Chris Welcome to Ops All The Things, your podcast for all things DevOps, SysAdmin and Operations.
Chris I'm Chris Webber
Steve and I'm Steve Murawski and this show is being recorded on July 2nd, 2015
Chris And this podcast is sponsored by Chef.
- Chris - New site!
- Steve - I've been spending a lot of time building out supporting tools for Test-Kitchen to make it easier to test cookbooks on Windows. Slow going, but rewarding.
- Steve - I'm on the board for PowerShell.org now - kind of formalizing my unofficial moderation of the DSC stuff on GitHub
- Steve - Win10 ships at the end of the month, pretty good so far.
- Most things don't "just work"
- Environments are different
- Performance requirements are different
- Data is different
- At the end of the day, ops folks need to know how things work
- Why is that network connection failing?
- Why can't my application talk to the sql server?
- What is the lifecycle of the application after a web request comes in?
- What is a service - really?
- etc...
- Tools can cover over some lack of understanding
- But things break, and we have to get them fixed again
- Vendors often shuffle blame
- Lack of understanding about what a tool covers over leads to ineffecient use of the tool
- There is no subsitute for knowledge and experience
- Installing a tool does not make you an expert
- Knowing how to tweak and tune for your environment does
- You need to know the behavior of services you interact with as well
- Installing a tool does not make you an expert
- So, how do I get started with "x"?
- Let me google that for you....
- Grab the docs or a book and try to make something work
- Break it and try to find what errors get logged and try to fix it
Thanks for joining us for Ops All The Things. If you have questions, comments, or other feedback, you can find us at http://www.opsallthethings.com or on twitter as @opsallthethings.