Top 5 Must‑Read DevOps Articles of 2015: From Fabric to Chaos Monkey

Recently, SEI published a series of blog posts on popular DevOps concepts and tools such as Fabric, Ansible, Docker, and Chaos Monkey. This compilation, created by OneAPM and the High‑Efficiency Operations community, presents the ten most‑read DevOps articles from the first half of 2015, focusing on the top five.

1. DevOps Technologies: Fabric and Ansible

The article describes deployment processes, resource‑need evaluation, system design, server configuration, and code synchronization, then focuses on configuring software packages on remote servers using Fabric and Ansible.

Other related automation tools include Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Ansible, Salt, and Foreman.

Fabric offers a direct, Python‑based API that yields quick results, while Ansible uses YAML and provides a richer, multi‑layer model for web and database hosts.

2. DevOps and Docker

Full article: http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/devops-docker-015

3. Using Docker for Development

Docker has become popular in the DevOps community because it provides a controllable, isolated, flexible, and highly portable infrastructure for developing and deploying applications.

The article explains Docker’s scalability, resource efficiency, and resilience, and includes an example that launches a MongoDB container and a Python Bottle web‑service container that communicate with each other.

Full article: http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/development-with-docker

4. DevOps Example: Amazon AWS

The post shares Amazon’s DevOps experience, emphasizing how organized processes, communication, and workflow improvements raise quality.

Full article: http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/devops-casestudy-amazon-aws-036

5. DevOps Example: Netflix’s Chaos Monkey

Netflix’s case study demonstrates how the company uses automated failure injection to improve reliability and robustness of its large‑scale distributed streaming service on AWS.

Full article: http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/devops-case-study-netflix-and-the-chaos-monkey

Note

The remaining five articles in the series will be released later.