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DevOps Paradox

You're reading from   DevOps Paradox The truth about DevOps by the people on the front line

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789133639
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Jeff Sussna 3. Damien Duportal 4. Kevin Behr 5. Mike Kail 6. James Turnbull 7. Liz Keogh 8. Julian Simpson 9. Andy Clemenko 10. Chris Riley 11. Ádám Sándor 12. Júlia Biró 13. Damon Edwards 14. Kohsuke Kawaguchi 15. Sean Hull 16. Bret Fisher 17. Nirmal Mehta 18. Gregory Bledsoe 19. Wian Vos 20. Index
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Defining DevOps

Viktor Farcic: I want to start by asking you a two-fold question. First, how would you define DevOps, and then how has that definition played out in your career?

Julian Simpson: I used to be a Unix systems administrator. In that role, I spent a lot of time during the dot-com boom building Solaris servers and arguing with developers. This conflict between system administrators and developers carried on for the next three to four years of my career.

During this time, two things became obvious to me. Firstly, the approach of building systems by hand seemed wrong, and secondly, it really seemed counterproductive to handle this conflict. While I can be sucked into a good fight, it didn't seem like a positive way to go about things. Eventually, in 2002, I discovered the CFEngine project and started building all my systems with CFEngine, in order to rebuild those builds.

This was combined with Solaris Jumpstart, which was an awesome technology...

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