to share!

DevOps.com chats with Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org about the current state of Scrum and Agile, how it interacts with DevOps and while both developers and ops people should care. This is a great conversation, a little longer than our usual but worth your time. Enjoy!

DevOps.com talks with Mohit Bhatnagar, VP of product at ClusterHQ, the container data people. Mohit talks about the results of a recent survey that ClusterHQ and DevOps.com partnered on. Mohit also discusses other trends in the container space. Mohit's views on the state of the container market are very informed and interesting. Enjoy!

I had a chance to speak with Jean Louis Vignaud of IBM about the recently announced GitHib Enteprise as a Service on IBM BlueMix. This allows enterprises who want to use the very popular Git service but for whatever reason cannot use the public cloud community version. Organizations can now run their own "private label" GitHub Enterprise on their own premises. You can find out more about this exciting new offering at: 1. Blog : Introducing the first-ever GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service: https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2016/06/16/github-enterprise-hosted-service-on-bluemix/ 2. Video : Benefits of GitHub Enterprise with IBM Bluemix Dedicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxGTFZzZ7vU 3. SlideShare: IBM Bluemix Dedicated – GitHub Enterprise: http://www.slideshare.net/IBMDevOps/ibm-bluemix-dedicated-github-enterprise

We had a chance to sit down with Steve Hazel of Sauce Labs. Steve is the CTO, co-founder of the Sauce Labs. There has been so much written lately about the role of automated testing in DevOps and what the role of QA is going forward. Listen to what an industry veteran and thought leader has to say on the subject. Also Steve recommended The Phoenix Project in our interview as a great book to read. Afterwards he had another great selection that we wanted to include: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen is never going to be a best seller, but it's a real engineer's book on process. If you aspire to push the state of the art forward beyond today's Agile and DevOps ideas, this book will show you a deeper and more rigorous way of thinking about product development processes.

DevOps.com sits down with Julian Dunn, product manager for Chef about the new open source Habitat, a project to automate applications and a bold new offering from one of the leaders of the DevOps world. You can find out more about Habitat at https://www.habitat.sh/ Also you can find more about Habitat and Chef at the upcoming ChefConf in Austin, the week of July 11, 2016. https://chefconf.chef.io/

DevOps.com had a chance to catch up with IBM CTO DevOps Technical Sales and distinguished engineer Sanjeev Sharma. Sanjeev tells us a little bit about his upcoming panel at Gene Kim's DevOps Enterprise Summit, London.