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Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Step 1: implement Kubernetes Step 2: completely transform your existing organization to be a matrix of agile teams with chargeback budgets aligned to resource use of shared services and collaborating on product lifecycles in scrum and kanban using full test coverage on both legacy and modern apps stored in asset-managed Docker containers in ci/cd pipelines triggered by Jira tickets deploying declarative immutable inf…

Step 4: audit controls against FFIEC and NIST

Step 5: begin remediation to remove suspiciously hands-off automations that a few dozen humans could do and check manually instead

Step 6: lift and shift another past due application into your old hyperconverged private cloud because ITIL is looking pretty good right now

Step 7: git pull upgraded K8s, go to Step 1

/s (typical enterprise IT allergic reaction)

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Step 1: implement Kubernetes Step 2: completely transform your existing organization to be a matrix of agile teams with chargeback budgets aligned to resource use of shared services and collaborating on product lifecycles in scrum and kanban using full test coverage on both legacy and modern apps stored in asset-managed Docker containers in ci/cd pipelines triggered by Jira tickets deploying declarative immutable inf…

You're joking but it's almost too accurate to be humorous. This is being foisted on us right now and it's giving me nearly crippling anxiety.

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Business email, company, job title — what if someone doesn't have one or more of these? I know one can give fake information, but why are all the fields on the form marked with an asterisk indicating that they're mandatory? It's asking for phone number too?! Thanks, but no thanks. This is not for me.

agreed.

"Free*

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* not really"

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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post #9

Business email, company, job title — what if someone doesn't have one or more of these? I know one can give fake information, but why are all the fields on the form marked with an asterisk indicating that they're mandatory? It's asking for phone number too?! Thanks, but no thanks. This is not for me.

Also forced consent
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