Day Two Cloud - 214 - Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation
Is not overly prescriptive and something I can point folks to on how to get things prepared and starting on the addition of automation.
12 min mark - the importance of observability of what’s happening. The illusion of control was always there and folks need that certainty.
Version control is the tool/process necessary to start this. It should be your source of truth. Beware tool proliferation - you can’t buy a DevOps (they’ll sell you one though)
Repository approach - you can change. Undersegmentation and over segmentation is always an issue - find what works for your org. Guest is not a fan of monorepos - but also clear other orgs make it work. (Eg. Google - but they have tooling just for it)
Proponent for using Terraform whenever possible - if need be drop to Ansible. Most of it is to do with resource management than config of existing resources.
Other side suggestions:
- Use Postman to explore a device’s API.
- Copilot and/or ChatGPT is awesome for commenting your code
The Fat Pipe - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts - Day Two Cloud 214: Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation
https://overcast.fm/+KN3Kzc0kI
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-cloud/d2c214-preparing-people-teams-and-infrastructure-for-automation/