Several posts this week on the people and process side of operations; a great example service handbook, the evolution of ITSM, and several on the technical side; in particular on kubernetes networking and testing tools for local SDN.

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News

Running a production services benefits greatly from well documented and established processes and procedures. This public example of a handbook for running a large online service makes for a great public example.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ops/handbook

A call for a more fundamental look at ITSM that just integrating specific aspects of Devops practices and incremental improvement of existing processes.
https://medium.com/@JonHall_/itsm-needs-its-own-devops-renaissance-but-it-wont-find-it-by-copying-devops-d2abf37f73c2

Starting any transformation in an organisations needs to build momentum, which makes how to pick the first projects to work on an important consideration.
https://medium.com/@cote/a-small-series-of-projects-d6107c3d9d3e

A good post on three emerging patterns for cloud native application development, looking at service virtualisation, canary releases and different local development approaches.
https://hackernoon.com/three-patterns-for-an-effective-cloud-native-development-workflow-6f59525f5bf1

An argument to run less software, mainly argued from an organisation optimisation point of view, which might be useful when arguing the same to reduce operational complexity.
https://www.intercom.com/blog/run-less-software/

A nice overview to the problem of multi-node networking, looking at how Kubernetes networking is particular is built atop network namespaces, and how appswitch helps to manage the problem.
http://appswitch.io/blog/kubernetes_istio_and_network_function_devirtualization_with_appswitch/

A look at the core features of time series data, and a quick summary of several open source tools that provide this functionality.
https://opensource.com/article/18/8/open-source-monitoring-tools

Jobs

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Events

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Tools

Mininet is a handy tool for creating a local realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine. Useful for experimenting with OpenFlow and SDN.
http://mininet.org/

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