I found this excellent presentation that introduces Jenkins for operations users - and some the patterns and ways you can use it:
http://www.slideshare.net/lnxchk/at-your-service-using-jenkins-in-operations
At Your Service: Using Jenkins in Operations from Mandi Walls
This was presented at Velocity Conf in NYC.
I was also pointed to this talk on patterns for adopting DevOps (this one is tilted towards developers and convincing ops people to take on these practices):
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/devops-patterns
Finally - in a few week I will be speaking at DockerCon on similar topics (with a docker flavour of course)
Michael Neale
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