I spent most of the week in Raleigh, North Carolina in and around Red Hat Tower. I was in a two-day All Product Marketing Summit. My boss is so amazing though. She asked how I was holding up at one point (that’s what builds psychological safety). My response, “This is kinda close to my personal hell. Not trying to be dramatic. But, ya, I’m super uncomfortable.” Then something rather Red Hat happened. Red Hat investors approve $34B merger agreement with IBM. Jim Whitehurst decided to take the investor call to certify the investor vote in the Red Hat Annex where we were having our meeting. Jim is a dynamic leader. His time as COO at Delta made him appreciate process, rigor, and discipline. When he came to Red Hat, he adapted in a way most leaders might never have been able to. After the investor call, Jim decided to talk to us group of technical and product marketers. This is not your stereotypical group of marketing folks; there are Kubernetes and Ansible contributors in the room as well as Red Hat product contributors. ...

This week I ran an unscientific Twitter poll asking, “Has DevOps left Ops behind?” It was a question that came up during a discussion with one of my co-workers. There will be more discussion and thought around this for sure. But, it appears the software industry has gotten ahead of the skillsets of the majority of folks in it. Think about it though. We went from containers going mainstream via Docker in 2014 to Kubernetes going mainstream in 2017. Now it’s 2019 and we’re talking about Istio, serverless, and eBPF. If it seems like the pace of change is accelerating, it’s because it is. In Thomas L. Friedman’s Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations a graph is drawn by Google X’s Eric “Astro” Teller like this one here. Note: DevOps’ish may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs. Friedman goes on to explain that the roles of education and government today should be to figure out how to lift the line of human adaptability to be able to keep pace with technology. ...

What a weird week. It started on Wednesday first of all. It felt like half of everyone was still on vacation. It was quiet but, it was busy. There was a lot of great content this week too surprisingly. The time at the end of one year, the beginning of another is awesome. So many folks are taking time to write down their thoughts on everything from note taking during programming to monorepos to Kubernetes to infosec. It feels kinda magical out in the world of tech right now. Hopefully, we can turn this positive energy into something awesome this year. In case you have been in a cave, here are the top stories you might have missed the past two weeks: DevOps engineer interviews: Ask these questions 7 CI/CD tools for sysadmins Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2018 by Levels.fyi — Note: I think this list is utter rubbish. Give it a look and you’ll see why. How to become an AWS expert The truth about impostor syndrome 2018 Learnings, 2019 Expectations 10 books for your DevOps reading wishlist Moving on From Red Hat by Christian Posta The biggest technology failures of 2018 YAML Has Won Continuous delivery on modern infrastructure - Run GoCD on Kubernetes Model Docker-based build workflows more effectively with our GoCD Kubernetes integration. Run GoCD natively on Kubernetes, define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. SPONSORED ...

Since this is the last newsletter of the year, I wanted to provide some stats on how DevOps’ish did in 2018. Thank you, readers, for making DevOps’ish one of the best damn newsletters on the planet! I wish you all the best in 2019. Note: All stats are for 2018 only (source, MailChimp) Subscribers Added: 1,713 Number of Emails Sent: 89,402 Total Opens: 85,789 Total Clicks: 99,093 Unique Opens: 45,729 Unique Clicks: 22,442 Open Rate: 51.14% Click Rate: 25.09% Most Unique Opens (email, count): 104: AWS (roasting Oracle), Kubernetes, Open Source in 2018, Oh… Google, Breaches, and More (1191) Most Unique Clicks (email, count): 104: AWS (roasting Oracle), Kubernetes, Open Source in 2018, Oh… Google, Breaches, and More (578) Most Opened (email, rate): 073: DevOps Hiring Guide, RIP RTFM, BGP & DNS, Kubernetes, GitLab, and More (56.83%) Most Clicked (email, rate): 070: Not the Postmortem We Wanted to Run (31.30%) Continuous delivery on modern infrastructure - Run GoCD on Kubernetes Model Docker-based build workflows more effectively with our GoCD Kubernetes integration. Run GoCD natively on Kubernetes, define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. SPONSORED ...

As mentioned last week, I was able to finish my KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 recap this week. It’s not an exhaustive list of things I did but, it covers the big ones. One point of emphasis for me was to assess the physical toil I managed along the way. It’s important to note that life doesn’t stop because you’re at a conference. Videos from the Kubernetes Contributor Summit are now available too. I’m on PTO this week. I thought about DevOps’ish taking its first week off ever. But, I don’t think that’s necessary so here’s to over two years of uninterrupted DevOps’ish! Continuous delivery on modern infrastructure - Run GoCD on Kubernetes Model Docker-based build workflows more effectively with our GoCD Kubernetes integration. Run GoCD natively on Kubernetes, define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. SPONSORED The real story on container, cloud, and data adoption Poll results reveal where and why organizations choose to use containers, cloud platforms, and data pipelines. SPONSORED ...