Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work.

We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu.  Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysinstall on BSD.  A mix of cloud, hosted and datacenter-minded folks.  Expect musings on Puppet, Chef, Augeas, Fabric, CFEngine, and FAI.