This 20-minute talk was given by Bridget Kromhout twice in March 2014: March 12: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Minneapolis/events/168426002/ March 19th: http://mtnwestdevops.org/2014/sessions (video forthcoming) Abstract: I was a college-student BOFH, an ISP sysadmin, and an academic IT manager. If I wanted a curmudgeonly sysadmin, I could just look in a mirror. Most developers were unlikely to be granted root on any systems whatsoever, and servers were carefully hand-whittled works of art. You know, The Way Things Were. Moving to a role doing operations at a developer-centric startup was both a culture shock and a great learning experience. I’ll discuss what worked for me (and what was challenging!) in terms of my transition to a DevOps practice. Spoiler alert: change is scary, but awesome developers on the team make it much easier for an old-school sysadmin to be assimilated into the DevOps of Borg.

1. HOW I
LEARNED
TO STOP
WORRYING
AND LOVE
DEVOPS
(CC) MMXIV
BRIDGET KROMHOUT
http://www.moviepostershop.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-
stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-movie-poster/IB40100

2. http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1023064374-00.jpg

4. http://postercabaret.com/dr-strangelove-movie-poster-by-jason-munn.html

6. http://postercabaret.com/dr-strangelove-movie-poster-by-jason-munn.html

8. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/no025-my-dr-strangelove-minimal-movie-poster-chungkong-art.html

9. http://www.parktool.com/category/tool-kits

10. http://postercabaret.com/dr-strangelove-movie-poster-by-jason-munn.html

12. “If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll
draw a graph of something that isn’t
moving yet, just in case it decides to make
a run for it.” Ian Malpass, Etsy

13. http://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/drstrangelove2.jpg

14. 2am: sudden drop-off
8am: look at graphs: ?!?!
10am: and we’re back.

18. http://puppetlabs.com/sites/default/files/DevOpsDays.jpg
http://devopsdays.org/events/2014-minneapolis/

19. http://www.harryhall.org/images/thats_all_folks_small.jpg