These are some highlights from an e-mail I sent to my colleagues in my business unit titled, “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recap” “I attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 in Seattle this week. Full disclosure, I was there Sunday through Wednesday morning then flew to RDU for meetings. I made the most of being there. I wore four hats this trip: Ansible PMM, OpenShift Advocate, opensource.com Community Moderator, and CNCF Ambassador.” “Kubernetes is everything and everything is Kubernetes: This goes without saying at KubeCon but, there were 8,000 attendees in Seattle (more online) and next year in San Diego there is capacity for 12,000+. I’d estimate around 11-12K attendees next year. The growth here is huge.” “Quite a few products use Ansible to get themselves to Kubernetes…” “The community thinks very big but, the engineers don’t always have enterprise experience. Supporting something they built for tens of thousands of people is foreign to a lot of the folks in the community. This is balanced by a cadre of incredibly experienced folks from Google, IBM, VMware, Huawei, Red Hat, etc. I talked to a junior engineer from eastern Europe during a mentoring session on Wednesday morning. He was very interested in how Red Hat tackled feature development as well as IBM acquisition questions. He was a little shocked to find that customers had influence over feature development. I understand that’s somewhat anecdotal but, there was a general feeling the community was a little greener than previous years. This is great for Kubernetes and CNCF.” ...

DevOps’ish turns two this week. Started on 2016-12-11 as a Medium publication, with an epoch for a subject line, only 632 characters, and no images to be found. A lot has changed but, a lot has stayed the same too. There’s no image again but, it’s not on Medium anymore. There’s a ton of news but, it’s still sourced by me. There’s more people reading and giving feedback but, I’m still grateful for every one of you. I’ll be at KubeCon (and #KubeKhan) Sunday through Wednesday morning, Raleigh on Thursday, and Durham on Friday. The number to beat for hotel stays this week is three. Have fun, patch your Kubernetes clusters, and stay safe out there! Here’s to another year of DevOps’ish! This newsletter was written from 35,000 feet above the United States. Blog series: Actionable Continuous Delivery metrics In this new blog series we will go through important concepts and use examples to address common issues like low deployment frequency, slow lead time, high change to fail percentage, high MTTR. SPONSORED ...

Did you know that Chef had layoffs? I heard but I didn’t think much of it. This week I got a text from Chris Bailey who told me another friend got laid off from Chef. Well, that sucks. But, wait, I can do something about that, right? I’d like to introduce you to Mark Mzyk (LinkedIn | Twitter). Mark is an, “Engineering Manager looking for his next thing.” Mark handed over Triangle DevOps to Chris Bailey and I. He is incredibly organized, intelligent, and a good human. Mark has spent sixteen years in Engineering, the last three have been as a manager. Mark is looking for a new place to call home. The organization should have good leadership with a vision and morals that would make your mom proud. Mark is available immediately. I’d highly recommend you reach out ASAP. Spin up a Continuous Delivery server in less than 5 minutes Trying out new continuous delivery tools can take some time, so the team at GoCD created a quick start option for new users to spin up a GoCD server in under 5 minutes. Try now. SPONSORED ...

This week was Thanksgiving in the US. It was a holiday and I unplugged to a certain extent. I played games on my phone instead of working on various things and reading research. I took a little bit of a mental break the second half of this week (and I hope you did too if you could). This week, while most of the tech world is Las Vegas, I’ll be the designated survivor in an undisclosed location (aka Westford, Massachusetts). re:Invent is too big for me and too soft of a target for my frayed whatever you want to call it (nerves, anxiety, etc.). Have a great week! Spin up a Continuous Delivery server in less than 5 minutes Trying out new continuous delivery tools can take some time, so the team at GoCD created a quick start option for new users to spin up a GoCD server in under 5 minutes. Try now. 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 ...

It’s weird how things decay online. A 404 here, a failed git submodule update there can lead to weird things breaking. I noticed that happening with chrisshort.net. The site had gotten slower too despite it being a static site served through Cloudflare. I spent an evening looking for new Hugo themes. Testing their performance, figuring out what design would work best for me, and looked pleasant. Last night, I ended up picking the updated version of the theme I was already using. Today, I tuned it for a balance of features and performance. Then I went about tweaking the features to my liking. After cleaning up some 404s, I promoted the branch to master, and the CI was off and running. At what point was I doing web development? I don’t know. But, that’s how I got my second big job in tech. Internet Explorer (back when it was on a coveted CD) came with FrontPage Express. Say what you want about FrontPage. But, I knew how to use Microsoft Word and FrontPage Express gave me a WYSIWYG that showed me how to write HTML at the flip of a switch. Then I started writing web sites to W3C specs, discovered CSS, and ended up writing more web sites in Notepad then later jed and vim. ...