Continuous Discussions (#c9d9): Episode 3 Recap – Configuration Management

Yesterday on #c9d9 we had a blast talking Configuration Management with Alex Papadimoulis from TheDailyWTF , Mike Place from SaltStack , Ryan Coleman from PuppetLabs and our very own Nikhil Vaze . Check out the video replay to learn how CM fits in to Continuous Delivery and DevOps, and some best practices and tips for streamlining your CM efforts.

This episode features: (In alphabetical order)

Alex Papadimoulis An Agile Software and DevOps advocate from Cleveland, founder of @inedo , who loves helping companies grow. @apapadimoulis | http://thedailywtf.com

Mike Place Software engineer on the core development team at SaltStack. His background is in Linux systems engineering and open-source software development. @cachedout | www.saltstack.com/blog

Nikhil Vaze Senior Software Engineer on the CloudBees engineering team. He is a full stack engineer and loves to hack on things. @therealnikhil | https://electric-cloud.com/blog/author/nvaze/

Ryan Coleman Product manager at Puppet Labs, responsible for the Puppet Forge. Ryan has tackled building services like Shibboleth, Samba and Zimbra across distributed environments and loves to chat about devops. @ryanycoleman | http://puppetlabs.com/blog

And your hosts: Sam Fell (@samueldfell ) and Anders Wallgren (@anders_wallgren ) from CloudBees.

On the next episode of Continuous Discussions:

Efficient Resource Utilization

Make Efficient Use of Your Infrastructure and Time

Join us on Tuesday, November 25th, at 10am PST to discuss how a shared and centralized infrastructure, automation and Continuous Delivery improve OPEX, CAPEX, and your developers' productivity. Add the event to your calendar » (We're using Google Hangout this time!) This episode features:

Florian Motlik Flo is the CTO and co-founder at Codeship, a hosted continuous delivery service. He's passionate about immutable infrastructure and helping teams build more productive processes. @flomotlik | flomotlik.me blog.codeship.com

Michael Chletsos Michael has been straddling the world of Dev and Ops, now working remotely with teams across the world to help improve their workflows. @mpchlets

Shaun Norris Shaun leads a team of Solutions Architects covering Southeast Asia for AWS. As a tech all-rounder from a sysadmin background, Shaun is passionate about helping customers build highly available, scalable applications. @shaunnorris

Tanay Nagjee As a solutions engineer at CloudBees, Tanay solves complex software delivery problems for large enterprises. @tanayciousd

And your hosts: Sam Fell (@samueldfell ) and Anders Wallgren (@anders_wallgren ) from CloudBees.

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