News Review: devops

[Christoph Dorn]

I thought that from time to time I'll do a bit of a news review and comment on how things that I come across fit into the ecosystem we are building around devcomp.io.

Its all designed to provide more context as to how comprehensive the devcomp system will be in short order.

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http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2014/06/sick-of-hearing-about-devops-it-hasnt-even-started/

I have been watching devops with keen interest and an very happy to see this kind of news.

How a system is built and delivered is of paramount importance which is something I recognized many years ago. I have been working towards building a system that can organically grow and be continuously refactored to reach set business metrics ever since.

devcomp.io and every clone thereof is a complete copy of a system that can be used to aggressively drive development workflow towards improving metrics that will ultimately or very directly impact the bottom line.

If you want to get in on this next devops wave in a big way and tune your entire IT process I highly suggest that you keep watching my work.

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http://contino.co.uk/use-docker-continuously-deliver-microservices-part-1/

devcomp.io will do this out of the box. You can manage unlimited cloud containers for whatever need you have on all providers for which there are adapters. Writing adapters for new providers will be facilitated in such a way that even less experienced programmers will be able to write production quality adapters.

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http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/06/02/devops-tools/

Suggests to focus on some key core tool categories:

  * Configuration management

  * Application deployment

  * Monitoring

  * Version control

  * Test and build systems

devcomp.io addresses ALL of these aspects with best practice tooling AND integrates them into one cohesive system model AND abstracts things sufficiently that all aspects above may be automatically configured for any component SIMPLY by sticking to a few code conventions, metadata and annotations.

I believe the only way to build a dynamically growing system is to let the implementation code of the system components together with declarative configuration that holds the components into a cohesive whole as well as the actual development workflow drive the configuration of the aspects mentioned above.

If you are building a system and you have to MANUALLY configure ANY tool that your system needs your system is NOT dynamic and thus you CANNOT easily CLONE it.

devcomp.io produces FULLY CLONABLE SYSTEMS. Clone 1; clone 1,000; Thats the point.

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http://codeascraft.com/2014/06/06/introducing-nagios-herald/

This is a topic I started working on ever since I started FirePHP in 2007.

I wrote a comprehensive library for PHP to provide powerful context-based logging: https://github.com/firephp/firephp/tree/master/lib/Insight 

This logging data will soon make it to Firebug, Firebug.next, webpages and devcomp.io admin when I migrate everything to the fireconsole.org project in the coming weeks.

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Christoph