I recently gave a “Devops’-flavoured talk at the London Ruby Users Group on agile sysadmin practices, agile web ops, configuration languages and infrastructure automation. The slides are below, and you can also see:

• Video of the talk (courtesy of our friends at SkillsMatter
• Audio podcast of the talk (ably captured by Murray Steele, as the soundtrack on the video is a little faint)

The idea of the talk was to look at modern sysadmin practices such as version control, configuration management and automation, and to show developers that with languages like Puppet, infrastructure is just code. “We’re all developers now,” as Julian Simpson (“The Build Doctor”) neatly put it. (Video of Julian’s talk here.) Read more »