Sep 13 2016 59 mins 473
Kief Morris, cloud specialist at ThoughtWorks and author of the recent book Infrastructure as Code, talks to Sven Johann about why this concept is becoming increasingly important due to cloud computing. They discuss best practices for writing infrastructure code, including why you should treat your servers as cattle, not pets, as well as how to monitor your cattle. After examining the benefits -- security, auditability, testing, documentation, and traceability -- the show wraps up with a look at how to introduce infrastructure as code to organizations. Venue: Skype Related Links: Kief's website The Infrastructure as Code book Google Site Reliability Engineering book DevOps Cookbook DevOps Weekly Newsletter highscalability.com Testing infrastructure configuration with NMap Testing infrastructure configuration with ServerSpec
