About Me

DevOps defined

About You

About Me

• DevOps Engineer at Pluralsight

• Primarily working on Windows

• Working in release management since 2006

• Passionate about continuous delivery

• Husband / Father / Native Chicagoan

What is DevOps?

All of the above

A mystical unicorn baby

SPOVED spelled backwards

A one person technology team

Culture of continuous improvement w/ automation, metrics, & sharing

What is culture?

What do you automate?

What do you automate?

What do you measure for metrics?

What & why do you share?

• Development

• Testing

• Configuration / Release Management

• Operations

• I’m on a DevOps team

• I’m embedded in a development team

• I’m on an operations team

• What else?

• Primarily in the office

• Split the week at the office and remote

• Primarily remote

• Ticketing system

• Kanban

• Agile process

• Good ol’ email

• ChatOps all the way!

• Setup a meeting

• Walk over to a cube

• Pick up my phone

• Shoot out an email

• Ping someone