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We have been totally buried by snow this week in Michigan. The daily snow forecasts have been underestimated by inches almost everyday. Not a big deal, it’s just a lot of powdery snow early in the winter. It’ll probably be a white Christmas here in the Detroit metro area. Meanwhile, the job hunt is an odd mix of hot and cold. To be honest, I was hoping to have something pretty solid coming back from KubeCon. The fact that something hasn’t happened yet I think can be firmly attributed to the time of year. No one wants to pull the trigger on hiring then go on vacation for the holidays. It’s fine, my calendar this past week has been full of calls so I’m not worried, yet. In the back of my head though, doubt creeps in. I tweeted the other night, “The worst part about job hunting is that it stokes the flames of imposter syndrome harder than any other venture could.” I found myself nitpicking job descriptions earlier in the week. I would find a single line that didn’t apply to me and throw out the position. I caught myself Wednesday night and realized having been in hiring that no one checks every box. If they do you better throw bags of money at them because they will be getting bombarded by legit, good offers every week. Patience is hard, especially this time of year. But, thinking about it, this break has been pretty good for mentally recovering. It might eat away at self-confidence but that’s probably a good thing from time to time. Mindfulness and perspective is key. ...

Last week, there was a giveaway of Cloud Native Infrastructure by Justin Garrison and Kris Nova. There’s no need for a giveaway because you can now get Cloud Native Infrastructure FOR FREE! This week’s edition is delayed due to adventures traveling back from Kubecon (salute to those that stood up SIG-Airport). I have to say that Kubecon had some of the friendliest people I’ve met attending, sponsoring, and running it. The hallway track was where I spent the vast majority of my time (also on the phone doing interviews). Brace yourselves for all things Cloud Native and Kubernetes. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED People Here is what I read on the way to KubeCon: A review of Cloud Native Infrastructure kubernetes/community: Kubernetes Mentoring Initiatives ...

This is the 52nd issue of DevOps’ish! While the official one-year anniversary is next week, there are 52 weeks in a year and now is as good a time as any to celebrate. In keeping with DevOps best practices, I shared some lessons learned in, Notes on Running a Newsletter: A Year of DevOps’ish. To celebrate the DevOps’ish first anniversary, Kris Nova has graciously offered to sponsor a giveaway of her and Justin Garrison’s new book, Cloud Native Infrastructure. If you want to be entered to win, please complete the DevOps’ish Diversity Form for consideration. Winners will be announced in next week’s newsletter! Looking back the five most popular issues of DevOps’ish have been: DevOps’ish 035: Google’s Toxicity, Security, SRE, Kubernetes, and More! DevOps’ish 045: Sick Days, Kubernetes, Kaspersky, Go, AWS, and More! DevOps’ish 040: Solaris, Observability, Shift Left, Ansible, and More DevOps’ish 037: Google, Debian, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and More! DevOps’ish Weekly — 014: Week of 1489294800 Thanks for making the first year of running this newsletter so awesome. I hope the next year will be even more amazing! ...

I have been through the highest of highs and lowest of lows this week. But, Thanksgiving is an interesting time to reflect. What are you thankful for? How do you want to finish out the year? I am beyond thankful for an incredibly supportive family. Through all the ups and downs of this past week, there has been a steadfast source of support and happiness springing eternal from those we moved to Michigan to be closer to. I want to finish out the year by finding a great job that I will truly enjoy. I have a few calls lined up early next week on that front. If you’re looking for a DevOps-minded person to add to your team, let me know. Continuous Delivery: GoCD VS Spinnaker GoCD or Spinnaker? This post is an overview of GoCD and Spinnaker, why they are different from each other and which problems you should use them to solve. Check it out. SPONSORED People Inside the Revolution at Etsy: The gutting of Etsy was particularly interesting for the DevOps world. ...

And so it begins… The long road to decompression and the end of my burnout. As I mentioned in a blog post on Monday, I am Leaving Bankrate. It was not an easy decision to make but it was a move that needed to happen. I am considering writing a postmortem for the whole ordeal. I’m not sure I’ll ever publish it. But, it is something many others could benefit from. This morning I woke up at 6:30 AM not quite knowing what to do with myself. On a normal morning, I would immediately check Slack, e-mail, PagerDuty, and iMessage as there would be something waiting for me to act on. When I went to shower this morning I grabbed my phone out of instinct, because someone was going to call me from work, right? Nope. It was nice to grab my phone so I could shower and listen to music without worrying about someone calling or a page coming in. ...