For me, what is really exciting about DevOps is the notion that software development, infrastructure engineering and operational automation can and should done simultaneously and collaboratively. DevOps doesn’t invalidate ITIL, nor does it mean unbridled application deployment.

The way I see it we already have some great examples of DevOps in action — its just that the term hasn’t been applied to them yet.

How to set up continuous integration testing for Puppet manifests.

Deployment is definitely one of the places where the rubber meets the road. In some organizations, deployment of new code can be the single-most stressful and dividing parts of their work.

Devopsdays was a small conference about a couple of emerging themes combining Development and Operations.

Hilarious Monty-Python-mashup video explaining the devops movement.

Video of Stephen Nelson-Smith speaking about Git for sysadmins - how it works, how to use it, how to support it, and how it compares to other version control systems.

Julian Simpson (aka @builddoctor) is a well-known authority on software build and deployment issues, including configuration management, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and testing. His blog covers all of these topics, featuring talks, interviews, links, and patterns and practices.

Ten characteristics of devops-flavoured sysadmin practices, as outlined by Dmitriy Samovskiy, including coding skills, protection of business revenues, a focus on stability and uptime, and distributed or hyper-distributed applications.

Agile training expert Robert Dempsey examines the application of Kanban techniques to system administration work, with a devops flavour.

If your dev team is fixing servers, they are not programming. If they are not programming, they may not be making you money. Many developers needlessly use versions of software that are not part of the standard OS. Web developers often lack the experience to know the accepted standards. As a result, you may end up with “odd” deployment scenarios which can complicate management.