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What makes ops hard? SRE/DevOps challenge & imperative [from Cloudcast 301]
TL;DR: Operators (DevOps & SREs) have a hard job, we need to make time and room for them to redefine their jobs in a much more productive way. The Cloudcast.net by Brian Gracely and Aaron Delp...
View ArticleJune 2 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle)...
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OpenStack’s Big Pivot: our suggestion to drop everything and focus on being a...
TL;DR: Sometimes paradigm changes demand a rapid response and I believe unifying OpenStack services under Kubernetes has become an such an urgent priority that we must freeze all other work until this...
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May 19 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
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May 12 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
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How about a CaaPuccino? Krish and Rob discuss containers, platforms, hybrid...
CaaPuccino: A frothy mix of containers and platforms. Check out Krish Subramanian’s (@krishnan) Modern Enterprise podcast (audio here) today for a surprisingly deep and thoughtful discussion about how...
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Help OpenStack build more Open Infrastructure communities
Note: OpenStack voting is limited to community members – if you registered by the deadline, you will receive your unique ballot by email. You have 8 votes to distribute as you see fit. I believe open...
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Exploring the Edge Series: “Edge is NOT just Mini-Cloud”
While the RackN team and I have been heads down radically simplifying physical data center automation, I’ve still been tracking some key cloud infrastructure areas. One of the more interesting ones to...
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(re)Finding an Open Infrastructure Plan: Bridging OpenStack & Kubernetes
TL;DR: infrastructure operations is hard and we need to do a lot more to make these systems widely accessible, easy to sustain and lower risk. We’re discussing these topics on twitter…please join in....
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OpenStack Boston Day 1 Notes
Contrary to pundit expectations, OpenStack did not roll over and die during the keynotes yesterday. In my 2011 Boston Summit shirt. In fact, I saw the signs of a maturing project seeing real use and...
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10x Faster Today but 10x Harder to Maintain Tomorrow: the Cul-De-Sac problem
I’ve been digging into what it means to be a site reliability engineer (SRE) and thinking about my experience trying to automate infrastructure in a way to scales dramatically better. I’m not thinking...
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What does it take to Operate Open Platforms? Answers in Datanaughts 72
Did I just let OpenStack ops off the hook….? Kubernetes production challenges…? I had a lot of fun in this Datanaughts wide ranging discussion with unicorn herders Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks. I...
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Beyond Expectations: OpenStack via Kubernetes Helm (Fully Automated with...
RackN revisits OpenStack deployments with an eye on ongoing operations. I’ve been an outspoken skeptic of a Joint OpenStack Kubernetes Environment (my OpenStack BCN preso, Super User follow-up and BOS...
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“Why SRE?” Discussion with Eric @Discoposse Wright
My focus on SRE series continues… At RackN, we see a coming infrastructure explosion in both complexity and scale. Unless our industry radically rethinks operational processes, current backlogs will...
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(re)OpenStack for 2017 – board voting week starts this Monday
The OpenStack Project needs a course correction and I’m asking for your community vote to put me back on the 2017 Board to help drive it. As a start-up CEO, I’m neutral, yet I also have the right...
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Can we control Hype & Over-Vendoring?
Q: Is over-vendoring when you’ve had to much to drink? A: Yes, too much Kool Aid. There’s a lot of information here – skip to the bottom if you want to see my recommendation. Last week on TheNewStack,...
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Will OpenStack Go Supernova? It’s Time to Refocus on Core.
There’s no gentle way to put this but everyone (and I mean everyone) I’ve talked with thinks that this position should be heard. OpenStack is bleeding off development resources (Networkworld) and that...
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Breaking Up is Hard To Do – Why I Believe Ops Decomposition (pt 1)
Over the summer, the RackN team took a radical step with our previous Ansible Kubernetes workload install: we broke it into pieces. Why? We wanted to eliminate all “magic happens here” steps in the...
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OpenStack Interop, Container Security, Install & Open Source Posts
In case you missed it, I posted A LOT of content this week on other sites covering topics for OpenStack Interop, Container Security, Anti-Universal Installers and Monetizing Open Source. Here are...
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Open Source as Reality TV and Burning Data Centers [gcOnDemand podcast notes]
During the OpenStack summit, Eric Wright (@discoposse) and I talked about a wide range of topics from scoring success of OpenStack early goals to burning down traditional data centers. Why burn down...
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