DevOps Tools

So end of my first day - what did I think?

Overall very good and it was a mixed day too - like DevOps ought to be. I can remember my first day in my previous job and we did nothing. In fact I did nothing for at least 2 weeks!

This time around, I got to visit the old and the latest cabinets to get an indication of where my current startup company begun and how much progress they've made. We met sheep and cows on the field trip too!

So what are we using for our DevOps tools? Hipchat, 1password, Git, Mac Mini, Jira, Ansible, FreeBSD and VirtualBox to name a few that we got our hands on today... And unlike my first day at my old job where I requested a Mac for my desktop and got a straight - no - this time I was immediately handed a MacBook Pro and used iCal, MacMail, Safari and most usefully... Terminal!

So what did we do? We selected two items from the backlog of things that need doing. Used Jira (using Structure plugin) to describe what we wanted/need to do by breaking down the bigger task in to smaller pieces of logical work and then used Ansible to describe how we do or did it as we were doing it. It was also a 'training session' or process guide as such and still more to come...

Icinga2, Grafana, Influxdb, Neo4j and of course Python... And oh yes, brew on Mac OS X! And now iTerm has replaced Terminal due to my suggestion!