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Your Goat Antifragiled My Snowflake!: Demystifying DevOps Jargon - ChefConf 2015
The document provides a glossary of DevOps terminology, including concepts like 'GOAT' (Greatest of All Time), 'pets' and 'cattle' for server management, and various deployment strategies like 'canaries' and 'zero downtime.' It highlights the importance of clarity in jargon within the DevOps community and encourages sharing experiences through a dedicated platform. Additionally, it covers cultural aspects of DevOps such as 'hugops' for empathy among engineers and 'sparkly devops princess' promoting individuality and diversity in the industry.
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- 1. / Your Goat Anti-FragiledMy Snowflake! Clinton Wolfe DevOps Practice Lead Demystifying DevOps Jargon
- 2. id clintoncwolfe • DevOpsPractice Lead at omniti.com
- 3. id clintoncwolfe • DevOpsPractice Lead at omniti.com • We do web & services ops & development
- 4. id clintoncwolfe • DevOpsPractice Lead at omniti.com • We do web & services ops & development • Chef architect, Ansible engineer, “devops consultant”
- 5. id clintoncwolfe • DevOpsPractice Lead at omniti.com • We do web & services ops & development • Chef architect, Ansible engineer, “devops consultant” • author of various bits of tooling & glue
- 6. id clintoncwolfe • DevOpsPractice Lead at omniti.com • We do web & services ops & development • Chef architect, Ansible engineer, “devops consultant” • author of various bits of tooling & glue • we're hiring! so, so desperately hiring
- 7. A Quick Disclaimer Ourperceptions of meaning may differ
- 8. A Quick Disclaimer contributeyour experiences at http://devopsdictionary.com Our perceptions of meaning may differ
- 9. Who cares aboutwords?
- 10. Jargon is understoodby a select few
- 11. Jargon is understoodby a select few Jargon is exclusive www.psycholawlogy.com
- 12. DevOps is aboutinclusiveness photo: smileycreek
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- 24. Goat A multi-functional individualwho tends to ignore the silo boundaries of an organization
- 25. Goat A highly capableindividual who tends to ignore the silo boundaries of an organization adjective form: goatlike, caprine
- 26. Goat A highly capableindividual who tends to ignore the silo boundaries of an organization Coined By: Michael Ducy in a 2013 slide stack - The Goat and the Silo
- 27. Goat A highly capableindividual who tends to ignore the silo boundaries of an organization Example Usage: When Billy needed to diagnose a database issue, he logged into the DB and poked around with his basic SQL skills before going to the DBA.
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- 29. Pets Nodes / servers/ instances that are lovingly hand-maintained, with long lives
- 30. Pets Nodes / servers/ instances that are lovingly hand-maintained, with long lives antonym: cattle
- 31. Pets Nodes / servers/ instances that are lovingly hand-maintained, with long lives Coinage: Originally from Bill Baker of Microsoft, popularized by Gavin McCance of CERN in wide use by 2013-2014
- 32. Pets Nodes / servers/ instances that are lovingly hand-maintained, with long lives Usage Example: Don't touch the LDAP Server! That's Bob's pet!
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- 34. Cattle Nodes / servers/ instances that are easily replaced; created and destroyed via automation
- 35. Cattle Nodes / servers/ instances that are easily replaced; created and destroyed via automation Antonym: pets
- 36. Cattle Nodes / servers/ instances that are easily replaced; created and destroyed via automation Usage Example: Did a memcache server do down? Well, bring up another, they're just cattle.
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- 38. Unicorn (1) - acompany where DevOps “just works” (2) - an impossible-to-satisfy job description
- 39. Unicorn (1) - acompany where DevOps “just works” (2) - an impossible-to-satisfy job description Direct Antonym: horse Partial Synonym for (2): Rock-Star Alternative for (2): Goat, T-shaped person
- 40. Unicorn (1) - acompany where DevOps “just works” (2) - an impossible-to-satisfy job description Coinage: Unclear, widespread by 2011, especially in reference to Etsy
- 41. Unicorn (1) - acompany where DevOps “just works” (2) - an impossible-to-satisfy job description Usage Example (1): Well, continuous deployment might work at a unicorn company like Etsy, but here at Initech, it would never work due to our enterprise needs.
- 42. Unicorn (1) - acompany where DevOps “just works” (2) - an impossible-to-satisfy job description Usage Example (2): Ah, a COBOL cloud automation MSCE with a security clearance? For $70K in NYC? We'll get right on that.
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- 44. Canaries During deployment, asmall group of nodes that receive the update first, and are watched closely
- 45. Canaries During deployment, asmall group of nodes that receive the update first, and are watched closely History: Via coal mining, as gas detectors.
- 46. Canaries During deployment, asmall group of nodes that receive the update first, and are watched closely History: Via coal mining, as gas detectors. 1981 hit single “Canary in a Coal Mine” ? via huffpo
- 47. Canaries During deployment, asmall group of nodes that receive the update first, and are watched closely History: Via coal mining, as gas detectors. 1981 hit single “Canary in a Coal Mine” ? via sting.com
- 48. Canaries During deployment, asmall group of nodes that receive the update first, and are watched closely Example Usage: Uh-oh, the canary nodes have gained malevolent self-awareness. Let's rollback.
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- 50. Yak Shaving Starting tosolve a problem, only to find another problem that must be solved, recursing forever. May or may not have been neccesary.
- 51. Yak Shaving Starting tosolve a problem, only to find another problem that must be solved, recursing forever. May or may not have been neccesary. Coinage: Astonishingly, from a 1993 episode of Ren & Stimpy then via the MIT AI Lab (2000)
- 52. Yak Shaving Starting tosolve a problem, only to find another problem that must be solved, recursing forever. May or may not have been neccesary. Example Usage: I started to upgrade that plugin, but then I needed a new nokogiri install, and the linker failed, and ... well, it turned into yak-shaving.
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- 54. Chaos Monkey Software thatrandomly kills running instances as part of resiliency testing
- 55. Chaos Monkey Software thatrandomly kills running instances as part of resiliency testing Coinage: Developed internally at Netflix and announced publically in 2011 via a blog post; open-sourced in 2012.
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- 57. ELK Elasticsearch + Logstash+ Kibana - an open- source log aggregator / visualizer stack
- 58. ELK Elasticsearch + Logstash+ Kibana - an open- source log aggregator / visualizer stack Note: Aims for some of the same functionality as Splunk
- 59. ELK Elasticsearch + Logstash+ Kibana - an open- source log aggregator / visualizer stack Example Usage: Hrm, we're throwing a lot of 500 errors. Good thing we have ELK to analyze the stacktraces.
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- 68. ZDT Zero DownTime -refering to any deployment strategy that results in no apparent outage
- 69. ZDT Zero DownTime -refering to any deployment strategy that results in no apparent outage Example Usage: We can't miss a sale due to a maintenance window - let's aim to have all deployment be ZDT!
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- 71. OODA Observe, Orient, Decide,Act Cognitive loop used in incident response (et al)
- 72. OODA Observe, Orient, Decide,Act Cognitive loop used in incident response (et al) Note: This term is used in many domains. Here I'm focusing on incident response.
- 73. OODA Observe, Orient, Decide,Act Cognitive loop used in incident response (et al) Coinage: USAF Col. John Boyd, 1976, and developed extensively since
- 74. OODA Observe, Orient, Decide,Act Cognitive loop used in incident response (et al) Example Usage: I mentioned that I misread the axis labels in the monitoring software, and that's why I concluded there was a CPU spike. We used OODA to trace the issue, and clarified the labels.
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- 76. CAMS a statement ofthe components of DevOps: Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing
- 77. CAMS a statement ofthe components of DevOps: Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing Coinage: Damon Edwards and John Willis at DevOpsDays Mountainview 2010
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- 79. DSL Domain Specific Language asyntax and command set designed so that users can write in their conceptual model
- 80. DSL Domain Specific Language asyntax and command set designed so that users can write in their conceptual model Example Usage: The Chef Recipe DSL lets you write recipes that talk about packages and files, instead of working more directly with Ruby concepts
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- 82. TLA Three Letter Acronym Anyacronym with 3 letters
- 83. TLA Three Letter Acronym Anyacronym with 3 letters Example Usage: In AWS, use IAM to set ACLs on your EC2 instances in your VPC so they can reach SNS, SES, and S3.
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- 91. CoffeeOps a series ofinformal meetups at coffeeshops, etc to talk DevOps
- 92. CoffeeOps a series ofinformal meetups at coffeeshops, etc to talk DevOps Coinage: Started by Jennifer Davis in 2013 in Santa Clara
- 93. CoffeeOps a series ofinformal meetups at coffeeshops, etc to talk DevOps coffeeops.org Start one in your area!
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- 95. HugOps a meme reflectingempathy among engineers, especially after an incident, disagreement, or personal tragedy
- 96. HugOps a meme reflectingempathy among engineers, especially after an incident, disagreement, or personal tragedy Coinage: Twitter hashtag from approx 2012, with Jordan Sissel, Brandon Burton, and Adam Jacob
- 97. HugOps a meme reflectingempathy among engineers, especially after an incident, disagreement, or personal tragedy Example Usage: @clintoncwolfe sorry to hear about your talk going so badly #hugops
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- 99. ChatOps using your textchat tool as an interface to your tooling, as well as a log of work
- 100. ChatOps using your textchat tool as an interface to your tooling, as well as a log of work Coinage: Appears to have emerged from GitHub in 2013, in a slidestack by Jesse Newland - ChatOps at GitHub
- 101. ChatOps using your textchat tool as an interface to your tooling, as well as a log of work Example: HipChat just pinged me that the build I triggered has failed. I'll search for similar recent failures in the scrollback.
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- 103. DevOps the DevOps thatcan be spoken of is not the true DevOps
- 104. DevOps the DevOps thatcan be spoken of is not the true DevOps contribute at http://devopsdictionary.com :-)
- 105. DevOps the DevOps thatcan be spoken of is not the true DevOps Coinage: Patrick DeBois, when starting the 2009 DevOps Days Ghent miniconference
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- 114. Snowflake a node thathas had manual changes applied outside of automation
- 115. Snowflake a node thathas had manual changes applied outside of automation Coinage: Martin Fowler in a 2012 blog post, Snowflake Servers
- 116. Snowflake a node thathas had manual changes applied outside of automation Verb form: to snowflake, to have been snowflaked Adjective: “that smells snowflakey”
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- 118. Bikeshedding to argue atlength over a decision that is, in the end, arbitrary
- 119. Bikeshedding to argue atlength over a decision that is, in the end, arbitrary Coinage: From the BSD community (mid 90's?): arguing over what color to paint the bikeshed while the house is not yet finished (Computer Jargon File)
- 120. Bikeshedding to argue atlength over a decision that is, in the end, arbitrary Example Usage: Sally: Let's use nginx! Manfred: I insist on lighttpd! Alice: You're bikeshedding. Let's write an app first.
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- 122. Anti-Fragile the property ofa system designed such that resiliency increases with damage
- 123. Anti-Fragile the property ofa system designed such that resiliency increases with damage Note: “system” includes the people, processes, and machines
- 124. Anti-Fragile the property ofa system designed such that resiliency increases with damage Coinage: Developed by Nassim Taleb in a 2012 book Introduced to the DevOps community by Jez Humble in a 2013 blog post (On Antifragility in Systems and Organizational Architecture)
- 125. Anti-Fragile the property ofa system designed such that resiliency increases with damage Usage Example: So, last week a defect made it to production because we didn't test with production settings. Now we are testing across envs! I almost hope we have another failure, I want to keep making it
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- 127. Brent a character inThe Phoenix Project who is needed on every task - a human bottleneck Verb form: to snowflake, to have been snowflaked Adjective: “that smells snowflakey”
- 128. Brent a character inThe Phoenix Project who is needed on every task - a human bottleneck Usage Example: I can't take a vacation because no one can replace me, and I have to be involved in every task - I'm becoming Brent!
- 129. Sparkly DevOps Princess viaJennifer Davis
- 130. Sparkly DevOps Princess (1)An individual who has embraced their strengths and is confident in expressing their individuality
- 131. Sparkly DevOps Princess (1)An individual who has embraced their strengths and is confident in expressing their individuality (2) A movement to encourage diversity and individuality of the industry
- 132. Sparkly DevOps Princess (1)An individual who has embraced their strengths and is confident in expressing their individuality (2) A movement to encourage diversity and individuality of the industry (3) A Bearer of the Tiara
- 133. Sparkly DevOps Princess (1)An individual who has embraced their strengths and is confident in expressing their individuality (2) A movement to encourage diversity and individuality of the industry (3) A Bearer of the Tiara Started by Jennifer Davis in 2012 with Catherine Daniels, then expanded at Velocity Conf 2014 when tiaras were issued
- 134. Sparkly DevOps Princess (1)An individual who has embraced their strengths and is confident in expressing their individuality (2) A movement to encourage diversity and individuality of the industry (3) A Bearer of the Tiara Usage Example: I am a Sparkly DevOps Princess!
- 135. Ask Me Anything Wina Goat! http://devopsdictionary.com a wiki for these words @clintoncwolfe