Show Date: Tuesday, 2 October 2012

The folks over at CollabNet are running a survey that you should take 90-seconds to complete today: DevOps Survey - What’s Driving DevOps?

@avleen has announced OpsSchool. The idea is to build out a syllabus and content to help shape the next generation of SysAdmins.

Bryan McLellan spoke recently at the Nagios World Conference. Slides from his presentation, Configuring Nagios with Chef are available on slideshare.

Ville Lautanala, lead developer at Flowdock, gave a talk at Frozen Rails about Flowdock’s distributed server architecture and how they use Chef and ZooKeeper to coordinate a set of services. Check out the slides on the Flowdock blog.

Last week, during Surge, there was a #monitoringsucks Birds-of-a-Feather session. Jordan Dixon took some notes during the session and posted them on his blog.

Theo Schlossnagle’s slides from Surge are now available. Head over to slideshare to view the slides.

To scale web services, devops devotees should consider economics - this article from Stacey Higginbotham was written after she attended Surge and discusses the need to look down to the physical infrastructure as well as the economic tradeoffs of building a service.

Chef 10.14.4 was recently released. This release is mostly fixes to the deploy provider and the error inspectors. Check the Opscode blog for more details.

Test Kitchen 0.6.0 was released. This fixes a couple of bugs and makes a couple of improvements.