Good read: Venturebeat

• Fragmentation of standards

• Proprietary code and “fauxpen” source

• Container washing

• Jargon-washed products

Ansible - my path to a new tool

Ansible AWS Deployment Released in 2012, Ansible is the one of the youngest and fastest growing open source deployment, configuration management and orchestration tool. Unlike Chef and Puppet, Ansible relies on an agentless architecture, that is: it does not require any client package installation on client nodes apart from regular Python packages. The management of client nodes happens over SSH protocol. Ansible’s agentless architecture makes the upgrade process simple and easy to implement. Ansible is available in two versions: Ansible tower (the paid version) and Ansible open source (the free one).Ansible is written in Python and is licensed under the General Public License (GPL). One of the advantages of using Ansible is that is uses YAML syntax for its configuration files, also known as playbooks. A very nice choice, given that YAML is quite easy and avoids the unneeded complexity of major languages. There are two types of nodes: Control Machine and Managed Nodes. The Control Machine is the one where Ansible is actually installed. It supports most of the Linux distributions and requires Python 2.6+ installed. Managed nodes requires Python 2.4+ and supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Ref: Here

Good stuff: Covers all the basic stuff I use ... plus a bit more. +1 git - the simple guide just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;) http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

Sage advice ...

The world needs more developers. But the path to becoming a savvy web developer is not obvious. You can’t go from zero to computer literacy overnight. It’s a long-term investment. We recently sat down with Avi Flombaum, Dean of The Flatiron School, a developer bootcamp in NYC, to chat about dev education. He shared what it takes to succeed at an elite bootcamp.

• “Be passionate.” Go to meetups. Read about the industry. Stay up-to-date on current tech news. (Flatiron students read Hacker News everyday.) 
• “Be interesting.” Demonstrate success in your past life — even if it’s winning a poker tournament or running a marathon. 
• “Be a maker.” Build things. They don’t need to be perfect. Demonstrate that you’re ready to build from scratch and iterate. 

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Happy Coding,

Ilya Novodvorskiy
ilya@thinkful.com

red hat and centos ?

Seems like good news to me: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces CentOS Contributor ... Be one. Read about it here: http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_motivations

ChatOps ...

This is cool team concept and way to use Hubot. http://kentbye.com/post/32406183083/chatops-hubot-is-a-bot-at-the-heart-of-the-github

What Is a DevOps Engineer?

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/what-is-a-devops-engineer/?utm_campaign=blog&utm_medium=&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=whatisdevopsengineer