Credit Union, AIX, and DevOps Oh My
summary
Navy Federal Credit Union migrates AIX and Linux infrastructure into Chef, pairing experienced AIX admins with Linux evangelists and replacing ad hoc scripts with cookbooks, GitHub workflows and a custom test runner. Build time falls from days to about ten minutes, configuration drift is eliminated across ~1,000 servers, and only four production breaks occur when promoting lab to prod. Management uses Chef + Satellite + powerVC, tracks 318 resources on RHEL and 185 on AIX per run, and Test Kitchen is replaced by a simple shell-based "testit" workflow.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:38Change Control
- 13:55Getting on the road
- 23:30The Technical Challenges
- 32:20Updated Build Process
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