The Evolution Of Automation
summary
Argues that automation must travel with the application and shows Habitat as a packaging and runtime solution that bundles dependencies (omnibus roots), provides a Build system + immutable packages and a gossip-based Supervisor that performs service discovery, leader election and secure updates without separate Consul/etcd stacks. Claims the Habitat model flattens the “production cliff,” works on legacy SAP or modern PaaS, and interoperates with Chef; demo spins up a Redis leader‑follower topology with hab start core/redis topology leader.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:44DevOps
- 4:14Culture and Technology
- 5:53Build Deploy Manage
- 9:02The Enterprise
- 15:56The Big Web
- 17:40The Catch
- 20:11The Production Cliff
- 23:43Omnibus
- 24:44Habitat
- 25:14The Application Problem
- 28:38Demo
- 31:18Context
- 31:47Terminal Magic
- 33:45Distributed Systems
- 36:22The Gossip Layer
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