From rnovak at indyramp.com Wed Dec 11 18:04:10 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:04:10 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] Short But Cool Winter 2013 - Need a couple more talks! Message-ID: Hi everyone, We're pleased to welcome friends from Microsoft and Scale Computing to next Thursday's BayLISA Winter 2013 Short But Cool session. We are still looking for a couple more short talks... if you've got something you'd like to present, demonstrate, or otherwise cover in an approximately 10-15 minute "session," please get in touch with me. Stay tuned for the latest updates on BayLISA's Meetup page - Details/RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/152249412/ If you're interested in getting involved in the new year, either by volunteering to support the organization's Internet presence, outreach to other groups, helping recruit speakers/sponsors/site hosts, or something else we haven't thought about, feel free to get in touch as well. BayLISA is here for you, and we need your help to keep it focused on you. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA President From rajulvora at gmail.com Thu Dec 12 13:53:05 2013 From: rajulvora at gmail.com (rajulvora at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:53:05 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] DevOps Accelerator bootcamp for SysAdmins Message-ID: Please forward to any San Francisco Bay Area sysadmins that might benefit from DevOps Accelerator 3-evenings a week 12-week bootcamp in Santa Clara, CA. Right now there is no remote / online version of this bootcamp though I am considering one. I am a Cloud Operations automation consultant - people call me DevOps guy though I am not sure if DevOps is appropriate as a title. But whatever - its here so I am not fighting it. I have worked at Google (release/deployment automation) and then managed Technical Operations at Zuora (a SaaS company) with very heavy security / PCI compliance requirements. Since then I have automated cloud operations for several startups as a consultant. I found it very hard to find people with skills that are now associated with DevOps movement. A combination of SysAdmin, Release Engineering, Programming/Scripting, Puppet, etc. etc. What is interesting is that most SysAdmins and Release Engineers know bunch of this stuff but are finding it hard to transition to DevOps jobs due to some critical gaps in their skill set. So I created a Bootcamp to train people in these skills and accelerate their transition to the more lucrative DevOps jobs. Specifically for SysAdmins or Release Engineering folks I have what I call DevOps Accelerator bootcamp that focuses on processes and tools needed to accomplish two major DevOps initiatives I see in most companies - Continuous Delivery pipeline and Infrastructure as Code - I see them as two sides of the same coin. This bootcamp also includes a visit to Google campus to go meet engineers there for Q&A. I think it is really important to see it in practice and understand how culture plays into all of this. Teaching style is based on real world projects, some of them derived from my consulting career. You can read more at www.bootcampdevops.com. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions, Rajul -- Rajul Vora www.linkedin.com/in/rajulvora/ From rnovak at indyramp.com Wed Dec 11 18:04:10 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:04:10 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] Short But Cool Winter 2013 - Need a couple more talks! Message-ID: Hi everyone, We're pleased to welcome friends from Microsoft and Scale Computing to next Thursday's BayLISA Winter 2013 Short But Cool session. We are still looking for a couple more short talks... if you've got something you'd like to present, demonstrate, or otherwise cover in an approximately 10-15 minute "session," please get in touch with me. Stay tuned for the latest updates on BayLISA's Meetup page - Details/RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/152249412/ If you're interested in getting involved in the new year, either by volunteering to support the organization's Internet presence, outreach to other groups, helping recruit speakers/sponsors/site hosts, or something else we haven't thought about, feel free to get in touch as well. BayLISA is here for you, and we need your help to keep it focused on you. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA President From rajulvora at gmail.com Thu Dec 12 13:53:05 2013 From: rajulvora at gmail.com (rajulvora at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:53:05 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] DevOps Accelerator bootcamp for SysAdmins Message-ID: Please forward to any San Francisco Bay Area sysadmins that might benefit from DevOps Accelerator 3-evenings a week 12-week bootcamp in Santa Clara, CA. Right now there is no remote / online version of this bootcamp though I am considering one. I am a Cloud Operations automation consultant - people call me DevOps guy though I am not sure if DevOps is appropriate as a title. But whatever - its here so I am not fighting it. I have worked at Google (release/deployment automation) and then managed Technical Operations at Zuora (a SaaS company) with very heavy security / PCI compliance requirements. Since then I have automated cloud operations for several startups as a consultant. I found it very hard to find people with skills that are now associated with DevOps movement. A combination of SysAdmin, Release Engineering, Programming/Scripting, Puppet, etc. etc. What is interesting is that most SysAdmins and Release Engineers know bunch of this stuff but are finding it hard to transition to DevOps jobs due to some critical gaps in their skill set. So I created a Bootcamp to train people in these skills and accelerate their transition to the more lucrative DevOps jobs. Specifically for SysAdmins or Release Engineering folks I have what I call DevOps Accelerator bootcamp that focuses on processes and tools needed to accomplish two major DevOps initiatives I see in most companies - Continuous Delivery pipeline and Infrastructure as Code - I see them as two sides of the same coin. This bootcamp also includes a visit to Google campus to go meet engineers there for Q&A. I think it is really important to see it in practice and understand how culture plays into all of this. Teaching style is based on real world projects, some of them derived from my consulting career. You can read more at www.bootcampdevops.com. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions, Rajul -- Rajul Vora www.linkedin.com/in/rajulvora/