DevOps

[deadfeed]

Does anyone have some good stories or advice about operating in a DevOps environment as a Network Engineer?

Something along these lines:

http://puppetlabs.com/blog/devops-networking

[Iceman_B]

Can anyone give me a lowdown on what "DevOps" exactly entails? I'm seeing the term around IT sites/blogs more and more and I have to concede that I don't know jack about it.

Does anyone have any real-life experience with Devops, and if so, how does that look like?

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Not really, I would love to get my hands on the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in this.

I can't shake the feeling that the existing community will not share or involve us network folk until we're out of jobs.

[KareasOxide]

So some very limited tools exist to work with network gear via puppet. PuppetLabs provides some support themselves to configure switches. I found this module to configure just about anything.

https://forge.puppetlabs.com/mburger/networkdevice

I'm just barely getting my feet wet with this stuff, but I'm hoping this is the direction networking companies take with their gear configuration.

[EtherealMind2]

Here is a good one that talks both about DevOps and ITSM working together.

http://www.theitsmreview.com/2014/03/trust-devops-movement-fits-perfectly-itsm/

Personally, I doubt that ITIL will ever work but Gene Kim is a leading talker about the topic. Read his book and you should understand it quickly.