DevOps-Sprint: Review

Our 2015 DevOps sprint is over. It was a great time with all of you. Here is a brief summary of what has happened.

One huge topic was NixOS (again!). Rok Garbas gave a general introduction and many participants were interested in NixOS. The topics related to NixOS where:

• pypi2nix, to create pure Nix environments directly from PyPI packages. (Rok, Christian Kauhaus)
• Setting up Hydra and a custom NixOS channel for Flying Circus virtual machines (Christian Theune)
• Figuring out how to use nixpkgs and custom extensions together. (Answer: we fork it and use git merging which also allows easily sending pull requests back).
• Baking a custom NixOS base image into a Vagrant box using packer.

A variety of other topics were also investigated:

• The cusy.io crew started to integrate Sentry into their system.
• Arnold discussed his ideas around a merge bot, to reliably merge feature branches over multiple git repositories.
• Hynek had a look at Prometheus. I don't know what the outcome was, though - he seemed excited at points. :)
• Stefan and Frank built a batou deployment for mailman 3. Turns out, mailman 3 is a bit different.

Hope to see everyone again, next year!