
Arrested DevOps
Arrested DevOps is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness.
Latest episodes

Jun 23, 2014 • 46min
Software Deployment
What is software delivery? There are a lot of approaches to this subject- what does “software delivery” mean at PagerDuty?
What is your idea of “best” way to deliver software, or line of best fit?
What gets in the way of companies or individuals delivering software?
-How do you mitigate and test for problems introduced by code changes?
-Deployments?
-Dependency issues?
-External factors?
What are some patterns and anti-patterns for consistent software delivery?
On system rollback and totalised fields by Mark Burgess
Checkouts
Ranjib
Universal Principles of Design
Matt
homesick - keep your dotfiles in sync!
Trevor
Willyouhack.me
Fishing

Jun 11, 2014 • 45min
Making the DevOps Transition
Agenda
What problems were you trying to solve?
How did you (or will you) know when you are “happy”?
What resistance did you encounter?
What worked REALLY well?
What worked less well?
How Boeing merges its data centers with the Amazon and Microsoft clouds
Check-Outs
Chris
Bands in Town
Jeanne
Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
The Night Circus
Trevor
OxDBE Jetbrains tools
Chrome dev tools - change css media state
Matt
Pragmatic Programming book tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development
Burnout.io

May 21, 2014 • 58min
DevOps at Etsy: Not a Unicorn, Just a Sparkly Horse
Episode 11: Etsy Examined - How the Best Do Their Business by Food Fight
BOFH (the Bastard Operator From Hell)
Check Outs
Jon Cowie
dmg cookbook
rbenv cookbook
David Yurkiewicz
Pushover.net
Pete Bellisano
Buffalo Trace whiskey
John Allspaw
Lloyd Taylor "Hacking Your Organization"
Trevor
Shortcut-Fu
Agents of Shield
Matt
Vimium - Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor
Release! The Game

May 8, 2014 • 51min
Scaling the Application Mountains
In today's world of web-scale IT, the ability to respond quickly to increased demand and traffic on your critical applications is an essential component of success. Scaling experts Steven Corona and Igor Papirov join Matt and Trevor to talk about why scaling matters, some good practices to keep in mind, and other tips and tricks for success in the dynamic world of modern applications.

Mar 29, 2014 • 1h 5min
Fast and Furious: Configuration Drift
One of the key technologies to help automate your DevOps environment is Configuration Management. There's a lot of chatter around what exactly this means, and how you can use it. Special panel guests Sean OMeara, Chris Webber, and Steven Murawksi join Matt and Trevor to talk about how Config Management can make your systems and stack more stable, predictable, and more fun to manage.

Mar 11, 2014 • 1h 2min
Managing Your Mental Stack
Matt’s popular blog post - Configuring SharePoint 2010 Search in a one-way trust scenario
Food Fight - Episode 36: Roles, Environments, Attributes, and Data Bags
The Goal by Elliot Goldratt
Flipboard
Pocket
Pomodoro
Vitamin-R
Check-Outs
Matt
Vagrant 1.5
QuizUp
Trevor
.NET Fiddle
Air Disasters
One-Wipe Charlies
Sasha
Visual Studio Web Essentials 2013
Self Promotion for Introverts
The Little Prince

Feb 23, 2014 • 1h
All Together Now
Check-Outs
Angela
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
SockDreams - @SockDreams and www.sockdreams.com
Todd
Best BBQ chicken receipt in the world on http://www.thepauperedchef.com/ : http://bit.ly/1chcmHQ
Aberdeen report on DataCenter Downtime: How Much Does it Really Cost, free to download here: http://bit.ly/Mpd2E0
Matt
Meez - Setup tool for Chef authoring
Downtown Chicago Azure Meetup - Feb 27, 2013

Feb 10, 2014 • 1h 6min
DevOps Mythbusters
Myths!
The intro
You’re either DevOps or you’re not
The Company
Management Beliefs
DevOps only works for startups or web companies.
DevOps doesn’t scale.
You can’t do DevOps without being Agile
Business Semantics
Shops practicing DevOps should have a DevOps team.
We can’t do DevOps because we need separation of duties.
The Team
Operations Assumptions
DevOps means “developers do operations work”
A DevOps is a sysadmin that uses config mgmt.
DevOps is about hiring sysadmins who code.
Developer Expectations
DevOps means developers get admin access in production
Developers cannot be trusted.
The Tools
DevOps only works with Open Source tools and operating systems (i.e., I can’t do DevOps in a Microsoft shop)
The tools promote the DevOps cultural change.
The wrap up -
DevOps doesn’t work.
Reference Links
A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware
DevOps Cafe Episode 33 - Jez Humble
Release Engineering Tools at Netflix - The Ship Show
Keep Calm and PROD On - The Ship Show
DevOps Cafe Episode 36 - Jeffrey Snover
There's No Such Thing As A DevOps Team - ContinuousDelivery.com
Check-Outs
Matt
gitdrunk.com
Downtown Chicago Azure Meetup - Feb 27, 2013
Trevor
Marvel Comics API
Sascha
DevOps meetup in Minneapolis
Everyone should submit a talk for a conference!
Damon
QCon Conference - DevOps track in London in March
Rundeck 2.0 just released

Jan 29, 2014 • 58min
Continuous Integration – CI Told You So!
Retro
Matt
Matt hates Subversion.
Trevor
Trever attended a Chef training class and is super excited about it. Even though he only learned how to make it configure Linux machines.
User Stories
This is a new section of the podcast where we introduce a new topic in just a couple sentences. This episode's "requirement" is Configuration Management.
Want to learn more about Configuration Management? Check out The Food Fight Show podcast!
Outline
Overview of CI
What about feature branches?
What is the difference between using a CI tool for CI, and using a CI tool to orchestrate workflow automation
Where do you begin when wanting to start CI? What bite of the elephant goes first?
Where does testing come into play? How do we talk about unit vs functional testing and what is used in the CI portion/build?
Preflight checkin vs checking into trunk
Paul Hammant's blog (trunk-based design)
Codeship
TravisCI
DevMynd
Check-Outs
Matt
Windows Azure Friday podcast
Mynd iPhone calendar app
Trevor
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username
Drink More Whiskey!: Everything You Need to Know About Your New Favorite Drink
Mathias
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee roasted by Caravan in London
Joe
Agile Product Design

Jan 3, 2014 • 1h 8min
Agile and Devops
Check-Outs
Matt
Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
Trevor
Helix - TV show produced by Ronald D. Moore
Len
Si Alhir's blog
Conscious Agility
Patrick
Agile Board Hacks
Disciplined Agile
Writing Effective Use Cases
Castle
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD
Investigation Discovery