Given these three toolsets: Configuration Management System Monitoring Service Registry/Discovery What should they have in common? The tests! Granted, each may need their own set of unique tests, but there’s certainly going to be overlap between them. So to minimize both drift and duplication of work, I’m trying to figure out how to make this set of tools share tests/checks: Puppet Sensu TBD (perhaps consul?) Getting us started, @m_richo has […]

The DevOps version of the ‘wall of confusion’, i.e. what is devops, seems to stem from the lack of distinction between the philosophy of DevOps vs it’s implementation(s). DevOps needs opinionated implementations The Agile world has neatly solved this challenge by creating opinionated implementations/methodologies which describe the particular implementations of Agile, e.g.Scrum, XP, Scrum-ban,  allowing for discussions to more easily separate philosophy from implementation. Admittedly, some folks still conflate agile […]