Huawei Hops Onto Software-Defined Elevators
Schindler enlists the company to do SDN for IoT.
Worth Reading: The Internet of Poorly Working Things
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A quick lesson in Political Correctness
It's hard to see Political Correctness in action when it's supporting your own political beliefs. It's easier seen from the other side. You can see in in the recent case of football player Colin Kaepernick, who has refused to stand for the national anthem. Many are condemning him, on the grounds that his speech is not politically correct.For example, ex-teammate Alex Boone criticizes him for disrespecting the flag, because his brother has friends who died in the wars in Iraq. Others in the NFL like Burgess Owen and coach Ron Rivera have made similar statements.
If you think Kaepernick is wrong, then argue that he's wrong. Don't argue that he shouldn't speak on the grounds that he's not Politically Correct, offending veterans, or is a bad citizen.
We live in a country of freedom, where anyone is free to not stand and salute the flag or sing the anthem. So many have grievances of some sort or another that you'd think more would be availing themselves of this freedom. The problem here is not that Kaepernick does it, but that so few others do it as well. The problem here is Political Correctness.
Ansible Best Practices: The Essentials
The Ansible Way
When I talk about how to develop automation solutions with Ansible, I begin by highlighting the philosophy behind its design. All Ansible best practices relate back to this thinking in one way or another.
Complexity kills
That’s not just a marketing slogan. We really mean it and believe it. We strive to reduce complexity in how we’ve designed Ansible tools and encourage you to do the same. Strive for simplification in what you automate.
Optimize your Ansible content for readability
If done properly, it can be the documentation of your workflow automation.
Think declaratively
Ansible is a desired state engine by design. If you’re trying to “write code” in your plays and roles, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Our YAML-based playbooks were never meant to be for programming.
Ansible is like the Swiss Army Knife of DevOps
Ansible is capable of handling many powerful automation tasks with the flexibility to adapt to many environments and workflows. Not all approaches are created equal though. Don’t let yours undermine the simplicity and power of Ansible.
Enough philosophy though. Let’s get down to brass tacks. Here I’ll cover some of the most important and impactful best Continue reading
New Dockercast episode with Avi Cavale from Shippable
In case you missed it, we launched Dockercast, the official Docker Podcast earlier this month including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.
In this podcast episode, we catch up with Avi Cavale the Co-founder & CEO at Shippable. We start off with a conversation where I ask him why he thinks there has been such an explosion of Docker adoption. This leads us into the the ideas behind immutable infrastructure and immutable delivery models. Avi discusses how Shippable has focused on making the delivery pipeline easier for developers.
We also discuss some anti-patterns he calls Frankenstein Continuous Integration (CI) where, although Jenkins is awesome, the glue to put a robust CI system together can be reasonably complex. What Shippable tried to do is abstract away some of those complexities for developers. We end up talking about different Docker patterns Shippable is seeing in the industry.
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