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I actually crossed things off my list this week. The little wins should be celebrated along with the big ones. There is something very therapeutic about erasing a line on a whiteboard or checking a box. That’s not celebration enough though. Make sure if you are doing complicated work that you take a moment to celebrate when it all comes together. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with feeling good about yourself. Morale is a huge part of this work. I learned this early on back in my military days and it has served me very well in the DevOps world. Events All Day DevOps, Live Online November 6, 2019 (24 hours) From your desktop, laptop, or mobile device Free Registration On November 6th, we will be supporting the live online All Day DevOps conference. This is a 24 hour event with 5 simultaneous tracks, delivering 125+ sessions in 38 time zones. Session tracks include Cloud Native Infra and Monitoring, DevSecOps and Automated Security, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cultural Transformation. ...

Our vacation in Yosemite National Park was amazing. Thanks for sticking around. I jumped out of PTO into DevOpsDays Detroit 2019. It was a great event! My report is linked below. Other news, is that I’m gearing up for Max’s birthday, a potential nerve stimulator, and KubeCon. If you haven’t gotten your tickets and travel for KubeCon sorted yet, do so sooner rather than later (KubeCon discount code below). Happy DevOps’ing out there this week, y’all! Events All Day DevOps, Live Online November 6, 2019 (24 hours) From your desktop, laptop, or mobile device Free Registration On November 6th, we will be supporting the live online All Day DevOps conference. This is a 24 hour event with 5 simultaneous tracks, delivering 125+ sessions in 38 time zones. Session tracks include Cloud Native Infra and Monitoring, DevSecOps and Automated Security, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cultural Transformation. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in San Diego, California from November 18-21, 2019. Join Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS, containerd, Fluentd, OpenTracing, gRPC, CNI, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Rook, Harbor, etcd, Open Policy Agent, CRI-O, and TiKV as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Use code KCNACSN10 at checkout for a 10% discount on KubeCon Corporate Registration. ...

The Short family is on vacation. I appreciate you subscribing, reading, and sharing this newsletter. Thank you to those that encouraged me to take some time off. Events All Day DevOps, Live Online November 6, 2019 (24 hours) From your desktop, laptop, or mobile device Free Registration On November 6th, we will be supporting the live online All Day DevOps conference. This is a 24 hour event with 5 simultaneous tracks, delivering 125+ sessions in 38 time zones. Session tracks include Cloud Native Infra and Monitoring, DevSecOps and Automated Security, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cultural Transformation. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in San Diego, California from November 18-21, 2019. Join Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS, containerd, Fluentd, OpenTracing, gRPC, CNI, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Rook, Harbor, etcd, Open Policy Agent, CRI-O, and TiKV as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Use code KCNACSN10 at checkout for a 10% discount on KubeCon Corporate Registration. ...

This week’s introduction is brought to you by Corey Quinn. Send complaints Corey’s way: What’s made of comfy ring-spun cotton, available in your size and shape, AND guaranteed to start a flame war with your AWS pals? The 2019 Last Week in AWS Charity T-Shirt! This year’s shirts come in two flavors — one for each pronunciation of the acronym for Amazon Machine Images. Are you an Ahh-Me or an Ay-Em-Eye? Pick your preference, and wear it loud and proud! As usual, all proceeds from these shirts go directly to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which has helped increase the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20% to over 80%. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Now you can wear your inside joke on your chest, and your heart on your sleeve all at the same time. Visit https://snark.cloud/charityshirt to buy your shirt today! Editor’s Note: The Short family is on vacation. DevOps’ish 150 will likely be a beautiful picture. ...

The ever-shifting sands of newsletter writing, these are the days of our DevOps’ish… There are no paying sponsors this week. It’s not a problem but, it is a little discouraging. The best part about being a disabled veteran is that I have a funding source for this newsletter until I decide to stop. But, this newsletter does take a significant amount of effort, time, and energy. It’s nice to be compensated for that. DevOps’ish Sponsorships are affordable and available in one-month increments. Send me a note with how long you want to sponsor and what you’re looking to achieve with your sponsorship. We can be awesome together! Editor’s Note: The Short family is going on a vacation. DevOps’ish 150 will likely be a ‘best of’ issue (or maybe a beautiful postcard). If you have a preference or a better idea, let me know! DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five 14 VSCode Extensions That Will Improve Your Productivity What are your red flags for job hunting (/r/devops) A beginner’s guide to network troubleshooting in Linux What’s the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell? Tools That Make Work Faster See the top ten → ...