[avleenvig]

Hi everyone! I really appreciate the feedback here.

It's true, the project is 5+ years old. The industry was very different back then, we were barely starting to think about containers at scale. The cloud was a thing for sure, but the main contributors were mostly working in places with physical infrastructure.

Over the years we've discussed how we can reboot the project. There is always interest and desire, but time is hard to find :) The project will stay up as it is because we still feel there is value in learning the basics.

Over time the understanding of what is "basics" is evolving. This year I'm chairing the SREcon conference in Singapore. The program has a "Core Principles" track which talks about things like deep dives on linux memory management, database indices, how BGP works, etc. There is a lot of desire to still have these super deep dives into underlying technology. I hope we can find a way to turn this into a stronger curriculum with labs and teaching exercises one day :)

- One of the original OpsSchool founders

[wyclif]

I just wanted to say that I've found the OpsSchool documentation here valuable, and I still think it has a lot of value. I would encourage you to reboot and update it. I've had the site bookmarked for a long time and it's one I've returned to many times over the years. Back in the day, the way a sysadmin (now "DevOps engineer") learned all this information was by reading the paper manuals which sometimes came in binders.

I feel like there is still a lot of value in "deep dive" information no matter how pervasive automation becomes in our industry.

[znpy]

Hey, thank you!

As someone who has been practicing a lot in an 'old school' environment (many of our customers still run our software the old way) I honestly think this still is a very good curriculum.

Actually I think many of the things listed, people underlook at them. I've seen with my eyes digging very deep on "cloud" and "devops" stuff fail completely (and spectacularly, I must admit) ad very basic things.

I'll be digging deeper into opschool.org, is there a way to have an offline copy (besides running httrack) ?

[znpy]

replying to myself: http://readthedocs.org/projects/ops-school/downloads/htmlzip...

[kim0]

Wanted to understand if there was any "business model" behind building such website