Admittedly, I develop desktop software, so my experience with 'devops' has been in managing build infrastructure, but I found that the tools and overall philoso

Admittedly, I develop desktop software, so my experience with 'devops' has been in managing build infrastructure, but I found that the tools and overall philosophy of the movement has empowered my team to control our own infrastructure and actually get things done. Security was also improved when I started documenting how our VMs were created (and automated it via packer). In the process, I switched them from unlicensed, never-been-updated RHEL boxes to CentOS.