Today we talk about a completely new topic: DevOps and System configuration. I’m really excited to have on stage Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-founder of System Initiative.
Adam is challenging the status quo of DevOps tools with a completely new approach to system configuration. While System initiative looks like a no-code tool at first, it comes with all the power of TypeScript to let you build and manage your infrastructure in a completely new way.
We will talk about the history of System Initiative, the challenges of building a new tool in a crowded space, and the future of DevOps.
Adam is also the co-founder of Chef, a really popular configuration management tool, and he will share with us some of the lessons learned from that previous experience.
Enjoy the show 👨🍳
Show Notes
- 00.00 Intro
- 00.46 Episode Start
- 01.03 Adam’s Introduction
- 03.19 What is a System Initiative?
- 07.54 What are the System Initiative feature?
- 11.16 Is this a drag-n-drop tool to create AWS infras?
- 14.37 No-code tools & quality of their output
- 20.12 Frontend engineers doing DevOps?
- 23.06 How is System Initiative doing Open Source?
- 25.18 The history of System Initiative
- 34.10 From demo to production
- 36.13 AI & DevOps
- 39.18 What you learned from building Chef?
- 43.51 Further reading
- 45.06 Where people can find you online?
- 46.07 Sysadmin in disguise
Resources
- systeminit/si on GitHub
- System Initiative Official Website
- System Initiative Discord server
- Talk at Config Mgmt Camp 2023 - What if Infrastructure as Code never existed
- @adamhjk on GitHub
- @adamhjk on Twitter
- @adamhjk on Mastodon