DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five xkcd: Spreadsheets 9 people for sysadmins to follow on Twitter Goodbye Docker: Purging is Such Sweet Sorrow Decoupling database migrations from server startup: why and how Kubernetes and Containers Best Practices - Health Probes People X-Team Is Hiring a Team of DevOps Engineers (Remote) We are looking for passionate DevOps engineers to work with the world’s leading brands, from anywhere. We love to work with Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, and AWS tools. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. Join X-Team SPONSORED My Preparation Strategy for AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam — One person’s person formula. The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition — Pivotal has been getting its teeth kicked in lately. It hasn’t been pretty to watch. The Business Value of Developer Relations Discover the true value of Developer Relations as you learn to build and maintain positive relationships with your developer community. Use the principles laid out in this book to walk through your company goals and discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to your specific needs. SPONSORED ...

Let’s talk about JEDI. Not the lightsaber wielding kind, it’s US Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) kind. JEDI is a $10 billion, single-award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the largest Department in the US government’s cloud business. The competition had been whittled down to AWS and Azure but, Oracle has been pitching a Larry Ellison sized fit over it. Actually, Oracle has protested JEDI’s selection process almost since its inception. The process started in late 2017 and has been filled with all sorts of twists and turns. Last week, I shared a story with part of the headline stating, “Judge shoots down Oracle protest.” Like any good government procurement process though, this is where the lawyers stepped back and the lobbyist stepped forward. I also linked to a story last week discussing the US President’s concern over JEDI. The sitting US President hates Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and CEO of Amazon. AWS is the clear front runner as the #1 cloud provider in the world. The most popular cloud provider in the US by a long shot, AWS GovCloud has been up and running since 2011. The US Intelligence Community uses AWS Secret Region extensively. ...

It’s a big newsletter this week and I’ve made a lot of notes so let’s get to it! Editor’s Note: Did you know you can reply to this e-mail? Yep! I get your out of offices. But, I can also get your feedback directly. If something doesn’t work for you or live up to your expectations, let me know. Join DevOps Expert, Matthew Barlocker, For A CloudWatch Guided Tour The founder and CEO of Blue Matador, the alert automation service, will be hosting a CloudWatch Guided Tour Webinar. You’ll learn about CloudWatch concepts, alarms, metrics, best practices, and more. Join either July 25th or July 31st! SPONSORED DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five Here are the most popular programming languages used by the world’s largest unicorn startups Seriously, stop using RSA The case for making the transition from sysadmin to DevOps engineer Kubernetes productivity tips and tricks DevOps for introverted people People A worrying change in Open Source perception — “Open Source should bring a positive experience.” If we as community members create a bar for participation that is too high, we all suffer. ...

Q&A: IBM’s Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat. It is done. Aside from extra meetings from too many Red Hat folks, I have seen zero change. I’d like to talk more about the whole acquisition process from my point of view since it was announced, at some point. Overall, from my perspective, the process was smooth. I commend Red Hat and IBM leadership for keeping the chaos to a minimum. Here’s to next week and hopefully fewer meetings! 10 Kubernetes distributions leading the container revolution Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are built, deployed, and managed. Check out the distros leading the charge. SPONSORED DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS) Get your work recognized: write a brag document How to use GitLab and Ansible to create infrastructure as code DevOps for doubters: How to deal with 9 kinds of people who push back People DevOps for introverted people — “We asked the Opensource.com DevOps team to talk about their experience as DevOps introverts and to give DevOps extroverts some advice. Here are their answers.” Dan Barker, Catherine Louis, Abhishek Tamrakar, Elizabeth Joseph, and I were all quoted in this piece. It turned out really good. ...

I was on PTO this week. I was working on a number of side projects and issues I’ve been trying to resolve for quite some time. This includes soft launching a podcast! Deep Cuts is a podcast that looks at the news behind the news. Things that were significant but didn’t make the newsletter for one reason or another. Prepare to embrace People, Process, and Tools in your ear holes. I say soft launch because it’s important for me to take things iteratively. Anchor is the platform for the moment. They’re working the difficult task of getting the podcast listed in all the major directories. Iterative improvements will be the name of the game. Feedback on anything I do is always appreciated. How companies adopt and apply cloud native infrastructure–from O’Reilly Survey results reveal the path organizations face as they integrate cloud native infrastructure and harness the full power of the cloud. SPONSORED DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five How I use Slack—alone—to get more done After 4 years with nginx, we switched to Caddy - Here is why I spend too much time in Zoom… A deep dive into Linux namespaces How SRE teams are organized, and how to get started People DevOps for doubters: How to deal with 9 kinds of people who push back — This article is stuffed with quotes about dealing with all sorts of personalities practitioners have experienced. I was one of many quoted in the article. ...