[tzm]

Google values devops / solutions, so I think we'll see some interesting announcements over the next 12 months.

Here are a couple of notes..

Deployment manager - https://developers.google.com/deployment-manager/

Saltstack integration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dOXbhenFl0

[contingencies]

I agree, but that's like saying "I think the world will continue turning". Obviously, yes!

The deployment manager sounded interesting but I'm not seeing any support for arbitrary platforms (in the OS sense), or infrastructure providers (in the 'run it on my own hardware, or someone else's' sense), nor the opsier side (like business concerns separate to technology) of the ops part.

Some thoughts roughly summarised at http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/

[tzm]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Great points and insights.

Following up a bit.. Google just announced Kubernetes[1], an open source container manager. Also, Eric Brewer is now on Docker's Governance Committee[2] to help push for open container standards.

Seems like a good step forward.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes [2] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-update-on...