Continuing an extremely hectic month at CFEngine we are wrapping up the month by sponsoring DevOpsDays Silicon Valley which is being held at the Computer History Museum. With an impressive array of sponsors and many attendees this will hopefully be an event to remember. So what will CFEngine be doing at DevOpsDays? Well, after lots of hard work CFEngine 3.6.0 has finally been released so we’ll be showcasing that and explaining how we can help you in your DevOps journey.
Earlier this week CFEngine sponsored DockerCon. Let me start by congratulating Docker on an awesome show. The energy, and enthusiasm was contagious but more so sincere. The commitment to establishing open standards without locking in users to Docker is commendable. The CFEngine table had heavy traffic and the conversations were frequently in Depth. Attendees were not only wanting to know what value CFEngine adds on top of Docker but also what guidance on how others are using Docker.
CFEngine are sponsoring DockerCon14. We’re excited to be able to show you how CFEngine and Docker can be used together to help manage your docker containers and make sure that you don’t go back down the path of golden images! If that isn’t enough to get your excited our very own Diego Zamboni is flying in from Mexico from the event. Stop by and have a chat with Diego about CFEngine, security or anything else.
DevOpsDays events in Pittsburgh and Austin have both been awesome. It’s great to see the events maturing over time. While it was the first DevOpsDays event in Pittsburgh the organizers were familiar with DevOpsDays events and made sure that they built on top of other successes. The lack of “Idol worshipping” aka “we love Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Netflix” was refreshing! We were treated to excellent sessions covering culture, PaaS, docker and other great topics.
We’ve already had fear-mongering about DevOps potentially killing off operations positions (thanks NoOps) and now it’s the turn of articles about DevOps killing off the developer. Terms like full stack developer are thrown around and other un-helpful terms that recruiters seem to love. Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I don’t believe DevOps is about training people so that people can do each other’s jobs equally well. That doesn’t make sense.
I’m really looking forward to DevOpsDays Pittsburgh this week. The first DevOpsDays event in a city is always special. I’m not sure what to expect, but I think it’s going to be great and at the very least I’ll get to have some great conversations about DevOps, configuration management and play some werewolf! I’m due to present an ignite session too, I have one lined up already but theres a good chance I might come up with something new based on conversations and presentations on the first day of the event.
I had a thought-provoking article by Rachel Shannon-Solomon forwarded to me. Essentially the article states that while DevOps is great for startups the enterprise isn’t ready for it yet. I’ve read/heard people disagreeing with this but I think the article raises some great points. At DevOpsDays Austin I presented a session on why it isn’t realistic to expect enterprises to become just like startups when adopting DevOps. There’s a lot of technological and cultural complexity present in legacy enterprises that just aren’t an issue in startups.
Once again DevOpsDays Austin was a fantastic event. This was the DevOpsDays event that I have been to that had two tracks. One track for what I would call traditional DevOpsDays sessions that focused on culture and organizational change, the other with more practical advice on how to get things done. I took the opportunity to get something off my chest that has been bothering me a bit about DevOpsDays and other DevOps events in general.
In a few days I’ll be flying to Austin to attend DevOpsDays Austin. It was an awesome event last year and CFEngine is proud to be sponsoring the event. I’m looking forward to participating in open space sessions and hearing about the latest challenges, tips and tricks people have to share. It will also be my first chance this year to talk to people in person to see if DevOps is making advances in the traditional enterprise (aka horses) instead of just hearing about Netflix, Amazon, Etsy, Facebook (aka unicorns).
We are pleased to announce that CFEngine Founder Mark Burgess will be speaking at the next Silicon Valley DevOps meeting about the future of configuration management. At the meetup you will not only learn about the future of Configuration Management as Mark sees it but also have the chance to network with some of the best and brightest in Silicon Valley who are passionate about DevOps and Configuration Management.
We will also be raffling two signed copied of In Search of Certainty by Mark Burgess and two passes to Promise2014, the first CFEngine user conference.
