Awesome Devops

A curated list of resources for DevOps

What is DevOps?

DevOps (a clipped compound of “development” and “operations”) is a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. Wikipedia

Index

• Culture
• Process
• Technology
• Security
• Tools
• Misc

Culture

• DevOps Culture
• Conway’s Law - States that organisations will tend to produce systems that mirror their communication structures
• How to Hire - Some useful tips on hiring
• What security experts need to know about DevOps and continuous delivery - Info and benefits for Security and DevOps teams working together
• DevOps and the Myth of Efficiency Part 1 & Part 2 - Complex vs Complicated and Efficiency - DevOps for Enterprise

Process

• The War of Independence for Enterprise Architecture - the role of Enterprise Architects in DevOps: 4 ‘R’s - Review, Renewal, Refactoring, Resilience
• Choosing Design over Architecture - Starting from user stories and user experience
• How to write a Postmortem

Project Management

• Organizing GitHub issues - One (of many) approaches to managing and tagging Github issues
• Release Ready Teams - An infographic showing the how Atlassian’s agile teams release early and often
• Using Kanban over Scrum - A useful post on the benefits of Kanban over Scrum (but not always relevant for every team)

Mapping

• Wardley Mapping - An introduction to Value Chain Mapping to help understand the “Why” for organisations and Devops Teams.

Automation

Quality

Open Source

• Making Your Open Source Project Newcomer-friendly

Technology

• Basic Infrastructure Patterns - Basic patterns seen while working on build/CI/deployment technology
• Infrastructure as Code - the approach to defining infrastructure through code that can then be treated just like any software

Containers

• The Curious Case of Linux Containers - A Blog Post discussing real issues of deploying containers across distributed systems.
• The Oncoming Train of Enterprise Container Deployments - Blog summary of containers and a few antipatterns.
• DevOps, Containers & Microservices: Separating the hype from the reality - A presentation outlining a future of how to build and deploy applications to generate business value.
• Tectonic Summit Videos - A YouTube playlist of Container and DevOps presentationss from the Tectonic Summit in December 2015
• A Practical Introduction to Docker Container Terminology - When discussing an architecture for containerization, it’s important to have a solid grasp on the related vocabulary.

Operating Systems

• The Art of Command Line - A guide on the Command Line for beginners and the experienced

Cloud

• Infrastructure as Database - Is infrastructure more like a DB than code?

Microservices

Security

• You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password - Cryptography Decoded - A primer on Cryptography for Developers
• How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker - A good outline of important security configurations in Linux based systems

Tools

Containers

• Docker - The tool that kickstarted the modern container movement
• rkt - An alternative container runtime and spec by the team at CoreOS

Operating Systems

• CoreOS - A small linux operating system that runs containers
• RancherOS - Another small container OS where the entire OS is containerized.
• Project Atomic - RedHat’s container OS and tools
• Snappy Ubuntu Core - Canonical’s container OS

Cluster Managers

• Kubernetes
• Nomad
• Mesos
• Mesosphere
• Swarm

Source Control

• Git - The most popular distributed version control system.
• Mercurial
• Github - Git repo hosting as a Service
• Gitlab - Self-hosted Git repos

Configuration Management

• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• SaltStack

Continuous Integration & Deployment

• Jenkins
• Buildkite
• Drone
• Shippable
• Travis
• Gitlab CI

Misc

• Awesome Lists - A list of Awesome lists (very meta!)
• DevOps Weekly - A weekly mailing list with interesting DevOps related News and Tools
• Sysadvent - One DevOps/Sysadmin related article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.
• The Phoenix Project - A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win