The Best of the Week (Feb. 20 - Feb. 27): DevOps Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the DevOps Zone (February 20 - February 27). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. For Smoother Automation Identify Application Stuff vs System Stuff

• I was recently reminded of a key insight included in a presentation from the Datical team at IBM Innovate 2014. They automate migration of databases changes (and naturally have an integration with UrbanCode Deploy).

2. Announcing Docker-Based Development Environments

• Bowery version 3.6.0 includes a deeper integration with Docker: the ability to provision a new, sharable development environment with a Dockerfile. Now you can have the power of containers without the infrastructure headaches.

3. SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins

• Getting software from a developer's machine to a production environment without a fully automated process is time-consuming and error-prone

4. Defining DevOps

• DevOps is... Developers doing Operations using Automation

5. 4 Alerts You Need In Case System Events Stop Occurring

• I have included the top four alerts to must have so you know when log events stop occurring or significant system behavior changes.